Farage’s poster is the visual equivalent of Enoch Powell’s ‘rivers of blood’ speech | Jonathan Jones

This picture, filled with nonwhite faces, makes explicit the racism in Ukip’s vision of leaving the European Union

If you are thinking of voting to leave the EU, if you want Britain to take back control, if you believe the Brussels oligarchs are throttling our democracy, and, yes, if you think immigration has to be regulated and that can best be done if we have proper national borders again, look at this poster, for it is very informative.

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Your new poster resembles outright Nazi propaganda, @Nigel_Farage. Thanks to @brendanjharkin for pointing it out. pic.twitter.com/Rd89XZSvfD

I don’t think this Ukip poster creators would be insulted by the Enoch Powell comparison

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