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Phil Cole @phillcole40.bsky.social · 18h

The question for UK political parties is do they want the racist vote?
The Greens and LibDems clearly don’t.
ReformUK clearly does.
Jenrick’s version of the Tory party clearly does.
How about the Labour party?

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Phil Cole @phillcole40.bsky.social · 19h

How come Jenrick isn’t going to some village in Suffolk and complaining about the lack of ethnic diversity? Why only inner cities?

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Phil Cole @phillcole40.bsky.social · 19h

Badenoch represents the bad-tempered party, just exploding with rage for no reason.

Phil Cole @phillcole40.bsky.social · 19h

Theresa May warned the Tories against being the nasty party but Jenrick has embraced that identity - nasty vicious politics.

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Phil Cole @phillcole40.bsky.social · 1d

Enjoying international cuisines makes people more tolerant, UK study finds.
Frequent and varied eating found to reduce likelihood of perceiving immigrants as ‘cultural or economic threats’
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/oc...

Enjoying international cuisines makes people more tolerant, UK study finds

Frequent and varied eating found to reduce likelihood of perceiving immigrants as ‘cultural or economic threats’

www.theguardian.com

Phil Cole @phillcole40.bsky.social · 2d

Angry that fascists came to march in our great city of Bristol but proud of its defiance of their hatred.

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Phil Cole @phillcole40.bsky.social · 2d

Britian surely.

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Phil Cole @phillcole40.bsky.social · 2d

British political parties now competing over who will deport more migrants. Reform UK - 600,000 in first term; Tories - 150,000 a year (around the same then); Labour - Shabana Mahmood yet to put her bid in.

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Phil Cole @phillcole40.bsky.social · 3d

The UK is not experiencing a migration crisis. It is experiencing a political crisis as far right politicians have succeeded in creating a general anxiety about migrants which the mainstream political parties feel they need to respond to by competing to feed that anxiety.

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Phil Cole @phillcole40.bsky.social · 3d

Mosque fire being treated as arson and hate crime.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'

Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Phil Cole @phillcole40.bsky.social · 5d

LA 2028 Olympics: fears of mass displacement and homeless sweeps as Trump threat looms.
The city has been here before, with arrests during the 1984 Olympics that had long-term consequences for the city’s Black and brown people
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...

LA 2028 Olympics: fears of mass displacement and homeless sweeps as Trump threat looms

The city has been here before, with arrests during the 1984 Olympics that had long-term consequences for the city’s Black and brown people

www.theguardian.com

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Phil Cole @phillcole40.bsky.social · 5d

Iran may release hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees into Iraq and Turkey.
Tehran considers move as part of multi-pronged offensive after bombing of nuclear sites and restoration of sanctions
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Iran may release hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees into Iraq and Turkey

Tehran considers move as part of multi-pronged offensive after bombing of nuclear sites and restoration of sanctions

www.theguardian.com

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Phil Cole @phillcole40.bsky.social · 5d

Asylum seekers on Nauru going hungry despite government spending $1.5m a year for each person.
The Australian government is spending millions of dollars a year to house asylum seekers, yet many say they can not afford food and are forced to skip meals
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Asylum seekers on Nauru going hungry despite government spending $1.5m a year for each person

The Australian government is spending millions of dollars a year to house asylum seekers, yet many say they can not afford food and are forced to skip meals

www.theguardian.com

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Phil Cole @phillcole40.bsky.social · 5d

Kenyan activists abducted after joining opposition rally in Uganda.
Pair had crossed border to support presidential campaign of reggae singer Bobi Wine
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Kenyan activists abducted after joining opposition rally in Uganda

Pair had crossed border to support presidential campaign of reggae singer Bobi Wine

www.theguardian.com

Phil Cole @phillcole40.bsky.social · 8d

Mahmood warns that we have to question legal constraints in order to tackle "this crisis." By 'this crisis' she is talking about immigration to the UK, but the reality is that there is no crisis here. The crisis is Labour's panic about Reform UK.

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Phil Cole @phillcole40.bsky.social · 11d

But also be aware Farage is just the opening act for something far more extreme- once he fails they will step up.

Phil Cole @phillcole40.bsky.social · 11d

A more progressive left view is that we are all in the same capitalist boat and should work at solidarity regardless of “borders”.

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Phil Cole @phillcole40.bsky.social · 11d

Starmer offers a very old- fashioned leftist view of migration- migrants are essentially a reserve army of exploited labour used to control wages.
And it’s a crude type of lifeboat ethics- migrants from poorer boats want to get into ours and will make it sink lower in the water.

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