Nigel Farage Accuses UK Government of "Deep Anti-White Racism" on Substack

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has taken to Substack to accuse the British government of infecting the UK with “deep anti-white racism.” He also published damning racism and crime statistics in an essay, much of which would have been previously unspeakable.

Farage announced his migration to the platform on Saturday, saying that the move to Substack would allow him to speak directly to the British public without “the mainstream media constantly distort[ing] what I say.” One day later, Farage used this new platform to unleash a 7,000-word tirade against the British state, which, he argued, has become “a two tier state against white people.”

What did Farage say?

Farage took aim at decades of British policy that he says have unfairly benefited minorities and discriminated against white Britons. He highlighted Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) policies in healthcare, education, policing, and the military that he insists have been implemented to disadvantage white patients, students, and applicants, and promised to repeal the 2010 Equality Act which, in his words, ensures that “anti-Whiteness is institutionalised into every aspect of public life.”

In healthcare, the NHS prioritizes “ethnic minority communities” and “vulnerable migrants” for accelerated diagnosis and treatment, despite white Britons having the highest mortality rate of all of the UK’s ethnic groups. In education, the poorest white Britons have the lowest outcomes of any demographic, yet are lectured about their “white privilege” and their “responsibility” to reduce racism, and sidelined when applying for university in favor of black students with lower exam scores, Farage said. In policing, he claimed, agencies across the country have adopted “race action plans” and done away with stop-and-frisk policies that seemingly target black men – even though at 13% of London’s population, this demographic is responsible for 61% of knife murder in the British capital.

How Henry Nowak changed the conversation

None of these arguments are new, and the right has leveled accusations of ‘two-tier’ policing at Starmer’s government since the 2024 Southport riots – when Starmer cleared prisons to make way for hundreds of people arrested for social media posts supporting the rioters. However, Henry Nowak’s death made these accusations impossible to ignore.

Released earlier this month, bodycam footage showed officers handcuffing Nowak after he had been stabbed with a ceremonial dagger by a Sikh man. The officers refused to believe that Nowak had been injured, allowing him to bleed out in their custody while they listened to his attacker’s false claim that he had suffered a “racist” attack.

The Nowak case triggered violent protests in his native Southampton, and condemnation from the US government, with Vice President J.D. Vance blaming his death on Britain’s “politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants.” Three weeks later, an attempted beheading in Belfast by a Sudanese migrant reinforced Vance’s claim.

“Make no mistake: if there is no urgent action taken to remove discriminatory and dangerous anti-White policies, we will see another Belfast,” Farage wrote. “Thanks to the mass migration policies of Conservative and Labour governments, White Brits will become a minority in this country before the end of the century. Without a voice to speak up for them, the future will be manifestly unjust.”

Is Farage warning of “rivers of blood”?

Farage’s warning – that anti-white violence will increase as the white share of the population decreases – has been made before. In his 1968 ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech, Conservative MP Enoch Powell predicted that mass immigration would force natives out of jobs and housing, that white Britons would be “made strangers in their own country,” and that as he looked to the future, he, “like the Roman,” seemed “to see ‘the River Tiber foaming with much blood’.”

Whereas Powell warned of bloodshed in the future, Farage has argued that it is happening right now. Whites are being displaced in London, Farage claimed, providing statistics from where the district of Barking, which has been transformed from a 91% white community in 1991, to less than 31% today, and Westminster, which has gone from 73% white to 28% in the same time frame. In Westminster, some 43% of social housing is occupied by people born outside the UK and Ireland.

Black men and mental health in the UK

Combined with DEI policies at every level of the British state, this displacement has “lethal” consequences, Farage warned. In the healthcare system, black men are 3.5 times more likely to be sectioned under the Mental Health Act than their white counterparts, yet are more than ten times more likely to screen positive for psychotic disorders. With healthcare staff under pressure to reduce the former disparity, dangerous mental patients are being released. Among them is Valdo Calocane, a paranoid schizophrenic who stabbed three people to death and rammed a van into a crowd in Nottingham in 2023.

Meanwhile, Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) hires two times the number of foreign-trained and ethnic minority doctors, despite these doctors being “significantly more likely to be hauled in front of fitness to practise hearings.”

Farage’s moment

A long-time proponent of the kind of “color-blind meritocracy” advocated by American Republicans, Farage previously stopped short of portraying immigration as an existential threat to “white” Britain. Questioned by reporters in 2014, he would only admit that “the basic principle” of Powell’s argument was correct. However, his rhetoric on “anti-white racism” has hardened in recent months, and his Substack essay explicitly promises a brighter future for whites.

“We’re long past empty platitudes about change: only Reform has the will and the ability to ensure that no young White person ever has to grow up feeling ashamed of who they are again,” he wrote.

Is Farage riding a political wave and will he survive?

This new hardline stance seems partly opportunistic. Farage’s Reform UK capitalized on widespread dissatisfaction with Starmer’s migration policies to pick up more than 1,400 seats in local elections in England last month, as Starmer’s Labour Party lost the same amount. While these results seemed to vindicate Farage’s claim that Reform, and not the Conservative Party, is “now the main opposition party to this government,” the Belfast stabbing shone an unwelcome light on Reform’s immigration policies.

In the days after the attempted beheading, it emerged that the Sudanese attacker had his asylum application to the UK fast-tracked by a Conservative government in which Suella Braverman was home secretary and Robert Jenrick was minister for immigration. Braverman and Jenrick are now members of Reform, and although both have claimed that they split with the Tories on immigration, Farage has faced a new challenge on the right from Restore Britain’s Rupert Lowe, who has argued that Reform represents “change, but only the kind the establishment will allow.”

Whereas Farage has proposed kicking migrants out of social housing, Lowe has promised mass deportations. Farage has promised to hold black and white criminals equally accountable; Lowe has advocated for the reintroduction of the death penalty for migrant murderers. Against this kind of challenge, Farage’s essay can be seen as an attempt to reassert Reform as the voice of the British right.

Amid public outrage over the stabbing of Nowak and the brutal attack in Belfast, and with Starmer’s approval rating sitting at a miserable 16% in the latest Ipsos poll, Farage is likely betting that Reform can replicate its local wins in next year’s general election. As it stands, his message is resonating: according to a polling aggregate compiled by Politico, Reform is the UK’s most popular party, polling at 26%, with Labour and the Conservatives both trailing at 18%.