"I remember the fantastic cooked English breakfast, as opposed to what you get at a boarding house on a morning, Lihou recalled. I was a boarder and he was a day boy, he said of their education at Dulwich college in south-east London. Farage was a great mimic, and funny with it, Lihou said. But, over time, he found that there was a darker side to his 14-year-old friend."
"But he also used to sing this song, which I later discovered was based on George Formby's Bless Them All. He had a whole load of lyrics' on this which are pretty awful. I can remember it verbatim: Gas em all, gas em all, into the chambers they crawl. We'll gas all the Paks, and we'll gas all the Yids, and we'll gas all the coons and all their fucking kids."
"He loved the fact that half of me is from Germany, said Lihou. My birthday is one day before Adolf Hitler's, which at the time you think, you know, ho, ho'. But he used to stomp around the playground and chant, Oswald Mosley' [the 1930s leader of the British Union of Fascists]. I didn't have a clue who that was until about a couple of years later."
A teenager attended a sleepover at Nigel Farage's house and enjoyed a cooked English breakfast. Both attended Dulwich College, one as a boarder and the other as a day pupil. Farage displayed entertaining mimicry but also showed fascist-leaning behaviour as a teenager. He boasted of German ancestry, stomped and chanted 'Oswald Mosley', and kept exceptionally polished boots using snuff. He adopted army-style clothing and sought a rebel image. The friendship ended by sixth form after escalating racist remarks, explicit praise for Hitler, and singing violent, genocidal song lyrics.
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