{"id":74433,"date":"2024-03-02T06:47:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T06:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=74433"},"modified":"2024-03-02T06:47:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T06:47:05","slug":"what-happens-when-the-prime-minister-thinks-that-the-electorate-are-extremists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/03\/02\/what-happens-when-the-prime-minister-thinks-that-the-electorate-are-extremists\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens when the Prime Minister thinks that the electorate are extremists?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I posted this thread in Twitter last night:<\/p>\n

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\n\"\"\"\"I then followed up with this:<\/p>\n

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I am not sure that there is much to add barring these observations.<\/p>\n

Sunak will not call out Braverman\u2019s racism.<\/p>\n

Or Anderson\u2019s Islamophobia.<\/p>\n

He won\u2019t even describe Islamophobia as such, but will use the term anti-Semitism at any moment, often inappropriately.<\/p>\n

He still claims the public wants his Rwanda policy which will punish people guilty of nothing except having fled other countries in fear.<\/p>\n

His rhetoric on small boats is intended to create division, mistrust and fear in society, and is succeeding in doing so.<\/p>\n

He will not condemn Netanyahu for \u00a0genocide, which British policy is supporting.<\/p>\n

And he is the person whose laws are already denying the right to protest whilst also denying the right to justify protest by stating the reason for it when being tried for the crime of, for example, waking slowly.<\/p>\n

This is not a man who can talk about unity, reconciliation or common values when his modus operandi is to create \u2018others\u2019 to vilify.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I posted this thread in Twitter last night: I then followed up with this: I am not sure that there is much to add barring
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