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Nov 6 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
One prominent barrister with knowledge of the discussions during October 2020 said that Braverman was fully aware that her intervention last week in the immigration debate was incendiary.

theguardian.com/politics/2022/…
Speaking on condition of anonymity, they said: “At the very least, it was reckless. At worst, she knows it’s likely to instigate attacks. It’s either reckless or it’s deliberate and she’s got no concern for the consequences.
“The home secretary’s job is to ensure public safety, not to generate serious risk of harm to individuals.”Another senior legal source, who also asked not to be named, said: “Braverman was told directly of the risks such language was having on members of the profession.”
Te day after Braverman used the word “invasion”, prominent far-right figure Mark Collett – who has praised Adolf Hitler, been arrested for inciting racial hatred and has called refugees “cockroaches” – forwarded a message on Telegram from a fellow white supremacist that said:
“What’s happening to our borders is an invasion and no amount of pearl clutching will change that.”

Collet, founder of far-right group Patriotic Alternative, stated in a Telegram post the day after firebombs were thrown at the Kent immigration centre:
“This attack is the unfortunate result of living in a multicultural tyranny imposed by a globalist system that cares nothing for white people.”
The term “globalist” has fallen under recent scrutiny, featuring in a spike in social media attacks on Rishi Sunak that draw on antisemitic conspiracy theories, linking the former banker to the false notion of a globalist conspiracy.
Several prominent figures on the rightwing news channel GB "News", including Nigel Farage and Dan Wootton, also used the term after Grant Shapps, who is Jewish, briefly replaced Braverman as home secretary last month.
The far-right also attacked Robert Jenrick, after he rejected the language used by Braverman, with one accusing him on the right-wing Traditional Britain Group Telegram channel of “treason” & referring to his Jewish faith alongside the alt-right image of Pepe the Frog.
On Friday, former skills minister Andrea Jenkyns provoked fresh dismay by referring to immigration lawyers as “anti-British”. In a letter to Braverman, Jenkyns wrote: “You were right to describe this as an invasion and many of my constituents thank you for your candour.”
I & many other academics & journalists have been warning about the dangerous consequences of right-wing politicians, right-wing newspapers, right-wing broadcast media channels & right-wing "media personalities" using neofascist rhetoric years.

Robust recent evidence reveals that "anti-immigrant attitudes increase when political elites express more exclusionary sentiments towards immigration & decrease when political elites express more inclusionary sentiments."

#Brexit #FarRightTerrorism

Practical political solutions to the rise of right-wing populism in the UK & across Europe:

Research finds that "compared to pro-immigration voters, anti-immigration voters feel stronger about the issue & are more likely to consider it as both personally & nationally important" - thus making immigration an attractive issue to the populist Right.
A thread about recent far-right terrorism in the UK:

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A few facts about Tory MP, Marco Longhi - the new Honorary President of dangerously irresponsible far-right lobbying group, Turning Point UK, which is one of the organisations far-right terrorist Andrew Leak engaged with before petrol-bombing the Dover migrant centre.
Longhi grew up in Rome, the son of an Italian airline worker. He trained as a pilot & later studied at Manchester University, following this by working for a time in civil engineering. He then worked in the oil and gas industry, which included five years in South America. Image
In 1999, Longhi was elected as a Conservative councillor in Walsall, & became Mayor in 2017 and again in 2018.

He became the first Tory to represent Dudley North at #GE2019, after the incumbent, Ian Austin (independent, formerly Labour), stood down. Image
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Really important research on attitudes to immigration, asking why politicians & policymakers do not prioritize pro-immigration reforms, even when public opinion on the issue is positive.

cambridge.org/core/journals/…
This research examines one previously overlooked explanation related to the systematically greater importance of immigration as a political issue among those who oppose it, relative to those who support it.
The research finds that "compared to pro-immigration voters, anti-immigration voters feel stronger about the issue & are more likely to consider it as both personally & nationally important."
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🚨NEW REPORT

'Understanding right-wing populism (and what to do about it)'.

'The continuing rise of right-wing populism may be stalled in some countries but the overall level of support is still strong. The challenge to liberal democracies is not over.'

library.fes.de/pdf-files/buer…
"As progressives, we should remain vigilant in this debate and promote evidence-based political strategies addressing current & future right-wing populist challenges.

The report at hand is full of quantitative & qualitative evidence helping to formulate those strategies."
"The authors encourage readers to look beyond the populism dimension & focus their attention on the economic insecurities underlying supposedly cultural issues such as immigration and how right-wing populist parties (RWPPs) become successful in appealing to these insecurities."
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Essential for understanding the rise of neofascist anti-immigrant rhetoric:

'Political elite discourses polarize attitudes toward immigration along ideological lines. A comparative longitudinal analysis of Europe in the twenty-first century'.

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
"Immigration is a hotly-debated topic in many countries around the world. We examine how immigration-related political elite discourses affect natives’ attitudes towards immigration & how these discourses contribute to polarisation along political & socio-economic dimensions."
Analysis draws upon strong evidence from "longitudinal cross-national data from the European Social Survey over 18 years & a genuine within-country estimator for both country-level main effects & cross-level interactions, controlling for actual immigration".
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#TikTok is failing to crack down on accounts that post content featuring banned misogynist, Andrew Tate.

Videos posted included Tate saying “virgins are the only acceptable thing to marry”, & women who don't want children are “miserable stupid bitches”.

theguardian.com/technology/202…
Many social media accounts on a range of platforms promote 'toxic masculinity', commonly referred to as the “manosphere”, which offers unhappy unfulfilled men a sense of belonging - it also overlaps with the return & rise of far-right ideology & activism.

Tate's dangerously irresponsible & profoundly misogynistic online grift 'academy' is called 'Hustler’s University' – a moneymaking scheme aimed at young men – encourages users to post videos of him to generate referrals.
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Donald Trump, like Suella Braverman & Priti Patel, relentlessly used the extreme metaphor of "invasion" to describe immigration to the USA.

Across 64 campaign rallies between 2017-2019, he referred to immigration as an invasion on 19 occasions.

eu.usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
Extreme metaphors such as "invasion" enact images of an aggressive incursion by a foreign enemy force. They are mobilised deliberately, are offensive, inflammatory &/or derogatory, & as a result, are controversial & contested, & capable of being rejected.

theconversation.com/suella-braverm…
Extreme metaphors such as "invasion" - especially when used by politicians - may attract critical media attention, as Suella Braverman's repeated use of the provocative & divisive term has done recently.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/n…
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