Nigel Farage, leader of the Reform UK party, has explained his plans to abolish the Equality Act, citing its divisive, anti-meritocratic impact on British society.
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❓ WHAT HAPPENED: Nigel Farage, leader of the Reform UK party, explained his plans to abolish the Equality Act, sometimes referred to as the Equalities Act, arguing it has sown division and undermined meritocracy in Britain, particularly at the expense of white people. 💬 KEY QUOTE: “The Equalities Act has actually put anti-white discrimination onto the front foot of every public body in this country.” – Nigel Farage 📰 DETAIL: In a video statement uploaded to social media on Tuesday, Farage noted that the Equality Act was introduced in 2010 by a Labour government of Gordon Brown, shortly before the party was ousted for 14 years. “[W]e didn’t need it because we already had anti-discrimination laws… What it did was to create different grades of people,” Farage explained. “Under it, something called ‘positive action’ needed to be taken to make sure that ‘underrepresentation,’ as it was seen, of ethnic minorities or women… should change. They even introduced something called a ‘tiebreaker’ whereby if two candidates for a job in the civil service were seen to have equal talents, the one from the ethnic minority would get the job over the one that was White British.” 🎯 IMPACT: Farage said that the Equality Act undermines the principle that people should be “judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character,” observing that the anti-white ideology underpinning it “has run all the way through our system,” whether in the jobs market, the military, or policing. Notably, the Reform leader’s intervention follows widespread public anger over the police response to the murder of Henry Nowak, with officers refusing to believe the white teenager had been stabbed and putting him in handcuffs shortly before he died, because his Sikh murderer falsely accused him of racism. Farage pushed strongly for the release of the shocking police bodycam footage of Nowak’s final moment, stating, “Our institutions don’t care about Henry Nowak because he is white. I do, and he deserves justice.” |
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