• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
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    12 days ago

    Farage used a series of white nationalist tropes in his 7,000-word essay on Substack on 15 June titled ‘Britain is a two tier state – against white people’, in which he called for the repeal of the 2010 Equality Act, describing it as the means by which “anti-Whiteness is institutionalised into every aspect of public life.”

    In a video published this week, he stated that white working-class boys were “currently the lowest-performing group in the country’s education system thanks to the Equality Act”, and pledged that Reform UK would “scrap it and return Britain to a meritocracy.” However, the official data Farage cites contradicts both his education claim and the causal argument on which his case for repeal rests.

    What a worthless dumpster of hate.

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      11 days ago

      Britain has never, ever, been a meritocracy.

      He just spouts lies on top of lies.

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    12 days ago

    The fact he is both still alive and free after what he did with brexit shows how much more restraint the British have developed in the last few years.

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      11 days ago

      Take it your American? Weirdly enough there’s a massive issue class over here that doesn’t quite mesh with your dulux colour chart style of oppression. your parents income levels are far more likely to cause discrimination here than your skin color but keep up the shitty takes guy

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          Before Brexit the chosen enemy was Polish people/generic eastern Europeans. They are ostensibly white, but many conflicts were over the number of them that were coming to the UK to work, despite that they were mostly doing jobs with high demand like cleaners.

          It’s only since Brexit that non-European immigration has skyrocketed, as well as the onset of the small-boats issue, since we can no longer send them back to France.

          Don’t re-write history.

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    Farage begins his argument with a truth, which is that white working-class boys are failing in Britain’s schools.

    Farage won’t fix it, all he cares about is scoring cheap political points. The problem is nobody else will even pretend to care about it, especially not on the left.