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Oct 31 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Today in Parliament, Suella Braverman called the arrival of asylum seekers an "invasion", just a day after an immigration centre was petrol bombed.

Her rhetoric closely resembles that used by Mosley, Hitler, & other Fascists in the 1930s.

If you tolerate this, you may be next. ImageImage
Daniel Sonabend's book, 'We Fight Fascists', charts the rise of the #43Group of tough Jewish WWII vets, who regularly fought & attacked Oswald Mosley & other British fascists, showing that Jews would not meekly accept post-WWII racism & bigotry.

timesofisrael.com/when-jewish-ww…
Calling the arrival of asylum seekers an "invasion", on the same day she included in her letter about her multiple fuck-ups the sentence "I hold myself as Home Secretary to the highest possible standards", is beyond belief - Braverman has no standards.

People are in denial about this, & Tory politicians & the right-wing press & broadcast media never mention it - they NEED scapegoats, & after twelve years of abject failure, it's all they have left...

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The report from His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary & Fire & Rescue Services for England and Wales was ordered after the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard in March 2021 by a serving Metropolitan police officer, Wayne Couzens.

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Oct 30
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Want to know a secret that far-right politicians & right-wing newspaper editors have ruthlessly exploited for at least a century? Traditional ideologies, usually embodied by mainstream parties, are anchored in emotionality as much as ideology or what we call 'populism'.
Conservative thinking is often a response to a need to reduce #fear & #uncertainty (Jost, Kruglanski, Glaser & Sulloway 2003). Experimental evidence shows that priming 'mortality threats' results in post-manipulation conservative identification (Thorisdottir & Jost 2010). 🇬🇧
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Oct 30
🚨 Emergency services are at the Border Force migrant processing centre in Dover, Kent, after a Reuters witness says a man threw petrol bombs before killing himself. The man drove up to the centre and threw three petrol bombs, one of which did not go off. Also today, in the Mail:
🚨 A white man threw three petrol bombs attached with fireworks at a centre for processing migrants in the southern English port of Dover on Sunday (one did not go off) & then killed himself, a Reuters photographer said.

reuters.com/world/uk/man-a…
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Oct 30
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#LeakySue Braverman held secret meetings with her mentor, swivel-eyed ERG loon John Hayes, before she was forced to resign over leaking sensitive information to him.

She also looked to implement Policy Exchange's inhumane anti-refugee proposals.

theguardian.com/politics/2022/…
Braverman appears to have instructed officials to look at potentially implementing grotesque proposals cooked up by opaquely funded right-wing free-market think tank Policy Exchange, that would in effect prohibit “genuine refugees” from settling in the UK.
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The extremist Policy Exchange has lots of form - they've recently attacked the police for being 'too woke'! 🤪

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The suspect's blog, website & social media accounts are filled with anti-Semitic memes, Holocaust denial, references to far-right websites & conspiracy theories such as QAnon, debunked allegations of election fraud & a host of far-right talking points. 🤬

bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-…
Having said this, the suspect is clearly a troubled person, likely homeless, with a history of violence & drug use. So while his interest in conspiracy theories & far-right extremism certainly APPEARS to some extent to have motivated the attack, this is currently speculative.
There seems to be compelling evidence that the suspect has a long & well documented history of writing & posting about conspiracy theories. But again, the extent to which his views did or did not motivate the attack remain unknown, & therefore speculative.
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