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May 2 7 tweets 2 min read Read on X
The racist double standards of our media & political ruling class laid bare this week like never before:

A hysterical response to a frightening crime where Muslim victim is ignored to allow Jewish victims to be used to justify attacks on the Greens & anti-genocide protesters.
Zack’s Jewishness maligned & even weaponised against him in shameful attacks by often non-Jews dedicated to defending a foreign state from accountability for war crimes over community cohesion in the uk.

Even when Reform supporters aim Nazi salutes at him he gets no words of support.
And while the front pages of our media use this moment to attack the Green Party, we all see how Tommy Robinson’s marches aren’t branded “hate marches”

We all saw the recent disorder in Epsom studiously ignored.

Clearly actually racist thugs have “legitimate concerns” of course
The fact is, Reform & “hitler was right” Farage get a pass the Greens don’t as they’re no threat to power & privilege.

The Greens represent a real threat: they want to make the rich pay up so the rest can have a decent life. That’s the threat that requires such transparent double standards.
This story shows it all up. A dangerous willingness of our rulers to use any means, crush all our rights, to maintain their wealth & power.

The clear double standards & political interventions from senior police officers is maybe the most obvious, & most dangerous part of it.
And what’s fascinating is how the narrative that’s been concocted has spread around the world media - all the way to Australia where the apparently false terror attack framing has dominated news.

The global rich & billionaire international media owners have each other’s backs.
Within all this, just like when women’s safety is cynically used to promote racism against immigrants, the actual victims become a footnote to the story.

The traumatised folks left in the wake of a whirlwind of political posturing & vested interests.
My thoughts are with them.

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Feb 21
Reform’s Matt Goodwin’s having an absolute mare this week:

😬Accused of sexual harassment
🤑Apparently receiving a dodgy £10k/month salary from Russia
🫤Now it emerges his numbers just didn’t add up in his academic position at a right wing think tank…
These accusations do NOT come, as he likes to claim, entirely from the left -

The Times quotes the right wing think tank he worked for to confirm they pulled his report as it needed a total methodological overhaul.

The woman who accused him of harassment worked at GBNEWS.
The Russian money is probably most concerning.

Given the potential for reputational damage there, you know he would be threatening to sue the place down if it wasn’t true but I must’ve missed it if he has?
I assume @hopenothate did their due diligence.

Overall, the man stinks.
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Mar 8, 2025
Cutting benefits payments *specifically* for people deemed unable to work due to illness or disability is a genuinely shocking choice from Labour.

Aside from the incredibly obvious moral horror of it, it shows how our economy is set up all wrong. #r4today
I don’t know about you, I want to live in a country that generously supports people unable to work.

People with disabilities, the long-term sick, single parents, etc - none should live in poverty. They should be able to depend on the state for a good quality of life #r4today
People who are *in* work though?

No. I don’t want to live in a country where we have to generously support those on low pay. I want to live in a country where work pays.

I don’t want to support able working people to pay their bills, I want affordable bills for all. #r4today
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Feb 12, 2025
On denying refugees citizenship, I’m choosing my words carefully.

It’s cynical.

This issue was pushed on GBNews the last weeks, because the new Borders Bill actually repealed unused Tory legislation that imposed the requirement to remove anyone who arrives irregularly. #r4today
So I see this as a direct appeal to GBNews & anti-migrant voters, & all the anger it provokes from us is intended to achieve that desired effect.

In short, this is exactly what the Tories did:
They are not pretending to be decent, they WANT to be seen as cruel. #r4today
The political class has decided that that’s what you do to win.

You punish refugees whose homes are dangerous.
You damage integration & weaken communities.
You trash commitments under the Refugee Convention (which explicitly bans this).

Labour’s fully joined the club. #r4today
Read 4 tweets
Jan 9, 2025
Forgive me but I still just cannot claim to understand the farmers’ complaint.

“I have lots of valuable land worth millions & one day my kids might have to pay tax on that” 😱😱

Yes. Like the bloody rest of us.
(Or rather at half the rate of the rest of us but yknow) #r4today
There are plenty of ways I agree we should support farmers,.
Tackling vulture capitalist supermarkets squeezing them for one.
But maintaining tax exempt status, especially for what I see as one of the most under-taxed areas there is, inheritance, is just not one of them.
#r4today
Supermarkets are a huge problem.

They force farmers to sell to them at rock bottom prices, while hiking up prices for all us at the other end to astronomical levels.

While supermarket profits soar, you know we’re just being pitched against one another by the rich again #r4today
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Oct 25, 2024
BREAKING NEWS!!

Smugglers store small boats!!!
In a WAREHOUSE!!!

Now why WOULDNT that be the headline story on #r4today? What could possibly matter more than the continued manufacture of a sense of threat over small boats? 🙄
They’ll find another boat if you confiscate this one
Just imagine if every time we hear this nonsense they also specified:

“Asylum seekers are left destitute in France & routinely harassed & abused by police.
They have no other way to reach asylum in the UK than with smugglers.” #r4today
If you think instead of raiding German warehouses we should be creating safe ways for Europe to share responsibility for migration,

Join us TOMORROW to call for safe routes & an end to racist hate on our streets!
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Aug 21, 2024
Yvette Cooper’s borders announcement today is a betrayal of everyone who voted for change.

Ten days since racists attacked asylum seekers & mosques & today Labour announce they’re ramping up the failed narrative that we can just get rid of the people we don’t want here. #r4today
Over last decades we vastly increased immigration detention capacity.

More & more people locked up, while we try to get rid of them, although in most cases we don’t do that.

They experience that brutality. We pay the immense cost. And what changes?
Absolutely nothing. #r4today
Nothing from Labour suggests they will address either

1. the causes of irregular arrivals (the lack of safe alternative routes)

Or 2. the failures of our visa system that results in people who come on visas losing their regular status & working without authorisation
#r4today
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