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Mar 20 • 3 tweets • 3 min read
Here's the truth about broken #ToryBritain which our cruel Govt & the tax-avoiding billionaire-owned press are deliberately concealing from us, & trying to distract us from with their grotesque & divisive small boat obsession.

Thanks to @BBCRosAtkins & the @BBC #Panorama team.🙏
How many times...

Full clip here.

👏Every.👏Fucking.👏Word.👏

Excellent #Panorama tonight - everyone should watch it.

Much more of this please @BBC. 🙏

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The grandfather with social anxiety who starved to death after missing his assessment and having his benefits stopped.

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That Mark Rowley is STILL refusing to accept the prefix 'institutional' means he is unfit to lead the MET Police - it's insulting to police officers' intelligence to suggest the prefix 'institutional' may be interpreted by them (or anyone) to mean ALL police officers are bigots. Image
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Why do we need to distinguish institutional racism from individual racism?

One significant problem is that individual racial attitudes & stereotyping have often been over-emphasised to the point where the institutional level of racism is ignored.
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#THREAD

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Thirty years! Sorry.
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