UKIP (UK's "tea party") leader, Farage doesn't want Romanians living next door, but

[pampango]

claims he is not a racist.

Nigel Farage is racist, say Yvette Cooper and David Lammy (Labour Party members)


Nigel Farage has backtracked from his claim that people should be concerned if Romanians move in next door

Nigel Farage has been branded racist by the shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, and the prominent Labour MP David Lammy, after the Ukip leader said people might not want to live next door to Romanians. Farage said in a Guardian interview that British people should be wary of Romanian families moving into their street. He subsequently repeated his position on LBC 97.3 Radio, saying people would know the difference between living next door to Romanian men and some German children.

David Lammy, whose parents are from Guyana, told the BBC's Daily Politics that Farage's comments reminded him of the racism encountered by his mother and father when they first came to the UK. "What Nigel Farage said over the weekend was racist. So I'm clear, he's a racist," he said. "Let's be clear, I am from a background where my parents arrived here as immigrants. I remember a context in which some people said: 'You don't want these people living next door to you.' That was racist."

The deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, said Farage's remarks had revealed his "divisive, nasty approach" to politics.

"I think the mask is starting to slip and I think what's being revealed behind the beer-swilling bonhomie is a rather nasty view of the world," he told BBC1's The Andrew Marr Show on Sunday. "I think anyone who singles out one community, one nationality, and says: 'I don't want to live next door to them,' I really think that's the politics of division and I think it really should have no place in modern Britain."

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/may/19/nigel-farage-racist-yvette-cooper-david-lammy

I wonder if some his 'best friends' are Romanian.

I would think the term should be 'xenophobic' rather than 'racist' since what distinguishes Romanians from British is not race but nationality. The right wing populist parties of the world seem to have the same view towards immigrants. Past immigrants - particularly my ancestors - were 'good' immigrants and something we should be proud of in our multicultural nation. Current and future immigrants, well they are a different story.

[shenmue]

1. He looks like a confused character from a Python sketch

[T_i_B]

2. Upper Class Twit of the year perhaps?