Digest June 11: It’s still all about race

On Covid-19, the Tory government is still a danger to UK citizens:

As Boris Johnson announces further easing of lockdown restrictions, the negative experiences of other countries showing him wrong are piling up:

… especially as the ongoing lack of PPE (personal protective equipment) is now the basis of a court challenge against the Tories:

Not only that, but Covid is now revealed as a particular danger to BAME citizens – creating double jeopardy for Johnson:

Johnson himself has been condemned as lazy. Tell us something we don’t know…

Dominic Cummings is still in trouble: the house he used in Durham really didn’t have planning permission so enforcement action will be taken:

Is this a good moment to remind everyone that Cummings has set up Brexit to ensure that fabulously rich businesspeople can create conditions for a UK economic crash – and then make a fortune betting that it will happen?

This is the man who Boris Johnson has put in charge of the government, according to a former Tory aide:

Priti Patel is also in trouble. Her harsh immigration bill will needlessly shut out people trying to “contribute to society”, say Catholic leaders in a stinging attack on the plans:

They should excommunicate her. I doubt she’s a Catholic but a good pre-emptive strike won’t do them any harm.

And there’s this:

The Robert Jenrick corruption scandal is rolling on:

And Chancellor Rishi Sunak is being taken to court over his sexist self-employed grant scheme:

Over at Labour, tone-deaf Keir Starmer has unveiled a new ‘race equality’ strategy. Presumably he’s desperate for us to forget his own two-tier attitude to racism in his own party:

He mentioned seven reports on racism in the House of Commons but strangely can’t seem to see the leaked report by his own party that named racists among Labour employees who targeted Diane Abbott (among others) for racist abuse – and won’t take action against them:

Consider Starmer’s shadow work and pensions secretary, who thinks the best way to mark Diane Abbott’s 33rd anniversary as the UK’s first black female MP was to delete his backstabbing tweet attacking her choice of education for her children:

Labour isn’t the only UK organisation that needs to have a serious look at itself with regard to racism:

Thank goodness we have a few people whose attitude to racism is more sincere:

Grenfell Tower campaigners are trying to get the Conservatives to commit to removing flammable cladding from more than 23,000 households that should never have been forced to have it in the first place:

No sooner had he alerted us all to the danger to cancer patients of having to wait longer for treatment, than Dr Karel Sikora ruined his reputation:

Statues are still in danger across the UK as their subjects’ misdeeds are re-examined:

Racism in the United States is still under the spotlight (and rightly so):

Former IS bride Shamima Begum has launched a legal appeal to reclaim her UK citizenship after it was stripped from her by former Home Secretary Sajid Javid:

Oh, and some right-wing nutjob called Nigel Farage is no longer working at LBC radio:

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