Matt Claridge

Minority representation on TV causes outrage There has been widespread support for prominent Reform MP Sarah Pochin after she complained about the over-representation of minorities on television. Said one angry viewer, "She's right. Every time you turn on the telly there's another Reform MP being interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg." She added, "I respect their way of life and their strange customs, but Reform MPs comprise only 0.7 percent of the House of Commons. Yet Nigel Farage is on Question Time more than Fiona Bruce." "I'm not prejudiced. Some of my best friends are swivel-eyed loons, but enough is enough. There are too many people with angry red faces on television.”

Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.

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“If you think this is overcrowded, wait until you see their trains”

From the Private Eye archive.
Issue 1504, September 2019.

DNA analysis reveals West African ancestry in early medieval England An unrelated pair of people buried in cemeteries in 7th-century Britain probably had grandparents from West Africa

This is an extraordinarily cool study:

Two unrelated young people buried in cemeteries in Anglo-Saxon times in England probably had grandparents who came from West Africa.

It was a joy to cover this for @newscientist.com #science #archaeology #history 🧪

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Tommy Robinson’s connections with Byrne and Messerschmidt, and the amplification of his false claims via key technology platforms controlled by Trump donors, suggest that Britain’s far-right riots were orchestrated by an international far-right network.

Brilliant from @privateeyenews.bsky.social

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Unbelievable. Yet frighteningly believable.

Are you looking at this, @teamlabouruk.bsky.social? Are you seeing what happens when you validate the nationalist right for short term political gain? Are you ashamed of not fighting them?

Reform local media ban is a glimpse of what may happen with Farage in power As Nigel Farage attacked the state of free speech in the UK in front of a congressional committee in Washington DC, The Independent’s political editor David Maddox discusses Reform’s attitude to a fre...

Reform media ban in Nottinghamshire is a disturbing glimpse of a future with Farage in power

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Here's how the real two-tier Britain works:
1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off.
2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵

MIGRANTS AREN'T THE PROBLEM INEQUALITY IS Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Migrants didn't cut council funding. Migrants didn't cut NHS funding. Migrants didn't close youth centres. Migrants didn't sell off council houses. Migrants aren't filling our rivers with sewage.

Farage and co. will tell you to point the finger at migrants.

Don't fall for it.

What an utter fucking disgrace @teamlabouruk.bsky.social are. Equally as bad as the previous Conservative government. Perhaps worse. Genocide enablers, racist apologists, and happy to help billionaires and corporations build even larger fortunes on the backs of the most vulnerable in our society.

Labour won’t defend migration.

Too scared of Reform, too terrified to lead.

While they play dog whistle politics, inequality is the real problem.

Not small boats. But private jets.

@teamlabouruk.bsky.social, in it’s current form, is demonstrably on the right of the political spectrum. They may have benefited from ‘the left vote’ to win the last election, they certainly won’t get it next time. #RedTories

That clip of Pochin honking out her toxic racism with no statistics or even rudimentary analysis to back up her nasty, curtain-twitching beliefs… is a large part of why our politics is in such a mess. Viciously useless people being made MPs by voters persuaded to think that hatred will fix things.

1. Some people align their morality with the law, and consider breaking it to be immoral, even when the law is oppressive.
I point them to my Dutch in-laws, who broke the law by sheltering a Jewish boy, and the Nazi soldiers and Dutch police, whose raids seeking criminals like them upheld the law.🧵

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