The company Farage keeps....

That would mean admitting that it did actually happen though.

vintage1950

All Farage needs to do is to say that he has grown up now and no longer behaves as he did when he was a silly teenager, and apologise for any offence given.

You mean he no longer behaves like a racist ?

I seem to recall Farage said Shemima Begum knew what she was doing when she was groomed at 15. Did he know what he was doing at 15?

Farage was known to not just abuse fellow school pupils, he was recorded doing so when out and about.

Farage did not have the benefit of a university education though, which may have enlightened him as to his behaviour.

I had an uncle who attended Dulwich - a generation before Farage, and although his parents were delightful with liberal outlook on the world my uncle was frankly a sh.t, whose views on Jews, and those less fortunate than himself - most people - were ghastly. None of my cousins retained contact with their father. Perhaps Dulwich breeds them that way!

Still the very wealthy certainly know who Farage will be supporting, should he get into power.

£9million into Farage’s company will buy a lot of influence.

I had a few friends who went to Dulwich college when I was young. Also St. Dunstans. It wasn’t that wealthy and there were a lot of scholarship boys. Just another grammar school and many of them caught the same buses home as we did - no cars or helicopters dropping them off. It sure wasn’t Eton or Harrow.

I know a lot of people who have been to DC and work there ( it’s very near my home) . I don’t think you can blame the school, although maybe at the time NF was there the teachers weren’t as approachable, and certainly safeguarding wasn’t such a thing then. One of my neighbours went there and is Jewish - fortunately not there at the same time as NF. He loved his time at school. I would think NF would be the same whatever school he attended.

Hello, Maybee, I meant that the fact that Farage hasn't apologised strongly suggests that he still holds those views - so he is still a racist.

£9million into Farage’s company will buy a lot of influence.

Harborne has bought Farage just as he bought Johnson. He owns him now, pays for his jaunts to the US to pander to Trump who is also making a fortune from Tether.

I wonder if Reform will set aside some of this for the libel suit that Peter Ettedgui ought to bring against Tice who wasn’t at Dulwich, didn’t know Farage then but is so adamant that this is all “twaddle:.

John Crace on how Farage makes a fool of Tice as he plays him (and Yusuf). What fools they both are to be so keen to act as narcissist Farage’s flying monkeys.

www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/04/tice-steps-up-farage-past-racism-claims-gets-nothing

Richard Murphy on The Crypto Lie:

www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/06/18/crypto-is-not-money/

and why Reform wants to destroy the UK by destroying its money and its economy.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKvVoGVDL5k&t=75s

And of course, we are all making Harborne rich, the largest shareholder in QinetiQ, the company that derives over 80% of its arms-related revenue from UK taxpayers.

bylinetimes.com/2025/02/28/uk-taxpayers-cash-is-funding-an-arms-firm-whose-biggest-shareholder-is-now-bankrolling-nigel-farages-reform-uk/

Harborne earns over 4 million a year in dividends from that company alone.

Whitewavemark2

Farage was known to not just abuse fellow school pupils, he was recorded doing so when out and about.

Farage did not have the benefit of a university education though, which may have enlightened him as to his behaviour.

I had an uncle who attended Dulwich - a generation before Farage, and although his parents were delightful with liberal outlook on the world my uncle was frankly a sh.t, whose views on Jews, and those less fortunate than himself - most people - were ghastly. None of my cousins retained contact with their father. Perhaps Dulwich breeds them that way!

Farage did not have the benefit of a university education though, which may have enlightened him as to his behaviour.

Or not, as the case might have been!

I think the die is set in childhood for us all.

Casdon

I think the die is set in childhood for us all.

I have never believed that.

No hope for any of us, is there ? Negativity rules and no one is capable of change. God help us all with that view.

nanna8

No hope for any of us, is there ? Negativity rules and no one is capable of change. God help us all with that view.

Are you denying parental and societal impact on the individual? Of course it’s not impossible to break free from, but the vast majority are the products of their upbringing.

What is more relevant at present is is the company the BBC keeps.

Very bleak view of life. I could point you to many, many people who had horrendous upbringings, some in vile children’s’ homes, who have grown into beautiful and caring adults. I was a social worker at one time in my life.

Primrose53

With Farage we are talking about nearly 50 years ago! I kept old letters from boyfriends and some of the stuff they wrote at the time would be deemed racist now. These were well educated grammar school boys and college students but they thought those sort of jokes were funny then.

Old comedy series on TV now issue a warning at the beginning about offensive language etc which was acceptable at the time. Man About The House, Rising Damp, Love Thy Neighbour, Only Fools And Horses ….. all have these warnings.

I agree with eazybee why drag this up now. Obviously because Reform are doing much better than Labour.

Pointing out a Jewish classmate and saying 'There's one they missed' and adapting the song 'Bless 'em all' to 'Gas 'em all' isn't just any joke, is it? No one would have said that on TV in the 70s.

Also, an 18-year-old telling nine-year-olds in the playground 'Go back to Africa' is just bullying.

The reason the former classmates are coming forward now is that journalists have been looking into it more now – for whatever reasons – and the classmates don't like Farage denying true descriptions of the way he behaved. More than 20 have now come forward according to the Independent.
apple.news/AvszwVH6KT2qpwzyfVqHzzQ

I was considering voting Reform but there is no way I want someone like this to be Prime Minister. It wouldn't be so bad if he had admitted it and said he was wrong, but he is just lying.

nanna8

Very bleak view of life. I could point you to many, many people who had horrendous upbringings, some in vile children’s’ homes, who have grown into beautiful and caring adults. I was a social worker at one time in my life.

I don’t have a bleak view of life at all, I’m just realistic. I wish it were different.

nanna8

Very bleak view of life. I could point you to many, many people who had horrendous upbringings, some in vile children’s’ homes, who have grown into beautiful and caring adults. I was a social worker at one time in my life.

I think one would have to be deep into a Farage cult to think that he has grown up to be a beautiful and caring individual...

MaizieD

nanna8

Very bleak view of life. I could point you to many, many people who had horrendous upbringings, some in vile children’s’ homes, who have grown into beautiful and caring adults. I was a social worker at one time in my life.

I think one would have to be deep into a Farage cult to think that he has grown up to be a beautiful and caring individual...

That's not what nanna8 said. She said the opposite.

I took it that some children get bullied, have horrendous upbringing but still survive all that to become beautiful and caring adults.

Not that bullying in any way at all is right and should be stamped out, but that Farage's victims survived it.

Peter Ettedgui certainly survived the vile bullying and went on to become much acclaimed in his field.
Did it make him a better person? I don't know him but I imagine he's better and more caring than Farage. It may well have made him a stronger one.

Still does not mean it is true! Look at the Cliff Richard case! Dreadful!! Guess i should hold my hand up. I loved the Black and White Minstrels, I was only 8. Loved collecting the little paper dolls!!! from the Robertsons jams too. I had the full collection of the dolls with their musical instruments. Before all the comments, 'its not the same', I am sure all of us did, said, watched things we would not do now!

ps I also loved 'Love thy neighbour'! Gosh, no hope. I am banged to rights!

Allira

MaizieD

nanna8

Very bleak view of life. I could point you to many, many people who had horrendous upbringings, some in vile children’s’ homes, who have grown into beautiful and caring adults. I was a social worker at one time in my life.

I think one would have to be deep into a Farage cult to think that he has grown up to be a beautiful and caring individual...

That's not what nanna8 said. She said the opposite.

I took it that some children get bullied, have horrendous upbringing but still survive all that to become beautiful and caring adults.

Not that bullying in any way at all is right and should be stamped out, but that Farage's victims survived it.

I interpreted it as referring to Farage having had a horrendous (deeply racist) upbringing...

I don't know. Are you accusing his mother of being a deeply racist woman? 🤔 His father wasn't on the scene.