Farage sang Hitler youth songs, allegedly !!!
As well as allegedly being a school bully, and not thought to be ideal school prefect material.
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Mr Farage calls these accusations "baloney", but they are undoubtedly very embarrassing for him. Do they give an insight into his true mindset, or are they mere echoes of his youth, when, let's face it, we all did pretty silly and immature things ?
Thoughts ?
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In an embarrassing revelation for Nigel Farage, a letter has emerged in which the Ukip leader is described as a "bully" and a "fascist" by teachers at his South London school, forcing the party boss to defend himself against the accusations.
Revealed by Channel 4 News, the letter was written in June 1981 by Chloe Deakin, an English teacher at the prestigious Dulwich College where Farage was a pupil.
In the missive, sent to the school’s headmaster David Emms, Deakin implores her boss to reconsider appointing the future Ukip leader a prefect, citing a recent staff meeting in which Farage was described as a "fascist", adding that there was "considerable reaction" from Deakin’s colleagues to the appointment.
The letter adds: "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 the lesson. This master stated his view that this behaviour was precisely why the boy should not be made a prefect.
"Yet another colleague described how, at a Combined Cadet Force (CCF) camp organised by the college, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shouting Hitler-youth songs."
Mr Farage calls these accusations "baloney", but they are undoubtedly very embarrassing for him. Do they give an insight into his true mindset, or are they mere echoes of his youth, when, let's face it, we all did pretty silly and immature things ?
Thoughts ?
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What next? 5 year old bully Farage pushed another child in the playground at nursery school?
Teachers at a south London school probably Guardianistas who would probably call Cameron a fascist as they throw the word round so liberally!
Seriously tho this is the reason people have so little intertest in politics surely when this is the level of debate we are involved in
Well yes, I see your point, but you have to admit (if it's true), that wandering round the street late at night singing the Horst Wessel, or whatever, isn't exactly common behaviour for a 17 year old.
Look at the old king who had to abdicate............he was always round Hitler's gaff plotting how he could get the throne back after Hitler conquered GB
One of the Princes dressing up in Nazi uniform
Surely no one is going to claim that the Duke of Edinburgh has any opinion to the left of Attila the Hun
It's probably pretty common in the aristocratic and ruling classes
Don't forget the pictures of Ed Balls dressed up a Nazi that were doing the rounds a few years ago , are we now going to call him a Fascist and Nazi ?
would you call him part of the ruling class ?
I expect so............
there are enough contemporary reasons to hate him without having to go in to his childhood.
the fascism phase is no different from a punk or emo phase that other kids go through.
I would call him a wannabe and god help us if he ever gets to be Chancellor
Erm.....I don't think there is any doubt that it did happen.
It doesn't look as hough it has stopped.
Ha Ha....LOL...This is Dulwich College we are talking about here.
He did on the BBC
Well known hotbed of left wing lunacy carefully disguised as a public school produced the likes of Shackleton & PG Wodehouse...though IIRC he was once investigated by MI5 as a possible Nazi sympathiser/collaborator....before they concluded he was more idiot than traitor...hmmm.....
No, he said he did it to wind up the teachers.
Even the Guardian are reporting that he has denied it
Yesterday, on the radio, he did not. In fact he implied the story was true. He went to say that he did to wind-up the teachers.
I fully expect to banned for this, because UKIP monitor this forum and threaten legal action if anyone says anything they don't like.
Sounds like he is denying it there?
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But without going into specifics about what he used to do to wind up the "leftie Bob Dylan lovers" as I think he described them.
About the specific allegation he simply said "I don't remember that one" which kinda suggests he used to regularly play up.
Water off a ducks back for Farage.
I could imagine him doing it - he strikes me as probably having been a right wind up merchant at college judging by the fact he's not exactly a shrinking violet now!!
In which case, he has back-pedaled from what he said on the radio yesterday.
This is what he said:-
He has denied even knowing any of the songs!