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British politics is clown world. These past several days have seen a concerted Labour/BBC/Guardian smear campaign run against Reform Leader Nigel Farage. It’s so blatant. This all reduces down to him being alleged to have said “hurty words” to a few fellow students 45 years ago. Some of these have complainants have come forward public to express their emotional distress and exhibit remarkable recall of conversations said at school! Do you buy any of this?
I can honestly say I cannot recall ANY conversations I had when I was at school. It’s just too long ago! I do know that the 1970’s were a time when cultural and societal norms were different and so I am sure that we all spoke in that way at that time. There are words that are no longer in currency that were everyday words back them, as evidenced from popular TV programmes of the time!
I definitely don’t EVER remember talking about politics when I was at school. Instead, I guess that us schoolboys talked about what had been on TV the night before, about new music and groups, about sport, and about girls….just innocent teenage stuff.
I find it VERY odd that these fellow class mates of Farage have such vivid memories of long dead conversations and that this story appears (again) in the run up to the Budget, when Labour don’t want too much media scrutiny on them!
Now I don’t know what Nigel Farage said when he was at school. After all these years I doubt that he does. But holding politicians to account for real or imagined conversations during their schooldays is ridiculous and shows how unserious we are as a country.
Smearing Reform is the process underway here. I am sure this will become MUCH worse in the build up to next May’s elections. The UK Deep State does not want any change in the UK and so it will try to cripple Farage with accusations he is “close to Putin” and “A Nazi”. The BBC delight in repeating these unfounded slurs. I do wish that Farage had have been more robust in dealing with the “schoolboy” slurs against his reputation but I imagine it is very uncomfortable to be quizzed about thins you cannot properly recall from your years at school.
I think most people will take the view that we want to know what the adult Nigel Farage thinks of the big issues, not what the teenage Farage thought back when he was at school.
