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Jan 6, 2022 10 tweets 4 min read Read on X
Maybe it's time to stop labelling "conspiracy theorists" pejoratively, since its now plain that "a network of Fascists" have undertaken a "global palace coup", manipulating a pretend emergency to impose their New World Order, writes Mr Nawaz, @LBC's leading conspiracy theorist. ImageImage
Mr Nawaz regards Facebook warning followers about his repeatedly spreading false information as proof of the conspiracy to suppress the truth about the conspiracy ... Image
One difficulty is that challenge to spreading conspiratorial material - for example, from Members of Parliament; or from platforms - is taken as validation. Image
Mr Nawaz had intended to ressume his broadcasting in the new year - but will leave immediately, with no contract renewal on offer.

My sense is his increasingly strong language about fascism & conspiracies has generated significant internal concern.

Mr Nawaz's own response to the news makes fairly clear that this was not a mutual decision. It seems clear it was the decision of the radio station, not to offer a renewal, and also for him to cease presenting immediately, before the end of his existing (soon to expire) contract.
Mr Nawaz has posted - on his social media account - that "he refuses to go quietly into the night" and will shortly set up a substack newsletter, for subscribers, which will be dedicated to "resisting the democratization of the truth"
Though only a couple of LBC voices went public with their concerns - particularly @IainDale and Matthew Thompson earlier over the US election conspiracies - media reporters say that a lot of other voices were concerned about the conspiracy theory material
Mr Nawaz says that his contract runs until April 2022. The LBC decision to end the show immediately, 3 months early, has happened suddenly. He had expected to return tomorrow after a Christmas break. Image
The actor Laurence Fox has launched a campaign to boycott the LBC broadcaster, saying he only listened to Mr Nawaz on the station. Image
Does this mean Fox will not appear on LBC this year?

My personal guess is Fox & his fledgling political party "Reclaim" will *not* actually boycott LBC across the year, but tbc over the weeks/months to come. The broadcaster may cease to invite him given declaration of a boycott Image

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Nov 19
I hope mainstream supporters of farmers/countryside alliance will challenge effort by overt racists of the Homeland Party to associate themselves with the protest. Extreme racism of Mr Laws (who seeks to deport *all* migrants *and* Uk-born minorities) obvs not shared by farmers! Image
I trust many farmers would on a values basis to reject his persistent calls for Sunak, Badenoch & myself to be deported (on grounds that minorities can never be British).

Opposition from farmers to his call to remove all migrants would also reflect a practical self-interest!
I doubt the organisers can do a great deal in advance about toxic racist fringe elements choosing to turn up.

Once such an overtly racist group does seek to use it for publicity & interviews, I think it is reasonable to ssk the decent mainstream organisers to disassociate
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Oct 15
Policy Exchange's A Portrait of Modern Britain (2024) @rakibehsan & @IGMansfield offer a constructive centre-right response to Britain's growing ethnic diversity in a society where patterns of progress to equal opps & the discrimination which persists are more complex
It is a follow-up to the 2014 report of the same title coauthored by a young Rishi Sunak.

I took part in this Westminster Hour discussion with Sunak. I think perhaps his very first national media interview about politics

Yes to recommendation 1. New govt should have a national integration strategy (identifying its own role/responsibility for key foundations). Should respect difference in a liberal society, promote equal opportunities & work on what brings us together
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Oct 13
Obviously Laws is entirely racist. He does not accept that Badenoch or Sunak are British.

Laws got 0.4% of the vote in Dover in July. Image
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The tweet itself isn't racist seems exceptionally naive when it is a matter of record that Laws primary goal/priority is the deportation of all ethnic minority Britons, including Badenoch, Sunak and myself Image
Have reported this Image
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Oct 12
"Musk is obsessive, almost manic, about the stakes & the need for Mr. Trump to win"

NYT reports scale/frenzy of Musk's backing for Trump is without any precedent. Estimates $ spend around $140 million + use of X on top of that

A real life Citizen Kane
nytimes.com/2024/10/11/us/…
Has never been a bigger financial champion of a Presidential candidate, nor a more xenophobic Pres campaign (deport legal migrants) less committed to basic democratuc norms (eg: accept defeat if you lose) than this one which Musk sees as an existential necessity for USA & world
I doubt anybody in the world since 1945 can have spent quire so much money, energy or capacity into actively facilitating racism and xenophobia as Elon Musk, the billionaire who now believes he can personally change history by tipping 2024 US Presidential election to Donald Trump
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Aug 17
Musk is in the dock - metaphorically

Nobody alive did more to extend reach of racial hate in last 12 months

- replatformed those dedicated to hate, big increase in reach (eg Britain First. Patriotic Alternative. Tommy)
- introduced £ incentives that groom escalating hate
Where & how does the metaphor become actual scrutiny and sanctions?

What can existing tools be used to do?

What new bespoke or general interventions can govt/parliament consider this Autumn?
Elon Musk has personally by both his acts & omissions played a consequential role in making racist violence possible that would have been impossible at such pace & scale without his personal decisions as a corp leader. He is a live threat to our national security & cohesion
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Aug 9
"The public will have to go in, & the public will have to sort this out themselves, & it'll be very, very brutal. I don't want them here. I don't want them to live here. They came under false pretences" - Douglas Murray widespread violence

"Probably hundreds of thousands... We have a couple of choices. One of them is - and I say this metaphorically *for the time being*, BUT its NOT that metaphorical. One is to stand up and the other is to beg on your knees ... the British soul is awakening and stirring with rage" Image
Full transcript. Murray foresees public violence at scale & says he would support, metaphorically for now + actually soon if govt doesn't remove. His targets for state/vigilante removal both asylum seekers who cross Channel+ those Muslims who are pro Hamas
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