"For Britain to withdraw from Europe would be to retire into "an old people's home for fading nations...I do not even think it would be a comfortable or agreeable old people's home. I do not much like the look of some of the prospective wardens".(Jenkins)
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It's a small thing but if Starmer and the UK Govt won't even leave the white supremacist propaganda platform, there's little help for them breaking with white supremacy anywhere else.
A UK governing party unwilling to use the force of the law to crack down on internal as well as external threats to democratic institutions will look weak to its friends as much as its enemies
I find myself wondering how Oswald Mosley or even Nick Griffin would have fared with the full weight of Twitter’s owner & all the social media algorithms & engineering on their side…
Condemning riots isn't enough. We need policy action, including an immediate appraisal of X as a vehicle for coordinating far-right disorder. And we need political leadership, to challenge white nationalism as an idea, not to validate it daily and then complain when it turns violent.
The Far Right riot in Belfast last night was nothing less than “a race-based pogrom”, Belfast MP and leader of the SDLP Claire Hanna said.
The mob hunted down non-whites and set fire to their homes.
Carl Whyte, a local councillor, called it “a hard Far Right element”.
