Your home is not cold because of refugees.
Your bills are not high because of refugees.
Your low wages are not because of refugees.
Hate corporate profits. Not people
Robert Peston, "Are the British people wrong to want migration to come down?"
Zack Polanski, "No, they aren't wrong"
"But it's also true they've been pumped stories, negative stories about migration for decades now"
"In fact the Prime Minister Keir Starmer said we're squeamish to talk about migration - it seems to me that we rarely talk about anything else"
Robert Peston, "Sounds as if you're saying the voters are wrong"
Zack Polanski, "No, I'm not"
"It's just that 5% of migration is small boats but it covers 95% of the coverage we hear about"
"We need politicians to tell the public the truth, and to make sure we're winning people over"
"And that the problems in the country are down to multi millionaires and billionaires"
Robert Peston, "Would you bring down controlled legal migration?"
Zack Polanski, "It would be ludicrous to do that, we have for example 150,000 vacancies in the NHS"
"Of course we need to train British workers as well but actually there are huge skills gaps in the green transition and the green economy, where we need to train people up: both British workers and migrants coming here looking for a home"
"I think diversity is one of the best things about this country"
"This country was built on migration. Of course we should celebrate people who were born here but also people who come here and make this their home too"
"I think that's part of being a patriot: a caring and compassionate approach towards others"
"I think that's part of being British"
"Cultural coherence isn't something for politicians to do"
"That's for communities to do"
"We had 14 years of Conservative austerity that's destroyed integration, because we don't have community centres, we don't have arts and culture"
"And we need to do that collectively"
"It's for communities to create social cohesion"
Palestinian veterinarian Mu’ath Abu Rakba’s body was recovered today.
He spent his final years treating hundreds of animals injured & starved by the Israeli siege.
Israel murdered him in a designated “safe zone”.
Support his legacy, Sulala Animal Rescue.
RIP Dr. Mu’ath
The idea that someone would “pose” as a journalist by doing live reporting all day, every day, for two straight years — but is actually secretly a terrorist (when??) — is so stupid it demonstrates how much power Israel believes it has. Their excuse for assassinating a world renowned journalist — and his entire crew! — doesn’t even have to make any sense for them to put it forward. It doesn’t matter what they say, they can kill with impunity and they know it.
In the first instant, this image brought to my mind the displays of shoes of Holocaust victims, here with the victims still in them. I’d post a link but @AuschwitzMuseum blocked me for learning the lessons of history too well and applying them, universally, to Palestinians