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What people FEEL is that they can't find good jobs, can't afford homes, and that their schools are crumbling and understaffed.
What they are TOLD by the far right and their outriders like Andrew Pierce is that these problems are because of migrants.
I wonder why?
Andrew Pierce, "It's not just the far right.. Some communities feel their jobs have been taken.. Their homes have been taken.. There's too much pressure on school places.. That's not the far right telling them that.. It's what they see and what they feel.. And the government ignore this at their peril"
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The two-tier policing line started with figures like Tommy Robinson. Was then used by Nigel
Farage. And then is picked up by mainstream journalists and raised with the PM and others. As usual, Farage operating as transmission agent between right-wing extreme and mainstream
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Kenyan runner Abel Mutai was just a few feet from the finish line, but became confused with the signage and stopped, thinking he had completed the race.
A Spanish runner, Ivan Fernandez, was right behind him and, realizing what was happening, started shouting at the Kenyan to continue running. Mutai didn't know Spanish and didn't understand. Realizing what was taking place, Fernandez pushed Mutai to victory.
A journalist asked Ivan, "Why did you do that?"
Ivan replied, "My dream is that someday we can have a kind of community life where we push and help each other to win."
The journalist insisted, "But why did you let the Kenyan win?"
Ivan replied, "I didn't let him win, he was going to win. The race was his."
The journalist insisted again, "But you could have won!"
Ivan looked at him and replied, "But what would be the merit of my victory? What would be the honor in that medal? What would my mother think of that?"
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What we are seeing out there is a conspiracy nexus, created by anonymous accounts, spread by prominent figures on the populist right, seized on by street fascists, and given credibility by politicians, broadcasters and academics inews.co.uk/opinion/hatred-c…
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🧵1/ Thread on the #Southport anti-migrant and anti-Muslim disinformation and propaganda. In this thread I highlight key spreaders of disinformation, the chronology, and some points about some of the inauthentic activity evident. I will focus on X.
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"We knew a lot about how difficult the world was going to be, I think we've learnt some more."
Watch @PJTheEconomist respond to @RachelReevesMP's spending audit in 90 seconds ⬇
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The Chair of the OBR has written to the @CommonsTreasury Select Committee on the OBR’s initiation of a review into the preparation of the Departmental Expenditure Limits forecast for the March 2024 EFO.
obr.uk/obr-review-of-the-mar…
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Sunak's legacy: After spending up to £57 billion on HS2, we'll somehow end up with even less capacity between Birmingham and Manchester than we had before tiny.cc/k9wazz
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Not having kids is a morally neutral and legitimate life choice on its own that does not need to be justified with recourse to tragic stories of fertility struggles. It’s fine just to not want children.
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On @itvnews as they shadow me in first days as a new MP.
“We’ve been given our bags and our laptops ... but we still don’t have an office and we’re still wandering around not knowing where to go!”
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Ten years ago this month that David Cameron dispensed with my services as AG. I had told him that his plans to scrap the HRA and threaten to leave the ECHR if it proved incompatible with his British Bill of Rights were unworkable and would not help solve our security or immigration challenges one bit. So it proved. When published, his plans were quickly shown to be flawed and never implemented.
Ten years on, despite the repeated huffing and puffing, we still have both the HRA and the ECHR. This despite having had Suella Braverman as both Home Secretary and as a parody AG.
One might have hoped that the penny would have dropped that the policy serves no useful purpose, as any minor benefit will be entirely outweighed by the downsides. We must be thankful that Rishi Sunak seems to have realised this as did the last AG Victoria Prentis.
So it is depressing to see candidates for the Conservative leadership such as Tom Tugendhat return yet again to this theme. It has become a kind of ritual, without which no candidate feels they could be acceptable to the membership. And that I am afraid also shows how the Conservative Party continues to be mired in ideological fantasies that lead directly to its wipe out this year. For a Party whose members used to laugh at the inanity of Labour supporters singing the Red Flag at the end of their conferences, it is a sad reflection on where common sense has gone.
The Tories were deliberately f***ING things up to generate anger towards vulnerable people as a substitute for for having any ideas or competence.
This is how "populists" govern. They have no interest in helping you or anyone but themselves.
Yvette Cooper is rightly raging in the commons right now. The tories haven't even been processing asylum claims.
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Yvette Cooper is rightly raging in the commons right now. The tories haven't even been processing asylum claims.
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An important clarification - pls share.
There is NO two child cap on Child Benefit
I've had questions, as many media outlets write confusing statements or use 'child benefit' as shorthand. The two-child cap is not about Child Benefit, it is about benefits (eg Universal Credit or tax credit).
Child Benefit is separate and is increased for every child.
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