"I know that it is quite in keeping with the sentiments expressed by plenty of young men in elite institutions like English public schools the kind of men who run the world. Farage was educated at Dulwich college from 1975 to 1982; there, fellow students have told the Guardian, he allegedly used racist insults about fellow pupils and sang a song with the lyrics Gas 'em all."
"I attended Eton a couple of decades later, but the attitudes of some of the people I encountered there were not very different. One pupil, having fallen out with me over some perceived slight, boasted that his great-grandfather was a slave driver. A Jewish friend who was there with me at the same time told me how common it was to hear Jew or rabbi being used to describe anyone who was thought to be mean with their money."
Allegations claim Nigel Farage used racist insults and sang Gas 'em all while at Dulwich College (1975–1982). Similar racist attitudes existed at elite English schools, with accounts of pupils boasting about slave-owning ancestors and casual use of Jew or rabbi as slurs. Observers recall Old Etonian public figures using racial caricatures such as piccaninnies with watermelon smiles. Farage later channelled xenophobic sentiment into political action, helping drive the UK to leave the EU and receiving praise from German far-right groups. The broader social context around him has changed since those schooldays.
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