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David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 9h

'Hate has no place in our country. My piece in today's Sunday Express.'

Get. To. Fuck.

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 9h

That’s the line and by Christ, they are sticking to it come hell or high water. Let’s see whether it’ll work as well on e.g. Italian police arresting them at a holiday villa outside Rimini in 2033.

Bridget Phillipson * @bphillipso... 3h g
Hate has no place in our universities or our country.
Antisemitism must be rooted out of our society.
Our education system must play its part in keeping us free from fear and free from hate.
My piece in today's Sunday Express

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 1d

This is what is often missed, harsher immigration policies lead to more homelessness. Labour's reduction of the move on period for refugees, extending visa routes etc etc will cause more homelessness. It's an inevitable outcome, which then feeds the far right narrative of migrants being a "burden".

Big Issue @bigissue.com · 1d

Homelessness will remain a prevalent issue in the UK as long as the government fails to recognise the link between it and immigration laws

Labour must recognise the link between homelessness and immigration

www.bigissue.com

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David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 1d

Surely being obsessed with what's in strangers' pants is a bit odd?

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David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 2d

Why block left-wing candidates from Parliamentary selection? Why exclude left-wing journalists- and only left-wing journalists- from your conference?

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David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 2d

So, what are the misery porn deportation videos for? Why are they proposing to make it harder to achieve settlement and citizenship? Why don't they scrap the NRPF condition? Why no safe, legal asylum routes? Why talk about immigration causing 'incalculable damage'?

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David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 2d

Let's not even think what might happen if you took paracetamol after your circumcision...

Tyler @tyler.bsky.social · 3d

need all the neurotypical kings in my DMs rn

David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 2d

I'd fight you for it

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David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 2d

Wild that you think anyone's job is to 'find out', rather than it being Labour's job to communicate anything beyond 'we love flags, we hate immigrants and we hate the left, and if you don't like it you can fuck off'.

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David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 3d

Band claims not to be fascist. Band goes on to parrot pure fascist talking points.

David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 3d

'Characters'.

And other words beginning with the letter 'C'.

Stephen Graves @stephengraves.co.uk · 3d

Well, I can tell you what their policy on dating your sister is. bsky.app/profile/leit...

LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 3d

Charles Amos is the legalise incest guy. Insane they didn't do due diligence. www.thetimes.com/article/8c9a...

David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 3d

Robert Jenrick got me thinking about violence.

In more ways than one...

Hatred Babylon brings...

Birmingham, culture wars and violence.

smallbrookringpiece.substack.com

David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 4d

We've not met, mate, but for what it's worth i'm very glad you're here. X

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 4d

This is the correct energy. Rapid and withering response. British politicians too often cower before a voracious press. You have to go at them as hard as they go at you.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d

My secret evil plot to ‘destroy Britain’ has been unveiled by (checks notes) the same paper that endorsed Liz Truss.

If I don’t know better I’d say we’ve got them entirely rattled.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Greens who want to save the world by destroying Britain.

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 4d

Shameless bullying by odious little tin soldier Jenrick of people who just want to serve the public.

This shouldn’t be worth taking seriously ofc, bar the manifest risk that our politics will now dissolve into an auction over how many judges each party promises to sack.

A few points & a warning 1/

Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 4d

Top Tory names judges he would sack for bias bit.ly/3KE7cBY some have allowed immigrants to stay in the UK for reasons Robert Jenrick disapproves of. He wants Ministers to appoint (and sack) judges. But top judge Sumption warns this could lead to an authoritarian state

Robert Jenrick names judges he would sack for ‘pro-migrant bias’

The shadow justice secretary has accused ‘activists’ within the judiciary of having links to political causes that compromise their independence

bit.ly

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David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 4d

So refreshing to see someone calling these shitrags what they are.

A$AP Choppy @chops8592.bsky.social · 4d

Any leader on the left needs the spine to fight back against the rags as they ramp up the smear machine. Zack has it, together with a solid media strategy that can counter their nonsense

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d

I'm never actually going to need to write another comment piece again am I?

The right wing shit rags are just going to keep recruiting for us.

Folks - want a better country?

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 5d

No, Corbyn was an example. And yes, as with Johnson, they'd have found a way to protect their asset, just as they did with Farage. Until he becomes *too* embarrassing and must be kicked to death, as, again, with Johnson.

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David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 5d

Let's imagine for a second what might have happened if, say, Jeremy Corbyn had been discovered getting paid an 80 quid fee for sending some lad a birthday message saying 'up the RA'. Do you think we would *ever* be allowed to forget?

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David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 5d

I don't recall suggesting that anyone knew nothing about any of those things, but cheers.

David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 5d

He could act the clown. Otherwise, meh. 🤷‍♀️

David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 5d

I deny it. It's essentially what happened with Johnson. Everyone with the microphones decided to tell us he was the most hilarious, epochal, maverick in the history, even though they knew it was bollocks, and that we've all met, and subsequently avoided, 100 identical rugger bugger bellends.

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Joseph Evans @josephevans.bsky.social · 5d

The politics of migration have shifted so far to the extreme right, the Conservatives and Reform now have a more hardline policy on deporting legal British residents than... the British National Party did in 2005

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 6d

David is slightly unfair. There is a clear difference here.

Conservatives and Reform plan to forcibly expel large numbers of people who are legal, permanent residents of migrant origin. The BNP proposal is voluntary.

David Herdson @davidherdson.bsky.social · 6d

This below is from the 2005 BNP manifesto.

Spot the difference with current Tory and Reform policy.

(p14 news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp... )

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David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 5d

Terrorist attacks happen because black people ask Robert Jenrick to explain himself.

Seriously. In any decent political culture, he'd be stripped of his post.

Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 5d

The most pathetic figure in British politics.

That is the closest to a balanced, scientific description of Robert Jenrick there is.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 5d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 5d

I honestly think if I was Robert Jenrick, I'd regard every time I stepped out of the house without getting punched in the face as a gift from God, never mind all this kvetching about the complexions of the people ignoring me.

Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 6d

Sorry to bring everything back to what I heard in the pub 15-20 years ago, but what Jenrick said is exactly what I'd hear in the pub 15-20 years ago. You couldn't mention Bradford without someone saying "Bradistan", or "Spot the white man". None of this is new, it's an orchestrated dropping of masks

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6d

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 5d

What should happen: National revulsion, hounded out of public life

What will happen: New set design for Sky News as three very, very right wing parties fight out The Deportation Election

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David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 5d

Fucking tuuuune!

This came on when I was walking to Centrala t'other day: had to rewind it three times.

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