Merry Christmas on Nostr: Good read this, but not if you hate Labour. The Independent. 'You don’t speak for ...
Good read this, but not if you hate Labour.
The Independent.
'You don’t speak for middle England, Mr Farage, and here’s why.
We didn’t fall for fascism or communism in the Thirties because we – well, because we huddled somewhere in the middle. Which makes it all the stranger that Nigel Farage, with his Mr Toad flat cap and yellow cords, has managed to brand himself as the epitome of Englishness. Speak for England, Nigel? I don’t think so. Let’s hear it for the neglected middle.'
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