Every day this Summer has been a record of how Nigel Farage already runs the country.
An endless cycle of hate & racism. One day boat arrivals, the next releasing ethnicity data for crimes, so we can know whether to riot if they’re brown or shrug if they’re white.
Back to the 70s🤦♀️ #r4today
Little Hitler is loving keeping the country divided!
Worse than the 70s. I can't recall the media effectively endorsing the National Front back then.
#FarageRiots for the $Money...
If that nice Mr Farage ran the country everyday would be wonderful. Skies would be blue, birds would sing, bread would always fall butter side up, everyone would win the lottery and live happily ever after.
Very true,the battle lines are drawn for the next election ìt will be based on boat crossings and all sides out biding each other on more and more out landish ideas that won't work .As for releasing ethnic identity,I can see it now .. a mob forms then shout goes out "he,s white lads so no worries "
Looks like these bastards won after all! 😕
Folks who don’t, or can’t, think for themselves are always directed to focus on something that may seem perilous to them - real or imaginary (generally imaginary). Politicians know that and count on getting those votes by focusing on imaginary threats. Reference: TRump, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin
Absolutely spot on . Every day there is online news about white brits harming children and women. Surprisingly the hate mongers and bots are very quiet on the chat responses.
Tiny silver lining. With idiots like Rupert Lowe ranting about charity rowers as well as asylum seekers, at least the racist vote is fractured...
Exactly - can you imagine a bunch of dribbling Farage supporters rioting when a white man commits a rape or child abuse? No, because they’ll only fill themselves with Stella and chuck bricks when the alleged offender is brown… 😒
That rumbling noise you can hear is the WW2 veterans turning in their graves.
You need to have a Karen Bass (mayor of Los Angeles) type to push back. Or Gavin Newsome (CA Gov) or a Mamdani (candidate for NYC Mayor). We need many more of them too.
And every time, Starmer falls for the bait. ... You do not beat populists by adopting their narrative and thinking you can do better. You beat them by creating a different narrative that speaks to people's hopes and intellects rather than their fears and gullibility.
Nigel Farage is the reason we got brexit, and now he's complaining Starmer isnt doing enough about the EU making border crossings more restrictive.
I'm beginning to think that the government agreeing with him on practically everything isn't going to make him less influential.
Precisely this, complete with the oil companies partaking in economic blackmail, we have nearly every element that was there in the 70's.
They'll use the ethnicity data to cherrypick and use it to justify more violence for sake of "protecting the kids", even if they traumatize kids in the hotels.
Absolute National horror and rage when there’s a rumour of a sexual attack by a brown migrant. When there’s an actual rape perpetrated by a white man, nothing, barely makes the local news. Racism is the way for Nigel to gain power and he’s using it “bigly” following his mate Trump who is an expert.
Same playbook in the US.
The ethnicity thing might backfire when they see how many middle white nonces there are
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He is a toxic little man. A real stirrer.
I don't think we're going back to the 70s, I think worse than that.
We have 3 parties in Westminster that are essentially the same.
Farage is supported by a media in desperate need of reform, has his own show on GB"News," is platformed by the others & now has a network of far right, racist,...
Someone needs to be pushing the alternative, and more accurate, explanation for the country being in such a mess - wealth inequality - and push it hard.
Recently read that around 80% of sex crimes in the UK are committed by white men but they don’t want to know that do they. I also wonder how many white British men are overseas committing such crimes…..mmmmm🤔
Wait…What? You too?
The UK is heading towards 1970s Spain Zoe.
Ciaran Martin in 2022 when in Whitehall didn't think the incoming Labour government would be able to cope and would fail due to the mess being just too great.
I didn't really want to believe the English were this fecked but they are. 🙁
Wasn't even this bad in the 70's, they didn't publish ethnicity iirc, but I bet they did in victorian times.
I smile and wave at a procession of pensioners driving into town every morning, but seethe inwardly realising they’re all buying their daily propaganda (& the ones not on the road are probably drinking in hate from the BBC)
Still, at least these proud patriots are bravely defending us against the twin scourges of [Checks Notes] Scouts and Pediatricians...
Very true. Starmer is playing F's game instead of buying his own.
You would have been proud of me on LBC this morning chick.
I don’t understand why his and Jenrick’s rhetoric isn’t illegal. They plant the seeds of hatred, are given space to water them regularly and are nurtured by the manure (there is a more suitable word!) from right wing media.
From my distant perch the only responses I can see to this from the government are "He's right, but..." and "He's right, and...". I'm so very tired.
I long for the day he makes headlines like Kissinger:
Infrequently, and occasionally delightful.
Back to the 70s without the affordable housing 😩
The only way to stop Farage is to turn him off, or to block those who speak about him, including the left wingers joining in, thinking they are helping, bc they are also making things worse!
Someone is going to have to close down the internet and social media. Tech will destroy us otherwise
Every time someone is arrested protesting about immigration, I want to know if they've ever been reported or charged for assault or domestic violence.
The worst aspect of Reform is they have no tangible solutions to anything.
Should be an open goal then for the Greens and the Sultana Corbyn party next election
Always follow the money with Farage - who should be in prison for the hateful division he causes. Reform Ltd is all about making more money for himself and his r/wing donors & climate change deniers. They're misogynists, homophobic, racists and un Christian liars. Just like Trump's fascist regime
Even the 70s weren't this bad!
Vance, Farage and Jenrick are even now locked away in a mansion trying to summon the spirit of Oswald Mosley on a Ouija board.
He's been desperate for some riots.
Should the police announce the ethnicity of a person who has been arrested? No! We should stop this collective insanity. How the police police cannot be determined by the actions of people who incite riots or riot. Why isn’t NF being investigated under Prevent? He’s radicalising people.
There was a relentless spouting of racism on the radio yesterday. Reform woman on LBC defining asylum seekers in the most negative possible terms. Zero challenge to this. It’s radicalisation.
All 3 main parties are dog whistling to the bigots, including Starmer
Isn't it also the case that R4 is manafactuering the environment ripe for the likes of Farage to take over?
Although the 70s were not like this.
We're heading towards a cesspit of hatred
Correct me if I'm wrong but .. The right (only?) want to divide and discriminate and persecute
The left want equality
Maybe just my world view
But I don't recall any inclusivity from farage, tramp, Robinson, badenoch, Kendrick etc etc etc
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Labour and Liberals need to get a better communications team. If you run the media, you run the country, and at the moment, it's Reform in the driving seat.
Yeah, absolutely feels like a return to the 70s. Having lived through that era, I find it horrifying that we're headed back that way.
Farage and his little gang of bigots would be the people I would proscribe.
Mobs of people intimidating the innocent seem much more like terrorists to me.
It’s a world conspiracy. Allegedly Good leaders and their families threatened until they resign or leave. Our bills are the highest because of the thick bastards that vote for the right, Racist hooligans and ex services with their huge pensions are their to continue the crushing of the 99%
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Ridiculous since white Brits have been going where they're not wanted for centuries.
Fluently !
Farage doesn't run things. The people 'running' Farage & his like are Legatum Institute, Tufton Street, etc. -- backed by their billionaire VC offshore oligarchs who also directly fund the media/political lobby.
Here's a research study from 2018, which, post Brexit, people didn't want to hear:
It’s worse than the 70’s
Well said👏
I see very very bad days ahead, that's for sure ☝️
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Talking about the 70s, Enoch Powell was big in that decade.
Farage was a close personal friend of Enoch Powell. In fact his chauffeur.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
A member of the Church of England’s safeguarding team passed the former Wolverhampton West MP’s name to police on the instruction of Bishop Paul Butler
The playbook:
Far right win.
He doesn't care about the people, he only cares about Money.
Today with Farage Start The Week with Farage Book Of The Week is Farage's biog Farage's Hour The Farages - an everday tale of racist folk PM with Farage Just A Minute with Farage The Shipping Forecast with Farage hoping it's choppy
"We must reflect Reform voters more" - the BBC
All of the rights of a leader, with none of the responsibility.
I don't remember a Labour government or the media like this in the 70s
It’s reminiscent of the 70s, yep. But with all the added momentum of an additional 50years of activity and context. And having recently left the EU rather than just having joined it.
Starmer's X account is wall-to-wall about immigration e.g. ⬇️ And I'm not even copying-and-pasting the responses e.g., "too little too late" 🤮
This is worse than the 70s - much more hatred has been stirred up than there was then. Much more organised thanks to social media 😫
NewsCorp media? They've lost ground in Australia. Maybe trying to claw some back in UK.
FARtAGE misread the history books if he thinks tHUGGERY was legalised on 20 April '68 when Powell opened the sewage pipes.
It's much worse than the Seventies from that point of view.
BBC is complicit, constantly promoting Re-form PLC. In my opinion, Tim Davie is in breach of contract for failing to ensure impartiality.Re-form is not only racist but in the pay of the fossil fuel companies. Need to press for an inquiry into ƁBC impartiality.
Walked past this recently and Jackie Kay's words should resonate with all of us as Farage and DeformUK trigger and push for disharmony and societal fragmentation to set white people on brown people...in our multicultural society.
Justin Webb: 'Some of whom are granted asylum'. Thought of the Day guy: 'Many of whom are granted asylum'.
the media has been complicit.
... without the upside of cheap housing, well paid secure jobs and mass unionisation.
We fought them in the 70s and won. We can do it again.
As bad as it is, I think Farage as PM would be worse, you only have to look at the sight of troops on American streets and ICE just disappearing people willy nilly at what awaits the UK if we elect a Reform government.
But it is bad. WTF is Starmer trying to achieve with this "centrism"?
Yep, the 70s are back.....
Zoe, I think you mean back to the 30's! Some things I see in threads. Is very similar to Nazi Germany. They are feeding hatred and it's a worry. I already see comments about making camps!
Whilst there's still 4 years or so till the next election, I've got a sinking feeling that he's already won it.
We've already got an idea of how disastrous it would be, thanks to America - only Farage and his "team" will add extra incompetence to the experience.
It's going to be horrific.
I was so sick of it this morning I switched over to Ferrari on LBC. BIG MISTAKE.
One hopes the “sensible” voters will be aware of how the hate narrative unfolds when such pseudo-politicians taste Power ….
Back to the 70s?
I was there we had not vile far right wing ReformUK even the Tory Party were not as far right wing and racists as they are now.
Not back to the 70s at all.
30s
Very sad isn't it - the bigots are winning
And yet the media keep flagellating themselves to say 'We're not doing enough to represent the views of the Reform voter!'
He is a disgrace to his role as an MP. Why do the media love him? Be aware the media is run by oligarchs, they want us to watch Farage rather than the wealthy with big percentage of the country’s wealth.
And the coward Starmer capitulates on every one.
If only thick people could hold their pathetic, ignorant racism in check, the country might be a bit nicer
It never really spilled over beyond the usual suspects outside grim hotels, a few sausages short of a Wetherspoons Full English, so seems to have been in vain. Thankfully.
Over the past few years it does seem to have become a regular Summer thing.
Genuinely terrified by that there won’t be any effective pushback against this sort of thing until it’s too late & the UK starts to look like Trump’s post-democratic America.
Labour should be fighting for its life against this sort of shit, the way the Democrat’s didn’t.
Sadly I don’t think there’s any other option then to adopt this method, ( Labour) we could do what the Democrats did against MAGA Trump and say that everything is perfect, or take into account the horrendous defeat they suffered resulting in what we see now in America, there’s a stark choice .
It's exhausting. This unending torrent fuelling resentment and racial division is only interrupted for cruel hitting down on the poorest (today UC claimants who aren't able to work).
Where are the voices in govt who will actually challenge the narrative and defend the most vulnerable?
Our sliding doors moment. What is the parallel universe like?
This is accurate & depressing 😕
As a former police comms person I hope that they will make a separate judgment on each case (as they do now) to ensure that they do not create additional risk to individuals or public order etc.
Well it works for Trump, Zoe. Endless chaos and psycho-drama. No idea as to how to move the country forward but no-one hears that amid all the noise.
Fascism being shoved down our throats like we are Foie Gras Ducks. The Powers that be ultimately love a bit of fascism, it appeals to the establishment on many fronts. Until we rise up and start chopping heads of course, which at this rate, isnt that far off. One hopes.
Also back to the seventies in the sense that I didn't listen to R4 back then and have stopped doing so now.
The citizens will vote for that garbage and then complain!
I trust this swings both ways eg.
“Darren, 39, white, was remanded in court…”
