It’s all he does. It’s all he’s ever done. Nigel Farage spreads hatred and fear. He takes the best human attributes – of compassion and charity – and makes them politically impossible.

Today, just like every day, he’s beaming out his poisoned message. The High Court has ruled that asylum seekers can no longer be housed at the Bell Hotel in Epping. Farage pressed the advantage with a column in The Daily Telegraph demanding even more protests outside migrant hotels.

While we’re here, let’s do something which never really happens anymore in the asylum debate. Let’s tell the truth, for once in our lives.

After a summer in which the most obscene innuendo and outright falsity have been reported straight-faced by the right-wing press, let’s have a moment of contact with reality.

The people in that hotel are not “illegal immigrants”. They are asylum seekers. The Conservative government did a very good job convincing people to adopt this phrasing by making it a criminal offence to arrive in the UK irregularly. But people have a right to seek refugee status under the Refugee Convention, which Britain is a member of, and many asylum seekers do not even arrive in small boats.........

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