Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London & author of The Conservative Party after Brexit: Turmoil and Transformation (now out in paperback). The bits and pieces I do for websites and newspapers turn up eventually at https://proftimbale.com
Tim Bale
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'This afternoon, Farage argued most of the protesters [sic!!!!!] in Belfast were “not far-right, were not extremists, just really scared about what’s going on in their communities and about the lack of government action.” He accepted there were also “some very, very bad actors doing bad things.”' 🙄
Unlikely to make a blind bit of difference to those orchestrating and whipping up the violence, but good on them anyway.
Was it worth it? Southampton sentences.
Andrew Summerhayes (2 year-old daughter): 3 years, 2 months
Dillon Crawford (partner is expecting his third child): 3 years
Taylor Grundy (cries continuously in the dock after being sentenced, as do his parents): 2.5 years
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...).
“Last night we had really racist pogroms, or attempted pogroms, on the streets of Belfast.”
Matthew O'Toole tells @lewisgoodall.com of having to drive children, whose homes were set on fire during the Belfast protests, to places of shelter.
“I’m not sure that experience will leave me for a while.”
This from @lordashcroft.bsky.social is really rather good on the pros and cons. TL;DR "If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well it were done quickly."
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Possibly time to reconsider the phrase "anti-immigration protesters" tbh www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
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John Swinney has condemned anti-immigration protesters who targeted minorities, as demonstrations over the Belfast stabbing spread to Scotland
27 people made homeless last night in Belfast because rioters burning foreigners out of their homes, minister says - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Carry on Campaigning? Or Brexit as Not-So-Jolly Gents' Japes, plus Wives and Sisters making dinner. I have just done a rough and ready analysis of the 'talking head' contributions to the BBC's 'Brexit: a Very British Civil War'. A short 🧵about this Blokey Affair:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Takeaways here are that Meta lets scams through, but X lets scams through AND has no meaningful system to stop it happening. And the lack of safety for users makes no difference to most of its users.
