New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) Former Brexit chief and GB News host Nigel Farage has been slammed for `insulting` protection of a TikTok video displaying Sikh individuals in a small boat crossing what the broadcaster claimed was the English Channel.
The Indian Council of Scotland and the UK has sought a public apology from GB News for operating the story with the headline “WTF…Sikh-ing Asylum” on the display screen.
“We have written to GB News and look forward to a public apology. If no public apology is given then we shall go to the regulator,” the Council mentioned.
Sharing a clip of the information protection, the Indian diaspora organisation additionally took a robust offence to Farage making enjoyable of the individuals within the video.
“You`ve been used in the past to the Albanians, this is a boat full of Sikhs. Yes, they`re all coming from India. What a good day out they`re having,” Farage was heard saying on GB News.
The former UK Independence Party (UKIP) chief additional mentioned: “Basically, it doesn`t matter where you come from in the world, it doesn`t matter whether you`ve got a legitimate claim to be a genuine refugee or not, it`s come on down, cross the English Channel, pay a trafficker and you will be allowed to stay.”
The Council mentioned in an announcement that `racial slur` towards any neighborhood is unacceptable.
“We stand in solidarity with the Sikh community with regards to the wrong done by GB News/Nigel Farage. No community/faith or culture should be insulted in this way.”
“We at the Indian Council of Scotland and the UK are against Illegal immigration, however it is not acceptable for racial slur against the Sikh community or any community,” it added.
In 2013, Farage`s then PR Manager Gawain Towler, had referred to British-born Sikh journalist Kiran Randhawa as “some form of ethnic extraction”.
Nimco Ali, who stepped down as authorities`s adviser on tackling violence towards ladies final 12 months, accused Home Secretary Suella Braverman of “feeding into Nigel Farage stuff”, after she sparked off an outrage by evaluating the migrant disaster within the nation to “invasion”.
Farage had heaped praises on the Sikh neighborhood for serving to throughout the 2013-14 Somerset floods.
“I remember the Sikhs helping during the Somerset floods, what a great community,” Farage had tweeted in 2020.
He concluded his report on the GB News by attacking the ruling Conservatives saying that even when they have been to get the economic system proper, the problem of unlawful immigration alone may value them the subsequent normal election.
More than 45,000 individuals crossed the Channel to the UK in small boats over the previous 12 months, in response to authorities figures, with 90 crossing on Christmas Day alone.
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