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🧵1/5 The appalling scenes of xenophobic violence that broke out on June 9 in #Belfast are a frightening reminder of how normalized racism and organized racist violence have become in the UK.
A devastating knife attack should never be used to justify more violence. Human Rights Watch’s thoughts are with all the victims of violence.
The Belfast riot is yet another example that the far right the likes of Farage, Robinson, Lowe, Badenoch etc court don’t just want minorities to leave the country, they want to kill them.
@uk_islamophobia@bigkehoesy This group were passing on messages instructing residents to turn off their CCTV and ring doorbell cameras at 6pm on the night of the race hate riots. Tells you all you need to know. @PoliceServiceNI
Meet Louise Owens.
Carrickfergus. 187 friends. 19K posts.
While Concerned Parents Newtownabbey were organising a protest at Chimney Corner Hotel, she replied:
"Target Mosques, hotels that are housing them."
52 people liked it.
George Finch, the Reform UK leader of Warwickshire County Council, has been accused of bigotry and censorship after suggesting LGBTQ+ books should be removed from local libraries.
But where exactly does this end? Libraries hold books on socialism and capitalism, atheism and every religion under the sun, evolution, the monarchy, and countless other contested ideas. That’s the point of a library: a place where people encounter perspectives that challenge, stretch, and broaden the mind.
Finch is only 19, and it shows. He may simply not have read enough to grasp how books cultivate critical thinking, empathy, and a more informed, more tolerant society.
Who on earth keeps voting for people this determined to stay ignorant?
#ReformUK
John Healey resigns as Defence Secretary over Keir Starmer's lack of defence funding.
He didn't resign over Keir Starmer and the Labour government's arming, intelligence-sharing and enabling of the genocide in Gaza.
Complaining about nightlife when you *checks notes* choose to live in Soho is like living in South Kensington and complaining about the museums. Or moving to Hackney and grumbling about creatives. Living in Richmond and hating green space. It's all getting a bit silly, isn't it?
Train ticket prices in the UK are so bad that you could drive somewhere, get a parking ticket AND still be paying less than you would have for said train ticket
Meet Jade Mitchell.
From Belfast.
Saying:
"This is where should be being burnt out.. illegal immigrant hotels etc."
"If there is factual information of illegals staying here do it."
@NIFRSOFFICIAL