Carole Cadwalladr, "My ongoing frustration with Nigel Farage he is seen as this English figure, wears tweed, goes to the pub, we see him through this lens"
"He has received almost no journalistic scrutiny throughout his entire career till very recently"
"He's not that cuddle cosy golf club English pub figure"
"He is in a relationship with the US far right and with the European pro-Kremlin far right"
"What happened in Brexit, we saw that money that force that influence, those networks coming together"
"It was the first real political campaign in the UK run through these online platforms"
"They ran a mock, blasted through electoral law, data law, and we're living with the consequences of that"
"Our constitution changes, the shape of Europe changed, our national security changed"
"And here is Nigel Farage in this pole position now, to potentially take power and we're not understanding the consequences of that"
"If you look at what Trump is doing in the US, the way he had a plan of what to do in office"
"Farage is now working with the same people"
"There is going to be an all out assault in the same way on the rule of law and our institutions"
Zack Polanski, "It's already happening"
Carole Cadwalladr, "The stakes of that are unfelt by most people, it's an abstract"
"We have to see what is happening in America and learn those lessons"
@bensmith81@cujimmy345977@supertanskiii Try this explainer. Mostly on the UK, but the US is also implicated, as is the establishment of any country. Just a few percent tax on offshore a/cs would go a long way towards taking the burden off their workers & the States that educate & maintain them.
https://t.co/xt4sqhO6xF
We are 6 months in and these are the results we are already seeing.
Don’t let anyone distract you with false narratives of failure, they just want you to ignore the facts.
The country is already doing better under Labour and will continue to do so.
Immigration is not the reason that you can’t get a hospital appointment, it’s the reason you can get one.
Please repost for all the people who can’t seem to grasp that.
So when Trump fires all non-partisan career professionals in government, replaces them with radical loyalists within every nook and cranny of the US government, and adds radical judges everywhere.
And every one of you that voted for him finally wake up from your fucked up fantasy just like the folks that woke up after 4 years of the last shit show, only to realize it’s much much worse, and much more permanent, this time.
When the cancer you caused has infected every bit of the American system and it can’t be unwound for a lifetime.
What then?
Do you beg this country for forgiveness for choosing fascism because you were conned into believing your eggs are too expensive because of Joe Biden?
You just put Steve Bannon in charge of American policy.
You just put Michael Flynn in charge of our military.
You just put Alex Jones in charge of media and propaganda.
You just put Stephen Miller in charge of immigration policy.
You just put batshit crazy RFK Jr. in charge of health policy.
You just killed free public education and privatized schools, which you will have to pay for.
You just sealed the deal on a national abortion ban, because you’re demented if you think it’s not coming.
You just radicalized the Supreme Court for a generation.
You just made women less safe and less free.
You just made this country an oligarchy with the billionaires quite literally in charge now.
You just put in office the one person that believes a president is a king, with the fucking Supreme Court ruling to prove it in his back pocket!
You just ushered in Fascism.
Because your cereal costs more.
Congratulations.
I now want to look in more detail at Jenrick's nasty propaganda video.
It starts with a few examples of cases to make people angry. But those examples are in fact irrelevant to the case he is trying to make.
Jenrick has been an Immigration minister. He must know that the main problem with illegal or irregular migration is that when a person comes here and claims asylum, they may get it as a bona fide refugee in which case they can stay. That has nothing to do with the ECHR. It is a consequence of our domestic law and the Refugee Convention. He makes no suggestion we should leave it.
For those whose application is refused the main problem is that it is very difficult to return them to their countries of origin which will often not co-operate particularly if documents have been destroyed.
So leaving the ECHR will have minimal impact on the problem he claims to be addressing.