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Instead of discussing how Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire, we should talk about how he killed hundreds of thousands of people through his dismantling of food and medical aid to poor countries
https://t.co/8kY171r5w1
Opinion: You might have thought the world’s richest man had enough on his plate teeing up history’s biggest IPO. Yet he has been devoting many of his waking hours to stoking up racial hatred in Britain on his social media site. https://t.co/1C09ebAgPg
You see these scenes from Belfast?
That's our future if Reform, Restore, the Tories, GB News, Elon Musk and the right-wing media get their way.
Except this will be on a much bigger scale.
We have to decide: do we want those inciting hatred to destroy our country?
.@mehdirhasan: "I'm very critical of the msm.. its what you're not doing well that we want to do better"
Frost: "What are we not doing well?"
".. when it comes to the rise of the far right & fascism.. the genocide the Gaza.."
Politicians who fanned these flames should hang their heads in shame.
Time and again we've seen this story play out. Single incidents used to fuel a far right narrative - and communities across the nation paying the price.
“We need independent media in the [UK]... now more than we’ve ever needed it before.”
@mehdirhasan speak with Zeteo UK Politics Editor @ShehabKhan about what’s broken in British journalism, why he left corporate media, and why the UK needs an independent news outlet.
"They're all despicable as far as I'm concerned, and working-class people should turn away from them."
Mick Lynch found himself sat next to Reform's Laila Cunningham on Newsnight on Monday – and had some choice words for the party's mayoral candidate for London.
The former general secretary of the RMT trade union accused Cunningham's party of spreading hatred and "taking advantage of poverty" to protect the super-rich.
Mehdi Hasan on the Belfast attack,
"As far as we know this person was here legally as someone who was approved by the then Conservative government"
"He's from Sudan. Most people would agree people fleeing from Sudan are genuine refugees"
"Whatever your politics we can agree there is a genocide going on in Sudan"
"That doesn't excuse the horrific crime that he committed, obviously"
"But the idea that we suddenly reduce this to illegal immigration"
"And Elon Musk pushing this is absurd, because Musk was an immigrant to the Unites States"
"His own brother claimed that they were both illegal immigrants at one point"
"People exploiting this for political gain.. Making everything about immigration.. Like the murder of Henry Nowak"
"The person who killed Henry Nowak was born in Britain. His father was born in Britain. But that's been made an immigration story as well"
A cursory glance at Reform's policies shows it to be a party of the elites that will only work for its wealthy backers. Not only are they not the party of the working class, but they are trying to actively exploit the working class.
You voted against scrapping zero hour contracts.
You voted against banning fire and rehire.
You voted against day one sick pay for workers.
You said the minimum wage was too high for young people.
Reform politicians openly say they don't like trade unions.
You will always put the interests of your offshore crypto billionaire donors ahead of workers.
Stories I keep hearing about American universities from direct participants are terrifying. Students that get job offers rescinded and the job market completely closed to them because they dared to express distress at the babies killed in Gaza. Systematic repression for the crime of being human