Harry and Meghan accused of branding 52% of Brits 'racist' after Netflix show ... trends now
Nigel Farage has branded Harry and Meghan 'despicable' after their bombshell Netflix documentary suggested Brexit contributed to the racism experienced by the Duchess.
The former UKIP leader, 58, took to social media to give his verdict following the release of the first three of six hour-long episodes, which were dropped by the streaming giant at 8am on Thursday.
He accused the Sussexes of labelling 52% of Brits 'bad, racist people', after one of the episodes said it created a 'perfect storm for jingoism and nationalism' and gave people with 'really horrible views more strength and confidence'.
Tory MP Michael Fabricant also weighed in, accusing the Sussexes of recycling the 'ignorant trope' that all Brexiteers 'are racists'.
Nigel Farage (pictured), the former UKIP leader, 58, took to social media to give his verdict following the release of the first three of six hour-long episodes, which were dropped by the streaming giant at 8am on Thursday
Mr Farage accused the Sussexes of labelling 52% of Brits 'bad, racist people', after one of the episodes said it created a 'perfect storm for jingoism and nationalism' and gave people with 'really horrible views more strength and confidence'
Mr Farage said: 'Well perhaps no great surprise that Harry and Meghan choose to use Brexit as one of the causes of the terrible racism that was put against them.
'They draw on extreme left-wing historians, they draw on fake news headlines from The Guardian and elsewhere and what they're really saying is that 52% of Prince Harry's country of birth are bad, racist people.'
He said the series was, in the short term, all about 'making money', 'dissing the Royal Family and the United Kingdom', adding: 'And in the long term, giving a political platform on which Meghan can launch her career in the USA.'
He said the couple are 'nothing short of despicable' over their 'behaviour' towards the Royal Family.
Tory MP Michael Fabricant told MailOnline: 'It is a common and ignorant trope that people who voted for Brexit did so out of racism.
'Most did so because they believed in the importance of sovereignty for our 1,000-year-old nation.
'You would have thought Prince Harry would have had some sense of history, but I guess not. Instead he chooses to make ill-informed comments based on his own prejudices rather than any basis of facts.'
It comes after the Sussexes' Netflix documentary today unleashed a series of incendiary claims labelling Britain a 'racist' country.
In one segment, Harry says the Royal Family has 'unconscious bias', and is 'part of the problem' when it comes to racism in Britain.
Lengthy segments are also given to academics Afua Hirsch and David Olusoga who say British tradition is 'filled with racist imagery' while discussing the country's colonial legacy - and call anti-immigration sentiment in the UK a 'cipher for race'.
The accusations are levelled across the first three hour-long episodes of Harry & Meghan, which dropped at 8am on Thursday.
Harry and Meghan have branded their engagement announcement in 2017 an 'orchestrated reality show' in episode three of their bombshell Netflix documentary
Author Afua Hirsch (pictured) brands the Commonwealth Empire 2.0 in Harry and Meghan's Netflix documentary, before describing Harry as 'anti-racist'
The Commonwealth, much-loved by the late Queen, is branded 'Empire 2.0' by Ms Hirsch, while author Kehinde Andrews claims 'nothing has changed' from the UK's colonial past, apart from the Royal Family's 'better PR'.
The commentators suggest this racist legacy made it difficult for Meghan to be both assimilated into the firm and widely accepted and loved by the British public.
Even the UK's departure from the EU is dragged into the fray, as Harry says the series is not 'just about our story', adding: 'This has always been much bigger than us', amid the back drop of a Brexit protest followed by former-PM Boris Johnson vowing to 'take back control of this country.'
The visuals point to racism being a key factor behind the Brexit vote and suggest the wider political climate was hostile to Meghan becoming a royal.
The debate around Brexit is revisited at the end of episode two. Mr Olusoga says that the 'fairy tale' of Harry and Meghan was 'embedding itself in a nation that is having a pretty toxic debate about the European Union.'
He adds that 'immigration was at the absolute centre' of that debate, and that 'immigration is very often in this country a cipher for race'.
A series of clips then shows British people making racist comments.
Harry then says: 'So the EU commissioned a report in 2016, exactly the same time that our relationship became public. It warned that if the government wasn't going to do something, or if the media aren't going to sort themselves out, that a culture war that had already existed was going to become huge and become a real problem.'
Former Palace spokesman James Holt adds: 'It was a perfect storm that gave credence to jingoism and nationalism and gave people with really horrible views of the world a little bit more strength and confidence to say what they wanted to say and do what they wanted to do.'
Asked about Prince Harry's comments about the EU referendum, the Rishi Sunak's official spokesman said today: 'I haven't put those specific points to the Prime Minister but the British people made a decision, a democratic decision, which the Government has enacted based on taking control of things like our borders and our laws, which again, we have delivered.'
In the same episode, Meghan tells interviewers she felt a shift in treatment after moving to the UK.
'At that time, I wasn't thinking about how race played a part in any of this,' she said. 'I genuinely didn't think about it.
'It's very different to be a minority but not be treated as a minority right off the bat...I'd say now,