Clinton Debunked: What Farage Really Said

Following his appearance at a Donald Trump rally in Jackson, Mississippi, on Wednesday night, former UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage found himself under direct attack by the Clinton campaign in an attempt to undermine Trump. 

Hillary Clinton took to the stage in Nevada on Thursday with the intention of tackling two English thorns in her side, one of course being Nigel Farage, but the other being Breitbart journalist and provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos. Clinton's citing of some of Yiannopoulos' headlines, such as 'Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and Crazy' and 'Would you rather your Child had Feminism or Cancer?', was at least factual but the attack she launched at Farage was riddled with out-of-context caveats which sought to portray the prominent British political figure in the worst way possible. 

One accusation leveled at Farage by Clinton was that he had 'called for a bar on the children of legal immigrants in the UK from attending public schools and using health services'. To put the comments into context, Farage has long held the view that immigrants should not be able to access public services such as healthcare and education unless they pay taxes. Hardly a fiercely anti-immigrant stance.  

And in a blatant appeal to her feminist base, or the scraps that the Bernie Sanders movement left behind, she once again plucked a quote from Faragem calling 'women worth less than men' regarding women in the workplace and referring to the impact of maternity leave on their careers. You can find the link to his defence of his comment at the end of this post.

Clinton also attempted to portray Farage as an advocate of racial discrimination by referring to comments he made in an interview a couple of years ago which called for the scrapping of racial discrimination legislation, most of which is EU law and consequently won't be applicable in the UK in a couple of years' time anyway, as he believes racial discrimination isn't a big enough issue in the UK to warrant legislation anymore. But apparently having a positive perception of your country's tolerance to other races and cultures is no longer something to be celebrated anymore. In fact, it's enough to prompt a candidate for the US presidency to denounce you as a racist.    

Farage on women in the workplace: