Farage says he's 'never directly racially abused anybody' after school racism claims

[georgenorman]

Sir, Farage ate my homework!

 

[ASCPFC]

Sir, Farage ate my homework!

I heard he scratched a swastika on his desk with a compass.

 

[Common Sense Club]

If you heard the lunchtime news on Radio 4 there was a GP interviewed who was at school with Farage. He was a compelling witness who said he had been telling others about Farage’s behaviour ever since he first became a public figure.

His account was pretty damning. He said what Farage did wasn’t just schoolboy banter and pranks. It was obviously a deeply felt belief. Mocking those with coloured skins, or were Jewish. Goose stepping around the playground etc. He was treated as a pariah by most of the others.

Farage was then interviewed and pointedly declared that none of it was personal. He did not though deny they were his beliefs, either then or now. Then clips were played of previous interviews when this subject came up. His answers then weren’t the same as they were today.

A supporter was then interviewed who characterised this simply as a smear campaign. Which it may well be. The problem for Farage though is these smears have the look of reality and that’s going to hurt.

49 years ago…was Farage arrested for his actions?
Since then was Charles Lynton arrested for allegedly ‘cottaging’ in a public toilet?

 

[georgenorman]

If you heard the lunchtime news on Radio 4 there was a GP interviewed who was at school with Farage. He was a compelling witness who said he had been telling others about Farage’s behaviour ever since he first became a public figure.

His account was pretty damning. He said what Farage did wasn’t just schoolboy banter and pranks. It was obviously a deeply felt belief. Mocking those with coloured skins, or were Jewish. Goose stepping around the playground etc. He was treated as a pariah by most of the others.

Farage was then interviewed and pointedly declared that none of it was personal. He did not though deny they were his beliefs, either then or now. Then clips were played of previous interviews when this subject came up. His answers then weren’t the same as they were today.

A supporter was then interviewed who characterised this simply as a smear campaign. Which it may well be. The problem for Farage though is these smears have the look of reality and that’s going to hurt.

Ah, but did they edit what he said?

 

[Teddy Eagle]

I heard he scratched a swastika on his desk with a compass.

I heard he tried to convince Akela to let his cub pack invade Russia during Bob-a-Job week.

 

[Spindle]

Twenty people have attested to his racial abuse whilst a teenager at Dulwich College. This carries i believe a possible maximum sentence of seven years such a sentence would disbar him from standing at the GE. No one should minimise racial abuse and call it nasty words.

Then hold the trial in a juvenile court since he was a child at the time. Do we put school kids on trial facing 7 years bird for this kind of thing? Even by today's judgemental ideological standards instead of then?

If that's the case then it was illegal to be gay so anyone really old and gay needs arresting, since they broke the law back then.

 

[beak]

in England and Wales, the age of criminal responsibility is 10 years old. The oldest cold case prosecution in the UK concluded in 2025 when 92-year-old Ryland Headley was jailed for the 1967 murder and rape of Louisa Dunne. The case became the longest-running cold case to go to trial after modern forensic techniques, including DNA testing on a semen swab from the crime scene, linked Headley to the crime committed 58 years prior. Whilst i appreciate the humour and wild extravagant excuses Farage will probably go on trial and there is a very reasonable chance of a bit of porridge, happy days.

 

[Forest Hillbilly]

I recall comedy TV shows n the 1970's using words like ****, and deriding Jewish folk for having big noses and deep pockets. Most women in these shows exhibited ample cleavage and were regularly seen bending over in tight shorts.

But I'm not trying to wreck anyone's political career

 

[Wisbech Eagle]

49 years ago…was Farage arrested for his actions?
Since then was Charles Lynton arrested for allegedly ‘cottaging’ in a public toilet?

It was neither such an issue then nor was the issue of him being a possible PM known.

So the fact that back then it would have remained a school level matter isn’t relevant. It’s the examination of character that is.

 

[PalazioVecchio]

to be accused of being a racist. Its now more common than tapping your Oyster card at a train station. Maybe Sadiq Khan can encrypt some software into the barriers ? Hence to do the two simultaneously ?

 

[Wisbech Eagle]

I recall comedy TV shows n the 1970's using words like ****, and deriding Jewish folk for having big noses and deep pockets. Most women in these shows exhibited ample cleavage and were regularly seen bending over in tight shorts.

But I'm not trying to wreck anyone's political career

Things have changed for sure.

That’s not the point though. It’s whether Farage has and the jury is out on that!

 

[Wisbech Eagle]

to be accused of being a racist. Its now more common than tapping your Oyster card at a train station. Maybe Sadiq Khan can encrypt some software into the barriers ? Hence to do the two simultaneously ?

Perhaps because racism, both intentional and unintentional, is now recognised as being much more common and deeply embedded in society?

Speaking out about it is a bad thing?

 

[beak]

I recall comedy TV shows n the 1970's using words like ****, and deriding Jewish folk for having big noses and deep pockets. Most women in these shows exhibited ample cleavage and were regularly seen bending over in tight shorts.

But I'm not trying to wreck anyone's political career

You are so right Benny Hill cancelled, Jim Davidson, cancelled because it happened PM that is previous to Maggie your not affected just cancelled. *Newsflash* we do NOT have a statute of limitations basically if you do the crime you serve the time.

 

[Badger11]

If Farage is to face charges (ridiculous not going to happen) he should do so in a Juvenile Court which he was at the time. It kinda makes sense as most politicians are just big kids anyway. 😀

 

[beak]

49 years ago…was Farage arrested for his actions?
Since then was Charles Lynton arrested for allegedly ‘cottaging’ in a public toilet?

I've never heard of him ...a friend of yours sounds like a nice man.

 

[Midlands Eagle]

Things have changed for sure.

That’s not the point though. It’s whether Farage has and the jury is out on that!

In my first job some 60 years ago I worked with an older man who was very anti semitic and I'm afraid that I ended up believing a lot of the rubbish that he spouted including the fact that Jews effectively ran the country and were responsible for all that was bad. At the time I'd never met a Jew and didn't actually know much about them apart from what he told me.

It's not a view that I held for long and I would hate to be held to account for a view that I held as an 18 year old that I disavowed very soon afterwards

 

[orpingtoneagle]

You are so right Benny Hill cancelled, Jim Davidson, cancelled because it happened PM that is previous to Maggie your not affected just cancelled. *Newsflash* we do NOT have a statute of limitations basically if you do the crime you serve the time.

True we do not have a statue of limitations but I still cannot see this ever happening.
MP's are rarely hauled through the courts.
But if we could do something about Jim Davidson for crimes against comedy that would be something.

 

[beak]

If Farage is to face charges (ridiculous not going to happen) he should do so in a Juvenile Court which he was at the time. It kinda makes sense as most politicians are just big kids anyway. 😀

Many things that happen are thought of as being ridiculous. Andrew being thrown out of the royal family,war in Europe,Trump being elected, terrorists attacking New York.Always expect the unexpected as it has a tendency of happening.

 

[Wisbech Eagle]

If Farage is to face charges (ridiculous not going to happen) he should do so in a Juvenile Court which he was at the time. It kinda makes sense as most politicians are just big kids anyway. 😀

With the delays in the Courts he would probably have been voted out by the time a case came to trial.

Maybe you have just stumbled on the real reason Lammy is overhauling the trial system!

 

[Wisbech Eagle]

In my first job some 60 years ago I worked with an older man who was very anti semitic and I'm afraid that I ended up believing a lot of the rubbish that he spouted including the fact that Jews effectively ran the country and were responsible for all that was bad. At the time I'd never met a Jew and didn't actually know much about them apart from what he told me.

It's not a view that I held for long and I would hate to be held to account for a view that I held as an 18 year old that I disavowed very soon afterwards

That though is the real issue.

He won’t be prosecuted. Any attempt wouldn’t survive long.

The issue is, has he disavowed these views? He hasn’t really distanced himself from them by saying they weren’t personal.

So, whether fair, or not, the perception could remain that he hasn’t and still holds them.