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Nigel Farage's Chosen Reform Mayoral Candidate Suggested Black Britons Can’t Be English (bylinetimes.com)

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Reform UK’s candidate for Mayor in Doncaster this May has been accused of making “openly racist comments” following the train stabbings over the weekend.

In posts on Sunday, responding to Saturday’s mass stabbing attack on the Doncaster to London King’s Cross train, Reform councillor Alexander Jones explicitly attributed the crime to “individuals” who were “not English” and instead “Black and of Caribbean descent” – despite the alleged killer being British.

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[–] Denjin@feddit.uk 13 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Nigel Farage is of French Hugeanot descent and therefore he also cannot be considered English because he doesn't have an Anglo-Saxon bone in his body.

For that matter, neither am I because my family is a mix of Irish and Norman, fuck myself back to Donegal then I guess.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

Nigel Farage is of French Hugeanot descent

BLOODY HUGEANOTS! Coming over here from medieval france, bloody french with their famed ability to weave jerkins out of lace... WE DON'T WANT YOUR LACE HERE

[–] asRomeBurns1979@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To be honest we are riddled with beaker people at the moment.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Bloody beaker folk. Farage will send them back to the Iberian Peninsula so they can fill it with beakers.

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