Anyone foolish enough to still doubt that UKIP and Farage are a bunch of racists, should just go here. Making comments other politicians have called ‘shocking’, Farage has called for ‘most’ laws connected with race and discrimination to be scrapped. For example, he says a potential employer should be allowed to deliberately select a british person over a Polish person. Needless to say, I find that utterly repugnant: it would take us back to dark days where people were pitted against each other due to the colour of their skin or where they came from. Employers should hire on the grounds of ability and suitability; what farage proposes would deliberately increase tension between groups of people.

Of course, the cretin instantly tried to backpeddle, saying his comments had been ‘willfully misrepresented’, and that he was talking about nationality rather than ethnicity or race. What crap!It is clear what he meant. It is becoming clearer and clearer that Farage and those who agree with them are bigots, but when you talk to them, they present themselves as the victim – an oppressed minority whose views are being stamped out by a politically-correct elite. We can see such a stance taken by twits like Jeremy Clarkson. Well, anyone who knows their history will know that men like farage and clarkson were, not long ago, a majority; one that ruled over others, repressing difference, denying others’ their rights on the grounds of gender, skin-colour, sexuality and so on. It is precisely to prevent such discrimination that new laws were introduced – laws which farage wants to repeal. The insult is, he invokes discrimination in his argument.

What I saw this man has said, upon turning on my computer and checking the news, chills me to the core. Thankfully it is being widely condemned. Farage would take us back to somewhere dark, where hatred and prejudice were common, even standard. Surely such bigotry has no place in our or any society.