Many thanks for all your contributions. We have now reach 38,000 signatures. I have written the following letter to the CPS. I plan to hand deliver this next week. If you have any comments please email ziddacism@gmail.com Please continue to share the petition by email and social media: Dear Nick Folland, We the undersigned consider that Nigel Farage has incited racial and religious hatred during his Brexit campaign. There are a number of laws in the UK that we believe Farage may have broken and we would like the CPS to launch an investigation to determine if this is the case: Public Order Act 1986 Malicious Communications Act 1988 Crime and Disorder Act 1998 Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 Equality Act 2010 The petition began in reaction to a poster launched by Nigel Farage on the 16th June. Along with the caption “Breaking Point: We must break free of the EU and take back control of our borders.” The photograph used was of migrants crossing the Croatia-Slovenia border in 2015. The only white person in the image was covered by text. We feel that the poster alone incites racial and religious hatred. This is because the language suggests that this large group of non-white, male, Muslims would ‘break’ the UK when the reality was that they were not destined for the UK. In addition we would like to request that the CPS consider the rhetoric used by Nigel Farage during the Brexit campaign to determine if this was designed to incite racial and religious hatred. We feel that Farage used un-evidenced claims to associate criminality with immigration and indicated that continued immigration would result in violence in the UK. In particular he is reported to have said: “When Isil say they will use the migrant tide to flood Europe with 500,000 of their own jihadists, I think we better listen.” “If you allow the unlimited access to huge number of young males into the European continent, who come from countries where women are at best, second-class citizens, don’t be surprised if scenes that we saw in Cologne don’t happen more often.” “I think its legitimate to say that if people feel we have lost control of our borders completely, and we have lost control of our borders completely as members of the European union, and if people feel that voting doesn’t change anything, then violence is the next step.” Whether intentional or not we feel that the recent increase in violent hate crimes is not coincidental. There is a correlation between the use of racism and religious intolerance during the Brexit campaign and the current increase in hate crime. As one signatory put it: “It has become okay to harass and spout racist abuse at anyone from another country or who is not white British. This has to stop…. the poster being the true ‘breaking point’ in unleashing this wave of racist behaviour.” We have signed this petition because we feel that Nigel Farage must be held to account. We wish to send a clear signal that in all political campaigns and public life, racism and religious intolerance cannot be used to attract support. As another signatory puts it: “The rise in racist incidents is because the racists now feel it is okay to express their prejudice openly. If we don't prosecute Farage, then the message is that they are right and that all of this is merely people using their freedom of speech. We need to draw a line to distinguish freedom of speech and racism/hate crimes. We are not free to speak if that directly infringes on the freedoms and safety of other citizens.” Please can you reply in writing confirming that you will prosecute Nigel Farage for incitement of racial and religious hatred? Best regards, Zack Newman