Sarah Pochin’s gonna take a lot of coachin’. You can’t just turn up on the telly and say you’re sick of all the blacks everywhere. And the Asians. Un-accountably, perhaps, you will be accused of racism, the definition of the term having been extended rather further than my interpretation: to discriminate against an individual on the grounds of his or her race. There will be outrage among the deluded; there will be faux outrage among the opportunistic. Your own party leader will slap you down by saying, in effect: ‘Well, she’s right, obvs, but you can’t say stuff like that.’

And her own leader is not wrong. The Overton window may have shifted but it hasn’t yet been smashed. Pochin’s words were, as Mr Farage put it, ‘ugly’, although I suspect that for Nigel the least beautiful aspect was th

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