Thread 4 Starmer: Fighting back with brooms and community.

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Absolutely awful statement from Farage, but i wouldnt expect any better from.him.

Some good people are popping up on the Farage thread.

What a lovely thing to do @cardibach

Great tweet @HannibalHeyes

I am going to try to stay off t'interwebs today. I have decorating to do! Have a lovely day everyone and remember that there are more of us then there are of them.

A recall of Parliament? Is he actually planning on going there and doing his job then?

House!

It reads like he got chatGTP to write it.

Has he been to Clacton recently?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/04/conservatives-left-uk-wide-open-to-far-right-violence-says-former-adviser

The Conservative government left the UK wide open to the far-right violence erupting across parts of the country by ignoring red flags and stoking fires with a culture war agenda, a senior adviser on extremism to Tory prime ministers has said.

“Conservatives left UK wide open to far-right violence, says former adviser, Dame Sara Khan, who was Rishi Sunak’s independent adviser for social cohesion and resilience until May this year and acted as counter-extremism commissioner under Theresa May”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/04/conservatives-left-uk-wide-open-to-far-right-violence-says-former-adviser?CMP=share_btn_url

What a weekend. Awful, awful sights. I've spent far too long looking at it and now I just feel.. horrified.. that things have got to this. People who I thought were good people, friends even, spouting the most awful, racist things.

We're going to see a Tudor house today, i plan to sit in a knot garden and read my book and just try to switch off from it all for a bit.

I had a feeling this would be useful when someone flagged it on Twitter yesterday. Starmer’s response to the BLM protests in case anyone needs it.

Cometh the hour, cometh…. Priti Patel?

She is on the money. My god. Is she our ticket out of this episode by making people see that to be right wing isn’t to give tacit support to Reform?

Well, Patel has certainly recognised that the rule of law appeals to Conservative voters.

Something Jenrick overlooked. Anyone else read that Jenrick said he'd vote for Trump - free pass for rape & sexual assault then.

She is the only candidate so far to appeal to the broader Tory base

Morning! What a weird alternate universe we’ve arrived in when Ms Patel appears the reasonable, moderate one!😂

Dan Hodges is talking a lot of sense as well

She knows very well it seems that alternative is the “white English driver” test that has been applied in Middlesbrough.

Did think I might be hallucinating when I read Patel’s response to Farage’s statement.

Not sure I like this awakening of the Tory party to reality. If they start being this sensible and aware they might get back in again.

It’s good if they do. We need to bring back discussion into the mainstream. That means a Conservative Party that does not stoke racial tensions and believes in the rule of law.

What's she said?

I guess Hodges & Patel coming out of this well might show reform’s problem. Lots of people might have a negative view about immigration or be racist but there is a line that they won’t cross. And you can’t appeal to them and the people that burn down libraries or drag brown people out of cars.

It’s a more right wing version of the issue the Tories have. They can appeal to the reform end of their party but when they do the centre and moderate right stop voting for them and either don’t vote or vote lib/lab/green.

I’m going to concentrate on the Olympics today. I had a little tear at all the people going to clear up in Middlesbrough.

Priti Patel strongly criticises Nigel Farage’s comments on “two-tier policing” — some of the loudest condemnation of Farage from a senior politician so far

https://x.com/alexwickham/status/1820372750638239989

Just because we need to inject a small amount of humour.

We all need to remember that we are the backstop here.

Just idly contemplating, really, but what does it say about the UK that it can take months - maybe years - to get to see a medical specialist while you can be seen by a court in under 24 hours ?

Maybe whoever runs the courts should run the NHS ?

Nah Priti, stop making me agree with you