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@docrussjackson
Nov 7, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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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.
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.
Following an interim report on the connections between colonialism & properties in care of the @nationaltrust, Longhi was among the signatories of a letter to The Telegraph from the "Common Sense Group" accusing the National Trust of being "coloured by cultural Marxist dogma".
On 23 August 2021, Prime Minister Boris Johnson appointed free-market extremist & Truss-supporter Longhi as the UK's trade envoy to Bolsonaro's Brazil.

In June, Longhi, in a private message directed to the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, about the #Rwanda asylum plan, said, "Archbishop, as you appear to feel so strongly about this, will you give up two of your palaces for illegal migrants and pay for their accommodation?"
On 1st November, two days after the far-right terrorism attack on a migrant centre by Andrew Leak, Longhi supported the use of the grotesque military metaphor of "invasion" used by Braverman to demonise those crossing the channel, & now he's TPUK's Honorary President... 🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️

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