Andrew James

Thanks to those who organised the 'Stand Up to Racism' event in Stockport. Inspiring. Struck by the genuinely pathetic nature of the few counter protesters; Elon's Puppets, desperately trying to provoke, filming & regurgitating racist nonsense. They'd be nothing without Starmer & MSM on their side.

It's astonishing how far neo-lib'ism has infected the establishment & is causing their downfall. "Bow to the markets, democracy is dead" leads to fascism to defend the indefensible. Before Thatcher & Regan invest to grow was normal. We need a "New Deal" to save democracy and avoid Climate Breakdown

It's astonishing how far neo-lib'ism has infected the establishment & is causing their downfall. "Bow to the markets, democracy is dead" leads to fascism to defend the indefensible. Before Thatcher & Regan invest to grow was normal. We need a "New Deal" to save democracy and avoid Climate Breakdown

“If you go back a million minutes, you reach 2023. Go back a billion minutes, you reach the Roman Empire — that’s the scale of inequality we’re living with.”

Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget

(not a Corbyn acolyte but..) also makes a difference in scale between the person who apologises when they've messed up and the one who 'doubles down' and digs the hole deeper and deeper and... there is no bottom to Starmer's attack on immigrants.

I mean, why would you stay?

At the Budget, the Green Party's message is clear: Cut Bills. Tax Billionaires.

Nations will be competing for migrants soon, and they will choose to go where their families have the best opportunity to thrive #NomadCentury

Horrendous argument! The logic is that if only white immigrants were allowed to come to help work for our econ that would be better for 'people who look like' her. It's not an argument about immigration at all! It's race! It simply says if we do the racism for them maybe they'll relent with theirs!

Labour’s immigration plans could cost the NHS 46,000 nurses NHS nurses face bleak future as Labour's proposed immigration plan undermines their leave-to-remain status, warns Royal College

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Get ready for lots more of this.

Right across England & Wales! 🎉

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Weaponising antisemitism.. thereby undermining such an essential safeguard! Absolutely!
& their whole anti-immigration campaign is inherently racist as Mahmood's recent letter (and her2018 speech)confirms- all about 'othering' non-white immigrants & conflating legal movement with small boats problem

Horrendous argument! The logic is that if only white immigrants were allowed to come to help work for our econ that would be better for 'people who look like' her. It's not an argument about immigration at all! It's race! It simply says if we do the racism for them maybe they'll relent with theirs!

How They Made Us Doubt Everything - Welcome to How They Made Us Doubt Everything: The Tobacco Playbook - BBC Sounds From climate change to smoking, this is the story of how doubt has been manufactured.

"How they made us doubt everything" on how the Tobacco Industry conspiracy to confuse public understanding of science was adopted by Big Oil. Now with MAGA & the international far right truly through the Looking Glass it's interesting to hear how they did it.

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VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it

White nationalist Nick Fuentes is exposing a civil war among US Republicans: ‘We look like clowns’ Tucker Carlson’s interview with the activist revealed the mainstream right is being flooded by extremism – and it’s now impossible to contain

Wow! the rabbit hole is really deep! Some really deranged people becoming more and more influential on the right. Scary. Of course the silver lining is that anything that splits them and/or exposes their hideous views will hopefully hasten their defeat.
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Let's have a look through Starmer's broken promises.

After another week of banging on about immigration, Keir Starmer's ratings fall to their lowest ever level.

At what point do Labour strategists start to think that maybe this isn't quite the winning strategy they believed?

b) it's the performative cruelty that is the point politically and legitimises far right racism as Mahmood said in 2018:
"It is that culture of disbelief that renders British citizens… as if just not if they were immigrants but they were illegal too…deemed illegal in their own land”

a) re 'evil' don't take my word for it:
Chair of the Law Society’s immigration law committee, said: “These changes seem perverse, unreasonable and punitive on individuals who are genuinely seeking asylum.”
Applied to people in the most vulnerable position possible I'd stand by 'evil'.

So that justifies forcibly deporting a person who flew from persecution, made a home, contributed, paid taxes, developed connections, a family, and a life for up to 20 yrs- after you took all their possessions on arrival! I'm glad to say the maj of the country think that's evil! Enjoy your pollings!

A Government of cowards.

Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.

They can't get away with this.

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The truth is that illegal entry is not the cause of signif' neg impact on citizens, has complex causes, there is no magic bullet; needs solving tho prompt fair processing, legal routes, wk with EU, moral foreign policy not lies to voters & legit racist topes; as said 2018

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Does that excuse performative cruelty effectively demonising all immigrants? Take it from one who once knew:
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So this vicious policy is about being electorally popular? How's that going for you? It's Starmer prep'ing the way for Reform by legit'ing views that the signif' maj in this country find abhorrent. Leadership is convincing voters of your truth, not following the worst instincts of some to the bottom

Starmer’s anti-asylum policies show how utterly clueless he is about the right-wing media’s role in politics.

He’s trying to fix a “problem” contrived by Farage, GB News and The Telegraph. He’ll never win, because ultimately he’s fighting a ghost – he’s fighting something that doesn’t really exist

Wow! Excellent speech opposing targeting immigrants! There must be a PhD in Psychiatry in this for someone! Even if it's naked self-interest there must be a personal justification as long as War & Peace to volte-face, in just 7 yrs, to the extent that you earn Tommy Robinson's endorsement.

Labour are destroying this country! They could have defended the social democratic consensus but instead are trying to out-Reform Farage and are fracturing the significant majority who abhor the far-right. This will be the legacy of the Last Ever Labour Government- and we will all suffer for it.

Labour’s asylum plans are horribly cruel – but they’re also a mix of hype, old policy and unachievable promises | Diane Taylor There is mounting disquiet among Labour MPs, while the vulnerable refugees at the heart of this story are living with a renewed sense of panic, says Diane Taylor, who writes on human rights, racism an...

If you are still in the Labour Party after this; shame, shame, shame on you!

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If there had been an agreement with Farage about how Starmer should pave the way for a far-right government and its agenda, how would things be different?