Investigating institutional racism and Islamophobia in the Conservative Party.
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You know when a Tory councillor gets exposed for racism in the media, and the Tories suspend them and say “See? We take immediate action!”
This is what happens next, every single time:
metro.co.uk/2019/11/21/conse…
Hi @JamesCleverly!
Hello @JamesCleverly!
Excuse me, @JamesCleverly!
Oi, @JamesCleverly!
Please, @JamesCleverly
How many Islamophobia complaints has the party received in total?
How many members have been expelled?
@JamesCleverly?
@JamesCleverly..?
@JamesCleverly..?!
Boris Johnson always tells us to "believe in Britain", but apparently he's not talking about the parts of Britain that are single parents, or young, or Nigerian, or gay, or girly, or Muslim, or poor.
"Believe in rich white men" might be a better slogan for him.
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Hi @JamesCleverly.
Unfortunately your colleague hadn’t apprised himself of the relevant facts here. Maybe you can tell us:
How many Islamophobia complaints has the party received in total?
How many members have been expelled?
I have two concerns about Dominic Cummings’ blog post today.
1. As a special adviser, he’s strictly forbidden from GE campaigning.
2. It’s the kind of alarmist ALL CAPS!! rant you’d normally find in UKIP-aligned Facebook groups.
Still pushing this weird “first/one bounce” line, which is provably false.
Please, interviewers: the facts on this are well-documented. Don’t let this become another of his big lies, oft-repeated.
Baroness Warsi’s words about @michaelgove in the Guardian today are absolutely stunning. We should all be terrified of that man.
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This brilliant article shines a new light on Islamophobia within the @Conservatives, and it's absolutely damning. No one can read this and credibly deny the scale and severity of the issue:
theguardian.com/politics/201…
2/ Huge respect, as ever, to @SayeedaWarsi, @SHKMEP, @Mohammed_Amin, @Kishan_Devani and @KyleBPedley for speaking out, and to @murphy_simon for giving the issue the broader look that it deserves.
The plus side to the Tory boycott of Channel 4 News is that decent reporters like @C4Ciaran have no privileged access to lose, which means they're actually able to do their job properly. Journalists SHOULD be heckling from the sidelines, not having cosy chats with their pals.
Where “elements” = the Prime Minister, various cabinet members, countless backbench MPs and councillors, both former and current mayoral candidates, and ~60% of the membership, according to polling.
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In response to the concerns of Islamophobia in the Conservative Party raised by @MuslimCouncil, Mr Boris Johnson said: "...if anybody is done for Islamophobia or any other prejudice or discrimination in the Conservative Party they are out first bounce"
Let's test that, shall we?
No one ever asks, but it would be so interesting to hear Javid & co say whether they’d be defending Johnson’s comments if they’d been mocking the appearance of Sikhs, Rastafarians or Orthodox Jewish people.
I already know the answer, but I’d love to hear them say it.
The Chancellor Sajid Javid hits out over anti-semitism in @UKLabour - but tells @NinaWarhurst that Boris Johnson has nothing to apologise for over comments comparing Muslim women in burkhas to "letterboxes"
Go on, Cllr @CrusaderIan.- tell us more about these “foreign owned shops”, and why you thought the ownership of the shops was worth mentioning in a tweet that was supposedly about illegal parking?
Hi @IsabelHardman.
You’re the assistant editor of the @Spectator, a magazine that peddles racist and Islamophobic tropes on a weekly basis. If you find racism upsetting, maybe look for a new job.
I feel like I've read something about people who come for the socialists first...
Weird. Last year, Karl McCartney tweeted that Tommy Robinson was in prison because the Conservative government had "made it illegal to report on Muslim paedophiles".
Now he's saying that the Conservatives have "always focused on keeping our streets safe".
Which is it, Karl?
In the last couple of weeks there have been racism scandals about two Tory GE candidates and 35 sitting and former councillors.
Chairman @JamesCleverly is yet to comment on any of them, but happily tweeting about everything else.
It’s like he doesn’t give a fuck about his job.
