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Nigel Farage was born in 1964 and attended Dulwich College. As a youth, he allegedly expressed racist and neo-fascist views, which he later downplayed. In 1993, he co-founded UKIP and repeatedly ran for Parliament, failing each time. He sought endorsement from Enoch Powell and associated with members of the neo-Nazi BNP.
Elected to the European Parliament in 1999, Farage allegedly exploited the expenses system. In 2012, he advocated for dismantling the NHS and later faced scrutiny for an offshore trust fund. Despite opposing gay marriage, he employed his second wife using EU funds and was accused of an affair.
Farage repeatedly appeared on Russia Today and expressed admiration for Vladimir Putin. His "Breaking Point" poster drew Nazi comparisons. He defended Trump's lewd comments and disparaged Barack Obama. David Duke endorsed him for Prime Minister.
Farage blamed the EU and NATO for the Ukraine invasion and complained about sanctions against Russian oligarchs. His bank account closure led to claims of political persecution, though the bank cited xenophobia and racism as concerns.
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Speaker 0: April 1964. Nigel Farage is born in Farnborough, Kent. He attends private prep school before enrolling at the fee paying Dulwich College at the age of 10. 1978. The 14 year old Farage joins the Conservative Party after seeing Margaret Thatcher's radical free market mentor, Keith Joseph, speak at the school.
1981. An English teacher at Dulwich College writes that a colleague who teaches Farage, quote, described his publicly professed racist and neo fascist views. While another colleague recounted that at a combined cadet force camp organized by the college, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night, shouting Hitler youth songs. One Jewish pupil will later recall how Farage would sidle up to him and say, Hitler was right and gas them. Fellow pupil Nick Gordon Brown remembers he looked like a middle aged man when he was a sixth former.
He was a very vocal national front supporter. There was a Jewish lad at school whom he was horrible to. With Jewish schoolmates, he made no secret of his distaste for them. What you see now is what he was like then. Years later, when confronted with the allegations, Farage will give an awkward response.
Speaker 1: Yes. Of course. I said some ridiculous things about that. Racist things. Not necessarily racist things.
Not necessarily racist. Well, it depends how you define it.
Speaker 0: Farage denies any involvement in far right politics as a youth. His old headmaster record rudeness rather than racism. 1993, he becomes a founding member of UKIP. 1994, he runs for parliament as the UKIP candidate in the Eastleigh by election. Before the poll, he writes to former MP Enoch Powell, asking for his endorsement.
Farage has previously declared Powell his political hero and endorsed the basic principle of his notoriously racist rivers of blood speech and even acted as his chauffeur.
Speaker 2: This country, in fifteen or twenty years' time,
Speaker 3: the black man will have the whip hand over the white man.
Speaker 0: Powell rejects the advances of the 30 year old Farage. In the by election, he comes fourth. 1997. He runs as UKIP candidate in Salisbury at the general election, again coming fourth. The following month, he meets Mark Devon, a former UKIP activist who is now head of research at the neo Nazi BNP, and the editor of Mindbenders, a supposed expose of Jews in the media.
Farage is seeking compromising information on UKIP leader Alan Sked in an effort to oust him. A photo shows Farage and Devon at the meeting, along with Tony Lekimer, a BNP member who served three years in prison for handling explosives in an attempt to bomb a left wing group. Lekimer was given another three years for stabbing a Jewish school teacher who had been trying to remove a BNP sticker on the underground. 1999, Farage is elected to the European Parliament as MEP for Southeast England. He soon identifies how an unscrupulous MEP could abuse the expenses system in Brussels.
Speaker 1: But if you used the secretarial allowance to pay your wife Yeah.
Speaker 4: These are
Speaker 1: two on top of all the other games that you could play, I reckon this job in Sterlington is worth over a quarter of a million pounds a year, dear.
Speaker 0: He will soon be putting his observations into practice as he becomes embroiled in a series of expenses scandals. 02/2001, he runs as UKIP candidate in Bexhill and Battle, coming fourth. 02/2005, he runs as UKIP candidate for South Thenet, coming fourth. 02/2006, he runs as UKIP candidate in the Bromley And Chislehurst By Election, coming third. Six months later, he becomes leader of UKIP for the first time.
April 2010.
Speaker 5: UKIP MEP Nigel Farage admitted that he has taken 2,000,000 of taxpayers' money and expenses, employs his wife to run his office, pay for his allowances, he's hoping to become an MP at the next election. Well, he certainly ticks all the boxes.
Speaker 1: Can we get right a reply here? Yeah. Yes. Yes. The money didn't go to me.
Wasn't it for your party and your offices? Didn't go to me. It went to employees.
Speaker 0: May 2010. At the general election, he stands in Buckingham, coming third behind a candidate championed by a dolphin. 2012, he advocates for the dismantling of the NHS.
Speaker 1: And I think we're gonna have to move to an insurance based system of health care.
Speaker 0: May 2013, he makes a speech to the European Council condemning tax avoidance and tax havens, citing the Channel Islands, The Caymans, and the Isle Of Man. June 2013, the Mirror reports that Farage opened an offshore trust fund on the Isle Of Man to slash his tax bill. When reporters exposed the scheme, Farage describes it as a mistake saying, things that we thought were absolutely fair practice ten years ago, twenty years ago, thirty years ago aren't anymore. September 2013, reiterating his opposition to gay marriage, he says it would be profoundly illiberal. His defense of the sanctity of heterosexual matrimony does not, however, extend to his own marriage.
In March 2014, the Telegraph reports that Farage employs his second wife, with whom he had an affair while previously married, on a salary of up to £20,000 using the EU parliamentary assistance allowance, while also using the same allowance to pay a woman as a local assistant in the UKIP press office in London with whom he's had more than a decade long affair. Faroj tells the media the claim of an affair is not true. In reality, he's lying. By now, he has appeared on the Kremlin owned Russia Today TV channel 17 times between 2010 and 2014. Farage is clear about his admiration for the Russian president.
Speaker 1: I was asked a couple of months ago, which world leader did I admire? And I said Vladimir Putin as an operator.
Speaker 0: May 2014. By now, Farage is joint leader of the group Europe of Freedom and Democracy alongside Italian far right leader Francesco Spironi of the Lega Nord party. Spironi has defended Anders Breivik, the Norwegian far right terrorist who killed 77 people, including dozens of children, in an attack in 2011.
Speaker 4: He described Anders Breivik as someone whose ideas are in defense of Western civilization. No, he didn't actually.
Speaker 1: He didn't. One of his members did and we kicked him out of the group.
Speaker 4: No, no, you're thinking of Maria Borgheseo who went further and said in a radio interview that Breivik had some excellent ideas. If you But Spironi himself, who is your co chair of this group, said that Breivik's ideas are in defense of Western civilization.
Speaker 0: September 2014. Addressing the European Parliament in Strasbourg, he defends Putin against what he sees as attacks by the EU and NATO.
Speaker 1: The unnecessary provocation of Vladimir Putin. If you poke the Russian bear with a stick, don't be surprised when he reacts.
Speaker 0: May 2015, he runs as UKIP candidate in South Thanet coming second. June 2016. With just days to go before the EU referendum, Farage unveils his now infamous breaking point poster. It immediately draws comparisons with similar imagery used by the Nazis in Germany. Even prominent Brexiteer Michael Gove says he shuddered when he saw the poster.
Leave wins the EU referendum. Farage resigns as UKIP leader. October 2016, he defends Donald Trump's obscene remarks about groping women.
Speaker 3: You can do anything.
Speaker 1: Whatever you want.
Speaker 3: Grab them by the pussy.
Speaker 0: Farage downplays the comments, claiming men commonly use Trump's language.
Speaker 1: It's the kind of thing, if we're being honest, that men do.
Speaker 0: November 2016, he's less charitable about Barack Obama.
Speaker 3: That Obama creature, said, you know, I mean, loathsome individual.
Speaker 0: February 2017. Farage is endorsed for the job of prime minister by David Duke, former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. March 2017, Faraj appears on Russian state TV channel RT, where he's knighted by a six year old girl, after which the little girl tells him My mommy says you hate foreigners.
Speaker 1: No. No, little girl. No. No. No.
No.
Speaker 0: Farage has docked half his monthly MEP salary after the European Parliament alleges he misspent public funds intended for staffing his office. May 2018. UKIP allied group, the Alliance for Direct Democracy, is told to repay €1,100,000 to the European Parliament following an investigation into the alleged misspending of taxpayers' money, including on Farage's failed bid to become an MP in the twenty fifteen UK general election. February 2019, Farage's new Brexit party is registered with the Electoral Commission. March 2019.
He's photographed with notorious misogynist Andrew Tate, was thrown off big brother after footage emerged of him hitting a woman with a belt. Tate will later be arrested in Romania on suspicion of people trafficking. May 2019. It is reported that Farage has appeared on Alex Jones's far right US talk show, Infowars, at least six times, dating from 2009 to 02/2018. Numerous appearances came after Jones began a campaign of harassment against the parents of five and six year old children killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting in 2012.
October 2020, with Trump seeking a second term as US president, Farraj turns up at a rally in Arizona just days before the election to offer his unequivocal support.
Speaker 1: This is the single most resilient and bravest person I have ever met in my life.
Speaker 0: November 2020, the Brexit party is renamed Reform UK. February 2022, he blames the EU and NATO for Putin's invasion of Ukraine, earning support from the Russian state TV channel RT. March 2022, he complains about the government sanctioning Russian oligarchs.
Speaker 1: And my question was, where's the due process? But but it's happened anyway, hasn't it?
Speaker 0: June 2023. He claims his bank account has been canceled because of serious political persecution. It soon transpires that man of the people Farage has his account with elite establishment bank, Coutts, which counts the royal family amongst its clients. An internal Coutts report on Farage states, at best, he is seen as xenophobic and pandering to racists, and at worst, he is seen as xenophobic and racist. He is considered by many to be a disingenuous grifter.
Fortunately for Farage, there is legislation protecting bank account holders from discrimination based on political beliefs, if indeed that's what's really happened. The law in question has been retained by The UK, but it was originally passed by the European Union.
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