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Entirely right. A royal college invitation to speak carries great prestige. To see @rcgp extending this to someone who states she sees nothing wrong with Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood speech was flabbergasting. theguardian.com/society/2019/m…
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I note that @JuliaHB1 has now responded to her "no-plaforming" by RCGP on one of her (many) platforms - in this case, The Spectator - by attacking the doctor starting the petition against her invitation as a "fanatical Remain campaigner". (1/8)
She implies that somehow doctors’ opposition against RCGP’s invitation is merely concocted outrage masking their real beef - that she supports Brexit. (2/8)
Memo to Julia. Brexit is not the issue here. Nor is your one tweet about Rivers of Blood alone. It’s the attitude that leads you to write (repeatedly) comments like:

"This obsession with “identity” and “diversity” is just a different kind of racism.”

(3/8)
As doctors, Julia, we have a very different perspective. We see the human cost of immigrants being wrongly denied emergency healthcare for cancer and heart disease (4/8):

theguardian.com/society/2018/n…
We see children as young as 10 whitening their skin to avoid racist abuse (5/8):

edition.cnn.com/2019/05/30/uk/…
We see the Windrush generation - who have given Britain (especially the NHS) so much - denied life-threatening care for the sake of a populist “hostile environment" (5/8):

bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-438…
We even see patients *dying* when they are (wrongly) denied NHS cancer treatment (7/8):

theguardian.com/society/2018/n…
You are perceived by many doctors to be part of this toxic, anti-immigrant narrative. Not for one tweet, but for a long track record of comments and insinuations. And that’s why we believe you had no place whatsoever being feted by a medical royal college. (8/8)
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