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Femi @femi-oluwole.bsky.social · 5h

Racist Robert Jenrick and Uncle Trevor Phillips are blaming the Manchester Synagogue attack on a "failure of integration".

Did they say that about the thousand of white terrorists who ran through the streets last summer, or in Ballymena this year?

Robert Jenrick blames Manchester Synagogue attack on "failed integration"

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victoria1921.bsky.social @victoria1921.bsky.social · 11h

Support independent journalists and spread the truth.

Nigel Farage and mixed messages/ lies, about immigration

open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...

Has Farage forgotten his own immigration promises?

We have the receipts, Nigel...

open.substack.com

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Donna @donnarejoin.bsky.social · 7h

Because they're part of the fascist club? I can't think of any other reason. If it looks coordinated, then it's coordinated. Wicked wicked people.

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LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 13h

Our media lets us down badly :

Labours accomplishments - rarely mentioned

Nigel Farage’s house - dropped/ignored

Nathan Gill’s admission of working for Russia - zilch

Russia/Iran funding Reform/Farage - silence

Instead they spread lies on the Budget/MPs/anything to discredit Labour

Why????

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 8h

Whoops. Priti Patel. Sitting right there. Everyone else is mentioned, except her. Camera lingers. Priti trying to cover her seething - and failing. Is alienating your Shadown Foreign Sec wise, while knives are being sharpened?

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 8h

Badenoch: "While Britain was redefining what a woman is, China built five nuclear reactors."

A perfect summary of conservative idiocy. Glorifying authoritarian post-communism for its efficiency while vilifying democracy for seeking nuance and respect.

It is the Right who hate their own countries.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 8h

Kemi Badenoch, a woman who excuse-makes for obvious racism and can't condemn it without doing mimsy false equivalences, talking about 'courage', is it?

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 12h

I see that most of the "OMG Javier Milei has performed an economic miracle in Argentina OMG I Heart Maggie" crowd - predictably, since it did the same with Lis Truss - has switched to "tEh PrObLeM iS MiLEi wOz NoT fRee mArKet eNouGh".

How many times must these utter fools fail before they get it?

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 11h

One significant - & dangerous - thing to watch for is professional commentators objecting to words rather than examining the evidence. It's pearl-clutching & cowardly, obviously, but also a deliberate attempt to avoid confronting exactly what they themselves are facilitating and often cheering on.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12h

One very very lonely Tory voice on the letters page of The Times.
Sorry, Robert. It’s too late. Your party has gone completely nuts. Driven mad by 14 years of failure, Farage and your monumentally stupid Brexit.
You can ask them to put the petrol can down but they’re mesmerised by the fire.

Leaving the ECHR could split Union Sir, In his article "Leaving the ECHR won't fix illegal migration" (Oct 6; letters, Oct 7), David Gauke makes the point that the Conservatives' decision to support complete withdrawal from the European convention of human rights is, at best, wholly unnecessary and at worst will make international co-operation on migration control and deportation much more difficult.
He is right to do so. It is time for Tories to stop heading for the exit every time there is perceived tension caused by so-called foreign institutions that my party actually helped to create in the first place.
To claim that ECHR withdrawal will not affect the Northern Ireland Good Friday agreement is naive. Not only will it risk undermining trust in policing and criminal justice cross-border co-operation, it will trigger a breach of article 2 of the Windsor framework and a climate of instability that can only assist advocates of a border poll that could lead to the break-up of the Union. For the Conservative Party to advocate such a move is a betrayal of Conservative principles.
Sir Robert Buckland KC
Former lord chancellor and justice secretary; former chair, Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee

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Peter Foster @pmdfoster.bsky.social · 12h

Brilliant. So clear on the real agenda, which is “othering”. Creating a virtual ghetto (sic) which blurs the lines between illegal migrants, asylum seekers and millions with ILR, who are contributors to society, with their skills (NHS/care often), their labour and (lest we forget) their taxes.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 12h

Lords Heseltine & Kinnock seem more alive to these self-evident truths than most members of the Commons. Similarly, I find thinkers with direct lived experience of far right dictatorship, Greeks of a certain age for example, crystal clear about what’s happening now.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 23h

Do watch this. It’s very good. Sound absolutely on.

Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 1d

Robert Jenrick and his wiggy puppet

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

We all hoped the Windrush scandal would be shame enough. But no. The Tory party plumbs new depths with its vile rhetoric. Nothing good comes from their prejudice. But our communities prove them wrong every day.
Important response to Jenrick from @sathnam.bsky.social

www.thetimes.com/article/3af4...

I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school - he's wrong about race
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The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn't see'another white face. You can't judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian Sathnam
Sanghera

I hoped that the outrage about this scandal across the political spectrum demonstrated we were finally moving away from such thinking.
But Jenrick's remarks show that we are, in 2025, in an even worse place.
The comments are a symptom of a new cult of ethno-nationalism, imported from the USA and supercharged by bad actors on social media. Suddenly, a great many people - including, bizarrely, Suella Braverman - are keen on the racist idea that you simply can't be English and non-white.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 13h

Reform UK, backing US farming, not British farmers.

Lee Anderson’s keen to point out salads are chlorine washed, but he’s not keen to point out that you don’t need to with chicken you can cook chicken so long as it’s reared in reasonable conditions.

But you can’t cook salad.

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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 1d

If only those pesky
Suffragettes had confined themselves to one protest…

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 3d

Home Secretary tells Sky News that “there is a gap in the law” when it comes to frequent, repeated protests on the same issue. Hence she will be giving police greater powers to move them to another location or time.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Colin Elves @colinelves.bsky.social · 23h

There’s really only 2 values they mean: money and ethnonationalism.

What they see in the UAE is the 0% income tax and an immigrant underclass that serves their every whim and have no rights so can be treated however they wish.

They’re basically psychopaths.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 1d

This was always the fatal flaw of Labour's "Reform are great for us, because they will split the right wing vote" strategy, long term. Unless the Tories pull their fkn finger out, the right wing vote AIN'T GOING TO SPLIT. Just transfer further to the right.

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 1d

She spent half the interview WHINGEING non-stop for being asked about her party's disastrous position, instead of policy. Then on the first policy question she's asked about stop-and-search and comes back with a sarcastic "I am actually in a very good position to know what black people think?" 😬

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Among the worse interviews I've seen a politician give. There is no way Badenoch can (or should) survive until May.

- Do you admire Nigel Farage?
- On what basis?
- Do you admire him?
- I don't understand your question.
- What do you think of him?
- Why don't you ask me about Ed Davey?" 😱 ~AA

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 1d

Struggling to find much humour in the likely next leader of the Conservative Party cosplaying the National Front of the 1970s.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

By integrating sharia law into our legal system? Not bothering with democracy?

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 1d

We must emulate the United Arab Emirates, apparently.

Where to even start...?

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

Coverage of Jenrick today basically amounts to sane-washing. He didn't criticise judges. He claimed there was a conspiracy by certain judges, who he had discovered and could number, to undermine British law and create open borders.

ʀak @raksky.bsky.social · 1d

“… a sort of mad McCarthyite scream of paranoia and anxiety of the sort which he has now branded himself… he is living entirely inside of his little mind…”

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social nails Robert Jenrick’s plans for “activist” judges during Sky News’ Press Preview.

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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 1d

Drove to Handsworth today to my mother’s grave. One minute in and saw a number of white people. I want my country back!!!!

Soho Road Handsworth, passers by. Four white people. Adil has placed heart emojis to cover their faces and protect their identity.

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