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24 October 2014

The dog-whistle racism in Nigel Farage’s Independent column is OK because he likes cricket

"Rotherham is worse than a calypso".

By Media Mole

This mole, although attempting all week to eject that frankly petrifying lyric, “We can trade with the world again/When Nigel is at Number 10″ from its head, has spotted Part 97 of the Ukip calypso story in today’s Independent.

In today’s paper, Nigel Farage has a column, under the title “Another Voice” (as if he hadn’t already made this nation petrified of anything he considers “the other”) in which he mocks critics of the Ukip calypso, a song written, merrily sung, defended, than apologetically withdrawn, by Radio 1 DJ Mike Read.

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