Boris Johnson says the problem in Africa is that we're not in charge anymore...
Priti Patel says taking a knee is wrong...
They produce a Race Report that talks about the benefits of slavery...
Then act like they're fighting racism along with us.
Here's Priti Patel saying that every way that black people have chosen to protest against inequality, including silently taking a knee, is wrong.
This is the government's Race Report from March...
Have a look at that last line.
Boris Johnson promised the Black Lives Matter protesters last year that he would address systemic racism.
8 months later he gives them a report that treats the slave trade like an erasmus year.
Boris Johnson refused to criticise the booing. Priti patel accused those who take a knee of "gesture politics".
Neither of our two most powerful political leaders lifted a finger to combat racism in football and their silence was a green light to racists everywhere!
And then when the racism inevitably explodes, they act like they were the ones leading the fight against racism.
And our newspapers help them sell the lie.
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Can you imagine if, during the years of Brexit renegotiations (2020-24), journalists had grilled the Tories on their manifesto promise to get Brexit done.... as much as they're now grilling Labour on whether they're "taxing working people"?
It shows they CAN do their jobs.
They just chose not to with the Tories.
Look at this.
It's very good journalism by @WilfredFrost, exposing that the Labour manifesto used the technicality of not directly taxing working people, but it still hits them.
"Get Brexit Done" was literally the title of the Tory manifesto and was NEVER challenged like this.
Boris Johnson started renegotiations SIX MONTHS after winning an election on a promise to end the Brexit negotiations.
So there's nothing subjective about the fact that the Tory government was elected on a lie.
Yet NOT ONE news station categorically communicated that fact.