Sunak to make an announcement in Downing Street at 17.40

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Beth Rigby of Sky News says they've been reliably informed it's not going to be about a General Election, so what will it be?

Read between the lines. He was blaming those Muslims.Way to win votes, Rishi.

Knew someone would have a problem with the term dog whistle without actually replying.
So what is he supposed to be reassuring us about?
As it seems to be him and his party doing the stoking up, the trying to divide, and the fear mongering.

Its almost as though saying dog whistle is a dog whistle for some...

True. Although we weren’t brought up thinking those empires were great, whereas that was very much the message around the British empire until really quite recently.

agree totally with yasai and you. Have been on two and what pushed me to go on the first was Bravermann trashing them for her own reasons. My experience of both showed me that yep she was lying.
I fear for folks outside London accepting Rishi's lies as fact as they can't witness them unless involved.
And Starmer is no better.
No fan of Galloway but he was right in calling them two cheeks of the same arse. Tho his language was rather more moderate.
I'd bet my house that Starmer was lapping up Rishi's "speech" - no doubt he's doing a slight slight polishing of it for his own version when he - very probably - wins.
Shame on them both. Beneath contempt.
I will be marching again. May bump into the ex prison service bod I met last week who it turns out has also been on two.
They are peaceful.

really disappointing in your please come to our wonderful peaceful marches - you only blame UK government but don’t call on a Hamas ceasefire or for hostage release. Should we not care about all innocents affected ?

If he had ended his speech with he knows what a woman is, half the people on MN would have ignored everything else he said and would have been running to the next GE to vote for him.

Agree. It’s only on Mumsnet I see people lapping up the protests. I originally lived in London, and many people I know from in and around London are so fed up of people descending on their streets Every. Single. Week. The protests achieve nothing, only to disrupt people just wanting to go about their business. Nothing will change on the back of these protests, because the silent majority don’t agree with them, and Rishi knows that.

People should protest. We should protest more.

Ha, true

That silent majority also doesn't seem to want to vote for Rishi.

https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/prediction_main.html

The silent majority need to find their fucking voices then.

I won’t be voting for Rishi, nor will I vote in Starmer. But I’m one of the silent majority. Why would you think that the silent majority are Tory supporters?

You mean the Muslim community?

All manner of conspiracy theory shite gets predicted on X, I would give this one the same probability as the four horsemen of the apocalypse trotting down my high street tomorrow morning.

Still I get that such conspiracy theories can take on a life of their own.

I think the tide is turning. I definitely hear more people finding their voice now, and being more vocal about the shit that is currently happening in this country. And Rishi actually speaking out will make people feel that they can voice their concerns. I’m no fan of Sunak, but I’m pleased he said what he did.

Of course. It’s the Muslim community who are the most vocal about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict? They are speaking out as many have relatives and friends in Palestine, and want a cease fire. It’s right they have concerns, and Galloway has fed into that by previously making anti Semitic comments, so the community have adopted him as one of their own.

@JessS1990

"That silent majority also doesn't seem to want to vote for Rishi"

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Agreed the silent majority will be backing Starmer who has also come out in agreement with Rishi's speech.

Who the silent majority definitely don't support are people that disrupt their everyday life whether that be Just stop Oil or Pro Palestinian marches or whatever. And they definitely don't want to vote for extremist politicians of either party who they see as anti semitic or Islamophobic.

I'm well into my forties now and was never taught the British Empire was great. In fact, I was barely taught about it at all. My education definitely suggested Britain was a bit crap, when did it change? And at what point do we decide we've spent enough decades attacking Britain that we've made up for those decades that we unreservedly praised Britain, so we can start being more objective about Britain?

And although we aren't stating that those empires are great, we aren't condemning them and we certainly aren't treating them as we do 'our own'; what is happening now in Palestine/Israel is the direct result of many, many empires' actions over several millennia from Romans to Arabs to Ottomans to British. Yet we only hear of the British involvement and ignore the actions of the 'brown' colonisers. Any idea why? I really want to believe it's not because we hold white people to a higher standard than non-white...

It surprises me that the young don't protest more. They have been utterly shafted by low wages, high inflation and impossible house prices.

Does anyone have a link to the speech he made ?

Feb poll, now only 24% of UK people believe that Israel's attack on Gaza after October was justified.
Only 13% polled thought Israel should continue it's military action in Gaza.

The Tory Govt is not representing its public on the Gaza issue. It it is not respecting democracy which is one reason why frustrated people march or vote Galloway.

Galloway supported Saddam, a man who actually tried to commit genocide against kurds and Marsh arabs. He thinks that having sex with a woman while she is sleeping is not actually rape. He is most definitely an anti-semite.

I understand that our MP’s are a shower of shit but he is really scrapping the bottom of the barrel. I mean he really is the skid marks on the pants of humanity. My DH joked that Farage must be fuming that he can’t seem to get elected as an MP but Galloway managed to find useful idiots to elect him as an MP 5 times.

My education definitely suggested Britain was a bit crap, when did it change?

I always got the impression from my education that British Governments were crap, not Britain.