Ex Colchester Mayor says we need Auschwitz camp minus the ovens.

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AIBU to say this is disgusting? www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/25312634.colchester-figure-says-need-auschwitz-camp-minus-ovens/

The Union Jack? I thought the thing that people stereotyped was the St George’s flag

Exactly - Reform are also recruiting a lot of young men and teens to be councillors.

Speaking as a native British person (our immigration was generations ago - phew!), I feel it is really important always to take a step back and see the bigger picture.

If the issue is that people feel they are being given an unfair deal, I can understand that.

But globalisation, neo-liberalism, billionaires, tax breaks etc etc all play a massive part in what has happened to society over the last fifty years.

Where is the outrage on those issues?

I believe in firm, clear, fair, enforced laws on immigration, which allow us all to thrive.

I don't believe in dehumanising people and scapegoating them - there are dangerous precedents we should heed.

It's a good question, and you'll probably be delighted to know that I haven't got an answer. I suppose it should be those who are ethnically British. What percentage of your DNA must be white British to be white British? I don't know.

I can see I've touched a lot of nerves in my comments. But when you see the place you grew up in with huge swarms of migrants who aren't integrating, it's a massive, massive problem. This is why people are upset.

Of course you are not being unreasonable. It is a shockingly offensive comment.

I don't know if her family is involved, but the far right has jumped on it.

There’s that dehumanising language again “swarms”.

“Dehumanising migrants, by referring to them as a ‘swarm’ or ‘invasion’, is a tactic to forget a person’s humanity and a means to seek support for harmful policies or measures”

https://migrantsrights.org.uk/projects/wordsmatter/invasion-swarm-influx-threat/Invasion, swarm, influx, threat… - Migrants' Rights Network

Your use of language is very telling.

Remember Holocaust survivor Joan Salter confronting Braverman over her use of 'swarm'

"When I hear you using words against refugees like 'swarms' and an 'invasion', I am reminded of the language used to dehumanise and justify the murder of my family and millions of others.

"Why do you find the need to use that kind of language?"

"Swarms". Lovely language to use about your fellow humans.

"Ethnically British"

There is no such ethnicity as British🤣so it won't show up on DNA tests.

Currently 14% don’t find the idea of Auschwitz camp disgusting.

MN has a swarm of invaders throwing out their love.

Not the brightest is he

Well, I suppose that does show that MN doesn't have as many Reform/Lee Anderson types as the general population, which is probably a good thing (polling currently puts them around 30%).

She wasn’t celebrating being English- she was celebrating being British - the school have admitted it was wrong and apologised

is that your only example?

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Step forward to the front of the class, bright spark 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾!

Our DNA is made up of centuries of immigrants by the way

What a vile arsehole.

Tories Macht Twats Councillor. Stick that over the door.

Same on my local Facebook group. 'The good old days', 'Don't recognize my town any more' etc. etc. Really winds me up.

You have implied that the 12-year-old girl and her family are involved;

'when she gives her speech in London on Sep 13th'
'There is a Tommy Robinson rally that day.'

The BBC article reports that the girl has been invited to give her speech at the school, not a Tommy Robinson rally. If you are not sure of your facts you should ask for your post to be withdrawn.

Absolutely.

@morefamiliar Perhaps they're emboldened by the growth of Reform. Feels like something really dark is brewing.

Yep. The Nazis, and many before and since, started by telling people how broken their society is, stirred people up, then encouraged them to blame other people, usually the weak or outsiders. Cue exclusion, persecution and killing.

I honestly want to scream at potential Reform voters to wake up and understand this very simple lesson from history.

Unless Farage tacks further to the centre, leaving vile individuals like Lee Anderson and co. behind, it will happen here. I just hope Farage has the sense and moral intelligence to do this, unlike some of his fellow Reform MPs.

The fundraising is a fact

Has the 12-year-old girl been booked to give a speech in London Sep 13?

He seems to have been an Independent Councillor - originally a Lib Dem, although some years ago.