‘Of course he abused pupils’: ex-Dulwich teacher speaks out about Farage racism claims

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1. Why do these foreigners always end up being abusive? We should send him back to where he came from, and if they won’t take him maybe his wife’s country will.

2. Meanwhile Starmer is celebrating getting a dual national into the country who tweets about harming white people. I hate that it’s come to this, but political parties seem to rapidly be dividing based on identity, which is why these reports aren’t hurting Reform.

3. Farage’s school life is becoming like a weird obsession for some. Very strange.

4. The letter:

   “You will recall that at the recent and lengthy meeting about the selection of prefects, the remark by a colleague that Farage was a ‘fascist but that was no reason why he would not make a good prefect’ invoked considerable reaction from members of the [staff] common room.

   “Another colleague, who teaches the boy, described his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views, and he cited a particular incident in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set that he had to be removed from his lesson …

   “Yet another colleague described how, at a [combined cadet force] camp organised by the college, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shouting Hitler Youth songs; and when it was suggested by a master that boys who expressed such views ‘don’t really mean them’, the college chaplain himself commented that, on the contrary, in his experience views of that kind expressed by boys of that age are deep-seated and are meant.”

   The letter concluded: “You will appreciate that I regard this as a very serious matter. I have often heard you tell our senior boys that they are the nation’s future leaders. It is our collective responsibility to ensure that these leaders are enlightened and compassionate.”

5. Can’t stand the bloke, but genuinely, who cares?

   All these claims will only ever be ‘he said, she said’ and ultimately not something that could ever be proved or disproved.

   Just a bit of a waste of time when he’s done and said some bad things as an actual politician which should probably be a bigger focus

6. He told a first year there was a brown.whale in the toilet.

7. Why didn’t this come out during the other 30 years of his career in politics?

8. Problem with this is that it changes nothing. Those who can see the reformed bnp gaining ground will say “hah, look he’s a racist”

   Whereas those duped into believing he’s a working class hero and people in hotels are the problem will perform gymnastics to justify it…it was a long time ago, Bernard manning was on the telly, everyone was saying it, why didn’t they report it at the time etc.

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10. His voter base won’t care and he knows it, that’s why he calls it fake news

11. Sadly, with the current state of social media and the Overton window shift, the more it’s clear that he’s racist, the more votes he’ll attract.

    While I appreciate speaking to likeminded people here on Reddit, I also speak to non-Reddit users IRL in poor former Red Wall towns in the northwest and they’re all voting Reform no matter how much of their toxicity is exposed. It’s a sad state of affairs.

12. His voter base’d favorite hobby is trying to linch minorities and threatening anyone who helps immigrants

    They are going to see this as a good thing

13. Offence archaeology.

    If the strongest weapon you have against Farage are claims about things he said 50 years ago as a boy – in this instance, claims denied by the deputy master and the school chaplain – then you’re really in trouble.

    Time wasted on this might be better spent on coming up with an actual plan of government for the remaining 3+ years of this parliament and implementing it.

14. The Graun is desperate to muck rake the right, it’s obvious and pathetic. No wonder they always begging people to help fund their shite product.

15. Someone at the Guardian must have a bonus reliant on this.

16. Oh man, wait until senior figureheads in the Jewish community hear about this!!

    It’ll be front page of the newspapers for WEEKS if not MONTHS!

17. They are really trying to drag this out aren’t they. If this is the only thing they have on Nigel he is likely to be your next PM.

    For those that were born after 2000. In the past there was different humour and acceptance of things considered racist. Just use any mainstream news channel as an example of this point by what they aired. Was it ever right? Probably not. Was it funny, yes.

18. 70% of comments so far saying “this won’t change people’s minds” is weird, it’s almost like it is the only narrative left against the drip drip drip nature of the story.

    I mean Farage could just be clear and apologise for the hurt he caused in his antisemitic behaviour, but that would be the end of his political career. He’s alluded to it being true, so he can’t even deny it didn’t happen.

19. The leadership at Dulwich was evidently content to see such behaviour as unimportant, and not requiring any corrective action.

    At the time it must have seemed unthinkable that Fascist behaviour would be seen on British streets, with people trying to burn other people. This is no longer the case, hence our greater sensitivity to foul sentiments like these.

    I haven’t seen anything from the present leadership team at Dulwich on their present policy?

    Incidentally, telling children that they are future leaders will not inculcate a sense of responsibility, rather entitlement and arrogance. They appear to have been very successful at this.

20. So strange that this all comes out now, just when it’s looking like he could be the next prime minister……..

    Still, at least we can look forward to all party leaders pasts being as scrutinised as Farage’s, can’t we?. Wouldn’t want there to be any double standards……

21. It doesn’t help Starmer, it only gives more support to Farage. Unless that’s the point?

22. So teacher who never taught him and was just going on 2nd hand accounts, so basically anyone of us could have written this.

    Deeply unserious smear from the new nasty party mouthpiece 

23. All this will do is solidify his base of scum that vote him and his cronies in

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