Maggie Atkinson
matkinson956.bsky.social
Maggie Atkinson
@matkinson956.bsky.social
Proud former public servant now in consultancy/service advice/improvement. NED, charity trustee & Chair. Lifelong passion for & work on REAL social justice & equity. Gobby northern cat mum. Barnsley my heart's home. Radio ham. Musician. Gardener.
Reposted by Maggie Atkinson
Farage's defence is he was simply an "Enoch was right" Powellite, not also a supporter of the National Front (other pupils recall him celebrating his initials being NF), Oswald Mosley + the gassing of the Jews

I guess his pointing the way to Africa could be Powellite "send them back" repatriation
December 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Bankole, 54, an engineer, said once his “existence as a target was established”, Farage “would wait at the lower-school gate, where I was dropped off for school, so as to repeat the vulgarity”.

He would always remember a “look of hatred he had for me, seemingly simply for existing”.
December 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Farage has acknowledged name calling presenting it as so-called playground "banter" "between 15 year old boys" but says his use of racial slurs was never hurtful or targeted.
December 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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"I will leave it to the reader to decide whether this was ‘malicious or non-malicious’, ‘meant with intent or not with intent’, ‘direct or non-direct’. I know how I experienced it. It certainly felt malicious to me.” says Bankole, of the sixth form prefect who he remembers towering over him, aged 9
December 5, 2025 at 7:53 PM