Neil Basu said Farage was ‘creating conspiracy theories’ by questioning whether truth was being ‘withheld’
A former counter-terrorism police chief has accused Nigel Farage of helping incite violence that broke out in Southport after the killing of three children in a knife attack this week.
“Nigel Farage is giving the EDL succour, undermining the police, creating conspiracy theories, and giving a false basis for the attacks on the police,” he said, referring to the far-right, Islamophobic group whose supporters are believed to have been involved in the rioting in Southport. “We have a responsibility to hold the community together and say let’s get the facts, and then let’s look at what the actual solutions are and what we can do about the horrific situation that we find ourselves in, not to stir up these fake news online.”
Under posts by Farage and Lowe, who echoed Farage by saying there was “more to this than we’re being told,” comments ranged from predictions of a coming race war, sharing of misinformation, antisemitic tropes and claims of a cover-up. He said: “He is an MP. If he has questions, he could have asked them in the House of Commons yesterday – but he wasn’t there. Instead he prefers to encourage those spreading misinformation on here. Utterly shameful.”
Farage maintained his position in an interview with the PA news agency, insisting he had “merely expressed a sense of sadness and concern that is being felt by absolutely everybody I know – ‘what the hell is going on?’”
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