Ex-Classmates Urge Farage Apology for Alleged School Racism

Are decades-old school allegations a coordinated political smear, or do they reveal a persistent pattern of bigotry?
Ex-Classmates Urge Farage Apology for Alleged School Racism
Above: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaking at the MacDonald Inchyra Hotel & Spa in Falkirk, on Dec. 6. Image credit: Jane Barlow/PA Images/Getty Images

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Right narrative

Farage's school behavior from nearly 50 years ago is being weaponized for political gain, with critics ignoring that even those who despise him as an adult couldn't find evidence of racism in his later life. Judging a teenager's playground banter by modern standards while disregarding decades of adult conduct reveals this is nothing more than a coordinated smear campaign. The timing and volume of these allegations reek of political motivation.

Left narrative

Twenty former classmates describing consistent patterns of racist and antisemitic abuse over five years cannot be dismissed as misremembering or political theater. Farage's constantly shifting denials and refusal to condemn antisemitism or apologize to victims he clearly hurt demonstrates unfitness for leadership. His failure to discipline racist MPs in his own party shows this isn't ancient history but a continuing pattern of bigotry.

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