Police data analysts tried to intercept the thieves' communications, but they have kept silent on all digital platforms, only using snail mail.

Multicultural Britain is no longer something that exists only in "multicultural places", places that were often hollowed out by "white flight" in the 1970s - I think a rising tide of rural racism is based on no longer having a place to flee to.

Maybe 3rd generation. You know what I mean. Descendants of the post-colonial wave of immigrants from India, Pakistan, Uganda, the Caribbean. People who settled in "multicultural cities": Leicester, Bradford, Birmingham, Southall. Now buying houses in Devon, Home Counties, Cumbria, anywhere.

It's frightening. I honestly think many people in rural UK conflate two issues - new migrants arriving (whether for work or asylum), and 4th/5th gen British people of colour arriving in numbers for the first time in their communities instead of living in urban areas. Recipe for disaster.

In fairness, most of those "let down" were disappointed he wasn't more of a racist, and left to go and be more racist somewhere else. Farage is the far right's gateway drug.

At least 3 UKIP electoral candidates were on the BNP membership list when it was leaked in 2009 www.ibtimes.co.uk/ukip-bnp-nig...

Thank you for getting Ocean Colour Scene's The Day We Caught The Train stuck in my head. Genuinely, thank you. It's a good song. Haven't thought about it in a while.

Finally, in 1994 Farage requested the endorsement of British politics's ur-racist, Enoch Powell, and twice encouraged him to stand for election as a UKIP candidate: www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

And, just because Farage would really rather we all forget him, let's not forget this guy: Robert Kilroy-Silk. Farage gave him a job at the top of his party (UKIP) after he was very publicly sacked by the BBC for racist comments he made about Arabs.

Then there's Godfrey Bloom, one of UKIP's first MEPs in 2004, until he had the whip withdrawn in 2014. While I could highlight yet another racist "bongo bongo land" comment, I think it's also fair to remember Bloom for the misogyny that marked his UKIP career.

And in case we think UKIP, like his schooldays, is in Farage's distant past, there's Ben Habib, ReformUK co-deputy leader & Brexit Party MEP, who left to form racist 'remigration' supporting AdvanceUK, yet another Tommy Robinson vehicle.

Then there is Anne Marie Walters, selected as a UKIP MP candidate under Farage, who later left the party to form For Britain, a political face of far right Britain First movement with Paul Golding.

Yeah, but the only reason they don't like talking about that is it might actually lead one of them to reveal who works for which country!

The Catholic Church has brought entire countries to a standstill by "doing literally nothing" i.e. closing the church doors, not saying Mass, excommunicating leaders and nations until they repent, see e.g. Cristeros War, Mexico, or Henry II in medieval England.