paulgalley.bsky.social
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...when people's othering, hatred and hostility didn't need the distraction of incomers but could focus on our very own traditional *British* rivalries between local family & neighbourhood cliques, whose young men would be able to thrash out their historical resentments on the nearest bombsite
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Starmer's "Island of Strangers" speech echoed the utterings of right wing MP Enoch Powell, who entered Parliament way back in 1950... Hurrah! We'll soon be able to return to the good old days our grandparents told us about...
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...when people's othering, hatred and hostility didn't need the distraction of incomers but could focus on our very own traditional *British* rivalries between local family & neighbourhood cliques, whose young men would be able to thrash out their historical resentments on the nearest bombsite
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Starmer's "Island of Strangers" speech echoed the utterings of right wing MP Enoch Powell, who entered Parliament way back in 1950... Hurrah! We'll soon be able to return to the good old days our grandparents told us about...
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A BIG welcome to the UK JMS
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Trump's US may be evoking fearful memories of 1940's Germany but if history is repeating itself we should first consider a US return to its own 19c political animosities and civil war. A real fear when remembering that US deaths from mass shootings mask a far higher no. killed in daily gun crimes.