34 years in media. Ex-editor. Ex-chair EDC. Ex-NHS commissioner for Leicester. Non-Exec Director Inclusion Healthcare. Views my own.
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Nick Carter 💙🇺🇦 retweeted
Smart Labour person said this to me yesterday. Said that Burnham’s total domination of the political conversation was not unlike Trump in its way (though obviously completely different in its substance).
Nick Carter 💙🇺🇦 retweeted
Fascists & racists got 'patriots' to hate small boat people. Then all migrants and minorities of colour. Now the good souls of the RNLA. Next? Doctors, nurses of colour? Brown & black Schoolkids? Many are fighting this scourge. More of us must join them.
Nick Carter 💙🇺🇦 retweeted
Hotels? Not here. Towns? Not here. Cities? Not here. Former army bases? Apparently not here either.
So where exactly are asylum seekers supposed to go? Piddington has legitimate questions about infrastructure, but turning a plan to house 1,256 people into a “we’re leaving Britain” referendum is beginning to look less like protecting a community and more like NIMBYism with a Union Jack.
Put people where there is infrastructure, give them the right to work, and let them become part of the communities they're living in.
@NickMartinSKY has spoken to villagers in Piddington, Oxfordshire, where residents will hold a symbolic vote to leave the UK over plans for an asylum centre nearby.
The villagers say they have valid safety concerns, while critics accuse them of nimbyism
Nick Carter 💙🇺🇦 retweeted
People often ask me what is behind the rise in far right politics over the last years & the answer is simple:
Money.
People didn’t just all of a sudden become more racist - “concern” about immigration has never tracked with the actual numbers.
But there’s been a huge amount of money pumped into pounding away at that message, targeting people, playing on their fears & vulnerabilities, funding misinformation channels & influencers.
I always say in the face of all that the persistence of nuanced & decent positions on immigration along the British public speaks to what a pro immigrant, generally anti racist & integrated society we have built. But with enough money & enough time, they can chip it away, and they are.
🚨 THIS is how Reform’s £72 MILLION Flush Fund will flood UK
Polly Mackenzie brilliantly explains the power of political microtargeting.
We saw it during Brexit: different groups of voters could be identified online and sold completely contradictory versions of what Brexit would deliver.
Worried about immigration and the NHS? Target that.
Believe EU freedom of movement discriminated against Commonwealth and Asian migration? Target that.
Same campaign. Different promise. Different voter.
And Brexit ultimately produced something rather different: EU migration fell while non-EU migration rose dramatically.
Now imagine what Reform can do with £72 MILLION from two billionaires, poured into Facebook, TikTok, X and other digital campaigning.
This isn’t simply a war chest for posters and leaflets.
It buys the ability to find your grievance and sell you the version of Reform designed specifically for you.
That is the power of the Flush Fund.
Nick Carter 💙🇺🇦 retweeted
So.... £2,485 on glasses for a PM was "sleaze rotting our politics to the core" but £72,000,000 in a single day for Nigel Farage is celebrated as hitting "the jackpot" and a "war chest..."
Whatever is happening here is happening in plain sight. You decide!
Nick Carter 💙🇺🇦 retweeted
Reform UK has nothing. Small boat crossings are down over 43% on the year.
Immigration is down 82%.
They don’t know how to govern, they know how to cause fear.
Nick Carter 💙🇺🇦 retweeted
Love the uniform chaps.
Reminds me of…
Oh what’s his name?
Er
Um…
Oh yes!
Hitler and his Nazis.
😡
Nick Carter 💙🇺🇦 retweeted
In her years as a brilliant councillor and council leader and school governor in Camden @Sagal_AW has done more for this country than Jenrick or Yusuf ever will. We have known her family for more than thirty years and anyone who questions either their patriotism or commitment to this community is likely to be an attention seeking party shifting charlatan. Some people are in politics for themselves and their own naked ambition. Jenrick and Yusuf spring to mind. Some are in it because they are givers not takers. Sagal springs to mind.
Nick Carter 💙🇺🇦 retweeted
A banner has appeared behind Richard Tice saying "collect £5 million, burn the planet" during his conference speech
Nick Carter 💙🇺🇦 retweeted
Racism in the UK is far worse than in the 60s,70s, 80s or 90s. We people of colour, Muslims in particular, need to understand this is an existential threat. To survive, we need to wake up and change. My column. inews.co.uk/opinion/open-sea…
Nick Carter 💙🇺🇦 retweeted
40% of Britons incorrectly believe that small boat crossings have increased this year compared to last year, according to exclusive YouGov polling for Sky News.
Sky's @JonCraig reports ⬇️
Read more: trib.al/m4Hg1rf
Nick Carter 💙🇺🇦 retweeted
Exactly
The disproportionate and bullying commentary and coverage of Jason Arday’s mistakes has been obviously dangerous for days. Yes it was a legitimate story, and in various ways a troubling one. But the relentless coverage, the vitriol and bile. The clip of a man talking about us needing more love in the world endlessly mocked. Compare it to the way others who embellished and invented life stories or floated seemingly naive ideas are forgiven. Obviously employers have duties of care. But spare us the pity of those who weaponised his story for social media clicks without a thought.
Nick Carter 💙🇺🇦 retweeted
As the Nicotine Stained Manfrog tries to spin his 22000 votes as a win, meet the real winner of this Backfiring Farage Stunt. @CountBinface should make us all feel proud to be British! Farage credibility is shot! As for not turning up to the count … pathetic. And spare us the ‘police warning BS’. Binface I salute you.
Nick Carter 💙🇺🇦 retweeted
Imagine living in the small and resentful world that has this idea and pursues this news story. Get a life Mail on Sunday! Can you imagine a US paper running a story like this… of a US state dept senior person taking a train from Penn to DC? They truly hate the north…
Nick Carter 💙🇺🇦 retweeted
100% 👏 @KayBurley especially on 2 points👇
1. "The UK has taken in significantly fewer asylum claimants than France, Germany, Italy or Spain every year for the past five. Not close, not even comparable"
a fact hardly ever mentioned by UK journalists to counter the non-stop and invariably unchallenged "they're all coming here, Europe (ie France) should step up to protect us" narrative
2. (and this one especially for those already preparing to tweet "but we pay them to do that for us !" ) :
"Expecting gendarmes to police every inch of a French coastline stretching several hundred km, 24 hours a day, on a relatively modest British contribution is for the seagulls"
kayburley.substack.com/p/the…