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Jun 14 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This is exactly what #neofascism looks & sounds like.
The average British voter's understanding of post-war #fascism is woefully inadequate, rendering them incapable of making informed judgements about, & therefore easily manipulated by, right-wing newspapers & the UK Government's divisive rhetoric.

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IF Jesus came back & tried to get to Britain, he'd be framed the by right-wing media as a symptom of "The Great Replacement" & "a scrounging illegal migrant & potential terrorist rapist", & Govt Ministers would be braying for him to be sent to #Rwanda for "processing". ImageImage
We now know that the UK has experienced more far-right terror attacks & plots than any state in Europe.

Around a third of all domestic terror threats now come from the far Right - often inspired by far-right #propaganda - according to the head of MI5.

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Government politicians adopt far-right tropes if it helps them create wedge issues to win votes.

The UK media platform the far-right - which now describes & brands itself as ‘anti-woke’ rather than ‘fascist’ - to stir controversy & drive hits.

#Rwanda

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Given the UK Govt's deeply concerning & increasingly antidemocratic & authoritarian tendencies, concerned citizens need to better understand the European Convention on Human Rights - & know that it was driven by Britons in the aftermath of WWII.

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The population of the #USA is 332,915,073, & it has around 790 (0.00023%) billionaires. 🇺🇸

The #UK population is 68,580,309, & it has around 177 (0.00026%) billionaires. 🇬🇧

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#LifeChangingLibraries’ is Children's Laureate @CressidaCowell’s flagship project. All the research shows that encouraging #readingforpleasure from an early age is one of THE most important ways parents & teachers can help improve social mobility.
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“Who says what in which channel to whom with what effect?" Harold Lasswell, 1948.

“The study of transitivity is concerned with how actions are represented; what kind of actions appear in a text, who does them, & to whom they are done - who does what to whom?” - Sara Mills, 1995. Image
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Any process/event involves: participants; the process itself; & the circumstances. In headlines, the 'agent' is sometimes emphasised, & sometimes deleted, creating a passive or an active process, thus framing the focus & fault/cause/blame in specific ways.

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