meic wrote:So you do agree that there is hatred coming from both sides and Farage is a prime target of it?
I think that some of you are unaware of or have forgotten the environment of our upbringing in the 1970's.
I never said there wasn't any hatred. And I'm not about to deny that I loathe Farage and his henchmen with a vengeance.
My upbringing was in the 1950s and 1960s, as it happens. But plenty of nasty stuff was about, even then. I was too young to understand the full impact of the Notting Hill riots back in 1958, but I certainly remember the infamous Smethwick campaign in the 1964 General Election. For those who don't know: it was a vicious and vitriolic racist campaign aimed at unseating the incoming Labour Government's Foreign Secretary-designate, Patrick Gordon Walker. In which it succeeded. The best-remembered, most infamous and ugliest slogan of that campaign, I will not repeat here, but you can easily find it by googling.
Later on, in parliament, Harold Wilson referred to the Tory incumbent of Smethwick as a "leper" - a remark for which he was reprimanded (but not censured) by the Speaker. I'm inclined to take Wilson's side.
And moving on the the 1970s - yes it was nasty then, too. The National Front had just been spawned, and held regular marches through Bradford (where I was living at the time).
And then we came on to 1979..... need I say more?
