Step 2: Prosecute social media companies which fail to stop incitement to racial hatred, violence and riot.
Step 3: Treat orchestrated far right violence against asylum seekers and immigrants as terrorism. Because that is what it is.
The Northern Ireland secretary, Hilary Benn, says βif you are targeting people on the basis of the colour of their skin how else can you describe them? That is racist thuggeryβ. True. But there is also another apt term which he and the rest of the Cabinet should be using. Terrorism.
The government must treat this as the emergency it is. Our sovereignty, democracy, and the lives of some of those who live here are threatened by a deadly combination of US billionaires, Russian interests and homegrown fascists. Step 1: Get the money out of politics.π§΅
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