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Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar
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It’s racism, Jimmy.
Theresa May: *deports black British citizens, sets income thresholds for migrants £3000 above UK median income, maintains the only indefinite detention regime in the EU*

Champion of Nuance: Hmmm, something deeper must be at play here 🤔🤔🤔
Politics becomes much less ~mysterious~ if you understand racism and xenophobia as sophisticated technologies of governance rather than mere sentiment.
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This Channel migrants “crisis” is such a blatant attempt to stir up xenophobia ahead of the Brexit vote.

A dinghy of 6 refugees is top story on the BBC - 3 above the Dept of Transport awarding a £14million contract to a shipping company without any history of sailing a vessel.
It's one of those moments when you can clearly perceive the machinery behind how a story comes to break, dominate the day, and dictate reporting for the rest of the week or even longer. Corbyn the Czech Spy being another good example.
It's not alternative media fuelling the growth of conspiratorial thinking - it's the fact that the public get treated like idiots by editors who think we can't perceive an alignment of interests between establishment media and the government.
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Project Brexit is imperilled, as it was always going to be, by contact with political reality. But it's Remainers who I think are at a disadvantage in outreach, messaging and strategy. It'd be a shame to learn the hard way twice that being right isn't the same as being effective.
Arguing over institutional arrangements will work for discrediting a negotiated deal in Parliament. But what next? I think it's highly likely that decision-making on Brexit will be returned to the electorate, either through a General Election (my preference) or a 2nd Ref.
What Kamikaze Brexiteers like Johnson and Rees-Mogg have astutely understood from the start is that the electoral coalition that will deliver Brexit don't actually care about the technical details. That's why the contradictions and bluster inherent in their position don't matter.
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I’ve been thinking about the men who burned the Grenfell effigy. It’s troubling that the politicians responsible for the conditions which produced the tragedy, & the gross mistreatment of survivors, are jumping on a condemnation bandwagon without facing accountability themselves.
The men who burnt the effigy are racists, their behaviour is nauseating, and I’m glad their faces are plastered all over the internet. I hope they lose their jobs and their friends.

I’m not sure, however, if pursuing punishment through the criminal justice system is appropriate.
Not because I’ve any sympathy for them. But because it could potentially set a dangerous precedent for legitimate political speech, protests and stunts to be prosecuted in the same manner.
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Thread re Prime Minister on #BBCtoday @BBCr4today re #EU just now: she got her catchphrase in early and followed the classic media training advice 'repeat, repeat, repeat'. 3 years ago it was 'Long-term economic plan', now it is 'when we leave the EU free movement will end'
or 'when we leave the EU we will take back control of our money, our laws and our borders'. All of which is based on fallacy - claim of net out-flow of money has been demonstrated clearly many times, we elect our MEPs and the MPs who debate the EU regs and we have border controls
Astonishingly disdainful way she thinks of UK workers - they will be trained for the low skilled jobs currently done by people from EU27 countries, but we will still allow people in if they will have salary of £50k. She had no plan for immediate recruitment e.g. for care homes
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001/ [article content in this tweet series 001-180 reproduced with permission from Martin Howe QC of Lawyers for Britain @lawyers4britain]
#quote "Leaving the EU on WTO terms: pulling down the barriers to world trade
Introduction: why prices will FALL after Brexit, not rise" /002
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For the last 24 hours I've been texting & calling with refugees in Libya. 500 are apparently stuck in a Tripoli prison w/o food & water after heavy fighting broke out two days ago. They say their guards ran away, leaving them alone.
These refugees are men, women & children. They tried to cross the Mediterranean earlier this year, but were found by Italian boats, who turned them over to the EU-backed Libyan coastguard, who put them in prison. The conditions were already terrible before the fighting started.
Oh the phone earlier I could hear children crying & what sounded like bombing in the distance. The refugees say everyone's incredibly frightened. "We hear machine guns, tanks, big bombs, last night from the roof it was all fire."
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You know what makes me incensed with rage? When innocent people are being held in indefinite detention here in the UK. Committed no crime, their only crime is coming to the UK as a child, like the woman in this picture.
Came to the UK when she was just 13... 1/
From Botswana with her mother, obtaining good A-levels, but instead of being able to go on and study at uni, thrown in indefinite detention in Yarlswood Centre. Now thank goodness she is freed and back in Stoke-on-Trent. 2/
And she is just one of many people. Windrush is the tip of the iceberg. Innocent people are thrown into cells, without a timeline. Now the hostile environment is "paused" but not axed. And Tommy Robinson, on the other hand, has been freed.
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What the hell will it take to bring down the corrupt @Conservatives government?

Here's an evolving thread listing Tory atrocities (in no particular order).

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Critically ill Russian national is 66yo Sergei Skripal, former intel colonel/double agent granted refuge in UK after a 2010 "spy swap" between US & Russia. He and a woman were apparently poisoned in/near Salisbury shopping center. bbc.in/2D2oj7X
Ex-Russian spy & daughter 'poisoned' in UK sparks fears of another Kremlin-backed hit. Investigators scrambling to identify the chemical used. Skripal feared for his life after his wife died in a car crash & his son was killed in a road incident.. thesun.co.uk/news/5733372/s…
UK warns Kremlin over poisoning of ex-spy Skripal & his daughter. Recalling Litvinenko murder, FM Johnson said UK was "in the lead across the world" in trying to counteract a "host of malign activity" by Russia.

Skripal's brother, son & wife have been killed in the last 2 year.
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