{"id":88962,"date":"2026-01-06T08:17:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=88962"},"modified":"2026-01-06T08:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:38:15","slug":"most-people-in-scotland-think-niogel-farage-is-a-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/01\/06\/most-people-in-scotland-think-niogel-farage-is-a-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Most people in Scotland think Nigel Farage is a racist"},"content":{"rendered":"

As The National (for whom I write, to make my biases clear) has reported<\/a> this morning:<\/p>\n

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MOST Scots believe\u00a0Nigel Farage\u00a0is a racist, an exclusive poll for The National has found.<\/p>\n

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The poll by Find Out Now found 47% of people consider the Reform UK leader to be a racist, increasing to 64% with \"don't knows\" removed.<\/p>\n

Just 27% of people felt he was not a racist, increasing to 36% with \"don't knows\" removed.<\/p>\n

It comes after Farage faced a barrage of criticism\u00a0for attacking schoolchildren in Glasgow<\/a>\u00a0that do not have English as a first language.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I doubt many people will be shocked by this finding.<\/p>\n

I suspect that if replicated across the UK as a whole, the result would be pretty similar.<\/p>\n

Does it, however, mean he is a racist? By itself, it does not. Crowds can be wrong, especially when it comes to opinion.<\/p>\n

But here, the late, great James Baldwin comes to our rescue. When commenting on the issue of racism and denials thereof, he said<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I can't believe what you say because I see what you do.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Farage always has, and always will, deny that he is a racist, as will many of his supporters. \"So what?\" is my response. \"See what they do.\"<\/p>\n

Their words condemn Farage and Reform, their desired actions, and the hate they promote. Sixty-four per cent of people with an opinion can see that. But what that means is that a majority are on the side of a politics of care.<\/p>\n

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As The National (for whom I write, to make my biases clear) has reported this morning: MOST Scots believe\u00a0Nigel Farage\u00a0is a racist, an exclusive poll
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