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My own reaction to this is that the only time I’ve been subject to an anti-Semitic pile-on was on the Musk site. When I rejected the idea of “two-tier justice”: I was entertained by US adherents of the idea that Jews were behind the Great Replacement, with pictures in case I didn’t read English.

The lunacy gets ever loonier...

Kemi Badenoch confirms Tories who don't back ECHR plans to be banned from standing as MPs.

The philosemitism of the right/far-right is bound up with its intense fear and loathing of Muslims/Islam. If you took Muslims out of the picture, many of them would return to their more historically 'natural' state of antisemitism.

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Badenoch is trying to paint a close relationship with the UK and Judiasm, but choses not to refer to the close relationship between the UK and Muslims

Just as Badenoch chose to refer to the attack on the Synagogue in her speech, but chose to ignore a mosque being set alight in her speech

Left Kemi Badenoch talks about the first community of Jews in the Manchester back in the 1780s

Right: The first English translation of the Quran was in 1649 by Alexander Ross, and a 1641 document refers to "a sect of Mahomatens" being "discovered here in London"

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Zack on Bold Politics podium

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

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After the attack on the Manchester synagogue, Gary Neville posted some thoughts on the flags being put up across the country by the far-right to mark their territory and intimidate minorities.

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British electricity mix at 3pm on 5th Oct 2025

🔥Gas 8.4% Biomass 2.9%
🍃Wind 50.9% Solar 15.6% Hydro 1.8%
⚛️Nuclear 8.5%
➡️Imports 11.9% Other 0.0%
🪫Storage 0.0%

🔌Generation 30GW
🌍Carbon intensity 80 gCO2e/kWh
vs target of annual average 50-100 gCO2e/kWh by 2030

Appalled by the attack on a mosque in East Sussex.

An appalling act of Islamophobic hate.

Grateful no lives were lost, but the impact will be profound. We must stand together against hate and division.

Our strength is in unity, and intolerance will not win.

Awful to see today such a violent attack committed on our Sussex Muslim community - Greens locally and nationally are right to want the question of terrorist, as well as despicably hateful, motives to be looked at by police. greenparty.org.uk/2025/10/05/p...

"You have no right to turn our streets into theatres of intimidation."

Kemi Badenoch condemns Islamist extremism at the Tory Party conference.

But does she include the far-right hoisting St George's Cross flags across the country to intimidate minorities? If not, why not?
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"Labour accuse us of not having achieved anything in 14 years" - you JUST said that the UK has tolerated ideologies that wish to destroy it for 'too long'!

Hot news from the Conservative Party conference... Matthew Syed has come out as a Tory 😱 and has made the following demented statement, so that everyone in the hall is in no doubt that he is fully on board the Kemi Express to oblivionsville.

#cpc25
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This Turning Point UK bollocks has got nothing to do with the culture of this country. It's an entirely American confection. But you can bet your bottom dollar (ha!) that they all consider themselves to be super patriotic. Aside from that: sex and Soho? Maybe 30 years ago. Feckin' eejits

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Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday

Chip, chip, chip... It never ends. The right to public protest is being inexorably diminished.

'Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will push through rapid changes to the Public Order Act 1986, allowing police to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests.'
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Flags went up in Stirchley a few days ago & were taken down by local residents the same evening.

The men returned with a cherry picker and coned off parts of the road with police accompanying them as they put up new flags along the High Street.

Residents who object have been met with verbal abuse.

NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before.

Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.

"I spoke to hundreds of puppies and kittens who all hate you personally, Shabana Mahmood, why haven't you sorted this out, many years ago, before you were in power, by banning all protest, and also why are you restricting protest, you authoritarian monster?"

Kuenssberg is just so exhaustingly shit.

What do Putin, Farage and Badenoch all have in common?

They all want the U.K. to LEAVE the ECHR.
#ECHR
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Kemi Badenoch doesn't seem to understand that the ECHR was set up to protect everyone from people like her.

The bar of the Midland Hotel, lunchtime on the Sunday of Tory conference.

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Handy guide for the next 3 years of Tory policy.

British electricity mix at 11am on 5th Oct 2025

🔥Gas 9.1% Biomass 2.3%
🍃Wind 47.2% Solar 21.7% Hydro 1.6%
⚛️Nuclear 8.2%
➡️Imports 10.0% Other 0.0%
🪫Storage 0.0%

🔌Generation 31GW
🌍Carbon intensity 87 gCO2e/kWh
vs target of annual average 50-100 gCO2e/kWh by 2030