I think the die is set in childhood for us all.
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(162 Posts)"The former leader of Reform UK in Wales has been sentenced to 10-and-a-half years in prison after admitting taking bribes for pro-Russia interviews and speeches.
Nathan Gill, 52, from Llangefni, Anglesey, is thought to have received up to £40,000 to help pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine.
He was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) when he accepted money from Oleg Voloshyn, 44, a man once described by the US government as a "pawn" of Russian secret services"
And I recall Farage et al collecting their generous wages as MEP's, doing nothing at all for our country, that moment when they, like petualnt small children, turned their backs on the EU parliament
Be very aware, we are all are defined by the company you keep, Farage. Many politicians accept gifts we ar not happy with, and som pilloried for pairs of glasses, but you, Farage, kept company with a Russian spy.
Farage is facing calls to investigate and root out links between Reform UK and Russia after one of his party’s former senior politicians was jailed for 10 years for accepting bribes from a pro-Kremlin agent.
Not a good week for Farage: he faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
read here:
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2025/nov/18/deeply-shocking-nigel-farage-faces-fresh-claims-of-racism-and-antisemitism-at-school
"It is the hectoring tone, the “jeering quality”, in Nigel Farage’s voice today that brings it all back for Peter Ettedgui.
He would sidle up to me and growl: ‘Hitler was right,’ or ‘Gas them,’ sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas showers,” Ettedgui says of his experience of being in a class with Farage at Dulwich college in south London
"My grandparents had escaped from Nazi Germany, and had always talked with deep gratitude about how they felt welcome in the UK,” he says.
*I’d never experienced antisemitism growing up, so the first time that this vicious verbal abuse came out of Farage’s mouth was deeply shocking.
But I wasn’t his only target.
I’d hear him calling other students ‘Paki’ or ‘Wog’, and urging them to ‘go home’.
I tried to ignore him, but it was humiliating. It was shaming. This kind of abuse cuts through to the core of your identity*
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!
£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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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?
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 
?
That would mean admitting that it did actually happen though.
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.
He was rattled in his press conference today. Another former pupil has come forward, there are now 12 of them. It really does sound as though it was targeted abuse.
www.itv.com/news/2025-12-04/former-classmate-alleges-he-witnessed-nigel-farage-racially-abuse-his-friend
It’s worth watching the clip.
Maybee70 he is oddly fascinating to watch and listen to, a real snake oil merchant 🙈
One has all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it’.
Oreo
Wyllow3
I don't know if GB news had many viewers who were Jewish, but surely Farage's frequent appearances will be seen in a different light?
Well, I often watch GB News and find Farage entertaining but I wouldn’t vote for Reform.
I make allowances for anyone who’s accused of racist chat, banter call it what you will while they were a teenager.
Even a few Labour MP’s have had to apologise ( no real point) for antisemitic tweets and emails from when they were younger.
If anyone indulges in it past the age of their 20’s that’s when they need calling out for it.
Quite honestly Oreo I don’t know how you, as a Labour voter can stomach watching him.
Maremia
Would be interesting to explore the notion that 'Farage is doing well'. What exactly has he ever done well?
Topping the polls isn't actually doing anything.
Well, Starmer would love to have the same polling figures am sure!
Farage’s Party is doing well, and without him Reform wouldn’t be anywhere, so like him or loathe him, he can def be said to be doing well.
Farage a racist? Really? Who’d have thought it?
Wyllow3
I don't know if GB news had many viewers who were Jewish, but surely Farage's frequent appearances will be seen in a different light?
Well, I often watch GB News and find Farage entertaining but I wouldn’t vote for Reform.
I make allowances for anyone who’s accused of racist chat, banter call it what you will while they were a teenager.
Even a few Labour MP’s have had to apologise ( no real point) for antisemitic tweets and emails from when they were younger.
If anyone indulges in it past the age of their 20’s that’s when they need calling out for it.
Casdon
The heat does not appear to be diminishing. This is headline news on CNN today.
edition.cnn.com/2025/12/04/europe/nigel-farage-racism-allegations-reform-intl-cmd
He’s struggling to keep up his jokey blokey pubic facade. And when he said well the BBC were showing programmes like the Alf Garnett one it was pointed out that no one ever made jokes about the holocaust.
The heat does not appear to be diminishing. This is headline news on CNN today.
edition.cnn.com/2025/12/04/europe/nigel-farage-racism-allegations-reform-intl-cmd
Actually, for the sake of accuracy, Facebook 'posters' are promoting the petition. But Facebook has not yet taken it down.
Have never understood that petra. Perhaps money is more important.
Maremia
Facebook is punting a petition to investigate the Russian links, and it has reached 900,000 signatures.
It’s ironic that a social media site who’s owner is Jewish is supporting a petition to investigate a racist when said owner is so far up a racists arse ( Trump) that it’s a wonder he ever saw daylight again.
Watch and weep.
www.google.com/search?q=mark+zuckerberg+supports+trump&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:78f13026,vid:Cw8UE5Z9zP4,st:0
I just do not understand why people are surprised by anything when it comes to this man. The 'nice bloke you meet down the pub' image has never fooled me. Yet, there seems to be plenty that support him and his ilk. It seems Russia was also much busier than we thought behind the scenes. Mind you, we are in for a shock up here in Scotland, as all I see is posters in various comments sections saying 'vote Reform' and I think they will gain seats because people feel betrayed by the SNP and the scenes filmed at a council meeting in Glasgow don't bode well.
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