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Nigel Farage has blamed "hard left lunatics" for forcing Ipswich Town to make a humiliating apology for hosting him, describing his critics as "deeply intolerant".
The Reform leader defended his controversial visit to Portman Road, which prompted criticism from many of the Suffolk club's fans, and said every Premier League and Championship club should want to meet him.
He made his remarks during a trip to the Norfolk Showground on Tuesday night, where his party held a rally.
He acknowledged his trip to Ipswich last week, during which he posted a video of him touring Portman Road, had "caused a stir in East Anglia".
The clip saw him pose with Ipswich Town shirts with "Farage 10" on the back, visit the club's media room and stand on the pitch side.
After days of criticism from fans saying the club should not have hosted the politician, chairman Mark Ashton released his own video in which he "unreservedly apologised".
Mr Farage was unapologetic.
These are hard left lunatics, they're deeply intolerant - it's all part of cancel culture," he said.
He revealed he had travelled to Portman Road to discuss Reform's opposition to the government's independent football regulator, which was introduced last year to oversee clubs' financial conduct and test the suitability of owners.
The watchdog has also revealed plans to devise a new code of governance, with clubs having to show what they are doing to tackle under-representation of minorities and increase their focus on equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI).
Ibwent to Ipswich because Mark Ashton wanted to meet me to talk about football regulations," he said.
Frankly, every Premier League club and Championship club should want to meet me and talk to me.
They got bombarded with hate.
"That's what the mob do - they frighten people. It shows you how nasty the country is.
"I'm not going to pick a fight with Mark, I don't need to do that.
"But he comes under pressure, they start getting abuse. This is how people react because they thought they had to."
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Latest from Farage on 17:04 - Apr 1 with 607 views
Funnily enough, I can think and feel for myself, unlike a lot of the sheep on here. Farage just made the point (correctly) that it's the same old left leaning whining rabble who like to shout people down. That's their default reasoning, you don't agree with me so you must be dumb, racist, fascist (insert your own insult of the day).
I'm not sure you can think for yourself. Or for anyone else. I think thinking is something very low on Rimsy itinerary each day isn't it.
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Latest from Farage on 17:04 - Apr 1 with 609 views
Hit the nail on the head there didn't he. Suppose all you 'hard left lunatics' will now say 'yeah, but Ashton has to go because he's been naughty. Get over ffs.
Farage puts nail in and his fanboys finish the job.
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Latest from Farage on 17:19 - Apr 1 with 559 views
Funnily enough, I can think and feel for myself, unlike a lot of the sheep on here. Farage just made the point (correctly) that it's the same old left leaning whining rabble who like to shout people down. That's their default reasoning, you don't agree with me so you must be dumb, racist, fascist (insert your own insult of the day).
I must have missed all those well-reasoned arguments that the right have been making over the years. Oh... wait... they haven't ever done that, they just shout words like 'woke', 'virtue-signalling' and 'hard left lunatics', in lieu of any kind of coherent argument to back up their views. Silly me.
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Latest from Farage on 18:04 - Apr 1 with 459 views
Funnily enough, I can think and feel for myself, unlike a lot of the sheep on here. Farage just made the point (correctly) that it's the same old left leaning whining rabble who like to shout people down. That's their default reasoning, you don't agree with me so you must be dumb, racist, fascist (insert your own insult of the day).
Classic. But it's sheeple, not sheep, darling. Do try to stay with the nomenclature.
Good work by Philogene...... GREAT WORK BY PHILOGENE!!!
To be fair, it went exactly to plan for Farage, and he is a good lobbyist. He's not done anything wrong.
What people keep missing is that if Ashton had come out and said he met him to discuss views on the football regulator, and if he hadn't given him 6 free '10 Farage' shirts and free reign to use PR as a campaign backdrop, he wouldn't be in such deep sh1t.
Its the gaslighting and lies that are the issues. And the hiding, plus non apology made it worse.
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Agreed except for paragraph one, as I believe Farage using us to promote hatred is wrong. Obviously legal, but it’s morally wrong (imo).
Funnily enough, I can think and feel for myself, unlike a lot of the sheep on here. Farage just made the point (correctly) that it's the same old left leaning whining rabble who like to shout people down. That's their default reasoning, you don't agree with me so you must be dumb, racist, fascist (insert your own insult of the day).
Going to answer the question as to why you're so keen on supporting an obvious conman, bigot and Putin and Trump still then, given you're such an independent thinker? Surely anyone vaguely competent at critical thinking sees through him?
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I'm one of the people who was blamed for getting Paul Cook sacked. PM for the full post.
Going to answer the question as to why you're so keen on supporting an obvious conman, bigot and Putin and Trump still then, given you're such an independent thinker? Surely anyone vaguely competent at critical thinking sees through him?
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If someone votes for a bigot is because they like the bigotry.
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Latest from Farage on 22:00 - Apr 2 with 218 views
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