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Nov 17 • 10 tweets • 6 min read
I'll not be watching #bbcqt because it features right-wing "think tank" Policy Exchange's Trevor Philips, who in 2016 said Muslims are 'not like us' & 'we should just accept they will never integrate', & the right-wing Spectator's Kate Andrews, formerly of #TuftonStreet's IEA.
Tommy Robinson loved Trevor Phillips's "Muslims aren't like us" comment, & much of Britain’s "news" media embraced & amplified this divisive crap.

Imagine the response from the national print & broadcast media had ANY public figure said "Jews aren't like us".

#bbcqt
Below is a #bbcqt tweet from 2017. Five years later & Kate Andrews is STILL wheeled out to represent the interests of grotesquely wealthy individuals & corporations who want to kill the #NHS, pay less tax, & remove ALL worker & environmental protections.

During #CPC22, catastrophic Kwasi Kwarteng had "one-on-one conversations" with #TuftonStreet's IEA & TPA at their 'ThinkTent' event.

"Having worked at the IEA for four years, this was the most enthusiastic I’ve seen the ThinkTent about a Chancellor!" - Kate Andrews. 😬
Libertarians should be honest for once, & say what they REALLY want: no welfare; no public sector; no taxes; no consumer, worker, or environmental protections; no food or other standards; no limits on Party funding; no lobbying restrictions; no unions; & no human rights.
#bbcqt
Anyway, bollocks to professional shit-stirrers Kate Andrews & Trevor Philips.

It shames the @BBC that they learned nothing from relentlessly platforming Farage, & it's grotesque that they continue to platform divisive ideological extremists on #bbcqt.

Ffs #bbcqt
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