Chris Goodwin

Manchester Uni Unite Branch Sec. Comments my opinion.

[Chris Goodwin @ChrisGoodwin73]

Campaigning against the Tories, and others, doesn't make me a Corbynite, a Blairite or an any'ite', I just want a better place for everyone.

[Chris Goodwin @ChrisGoodwin73]

@AlexBarnicoat_ @wildirishrosie You didn’t mention this one

[Mark Cockerton @CockertonMark]

It's always the easily influenced who are incited to riot and end up ruining their lives. While the instigator gains some political adulation from other gullible idiots and smugly basks in their hero worship, from his private members club.
#FarageRiots
https://t.co/NsfAPjgxp4

[Chris Goodwin @ChrisGoodwin73]

@LeeAndersonMP_ @reformparty_uk Lee, you were a bit silent about this one

[Chris Goodwin @ChrisGoodwin73]

@messedupfoods The restaurant owner should be paying the staff enough to live on without tips

[HUMAN WA$TE @Dplanet]

🚨🇬🇧 ANALYSIS: The police did not fail Henry Nowak because of "anti-white woke training." They failed him because they walked into a crime scene that had already been rewritten for them.

Before officers arrived, Vickrum Digwa's brother had already made the call. And on that call, he built the false reality that the police were about to enter. He told them Henry was the aggressor: drunk, racist, violent. He said Henry had knocked Digwa's turban off and hurled racial slurs. He gave them a tidy story: Henry had climbed the fence by the bins, fallen onto the bonnet of a car, and was now on the ground behind it with facial injuries. He said they were detaining him. On the same call, you can hear him tell a relative: "Don't try to reason with him - the police are coming."

That was the scene the police were sent to. Not the real scene. The scene a lie built.

The operator asked the obvious critical questions. Were there weapons? More than once, the brother said no. What condition was Henry in? The brother admitted he didn't look in good shape, so the operator said he would send an ambulance. The brother thanked him. So picture what officers were dispatched to: a drunk, racist troublemaker who had attacked a Sikh man, knocked his turban off, climbed a fence, fallen, and was now lying on the floor with facial injuries - with no weapon present, confirmed again and again by the caller.

That is why Henry saying "I've been stabbed" was met with: "I don't think you have." They had been told, on the record, that there was nothing to stab him with. If the wounds were not immediately obvious in the dark, at midnight, in December, the lie had already done its work.

Now look at the part people are trying to turn into "woke policing": the fact that officers took the racism allegation seriously. Of course they did. Racially aggravated offences are routine police business. Race is the largest category of hate crime in England and Wales by a distance. The duty to record and act on racially aggravated allegations is not some new ideological fad from a training slide. It comes from the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 and the post-Stephen Lawrence reforms - a legal framework older than many serving officers.

An officer taking that allegation seriously was not obeying "anti-white training." He was doing routine policing under a law that has existed for more than 25 years.

But here is the point Tommy Robinson and the far right need you to miss: race was part of the false story, but it was not the whole mechanism. The police were not simply given a race allegation. They were given an entire crime scene. They were told who the aggressor was. They were told why Henry was injured. They were told there was no weapon. They were told Henry had fallen. They were told Henry was being detained. They arrived to find a man on the ground, in the dark, with visible facial injuries, after the caller had already explained those injuries as the result of a fall.

The far-right version depends on stripping the story down to two racial identities and deleting almost every operational fact: white man says he was stabbed, non-white man says he was attacked, police automatically side with the non-white man. But that is not the sequence. The sequence was: first caller controls the frame, denies the knife, explains the injuries, presents Henry as the threat, and gives police a ready-made interpretation of the scene. Then, when Henry tells the truth, the truth arrives inside a scene already poisoned by the lie.

Strip race out of it entirely and the same lie still works. A self-presenting "victim". A visible prop that appears to support the story. A fabricated fall. A hidden knife. A 999 call denying any weapon existed. A white caller telling police the same story - drunk attacker, no weapon, fall injuries, we're detaining him - could have produced the same failure. The structure of the deception is what did the work.

Race may have given the allegation extra charge. The lie did not need it to work. No diversity policy is required to explain what happened. No grand theory of "anti-white policing" is needed. The caller gave the police a false map, and the officers followed it.

Robinson's claim is bigger than Henry. He tells the world the police are now conditioned to always believe the non-white person, or too frightened of being called racist to ever disbelieve them. That is a claim about the whole system, and it makes a prediction you can test: if it were true, ethnic minorities would be the people who come off best in police encounters.

They do not. They are stopped and searched more, arrested more, and have force used on them more. The Race Action Plan everyone is quoting exists because minorities are over-policed and under-protected - and the barrister who chaired the board that wrote it says the people handcuffed while injured and vulnerable, against the guidelines, are disproportionately people of colour. The exact failure that Henry experienced happens most often to the people Robinson says are being favoured.

A theory that predicts minorities are protected has to ignore a record showing they are treated worst at every measured stage. It survives only by deleting that record - the same way it survives by deleting the 999 call.

None of this clears the officers of what came next. Handcuffing a man who said he couldn't breathe, and the delay in treating him, are real failures - and they are exactly what the inquest will examine. The failure was not that officers were trained to hate white victims. The failure was that they accepted the first story, then failed to properly re-evaluate it when the dying man told them the truth.

That is the honest sequence: the police were lied to, then they failed Henry at the basics.

"Anti-white training made them do it" was never part of the story. That is a political fiction attached onto a tragedy after the fact. It only works if you delete the 999 call, the false fall story, the hidden knife, the repeated denial of weapons, and the caller's control of the narrative.

Henry told them the truth. He had been stabbed. He couldn't breathe. The knife was hidden by the killer's mother. His family helped build the story that made Henry look like the threat. And the police believed them.

[Socialist Opera Singer @OperaSocialist]

If you are being told to "protest" in Belfast but you weren't in Bristol after Alina Burns tried to behead someone, ask yourself "why?"

[aimée 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @sapphyreblayze]

If your response to an innocent man being brutally assaulted is to burn other innocent people out of their homes, you're a fucking monster. It really is that simple.

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

Why are Reform supporters trying to suppress debate about the role their MPs - Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick - had in allowing the Belfast attacker to remain in the UK. Why are they trying to suppress debate about Nigel Farage's failure to condemn last night's violence.

[Chris Goodwin @ChrisGoodwin73]

@ghost_wales No

[Paul Nowak @nowak_paul]

Why doesn’t Farage sit down with a low paid care worker, look them in the eye and tell them the truth.

He voted against a ban on zero hours contracts.

Against sick pay from Day 1.

Against protections from fire & rehire.

He’s not a friend of workers - he’s a political fraud.

[Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @Haggis_UK]

#SkyNews pointing out that Suella Braverman(Reform MP) was Home Secretary & Robert Jenrick(Reform MP) was an immigration minister when the North Belfast attacker was granted leave to remain.

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Someone has forgotten who the Immigration Minister was when this man arrived and was given leave to remain. A certain Mr Jenrick.

[Hildegard Angel Oficial @hilde_angel]

Nem uma única bola rolou no gramado até agora e este é o quadro da COPA 2026:
• As equipes do Senegal e do Uzbequistão foram tratadas na chegada como criminosos, com buscas completas em seus orifícios.
• O melhor árbitro da África foi enviado de volta à Somália, apesar de seu passaporte diplomático.
• O Fotógrafo da equipe do Iraque foi impedido de entrar mesmo com visto válido.
• Foi negada a entrada nos EUA de 90% dos fãs marroquinos com ingressos já adquiridos.
• Foram recusados vistos a 14 membros da equipe de apoio do Irã.
• Foi negada a entrada no país do principal atacante da Suíça, o camaronês Breel Embolo. A equipe viajou sem ele. Após a forte repercussão, o visto foi enfim concedido.
• A equipe iraniana, cujos jogos serão todos nos EUA, foi proibida de pernoitar no país. Imediatamente a após cada partida, os atletas voarão de volta ao México, onde se hospedam.
- Qual é o sentido de sediar a Copa do Mundo se não pretendem que o MUNDO faça parte dela???

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

This is a man who has consistently voted against the interests of working people, time and time again.

[Reform Party UK Exposed 🇬🇧 @reformexposed]

Hi @SuellaBraverman and @RobertJenrick, will you be issuing a statement about the man arrested for the disgusting knife attack in Belfast?

He flew from Paris to Dublin 10.02.2023 and travelled to Belfast where he claimed asylum, his LTR was granted 28.09.2023.

This was when you were Home Secretary and Immigration Minister respectively.

@Nigel_Farage and @reformparty_uk, trust you will be looking in to this.

H/T @dave43law for the research.

[Chris Goodwin @ChrisGoodwin73]

Yusuf needs to have a word with his mates Stella and Jenrick who were Home Secretary and Immigration Minister at the time this person was granted asylum and LTR. Now both with Reform🤷‍♂️

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

4 months ago I announced that a Reform government would impose a TOTAL BAN on visas for anyone from Sudan.

We also announced we would deport all illegal migrants, and abolish Indefinite Leave to Remain.

Prime Minister Farage will reverse the invasion and ensure you no longer have to endure the horrors seen in Belfast today.

[Brendan Cox @MrBrendanCox]

An horrific stabbing in Belfast.

The person responsible must be held to the toughest justice.

In case it’s not obvious - the attacker doesn’t represent Muslims, Sudanese people or refugees any more than he represents all men.

Please keep the blame where it belongs.

[Steve Reed @SteveReedMP]

Great to be out speaking with residents in Streatham with @jade_albas about what matters to them locally and the changes they want to see.

[Chris Goodwin @ChrisGoodwin73]

More lies. Universities don’t hand out visas, that would be the Government after the correct application is made. Chris should know this being in the previous Government 🤷‍♂️

[Chris Philp MP @CPhilpOfficial]

I’ve been calling this out for some time.

Universities are handing out student visas to people with no intention of studying / they just want to get into the UK.

I found London campuses supposedly containing thousands of students in buildings that could only hold a fraction of that number.

https://t.co/pEOpvMyBAD

Video here 👇

[John @john_notabot]

You are unable to drink outside where Douglas lives in the USA