“I will be forced to don khaki, pick up a rifle and head for the front lines.” if Brexit is not delivered.

Nigel Farage, May 2017 https://twitter.com/nigel_farage/status/1346918543401615365
“It’s legitimate to say that if people feel they’ve lost control completely, and we have lost control of our borders completely as members of the EU, and if people feel voting doesn’t change anything, then violence is the next step.”

Nigel Farage, May 2016
“Once Brexit is done, we will take the knife [to] overpaid pen-pushers in Whitehall.”

Nigel Farage, Sept 2019
Words are easy to say.
And words can easily have horrific consequences.

All politicians and commentators in the UK who’ve been using words in ways like the above—Mr Farage is only one of them—would do well to finally recognise that.
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