Please stop calling them the ‘Farage Riots’, demands man behind the Farage Riots

Nigel Farage has demanded people stop referring to nationwide anti-immigrant far-right disturbances as the Farage Riots, insisting it is an unfair characterisation based on nothing more than him loudly encouraging the sentiment behind them all.

After helping spread anti-immigrant misinformation that sparked the first riot in Southport, and more recently encouraging protesters who gathered outside a hotel in Epping, Farage has insisted that people stop blaming him for people acting violently after listening to his words and agreeing wholeheartedly with them.

Farage told reporters, “Just because I’ve spent twenty years demonising immigrants, just because I’ve filmed small boats and suggested the people arriving in them are criminals, just because I’ve suggested the nation is being invaded, doesn’t mean I am in any way responsible for people violently reacting to small boats full of criminals invading us.

“I’m just asking questions. And when those questions – such as ‘Why are we letting the country be invaded by criminal immigrants?’ – result in violence, that is not my fault. At all.

“It is irresponsible to refer to these events as the Farage Riots because words can have a real-world impact, and you saying that about me might lead people to think that I am a danger to the public and to take matters into their own hands, for which you would rightly be held responsible.

“Oh.”

I didn’t attend the Farage riots because I’m not a gullible simpleton

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