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The political party Nigel Farage thinks is ' openly racist' clue it' s not Ukip

Evan Bartlett (@ev_bartlettApr 29, 2015 Nigel Farage has explained that there is one "openly racist" political party in Britain, and it's not Ukip. While claiming that his own party is "all-embracing", the Ukip leader said media attention should instead be focused on the "anti-English" SNP. Speaking at a campaign event in Hartlepool on Tuesday, Mr Farage claimed: "The SNP are openly racist. The anti-English hostility and the kind of language that is used about and towards English people is totally extraordinary." If my supporters behaved in the way that some of those pro-independence supporters behaved in the referendum I'd have been painted out to be the worst person that had been seen for 70 years in British politics.‎ Nigel Farage, speaking to ITV News (Um, as an aside: Who actually is painted out to be the worst person for 70 years in British politics?) Mr Farage, who really hates it when a political party is tarred with the same brush as a small minority of its supporters, went on to recall an incident in Edinburgh where he was bundled into a pub "for my own safety" by police. If you want to look at unpleasant tactics in terms of street campaigning and outright naked unpleasantness on a national-stroke-racial nature then you only have to see what was said to me when surrounded by a group of thugs in a street in Edinburgh. Nigel FarageKeep reading...Show less

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