Morons on the right are, predictably, already trying to claim that Friday’s attack in paris validates their views. They say it is evidence of the failure of multiculturalism, blah blah blah (as if these dunderheads go on about anything else. I’d just like to flag up this response to such idiocy, analysing a speech Farage made today. It points out several things, most notably that the attackers were not immigrants but were born in france or belgium. Tighter border controls would have done nothing to prevent this tragedy. Thus scumbags like farage are using what happened on friday to further their own fucked up aims. Indeed, given that it is unlikely a terrorist would carry a passport, ”It’s possible – likely even – that the passport is a propaganda device meant to trigger exactly the response from Ukip which Farage delivered last night.” Someone could easily have planted that document – possibly a member of front national, intending to use this incident to whip up hatred. Whether they did or did not, though, it appalls me to see how opportunistic embarrassments to humanity like farage are: it has barely been three days and people are still in deep mourning, and he tries to distort facts to suit his own aims. Such opportunism, cynicism and barefaced lying surely has no place in modern political discourse.