Now that we have concluded the important business of censuring footballers for upsetting the governing party, can we perhaps focus some critical attention on the immoral, unworkable and (by the government’s own boastful admission) probably unlawful Illegal Migration Bill?
This is what right-wing demagogues have done through history.
When a country is in the grip of social crisis - when a society is unable to meet the basic needs of its citizens - they try to redirect our fury on to desperate people fleeing foreign lands.
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