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Lee D @leedon1982.bsky.social · 3h

Genuinely: is there even such a thing as Antifa in the US? And when Farage et al talk about it in this country, is there an Antifa UK? Or are they just showing how America-brained they are?

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Lee D @leedon1982.bsky.social · 3h

Really sad to read this, Ben. I hope B is ok & I hope you know very many people admire you for your openness & humility. And it’s a mark of the kind of person you are that you’re so thoughtful & gracious in discussing VSYW.

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Lee D @leedon1982.bsky.social · 10h

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Lee D @leedon1982.bsky.social · 19h

I would have thought lead was pretty heavy to throw, surely that comes under the heavy throws coach? Why does it need its own coach?

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Lee D @leedon1982.bsky.social · 19h

Parsed it all wrong. Frustrating.

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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 22h

In this video I go to the Cotswolds and complain about the lack of integration

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 22h

I find these occasional asides, and things like the Sunday Times interview, fascinating, in that they serve absolutely no purpose other than to go 'no, it's as bad as you think: I do understand this is a problem, I'm just too much of a coward to do anything about it'.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 22h

Kemi Badneoch ends her speech by saying she stands for a country "where people are judged by the content of their character, not the colour of their skin"

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Lee D @leedon1982.bsky.social · 20h

Yeh, my exact thoughts!

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23h

We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.

Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 1d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 1d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Lee D @leedon1982.bsky.social · 22h

I’m in Henley in Arden and the food bank basket has a box of Guylian chocolate shells in it.

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Lee D @leedon1982.bsky.social · 1d

These people are ill. Imagine believing this.

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

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

Jenrick being the loudest member of the Conservative party has already been a huge contributor to the poisoning of our politics. We really don't need any four-dimensional chess about him becoming leader. When it happens, it will be a terrible day for our country.

Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 1d

A Tory party under Jenrick might take a few of the racist votes from Reform, but they’d haemorrhage bucketloads to the Lib Dems.

So, on balance…

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Lee D @leedon1982.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sorry some people lack such basic humanity. Solidarity.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 1d

He might be right. Starting with his Godawful wife.

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Lee D @leedon1982.bsky.social · 1d

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

This guy needs to be put in team with Danny Kruger.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Considering how historically literate and sensitive to echoes of speeches of the past our media has shown itself to be, when it comes to every word uttered by a progressive, I find the lack of reaction to Jenrick ending his speech with "let us build this new order" quite puzzling. ~AA

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

I suspect when Jenrick imagined saying the final words "let's build this new order, let's take our country back," his voice BOOMED and the roar of the crowd was DEAFENING. In the event, his voice cracked and was met with the politeness of a local baking contest won by "a not-bad lemon drizzle". ~AA

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 1d

We have an independent judiciary in this country. Robert Jenrick wants puppet judges.

The Conservative Party once believed in the rule of law and our shared British values - no longer.

Robert Jenrick holds up a judges wig like a puppet during his speech to the Conservative Party Conference.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

I'll bite. What is the benefit we gain from politicians being able to 'thoughtfully' say in private 'blacks, British Bangladeshis, British Pakistanis, British Indians, mulattos....all the same, and clearly from the look of them not-integrated?'

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Shadow DEFRA SoS, Victoria Atkins MP, bemoans those trying to score points off Jenrick's "private" remarks: "These are conversation we must have thoughtfully away from the clickbait of social media that, sadly, is so often the case."

And here is Victoria Thoughtful-Atkins at a farmers' protest. ~AA

Victoria Atkins with a thoughtfull bullhorn, wearing a non-clickbait union jack jacket.

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Lee D @leedon1982.bsky.social · 1d

Literally the people - or the children of the people - who moved out of Handsworth when non-white people moved in.

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Rachel Gooch @cambridgerach.bsky.social · 2d

He doesn't want areas where there is a 'preponderance' of one race over another. My kids school in rural Suffolk had one black family in a school of 1200 pupils. But that's not what he means, is it?

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 2d

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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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 2d

The obvious point here, which doesn't seem to have occurred to Jenrick, is that there has been a long history of white people moving out of ethnically mixed neighbourhoods. Refusing to integrate, if you will.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 2d

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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Dom White @domw.bsky.social · 2d

"We want people to be living in mixed communities, don't we?"

Robert Jenrick's home is in Eye, Herefordshire, where 165 out of 166 residents were white at the time of the last census.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 2d

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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Lee D @leedon1982.bsky.social · 2d

Knew exactly who he was talking to when he said them as well.

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Lee D @leedon1982.bsky.social · 2d

She seems like a .22 calibre mind in a .357 magnum world