Thread by @MatthiasMuell15

1 /… When people in London after the Brexit referendum told me „to go home“ I always told them that as an NHS nurse I probably held their fathers hand when they died in the hospital 20 years ago and that I stopped their sisters bleeding on her wrist when she …1/
#FightRacism

2/ … attempted suicide. And bandaged their builder colleagues broken arm after they had a work injury on a building site.
But now I always say this: (because #Racism hasn’t stopped because it’s practised from the top/gov and populism is now the new democracy in the Tory … 2/
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3 / … Tory-1984-world of Lies”):

I am here by my free will.
I am here because I once loved the United Kingdom for what is was in it’s multiculturalism. I loved it despite its awful history of colonialism (nothing to be proud of here) because of a German and Brit I know about

4/… remorse, repentance ans the chances new generations have .

And I can always go back to Germany if I like, funny enough. And I am here to serve as an NHS nurse.

But these days I add this:

I should be welcomed the same way as the person in a dinghy that arrives at the 4/…

5/ … shore in Dover.

None of us have caused to be born into Freedom or Privilege.

But privilege comes - in the real world (not the Tory-1984-World-of-Populism) with responsibility:

To reach out.
To provide safety.
To rescue so that more can be rescued

That’s not impossible…

6/ that’s democracy, decency, responsibly, authenticity, mercy, passion, humanity .
It is statesmanship and ‚stateswomanship‘.

Something that we haven’t heard from the Tories for many years.

What have we become in the UK?

It’s time for change.

#FightRacism
#FightPopulism