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@docrussjackson
Apr 13 • 9 tweets • 3 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
🚨 A former senior minister from Boris Johnson’s Government has finally found a spine & said what is blindingly obvious to all decent people in Britain & beyond, saying Suella Braverman is a “real racist bigot”.

Well said.
theguardian.com/world/2023/apr…
“Sunak needs to build upon foundations we already have – stop the culture wars & create change. But his inaction shows how insecure he is in his own ability.”

The criticism reflects widespread anger felt by many Tories about Braverman’s frequent use of racially charged language. Image
Earlier this month, the home secretary misled voters by falsely claiming that so-called "grooming gangs" were almost entirely made up of British Pakistani men, whom she said “hold cultural attitudes completely incompatible with British values”.
And last November there was an outcry after Suella Braverman used grotesque & emphatically far-right framing & rhetoric when she said that the small boats crossing the Channel amounted to an “invasion” of migrants.

“Suella’s comments pander to the unpleasant base instinct of a small section of the British population,” the former minister said.

“She’s not stupid, she believes she has a licence to say these things because she’s not white. But all her language does is exacerbate hatred.”
UK Govt Ministers using deliberately fearmongering far-right rhetoric is horrific, inflammatory, & dangerously irresponsible. But when your entire political strategy is 'divide & rule' using misdirection, demonisation, & scapegoating, it's not surprising.

Braverman knows precisely what she's doing. Sunak knows precisely what she's doing, but is too weak &/or cowardly to do anything about it. And voters know precisely what she's doing, but the 29% of the electorate who voted Tory in 2019 don't seem to care.

And what kind of fucked-up politician or authoritarian political party would even consider getting rid of human rights protections - forged in the aftermath of WWII by people including Churchill - explicitly in order to prevent another fascist #Holocaust?

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Apr 8
Well who would have thought that a privileged & often brutalising private school education means a person is twice as likely to become a loyal Conservative voter as someone with a state education, regardless of their wealth or class background?

Everyone?

theguardian.com/education/2023…
Research from 2019 revealed that 41% of Tory MPs (compared to just 14% of Labour MPs) - including liars Rishi Sunak, Boris Johnson, & Suella Braverman - went to fee-paying schools. Image
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Speakers at The Conservative Nationalism Conference (NatCon, London, 13-15 May), include: Braverman; Rees-Mogg; Gove; Emma Webb; Danny Kruger; David Frost; John Hayes; Calvin Robinson; Toby Young; Keven Roberts, president of the free-market Heritage Foundation, & more. Image
You may not be aware of Tory MP Danny Kruger - perhaps better known as Prue Leith's hard-right son - but the malign extremist ideology & influence of this "evangelical Christian" should not be underestimated.

While the sponsors list for London 2023 has yet to be released, the main sponsors of previous events have included Republican billionaire 'libertarian' mega donor Peter Thiel, owner of big data and surveillance company Palantir.

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Apr 6
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#Britain is becoming a brutal, regressive, intolerant, hard-right, antidemocratic, authoritarian state, run by Christo-xenophobic nationalists, who represent powerful corporate interests. Their cheerleaders meet in London in May.

What's their strategy & ultimate goal?
In London, from 13 -15 May, every swivel-eyed hard-right reality-denying divisive free-market culture-war-fuelling Christo-nationalist authoritarian individual & organisation you've ever heard of gather for The Conservative Nationalism Conference, NatCon.

bylinetimes.com/2023/04/05/sue…
The attendees read like a 'who's who' of every awful individual & organisation I've written a thread about over the last decade, & it's awash with representatives from every dangerous free-market 'think tank', from the Heritage Foundation to the #TuftonStreet lobbyists. Image
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Apr 5
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Where did the term “grooming gangs” come from?

The concept & use of the term 'grooming' first emerged in relation to child sexual abuse in late 1970s USA, with growing recognition of child sexual abuse & exploitation perpetrated by 'extrafamilial' acquaintances.
The word 'grooming' has been around for a long time, applied to a wide variety of human behaviours & activities.

But in the context of child sexual abuse, the term generally refers to specific techniques used by some child abusers to gain access to & control over their victims.
The techniques a child sex abuser employs are mostly influenced by the relationship between the offender & the victim.

Although 'acquaintance child sex abusers' are sometimes violent, to avoid discovery, they tend to control their victims primarily through the grooming process.
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Apr 5
On 3rd of February, 2021, MPs debated ill-defined so-called "Grooming Gangs" in Parliament.

MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi warned of the dangers of spreading falsehoods which are "exploited by the far-right to create racist divisions in our society, perpetuating myths & stereotypes". Image
Braverman’s claims about “grooming gangs” go beyond dog whistles & into overt racism. She asserts perpetrators are “almost all British-Pakistani” & reduces victims to “overwhelmingly white girls from disadvantaged or troubled backgrounds”, contradicting Home Office findings. ImageImageImageImage
A 2020 Home Office report concluded such “group-based CSE (child sexual exploitation) offenders are most commonly white”, while victims come from many backgrounds, & include boys. It found no reliable, generalisable evidence of ethnic disproportionality.

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Apr 5
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Far-right activist James Allchurch, described as a supporter of Adolf Hitler, has been found guilty on ten counts of distributing audio material to stir up racial hatred over a two-year period through a “highly racist & antisemitic” podcast station called 'Radio Aryan'. Image
But where would anyone in Britain get the impression that it's OK to stir up racial hatred or use antisemitic tropes & conspiracy theories? Surely no-one in the media or public eye - nor God-forbid anyone in Government - would fuel racism or antisemitism?

The jury heard how the charges relate to audio files uploaded between 17 May 2019 & 18 March 2021 to a public website called Radio Aryan, later renamed Radio Albion: the content of the episodes is said to be “highly racist & antisemitic”, & “white supremacist in nature”. ImageImage
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