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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 3h

How on Earth did Goodwin get "radicalised" from the entirely moderate and non-racist Legitimate Concerns About The Rate Of Change In Communities to here in a mere ten years? A real mystery that has baffled many great minds.

Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 22h

In what’s *not* racist this week: finding the growth of non-white populations ‘concerning’ or ‘disturbing’.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 1h

90% of Westminster-Fleet St discourse on the Gaza protests and the pro-Palestine movement more generally can be explained by the sheer desperation of guilty people to change the subject.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 1h

Let's spell it out then. The motivation is
1/ empathy for our fellow human beings
2/ to raise the political cost of the British government's complicity to the point where London is forced to withdraw its support, thereby increasing the international pressure on Israel to cease its genocidal acts.

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1h

James Cleverly: "I cannot understand the motivation for protests of this type so regularly"

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 3h

How on Earth did Goodwin get "radicalised" from the entirely moderate and non-racist Legitimate Concerns About The Rate Of Change In Communities to here in a mere ten years? A real mystery that has baffled many great minds.

Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 22h

In what’s *not* racist this week: finding the growth of non-white populations ‘concerning’ or ‘disturbing’.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 1d

Incredibly dangerous for a senior politician to suggest that there's some zero-sum game to be played between mourning the losses of Oct7 and protesting an ongoing genocide. And incredibly cynical given that the protests are directed at his own complicity

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Keir Starmer calls student protests on 7 October anniversary ‘un-British’

Prime minister urges students not to protest on the second anniversary of Hamas’s 7 October attacks on Israel

www.theguardian.com

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 1d

The consistent attempts to demonise, stigmatise and other the anti-genocide movement ("unBritish") is a form of political collusion with the genocide. It directly echoes and amplifies the propaganda of the state committing the genocide, and seeks to alleviate political pressure on its accomplices.

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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 16h

nothing says hypocrisy like white Britishers complaining about foreigners after having occupied and ruled hundreds of millions of Indians for 2 centuries, mandating their curriculum and making their laws

David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 23h

Irony being that the entire Farage-isation of British politics is built on the phenomenon of white right-wingers who don't want to "integrate" with the reality of multi-ethnic Britain, don't want to accept migrants as their fellow citizens, and don't want people of colour moving into their street.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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Simon Parker @sparkerworld.bsky.social · 21h

The population of Newark-on-Trent is 95% White British. Is Jenrick seriously saying he wants to see more Black and Asian faces in his constituency in order to reflect the 18% national average and to encourage his White constituents to integrate? Of course not. He is both a liar and a racist.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 23h

He is free of course to take the refusal to integrate up with his own voters in the home counties.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 23h

Irony being that the entire Farage-isation of British politics is built on the phenomenon of white right-wingers who don't want to "integrate" with the reality of multi-ethnic Britain, don't want to accept migrants as their fellow citizens, and don't want people of colour moving into their street.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 1d

The consistent attempts to demonise, stigmatise and other the anti-genocide movement ("unBritish") is a form of political collusion with the genocide. It directly echoes and amplifies the propaganda of the state committing the genocide, and seeks to alleviate political pressure on its accomplices.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 1d

Incredibly dangerous for a senior politician to suggest that there's some zero-sum game to be played between mourning the losses of Oct7 and protesting an ongoing genocide. And incredibly cynical given that the protests are directed at his own complicity

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Keir Starmer calls student protests on 7 October anniversary ‘un-British’

Prime minister urges students not to protest on the second anniversary of Hamas’s 7 October attacks on Israel

www.theguardian.com

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 3d

ICE is the Sturmabteilung of Trumpian fascism, characterised by racial profiling, flagrant lawlessness, and sadistic violence. The fact that Badenoch wants that for us is a shocking illustration of just how extreme and sinister her politics are.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tories to pledge to create immigration taskforce modelled on Trump’s Ice

Proposed ‘removals force’ will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in bid to tackle illegal immigration

www.theguardian.com

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 2d

We might also want to reflect on the potential dogwhistle effects of the Home Secretary describing anti-genocide protestors as "unBritish"

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 2d

Less than 24hrs after a suspected arson attack on a Sussex mosque.

Many people would have had plenty to say - rightly! - if a very senior pro-Palestine politician had spoken about our Jewish friends and neighbours like this after the Manchester attack.

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 2d

Badenoch begins by drawing a direct line between pro-Gaza protests and migration from Muslim countries, saying that for too long the UK has "tolerated radical Islamist ideology", adding," We cannot import and tolerate values hostile to our own.”

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 1d

Some phenomenal "anti-extremism" going on here

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 1d

She strikes me as (1) a hard right zealot who believes quite sincerely in everything she says and in every policy position she announces, and (2) a (no doubt highly fragile) egotist, incapable of tempering her zealotry with a moment's self doubt or careful reflection.

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 1d

Why any party leader would want to turn what was once a broad church into an even narrower sect than it's already become, who knows? I've almost given up trying to understand her, tbh - except as a performance artist, maybe.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 2d

We might also want to reflect on the potential dogwhistle effects of the Home Secretary describing anti-genocide protestors as "unBritish"

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 2d

Less than 24hrs after a suspected arson attack on a Sussex mosque.

Many people would have had plenty to say - rightly! - if a very senior pro-Palestine politician had spoken about our Jewish friends and neighbours like this after the Manchester attack.

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 2d

Badenoch begins by drawing a direct line between pro-Gaza protests and migration from Muslim countries, saying that for too long the UK has "tolerated radical Islamist ideology", adding," We cannot import and tolerate values hostile to our own.”

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 3d

Ah yes I remember this. If ever an article needed writing that was it

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 3d

Its a real change in the culture and I'm surprised its not discussed more. The other point being that at the high point of British comedy in the 80s a lot of it was overtly political and against the right wing government of the time. It was a major vector of dissent

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 3d

Labour, Tories and the Farageists, representing a combined 525 out of 650 seats in the HoC and 66% of current public voting intention, all locked in a hysterical arms race to win the Send Them Back vote, relentlessly egged on by the gutter press. A self-reinforcing dynamic now utterly out of control

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe. But she clearly also believes every word of it. And passionately.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 3d

Talk of Badenoch's incompetence is entirely superfluous at this stage. In fact, foregrounding her incompetence and lack of future prospects only detracts from how dangerous she is, right now, as leader of the opposition. That is the real issue. That the leader of the opposition is far right.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 3d

ICE is the Sturmabteilung of Trumpian fascism, characterised by racial profiling, flagrant lawlessness, and sadistic violence. The fact that Badenoch wants that for us is a shocking illustration of just how extreme and sinister her politics are.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tories to pledge to create immigration taskforce modelled on Trump’s Ice

Proposed ‘removals force’ will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in bid to tackle illegal immigration

www.theguardian.com

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