On Sunday, Nigel Farage published the first in what he promised would be a series of essays. It’s a new initiative from the Reform UK leader to speak – unfiltered by the media – directly to the British public.
There’s plenty to sink one’s teeth into: the essay is 7,000 words, with a bibliography numbering over 80 sources. Nor does it pull any punches: titled, ‘Britain is a two-tier state – against white people’, Farage goes through education, healthcare, housing, policing, even the military, showing in each case how Britain’s obsession with identity politics has disadvantaged white British citizens.
Inevitably, criticism has centred on Farage’s strident tone, rather than the substance of what he says. But whatever people’s quibbles over language, I find it hard to find fault with his core arguments.
Like Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch did recently, Farage takes aim at the Public Sector Equality Duty as the basis for much of the state’s two-tierism. But he goes further than her in calling for abolition of the 2010 Equality Act.
He is right to do so. This Brown-era legislation has done the opposite of what its name implies. It hasn’t created a more harmonious society. In fact, it has done the opposite. One presumes that, in place of the Equality Act, Reform will look to introduce more narrow legislation focused on outlawing direct discrimination, closer to the original Race Relations Act.
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