What I'm saying is very simple. Yes, far right agitators are responsible for whipping up the current racist riots. But they couldn't do this if mainstream politicians and the mainstream media, hadn't been pandering to scapegoating minorities for decades, to distract from what the real issue is.
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Stephen Barlow
The current race riots happening in Northern Ireland and the mainland, are not just the result of inflammatory comments, by Farage, Lowe et al.
Mainstream politicians like Keir Starmer, have been pandering to this anti-immigrant rhetoric for decades.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The PM says he "had no idea" the language echoed Enoch Powell's 1968 speech about immigration.
