‘He used to say things like “Hitler was right”’: Farage faces more allegations of racist behaviour at school

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/19/nigel-farage-allegations-racist-behaviour-school

by PurchaseDry9350

26 comments

  2. I’m quite sceptical on this tbh.

    I feel like the Guardian have “stooped low” and found themselves a select few who are willing to say a few negative things about him decades later due to opposing political views.

    It seems like a desperate attempt to change peoples opinion on him. This approach is a risky game, as it could very easily go the other way.

  3. As much as I dislike Farage, I’m not going to judge him for what he said 40-50 years ago as a daft kid. 

    There’s plenty of modern stuff to judge him for.

  5. Farage is 61 years old. Why are we hearing about what he may have said when he was 14.

  6. This just comes across as pretty desperate for clicks.

    Do they need to call him a nazi that badly that they’ll dig up some high school drama from half a century ago? With no evidence beyond “trust me bro I was there”?

    He was 14. He is now 61. Come on now.

  7. Hitler was right about one thing; he killed Hitler.

  9. The Guardian are seriously barking up the wrong tree here. Engage with what he says now, not what he allegedly said fifty years ago.

  11. Pretty astonished how many people are happy to brush this off. These allegations are nothing new. Acquaintances at school and uni have reported how he used to revel in his initials being ‘NF’ at a time when the National Front was very open about its racism and its advocacy of violence. How far away from those views has he moved, really? Is this this really the sort of character we want anywhere near running our country?

  13. Do we really need an article about this every day? Come on Guardian.

    Nobody really cares about what someone did 40 years ago. Plenty of kids like to play the edgelord and say racist or homophobic or sexist stuff, and even if he really meant it rather than doing that, it’s just so long ago it’s irrelevant.

    As I’m sure the Guardian would agree if someone dug up that Angela Rayner or Jeremy Corbyn acted like an idiot in their school days.

    This is just a way of riling up their own base, it will have absolutely no effect on anyone thinking of supporting Farage, and if you actually want to hurt him politically there are far better ways to do it.

  16. Really? I don’t like Farage but let’s not get pathetic here. Critisize him for relevant things. Not some heresay from 40 years ago.

  17. I do wonder about the people on here saying they want to avoid discussing how a prospective future PM might have had a Hitler-loving phase. To me it’s an automatic disqualifier.

  18. As much as I dislike Farage and disapprove of his politics, I do also have to say that he’s a proper cunt.

  19. Yeah. So the thing about being a school age kid is, you say dumb shit.

    It’s like with Trump edit on bbc. *so many* good reasons to critique a man, and yet mass media go for the dumbest, lowest hanging tree type of bullshit.

  20. Nigel Farage has said young Nigel farage was a ‘bad apple’ and he never really knew him.

  22. Kudos to the classmates for bringing this to light.

    Farage as an individual aside, it’s very believable, having spent time around kids of that social class even in the early 2000s and finding an unusually high amount of racism (and classism, to ridiculous levels that would seem like something from a fictional movie otherwise).
    And it’s believable when so many are saying it about Farage.

    I do know many grow out of it and regret their past actions or views. Though this is very much going to change how I view what he says and his potential true intentions.

    I am surprised to see that even in the 1980s teachers in his school thought his racism was unbecoming of a school prefect, rather than considering it a non-issue. Or maybe it was more due to the nazi imitation than his putrid racism against individuals in his school.

  23. To the shock of absolutely fucking no one

    Oswald Mosley cosplaying cunt

  24. Why are people just brushing this off as a badly behaved kid. I wasn’t spouting nazi rhetoric at school, he would’ve known better so how can you just sweep this under a rug?

  25. i believe the term for this is “edgelord” in modern parlance, right?

  26. Very interesting how no journalist or talking head ever refers to him as “unelectable” despite all this.

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