Tbh as a brown person, I don’t really care at this point what his motives are, what happened to those girls is appalling. I’m getting increasingly pissed off with the attitude of “we need to care more about whether we like the person exposing injustice than the actual injustice itself”. For whatever reason, in this particular thing he’s doing gods work, anyone who’s read anything these women have said about the abuse and torture they suffered would have a bit more sympathy for them rather than the smug, self congratulatory tone we see here.
The behaviour around the match in Birmingham indicates people are still tiptoeing around racial sensitivities. The best way to have a society that is cohesive is if everyone is policed exactly the same. We aren’t there and Labours ridiculous Islamaphobia laws will just make this worse.
I wouldn’t be voting either reform (they initially wanted to remove the 2 child tax credit cap, fundamentally disagree with more welfare expansion) or for respect but I think some of the reactions to either of those parties is hysterical.
Also the way we fund the NHS meeds massive reforms, thats just a fact, the current system is sucking up money and not delivering. Something has to change there.
People keep saying WC people are being suckered by reform yet Labour has broken many a manifesto promise or sprung stuff that wasn’t in the manifesto. If anyones a sucker here it’s anyone who voted for Labour…right?