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Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar
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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.
The sheer PANTOMIME of Sajid Javid cancelling his holiday to deal with a 'major incident' (an average of 3-4 migrants attempting the crossing per day since November). What's he gonna do, stalk up and down the Kent coast bellowing at anything that floats? bbc.co.uk/news/uk-467145…
If you want to discourage unsafe Channel crossings, you have to expand access to safe means of crossing the border. The fact is, Britain is pretty stingy when it comes to granting asylum applications.
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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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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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Unfortunately Ben is wrong here, Corbyn is following the agreed policy here because that policy let's him do exactly what he wants on Brexit, not what the members want

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With the leak of this 2-8% report those arguments are now trashed
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Dear @theresa_may,
Yesterday you wrote me a letter about my rights as an EU citizens in the UK.
I reply back in good faith.
(And may I call you Theresa? You called me Maria Ana!)
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2. Sadly, much damage has been done. The fact that citizens’ rights were included in the negotiations was enough reason for some to leave.
Discussed in @ScotParl by @willie_rennie (only 2mins listen): bit.ly/2jABfhI
Our @YoungAcademySco Report: bit.ly/2BwXsRX
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theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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