Not so racist

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The Brexit Party’s leaflet was the first I received for the European Elections – a full week before any others, and the only one talking about Brexit or the EU. No wonder Naughty Nigel’s Barmy Army lead the polls.

Yet the further they run away with it, the further the “woke” recycle already-failed tropes. “It’s racist! It’s far right! Nigel Farage’s initials are the same as the National Front, what more proof do you need he’s evil and eats babies?”

The lead Brexit candidate for my area is Louis StedmanBr yce, a gay black businessman. If Nigel Farage is seeking the Alf Garnett vote, as claimed 24/7, he’s got a funny way of showing it!

Even stranger is that for all the other parties’ positive discrimination platitudes, this will be the first time in my life I will have anyone of AfroCaribbean ethnicity on my ballot paper – let alone one with a realistic chance of winning. Come to think of it, there’ s never been a single Black MEP in British history–clearly the EU Gravy Train was deemed too good for them by British mainstream par ties’ elites.

Who would have thought Farage would have the most poltiically correct candidate of the whole European elections?

MARK BOYLE Linn Park Gardens Johnstone, Renfrewshire