The UK’s politicians are seeing the result of years of racist incitement – by them.
After more than a decade of inflammatory nonsense from Parliamentarians – ranging from Theresa May’s infamous “go home” adverts to Rishi Sunak’s “Stop the Boats” slogan, is it any wonder that a new generation of right-wing racist thugs has sprung up to act on it?
It doesn’t even matter that these people are deeply, deeply stupid – their violence started because they jumped to the entirely wrong conclusion that the teenager accused of murdering three girls and seriously injuring several others at a Taylor Swift-themed holiday event was an asylum-seeker who had arrived in the UK by boat. He wasn’t; he didn’t.
What matters is that those in authority not only allowed racist hate speech that suggested people from minority ethnic groups must all be illegal immigrants and also criminals; they encouraged it by fuelling fear of foreigners.
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That is why violence has flared across the UK – starting in Southport and spreading to Hartlepool, London, Manchester and other towns and cities.
Prime minister Keir Starmer has responded to it by pledging to set up a “standing army” of specialist police officers to deal with incidents where needed.
So he’s turning the UK into a police state? Stoking hatred between rioters and police?
That’s a highly inflammatory policy.
One might argue that it could be seen as the intended result of all these years of dog-whistle racism from politicians in Westminster.
Remember: for all his protestations of taking action against anti-Semitism within his own Labour Party, Starmer has done little or nothing in response to allegations of Islamophobia there.
Is this just another divide-and-rule tactic from a Labour government that has learned all the wrong lessons from the previous Tory administration?
Source: Violent disorder sees police officers injured as Prime Minister vows action | Shropshire Star
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UK’s politicians are seeing the result of years of racist incitement – by them
The UK’s politicians are seeing the result of years of racist incitement – by them.
After more than a decade of inflammatory nonsense from Parliamentarians – ranging from Theresa May’s infamous “go home” adverts to Rishi Sunak’s “Stop the Boats” slogan, is it any wonder that a new generation of right-wing racist thugs has sprung up to act on it?
It doesn’t even matter that these people are deeply, deeply stupid – their violence started because they jumped to the entirely wrong conclusion that the teenager accused of murdering three girls and seriously injuring several others at a Taylor Swift-themed holiday event was an asylum-seeker who had arrived in the UK by boat. He wasn’t; he didn’t.
What matters is that those in authority not only allowed racist hate speech that suggested people from minority ethnic groups must all be illegal immigrants and also criminals; they encouraged it by fuelling fear of foreigners.
Buy Cruel Britannia in print here. Buy the Cruel Britannia ebook here. Or just click on the image!
That is why violence has flared across the UK – starting in Southport and spreading to Hartlepool, London, Manchester and other towns and cities.
Prime minister Keir Starmer has responded to it by pledging to set up a “standing army” of specialist police officers to deal with incidents where needed.
So he’s turning the UK into a police state? Stoking hatred between rioters and police?
That’s a highly inflammatory policy.
One might argue that it could be seen as the intended result of all these years of dog-whistle racism from politicians in Westminster.
Remember: for all his protestations of taking action against anti-Semitism within his own Labour Party, Starmer has done little or nothing in response to allegations of Islamophobia there.
Is this just another divide-and-rule tactic from a Labour government that has learned all the wrong lessons from the previous Tory administration?
Source: Violent disorder sees police officers injured as Prime Minister vows action | Shropshire Star
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