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Mar 22 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
While the Govt & press focus almost exclusively on asylum seekers, UK inflation has unexpectedly jumped to 10.4%.

Food & non-alcoholic drink inflation jumped to a 45-year high of 18.2% in the year to February 2023, up from 16.8% in January.

#CostOfLivingCrisis #SunlitUplands💩
More than 2M people have been contacted by bailiffs during the #CostOfLivingCrisis. The majority who came into contact with a debt collector reported feeling harassed or intimidated.

Bailiffs added £250M in fees to people’s debts in the past 18 months.

theguardian.com/business/2023/…
The cost of detaining & accommodating people under the UK Govt’s barbaric immigration plans could amount to more than £9bn in the first three years.

More than 250K people, including up to 45K children, could have their asylum claims deemed inadmissible.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/m…
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"To me the danger is that we’ll use our technology to become mutually unintelligible or to become insane if you like, in a way that we aren’t acting with enough understanding and self-interest to survive, and we die through insanity, essentially.”

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The MET is STILL institutionally racist. In February a UN working group wrote to the UK Govt to express “very extreme concern” about its failure to address “structural, institutional & systemic racism” against people of African descent in Britain.
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#ToryBritain

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In the damning interim findings that concluded a 10-day fact-finding mission, the experts also called for an immediate moratorium on the use of strip searches during stop & searches by police.

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The young woman with mental health problems asked by an assessor: “Why haven’t you killed yourself yet?”

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

#ToryBritain

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Institutional racism is that which, covertly or overtly, resides in the policies, procedures, operations & culture of public or private institutions – reinforcing any individual prejudices that may exist at a conscious or un/subconscious level.
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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