Sangita Myska
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Journalist & Presenter | 📻 Ex- LBC ‘Sangita Myska 1-4pm Weekends ’, BBC @Radio4 Documentaries & 📺 @BBCNews TV | @JSchofieldTrust |“and she didn’t toe the line”
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Just scroll through the vile racist onslaught faced by 3 young black England players and then you’ll see the reason why the entire team takes the knee.
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Chris Whitty & Jonathan Van Tam have continued to work as frontline doctors throughout the Coronavirus Crisis. Here’s JVT helping the vaccination effort. Chris Whitty spent Christmas Day on Covid wards. Both have been harassed in public. We are *all* poorer for it.
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Shortly after Jerry called me
@LBC
we went to an advert break. I’d be lying if I said dealing with racism and bigotry doesn’t take its toll on PoC. It does. Luckily my producer
@catrionabeck
had my back. PS.I’m in full recovery mode, at home, with most English dish of all: curry
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The silence from The Royal Family over Jeremy Clarkson’s misogynist attack on Meghan Markle is starkly at odds with the huge public and political outcry. Would it really compromise King Charles constitutional position to issue a well worded statement? I doubt it.
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Tonight, the Far Right will attempt to intimidate and goad communities into violence - especially people of colour.
Their aim: to feed their hateful narratives and present themselves as victims.
Please don’t let them win the propaganda war.
#RiotsNotProtests
#UKRiots
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Years of Tory rule normalising Islamophobia and anti-asylum seeker rhetoric (solely to see off Farage and his cronies) has led to this moment: thugs rioting, attacking the police, dishonouring the victims of the Southport attack. Shame on all of them.
🚨 NEW: Armed police arrive at tonight’s far-right rally in Southport before being made to retreat
Some of the protestors in attendance can be heard shouting “F**k Muslims”
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Totally unscientific survey: I’ve just talked to 7 people who work in Financial Services & Markets who earn over £150,000. NONE of them understand why they are getting a tax cut. NONE of them think it’s necessary at this time of financial crisis. NONE of them think it’s fair
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To the people calling me a “nasty Labourite /lefty/ wokerati” etc let me clarify: if ANY other political party had crashed the economy in 44 days, partied during covid, allegedly lied etc etc, I’d be interrogating them too. I’m no paid-up fan girl for the ‘Left’ or ‘Right’.
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Over the last few days, these three women have been photographed confronting Tommy Robinson inspired Far Right fascists.
That’s courage, that’s patriotism
Thank you to those ladies, and all those who’ve stood with them. 🇬🇧
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If there are adults out there who, like me, own a pencil case - make contact. You are my people.
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These riots are not about disenfranchisement or the ‘left behinds’, migration or asylum seekers. This is about ultra right wing multimillionaires some of whom (with years of media complexity) have become politicians spreading Putin linked disinformation and propaganda.
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When Anna from Widnes rang
@lbc
to throw racist abuse at me live on-air, thousands of you offered me your support. I’m very touched, THANK YOU. The next day was emotional. I decided to reflect on how & why Anna may have become buried in bigotry. These are my thoughts 👇🏽
'I'm of this country.'
An emotional Sangita Myska becomes tearful in this exceptionally powerful reflection on being told to 'shut up' by a bigoted caller.
@SangitaMyska
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I’m going to spell this out for everyone:
I’m not an Islamist
I’m not an Anti-Semite
But, because I’m a brown female journalist raising difficult questions, people assume I am those things
So as I condemn antisemitism, I expect others to call out what I’m facing: racism
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When your hear Rishi Sunak, Robert Jenrick, Suella Braverman, Priti Patel , James Cleverly & Kemi Badenoch call for calm over the coming days, just remember they helped light the touch-paper for these race riots by allowing the spread of disinformation like this from Tory HQ:
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1/ And finally, I’m back in the U.K. On a bus with the most charming driver, ever. He greets each passenger with “Good evening, how are you doing?”, when passengers get off he says “Have a lovely night & take care!”, & announces each stop. His name is Patrick. Passengers began
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Liz Truss has just suggested people’s motivation to work harder and get a promotion is money, so that’s why cutting taxes is a priority. Thing is, money ISN’T the main or only motivator in life, otherwise no one would be a nurse, care worker, teacher etc
#ToryConference
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Last year, I had to block David Atherton after he launched a racist pile-on. I traced his link to the Far Right, EDL, Tommy Robinson, funding, 55 Tufton St etc. Below is that thread.
Today, he was forced apologise for spreading Russian origin disinformation about Southport
Who is this man David Atherton?
I’ve never heard of him, yet he’s obsessed with me.
He’s libelling me and attempting to send online thugs my way.
He also claims working class people are the Far Right.
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Thank you for all your support. VERY much appreciated. I’ll be tackling what happened on air TODAY on
@LBC
at 3pm. If you’re free would love you to join me. (I’m on air now too!) x
'This is my country.'
Sangita Myska educates this caller who tells her to 'shut up' about improving the UK because she wasn't born here.
@SangitaMyska
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A Person of Colour becoming Prime Minister would be an historic moment. Stop with the ifs and buts. Just acknowledge that.
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I’m not this woman (obvs) but can we find and award her a medal for defining what courage & patriotism is in the face of the
#EnglishDefenceLeague
Hero woman in Southport holds up this sign.
Hope not Hate, racism is not welcome here.
RT if you are that woman.
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Very disappointing from Ed Balls and Kate Garraway. They display classic reverse affinity bias. Unable to perceive Muslim female MP, Zarah Sultana, as both a politician AND someone affected by the trauma of the worst race riots in decades they use a completely inappropriate tone
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If Britain’s first South Asian Prime Minister Rishi Sunak fails to sack his new Deputy Tory Party Chairman Lee Anderson for associating with Far Right white supremacists sympathisers - he should be ashamed of himself. Story broken by
@mikeysmith
@DailyMirror
@KDenkWrites
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It’s back to the 1970s
A racist attack in Hartlepool. The crowd causing trouble laugh and cheer as a person of colour is punched in the face. This is what happens when you appease the far-right.
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@MichelleMone
I’m sure it feels horrendous, Michelle. I’m also convinced that if you end your self imposed exile, return to the U.K., co-operate fully with the National Crime Agency & other authorities, and face any (possible) prosecution in person, you may start to regain the public’s respect
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To Conservative Party HQ,
What Tory donor Frank Hester said about Diane Abbot MP was racially motivated
What Lee Anderson MP said about Sadiq khan is an anti-Muslim trope; “I want my country back” is a far right chant
It’s not “wrong” or “rude” it is racist rhetoric
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It’s inaccurate to define racist thugs as protestors. BBC TV pls, pls stop it.
This is the story: Far Right groups have attempted to set a hotel in Rotherham alight after rumours circulated that it housed asylum seekers. Several police officers have been injured as they 1/
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Gavin Williamson is entitled to almost £17,000 in severance pay. That’s six months pay for an new nurse. No wonder they are going on strike.
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I swear King Charles in his Christmas speech just hinted the nurses and paramedics deserve a pay rise 😉
#KingCharles
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Troubling propaganda emerging from the pro Liz Truss lobby I interviewed
@LBC
. They all parroted the same line: It was *not* billions of £s of un-costed tax cuts that crashed sterling but the Bank of England & the LDI pensions strategy that did it. That’s wrong. And, it’s a lie
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People are criticising Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe for being “ungrateful”. Be under no illusion, it’s rooted in racist (PoC should be grateful to Britain and never criticise) & misogynistic (women should shut up and be nice) stereotypes. She has every right to publicly…1/2
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“Multiculturalism has failed! ” ~ Home Secretary, Suella Braverman
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I can’t help but wonder whether these vile race riots were coordinated by Far Right provocateurs to coincide with the election of a Labour Government.
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And we’re not going anywhere.
To our Black, Brown and minority communities: never forget that you are loved and wanted in London.
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The Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, has taken a £1000 bet from Piers Morgan that asylum seekers - including women & children - will be deported to Rwanda, a country deemed unsafe by the Supreme Court .
New. Low. Sunk.
Rishi Sunak has accepted a £1,000 bet from Piers Morgan that deportation flights to Rwanda will be up and running before the General Election.
The full interview is due to be shown on the Piers Morgan Uncensored YouTube channel at 2pm and TalkTV at 8pm on Monday (5 February).
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This BBC presenter’s parents were immigrants to Britain. They came here 45 years ago. She and they are British.
@Conservatives
this tweet is ill judged, inappropriate and bigoted.
Labour when you ask for their plans to tackle illegal migration.
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What a photograph.
#FarRightFail
(can we get this hashtag trending please?)
These four seem fairly crestfallen if you ask me. Requiring police protection must be very humiliating.
#FarageRiots
#StopTheThugs
#Brighton
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I hoped to stay out of this (due to stress since April) but it’s unethical to let it pass: I was, coincidentally, at this show. The events are not being reported accurately by some press. Yes, it was upsetting but the couple were not ‘hounded out’ by a ‘baying’ antisemitic crowd
There was once a man named Reginald who loved telling humorous stories. One day, people he had never heard of, most of whom who hadn’t come to his shows (or live stand up in general), decided he was anti-semetic.
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Boris Johnson claims he had a 102 MPs supporting him (he hasn’t published a list) but he’s chosen to step aside for the good of the Party. Who believes the proven liar?
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If tomorrow you see a story about a small south Asian woman losing her s**t on the tube at people who wear masks under their chin, under their nose, as a headband, I’ll save you the bother of reading it - it was me.
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When Suella Braverman was called out by *Holocaust Survivor* Joan Salter for using racist language (“invasion”), the Home Sec used a *Government Press Office* to demand that the charity that filmed the exchange removed the video from Twitter. WELCOME TO DYSTOPIA
@FreefromTorture
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Growing up, when the BBC’s George Alagiah was on TV my dad would shout “George is on!”. We’d run to watch the man who inspired a generation of British Asian journalists.
That scene was replicated across the U.K.
We thank you, George. RIP xx 💔
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This tweet from Rishi Sunak directly links the Labour Party with criminal gangs.
Quite something from the Prime Minister who promised to restore “professionalism” and “integrity” at every level of political life.
This is what we’re up against.
The Labour Party, a subset of lawyers, criminal gangs - they're all on the same side, propping up a system of exploitation that profits from getting people to the UK illegally.
I have a plan to stop it.
Here’s how 🧵
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For the avoidance of doubt:
Using racist language is racism.
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No Prime Minister should ever be allowed to recommend who gets to become Chair of the BBC. And yet, that’s the system. The system is broken.
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Nigel Farage is a thug in a suit.
Nobody has done more to undermine British values than Nigel Farage.
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No one should condone assaults on police officers or attempts to seize their firearms
No one should dismiss serious questions about a police officer stamping on a man’s head when he’s on the floor having been tasered.
Two thoughts, not mutually exclusive
#ManchesterAirport
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Former counter-terror chief accuses Farage of inciting Southport violence | UK news | The Guardian
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Rishi Sunak’s weakness has gone from disappointing to dangerous.
He backs Suella Braverman in the mistaken belief she appeals to traditional Tory voters.
She does not. She appeals to bigots who derive a veneer of respectability from her Office of State.
We see you
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Anyone else remember when BBC Question Time legitimised Islamaphobic grifter Laurence Fox?
I do.
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According to
@thetimes
, Cabinet Secretary Simon Case “appears to have been involved in facilitating and clearing the £800,000 (from Sam Blythe to Boris Johnson) then deciding it could be kept secret”. Simon Case is the most senior civil servant in Government.
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Today, I’ve had Richard Tice, Aaron Banks and an official Conservative Party account (Enfield Southgate) orchestrating pile-ons against me.
I’ve never met or spoken to any of them.
Creepy…
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The only person who brought down Liz Truss was… Liz Truss
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As I went on air today I was tweeted the following by an
@LBC
listener: “Oh, no! Here comes James O’Brien in a skirt”. I am greatly insulted. Everyone knows
@mrjamesob
is *me* in a skirt 😉
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If your compassion for a baby or child is dependent upon where in the world they were born, your moral vacuity knows no bounds.
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I’ve just watched an extremely frightening video in which the brave and good people of Bristol face down a terrifying group of feral fascists - separated only by a thin line of courageous police officers.
I’m in awe, and in tears.
#FarRightRiots
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This is Wesley Russell, a member of Patriotic Alternative, a far-right group, at Priory church in Dunstable. He makes unsubstantiated claims about unnamed “illegal migrants”. Listen to the cheers and clapping - it’s chilling.
This is what the Tory party are encouraging and this is what they’ll use to fight the next election. Fear and hatred of foreigners. They used it to get Brexit and unbelievably they’re still using it despite Brexit
#theyrenotillegal
#asylum
#ToryBritain
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The vile racist rhetoric sparked by Suella Braverman whose words appear to have Rishi Sunak’s tacit acceptance has left me feeling utterly depressed.
For the record: I’m a British East African Indian & they don’t speak for me.
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Why didn’t Boris Johnson, when he was Prime Minister, just go to a bank or building society to get the loan?
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Please park your personal stand on the matter of a ceasefire for a moment and understand this - it is inappropriate & dangerous to accuse MPs like
@jessphillips
, who voted for a ceasefire, of “voting to rearm Hamas” . It puts her & others at huge risk.
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I’m not “moving on”
Rishi Sunak has finally admitted Frank Hester’s comments about Diane Abbot are racist BUT adds, Hester
"rightly apologised for the offence caused and where remorse is shown it should be accepted"
Thing is, Hester has apologised for rudeness not racism
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British citizens using peaceful protest to ask politicians for a “full ceasefire” or “humanitarian pause” for aid, is not fascism
The Home Secretary, Suella Braverman’s, attempts to end citizens’ rights to do that, sounds worryingly like it could be ….
#Gaza
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Having viciously attempted to libel my
@LBC
colleague
@mrjamesob
- it is clear the only place concrete could possibly grow is between Mike Graham’s ears.
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Please, please let this be true 🙏🏽
#FarageRiot
A reliable source just told me that Reform are screwed, these failed riots were their death knell and Nigel Farage is toast.
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NEW! The Sun reports Suella Braverman will not run in the Tory leadership race claiming the Party isn’t willing to confront the ‘woke virus’.
In other words, she’s too extreme for the most extremist Tory Party we’ve ever seen ..
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Full credit to
@Tobias_Ellwood
MP who has delivered on his promise.
He came onto my
@LBC
on Sunday and initially said he wouldn’t attend the privileges committee report vote. After questioning and hearing *directly* from my listeners he changed his mind.
'I am moved by what I hear.'
After hearing from
@SangitaMyska
's listeners, Tory MP
@Tobias_Ellwood
vows to change his plans tomorrow to ensure he can vote in support of the Privileges Committee decision on Partygate.
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We are witnessing the British Constitution at work: 5 independent judges, in an independent Supreme court, saying the law ( Rwanda plan) does not comply with our international treaty obligations that refugees will be treated fairly and properly.
Amen to that
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Thank you to
@mancunianmedic
and ALL of YOU who support me and other black and brown Britons on this platform every day.
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It’s been a massive
#FarRightFail
. I hope it signals the end of wide-scale racist riots BUT it doesn’t mean the thugs are defeated. Some communities are more terrified than ever, yobs are more emboldened than ever, dis-influencers & Reform MPs have big platforms. So stay united!
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I keep hearing people on the radio implying children who go to private schools are cleverer than children who go to state schools
Where is the evidence to support that?
I’d wager there isn’t any
Better at passing exams, yes. Inherently brighter, no.
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Whatever your politics, if Rishi Sunak becomes the UK’s next Prime Minister it’d be historic: the first person of colour with the keys to No 10. But, it wouldn’t mean racism is defeated, that it’s a time for complacency or that the work is over. It’s only a beginning. Exhibit A:
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Call me old fashioned but the National Trust’s purpose is to protect nature.
I’m a member and I’m perfectly fine with its statement on Rishi Sunak’s green policy u-turn.
If some members aren’t keen they could (and I say this very reluctantly).. leave.
@nationaltrust
Call me old-fashioned but I don't think it's a good idea for the National Trust to be issuing statements in the style of a Labour Party press officer
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Be in no doubt: this is what happens when Government normalises the language of far-right nationalists.
#Knowsley
#SuellaBraverman
Huge mobilisation of far-right protestors outside a hotel for asylum-seekers in Knowsley, just outside of Liverpool. They've now set fire to a police van.
This was taken in the last hour:
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Liz Truss has just blamed
@SadiqKhan
for the shootings in Liverpool. Awful to use victims of crime to score points.
#ToryLeadershipContest
#ToryLeadershipHustings
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I fully endorse this message
Sorry, I simply refuse to accept an ex-MEP’s banking arrangements are worthy of breaking news updates
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It’s baffling that Jeremy Hunt and Rishi Sunak are spinning the narrative that they’ve saved a ‘British economy teetering on the brink’ - without mentioning it was the Tories (Brexit, Liz Truss, Kwarteng) who put us there…
#Budget2023
#budget
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It’s the job of a journalist to put hard, uncomfortable questions to those in power - especially when their decisions result in the death or injury of thousands of civilians inside and outside wartime. I won’t apologise for doing my job - even if it upsets influential people.
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Who is this man David Atherton?
I’ve never heard of him, yet he’s obsessed with me.
He’s libelling me and attempting to send online thugs my way.
He also claims working class people are the Far Right.
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Members of the Iran’s football team refused to sing their National Anthem in support of the rights of women & girls - putting the safety of themselves & their families at risk. Meanwhile, European footballers won’t wear an armband supporting human rights incase they get booked 🙄
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Just saw a list of towns/ cities Tommy Robinson/ Yaxley-Lennon issued to his racist followers on X to riot at. At a quick glance there was one notable exception: London
I assume that’s because he knows his criminal mates will be vastly outnumbered here.
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Keir Starmer asks why Gillian Keegan rubber-stamped a £34 million refurbishment of “her offices”?
Sunak changes the subject
#PMQs
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It’s possible to stand with Ukraine AND investigate allegations of poor treatment of some non-white refugees/students AND condemn racism in some news coverage. These are not mutually exclusive positions. Nor is it irresponsible to air those concerns.
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🚨BREAKING: Missing student nurse 24 year old OWAMI DAVIES HAS BEEN FOUND in Hampshire following a tip off from a member of the public.🚨 On a personal note I’m absolutely thrilled for Owami and her family
#OwamiDavies
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Braverman’s use of dog-whistle phrases like “invasion” is, from what I can see online, emboldening racists and will inevitably embolden them off-line too. I genuinely can’t figure out whether the PM & HS aren’t aware of it or they just don’t care.
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It was Home Secretary Suella Braverman NOT Gary Lineker who first invoked parallels with 1930s Germany with the phrase “invading our shores”. On impartiality, a fair question would be: Who’s doing most perceived damage to the BBC’s reputation the BBC Top Brass or its Presenters?
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Truss resigned saying “I couldn’t deliver the mandate upon which I was elected by members”. The problem is - she did deliver it and, within seconds, it was catastrophic
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And…she’s a childminder.
Just the wife of a Conservative councillor being arrested after calling for hotels with asylum seekers to be set on fire.
Perfectly normal presumably. .. for some monstrous people
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Penny Mordaunt ,
Rishi Sunak,
Jeremy Hunt,
Michelle Donelan,
Any Govt Minister who excuses Donelan,
We want our money back. Now.
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No one is calling all men abusers, violent or creeps. Women are asking men to join us in changing a deep rooted culture that has us looking over our shoulders (day and night), expects us to put up with harassment or threats, and expects us not to talk about it.
#SarahEverard
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Carol Vorderman on
@LBC
with James O’Brien now. She claims Felicity Mercer (wife of MP Johnny) was tweeting at her for months “60 on one day”. Ms Vorderman says, she has not spoken about this before,and defends her comments about the couple’s education
@mrjamesob
@carolvorders
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This particular Conservative ‘leadership’ will not call out racism aimed at black and brown people because it’s scared of alienating racist voters.
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On a personal note, many of us grew up with the National Front marching up & down the UK’s streets.
Today, I walked past a pub with their “heirs” the Far Right/ EDL spilling out. I felt a knot in my stomach I’ve not felt for years.
@metpoliceuk
thank you for your work today
NOW: Chants of “I’m England ‘till I die” through the centre of London.
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