Farage Peddles ‘White Lives Matter’ in the Wake of Henry Nowak’s Death

Nigel Farage has peddled “white lives matter” and “two-tier culture” lines following the death of student Henry Nowak.

18-year-old Nowak was stabbed to death by Vickrum Digwa, 23, in Southampton in December last year whilst he was walking home alone after a night out.

Digwa used a 21cm (8in) blade he said he carried as part of his Sikh faith, called a Kirpan, and this week was given a life sentence with a minimum of 21 years over the stabbing.

The case has attracted particular controversy though over the response of police. When police arrived at the scene, they handcuffed Nowak as he lay dying after Digwa claimed he had been racially abused by the teen and had acted in self-defence.

Nowak tells officers he has been stabbed and “can’t breathe” multiple times, before becoming unresponsive after a couple of minutes.

Hampshire police has apologised and the force’s Police and Crime Commissioner Donna Jones described the incident as a “national tragedy”.

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In an ’emergency address to the nation’ broadcast on X, Farage compared the tragedy to the death of George Floyd in the US in May 2020.

Farage asked why there was not a similar level of outrage from politicians and the public to Nowak’s death as there had been to Floyd’s.

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Farage claimed this was proof that “we are living in a two-tier culture in this country where the rights and privileges of white people matter less than those of ethnic minorities.”

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Farage concluded his broadcast by saying that the “most important thing that needs to change” in Britain is “we need a change in culture.

“Enough of anti-white prejudice,” he said. “A promotion of the idea that white lives matter just as much as black lives. An end to DEI and positive discrimination.”

“I fear for where our society will be in a few short years if we don’t grip this,” he added.

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