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Robin K

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  1. What the headlines don't tell you:

    👉 Numbers much lower than the Tory peak

    👉 Spending on hotels has dropped significantly

    👉 Applications are being processed faster

    https://www.thenational.scot/news/25408148.uk-media-gone-big-asylum-seeker-hotel-figures/

    IT was interesting to see the huge headlines spread across mainstream news this morning about the 8 rise in the number of asylum seekers in hotels…

    How UK media outlets help to promote Nigel Farage's agenda

    IT was interesting to see the huge headlines spread across mainstream news this morning about the 8 rise in the number of asylum seekers in hotels…

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  2. After 800 people attended across 8 protests on Friday, up to 2000 across a dozen modest protests on Saturday, "UK braces for more protests" is an absurd headline

    Largest protests & counter so far this weekend well below 500 people (but a much larger Gaza protest on Friday night mostly unreported)

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  3. Low interest rates after 2008 failed to achieve any real growth or increase in living standards in the UK.

    If we stopped obsessing over rates, we might see how the resources are distributed – and how it's this that's holding our economy back, not monetary policy.

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