UK elections thread

[eugmac]

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/...-who-said-what

Nigel Farage said he wouldn't want to live next to a Romanian family. How is that even remotely non-racist?

[OngBonga]

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/...-who-said-what

Nigel Farage said he wouldn't want to live next to a Romanian family. How is that even remotely non-racist?

Because he has a German wife duh.

Farage doesn't truly feel like that. He said it because it appeals to the morons who think Romanians are just here to commit crime. This is my problem with UKIP - they appeal to the morons, and they are so divisive. There's probably some truth in the claim that Romanian immigrants are more likely to be criminals than, say, Chinese or Indian immigrants, and it's not easy pointing that out without sounding racist. Still, Farage's choice of phrase was terrible, because it resonates so closely to the days when people would say the same about black people. He certainly could have made this point without sounding like a racist twat.