"There was Nigel Farage holding a press conference on live television and responding to racism allegations from his teenage years by lambasting the BBC and ITV for giving airtime in the 1970s to the comedian Bernard Manning and the fictional character of Alf Garnett. As a Christian, I could not help but see it as the most amazingly disingenuous example of the phrase let he without sin cast the first stone."
"My late parents were born in Nigeria and came to the UK in the 1950s. For the Windrush generation, I am told it was a ship ride of many days. My parents came to serve, as is so typical of immigrants from the Commonwealth at the time. My mum had to undergo further training as a nurse despite having already practised as a nurse in Nigeria, while my dad qualified as an osteopath."
Nigel Farage held a live press conference defending himself against teenage-era racism allegations by pointing to 1970s airtime for comedian Bernard Manning and the fictional character Alf Garnett. That defence was perceived as disingenuous and prompted a decision to speak out. The narrator's parents emigrated from Nigeria to the UK in the 1950s as part of the Windrush generation and trained to work in British healthcare despite prior qualifications. The narrator attended Dulwich College between 1980 and 1981, overlapping with Farage at school, and intends to recount that shared school experience.
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