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Strange to recall that in 1968 William Rees-Mogg’s Times led the way in denouncing Powell and sentiments exactly like this. What a disgraceful moral decline

Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social

Enoch Powell level bile and lies from the Times www.thetimes.com/comment/the-...

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Meanwhile, in Al Jazeera:

"They can start cutting people's faces up. They can stab someone. They can shoot someone." EXCLUSIVE: Our hidden cameras capture the leader of Turning Point UK organising a fake rally for a foreign government and helping arrange a murder-for-hire with loyalist paramilitaries.

Finally watched the ITV documentary about Reform and I found it hard to sleep last night. We used to be better than this. We’re sleepwalking into fascism.

As the alt text says, a * notional * bell curve. Intended to indicate a general drift rightwards over time, no actual number used or implied to be used.

I’ve always felt as these proper old school tories would actually rate ‘class/wealth’ above race and would therefore still prefer an African prince to a working class scumbag such as myself. Only then as a secondary choice might they prefer me to a person of colour from the same poor background.