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I always read the optimistic & warm analyses of a supposed softening in public attitudes toward immigration with a heavy heart. When politicians & newspaper editors decide to turn the hatred dial back up, the public will always follow. The polling proves this & very little else.
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It was on Monday that I explained why the government & right-wing, pro-Brexit media would be ramping up refugee hatred to repugnant & unprecedented levels. For fairly obvious reasons. I confess I didn’t think it would move this far this fast. But here we are.
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Blimey. twitter.com/tabooze/status…
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Thread. twitter.com/rajanbasra/sta…
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Feels very different now from when I used to deal with loads of these callers. The difference, I suppose, between fighting a fire that’s still raging & surveying the charred wreckage of a beautiful old building with a bloke who insists he prefers it that way. twitter.com/LBC/status/158…
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For the hundredth time, Charlie Stayt is one of the very best at the Beeb. Has been for years. So they'll probably lose him soon... twitter.com/Haggis_UK/stat…
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I think I can feel a Brexit phone-in coming on for the first time in a long while...
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As I just mentioned. Absolutely unhinged. twitter.com/anandMenon1/st…
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Not the only reason, of course. Literally nobody claims that - except all the tragic commentators & columnists still putting bogus words into the mouths of everyone being proved horribly right about Brexit. twitter.com/paulwaugh/stat…
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This is brilliant & incredibly relevant to the now. On a much less serious note, I wonder whether a few modern day racist bigots with newspaper columns & TV slots have been deliberately aping Enoch Powell's appearance... twitter.com/SardonicPill/s…
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A *Secretary of State for Trade* claiming to be 'amazed' that people keep pointing out the damage Brexit has done to trade is absolutely terrifying. And yet entirely unsurprising. @GarethThomasMP's calm & collected concentration on irrefutable facts is very impressive, though. twitter.com/GarethThomasMP…
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The caller, in his second language, was making a powerful & pertinent point that has been utterly vindicated by events. Johnson understands exactly what's occurring so makes a characteristically puerile 'gag' to undermine serious & important discourse. Hilarious. And here we are. twitter.com/AdamBienkov/st…
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Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Immigration of Belize... twitter.com/EcourtbzeEamon…
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Such an irredeemably awful politician, it's close to performance art. twitter.com/danbloom1/stat…
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This week has been as bad as any I can remember for asylum-seeker hatred. The key difference is that while the toxic newspapers are the same as ever, the political momentum is coming from the Conservative government rather than Ukip or the BNP. twitter.com/LBC/status/158…
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Well, this just blew my mind. No, Elon and Jack are not ‘competitors.’ They’re collaborating. by @davetroy link.medium.com/OzpoJyfuwub
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The 'best' thing about a blue tick is that you get an extra feed consisting entirely of interactions with other blue ticks. I rather like it because I still get star struck but I don't currently see how this survives the payment plan.
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All of this. twitter.com/rafaelbehr/sta…
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Who radicalised him?*
*rhetorical question
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The UK media is *full* of people who love Braverman's fascistic depiction of refugees & feel 'politically' closer to the man who fire-bombed the processing centre than they do to the people in it. They'll dress it up as 'legitimate concerns', of course, but they're all complicit.
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There is literal & unapologetic terrorist apologism all over Twitter & in the comments sections of national newspapers. I fear it's only a matter of time before it pops up in parliament, columns & op-eds. Suella Braverman's words yesterday provided an enormous green light for it.
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The inability of dishonest people to tell the truth about Brexit makes honest conversations about asylum-seekers impossible. The people now inciting terrorism & making political capital are *precisely* the same people who promised that leaving the EU would solve these 'problems'.
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If broadcasters really can't find the courage to show these secretly-funded, utterly discredited shills the door then it falls to fellow guests to do it for them. It really shouldn't. It puts them in an uncomfortable & unfair position but @angelaeagle provides a masterclass here. twitter.com/BrexitFails/st…
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Is there any precedent at all for a government dedicated to undoing damage done a few weeks ago by a nominally different government from the same party and containing almost all of the same people? twitter.com/The_TUC/status…
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Dover migrant centre attacker had a history of far-right views hopenothate.org.uk/2022/11/01/dov…
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LBC Radio show: lbc.co.uk Full Disclosure Podcast: shorturl.at/tyC37 Mystery Hour Game: mysteryhour.co.uk Not even a proper DJ.