[Nigel Farage] has incited fear of immigration, and by that note immigrants.
Search his record, his many speeches on YouTube etc. and you will find 95% of it is about removing democratic Britain from the undemocratic E.U., and nothing else.
Where he has spoken about immigration, he has...
* identified the very obvious problem of belonging to a political union where any one of its 500 million inhabitants can just stroll in and settle here, no matter whether we have enough...houses...school places...doctors...hospitals etc.
* supported the admission of Syrian refugees
* supported fair treatment for Gurkhas
* explained how unlimited E.U. migration lowers wages for the lowest-paid
* opposed all forms of racism, and
* campaigned for a sensible points system for immigrants like the Australian system.
On the point of Nigel Farage's 'background' and 'views', which you claim to have researched, I got to know Farage afte working as the Political Secretary of his fellow-M.E.P. Jeffery Titford 1999-2001. There was no trace of racism in him, and UKIP welcomed many ethnic minority members into the party at this time.
Finally, on the rise of 'racial hate crimes' in the past two weeks, regrettably whenever certain items feature on the news, there is an outbreak of these horrible kinds of attacks. There was for instance a similar sharp rise in attacks on Jews by Muslims at the time Israel went into Gaza to stop the Palestinians firing thousands of rockets at
civilian targets in Israel.
