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Jeff Humm

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Retired TEFL teacher, translator, teaching assistant.

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 32m
After the Green Party's "Zionism is Racism" vote, the Leader of Haringey Council, controlled by the Greens, wrote to some Synagogues in the borough to "reassure" them. I want to show you Highgate Synagogue's reply. I believe it is worth reading in its entirety. www.jewishnews.co.uk/synagogue-re...
Dear Mark Thank you for your emails to us. We take it from both the tone and the content of your email that you are deeply embarrassed with the decision taken by your party to not only brand Zionism as racism but to call for the eradication by any means necessary including violence, of the only Jewish state, the only practising democracy in the Middle East, and also home to half of the world’s Jewish population.  We are not surprised you are embarrassed. The policy decision which has not just been endorsed by but was publicly celebrated by the Haringey branch of the Green Party, of which we assume you are a member, is thus aligning itself with Hamas, a genocidal, homophobic and misogynistic Islamist terrorist organisation not only responsible for the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, but countless murders and torture of its own people. You may not be aware that members of our synagogue have close relatives and friends who perished in that pogrom - of which today is the third anniversary - not to mention other horrendous terrorist atrocities carried out in the name of the resistance that your party supports. We also adopted Emily Damari, a British Israeli hostage who was kidnapped by Hamas from her home at Kibbutz Kfar Aza, suffered terribly at the hands of her Hamas jailers and had to keep her sexual orientation secret from her kidnappers or else would have been murdered, along with 87 others including the Bibas children, four year old Arieh and nine month old Kfir who were killed in cold blood for the sole crime of being Jewish children born in their ancestral homeland.  Our synagogue along with the majority of British synagogues recites weekly Sabbath prayers for both the Royal Family of the United Kingdom and the State of Israel and will continue to do so, irrespective of what you or other Green Party members think. 

 Love of Zion and a hope to be able to return to live in our ancestral homeland is integral to all streams of Judaism, as, it so happens,Earlier this year we hosted at Highgate Synagogue a noted Palestinian campaigner Ahmed Fouad AlKhatib who lost more than 30 family members in Gaza. He told a packed synagogue - and it was really packed -- how he as a Gazan and a Palestinian believed that Hamas had brought nothing but disaster on the Palestinian people, and that those keffiyeh wearing sympathizers in the West who cheer for Hamas are doing more harm than good.   He was no shill for Israel or its Prime Minister, but he at least acknowledged the attachment of Jews to this land, and the fact that non-Jews in Israel have rights that no-one, certainly not Jews or Christians, let alone Muslims can aspire to anywhere else in the Middle East. So no, we don’t accept your assurances that we are safe under your watch. You may see no connection between the ceaseless vilification of Israel, the blood libels that you and your party regularly trot out, and the hostility to Jews in this country, but we do. If this motion does not mean that Jews in Haringey who have family or friends in Israel, or who attend our synagogue, or who maybe aren’t religious but believe that there is a place for a haven for the tattered remnant of the most persecuted race on earth, are considered by you and your party as racists and by implication fair game for ostracism, intimidation, violence or worse, please explain to us what else it means. And if that is indeed what it means, and we are pretty sure that those who voted for it believe that is precisely what it means, how can we as Jews feel safe when the largest party of the borough we live in, entirely peacefully up to now, publicly align yourself with the most virulent jew-hating racists of all, Hamas and the Nazis. As it is, despite living in one of the most peaceful and crime free parts of the borough, we have had as a synagogue to invest substantial sums in building terrorism-proof fences round our premises, and employ both volunteers and professional security with stab vests to enSo your embarrassment is not enough. If you really want us to feel you do not agree with the racist and genocidal implications of your party’s policy, the least we can expect is for you to publicly resile yourself from that policy and commit yourself and your party colleagues to reverse that policy and to educate themselves about the realities of the Middle East conflict, and about Jewish life, before you pronounce on these matters with such unshakeable certainty again.  Yours sincerely,
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Parody Zack Polanski @parodyzackpolanski.bsky.social · 2h
Sober and considered analysis from Ian Dunt here. He's bang on the money. "It’s time for Polanski to fuck off now" iandunt.substack.com/p/holborn-an...
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Holborn and St Pancras byelection: Polanski is an utter failure
Some disparate thoughts on a terrible week for the Greens.
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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 11h
Good luck to Chris in continuing to bring his electoral magic to the Greens… between hotel stays where he spends all night Googling where the bed's undersheet was manufactured and phoning reception at 3am to ask where their breakfast orange juice comes from.
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 19h
If you wondered whether Mothin Ali was really stupid enough to share a tweet from someone calling themselves "Libby Tarde" (ie. Lib Tard), talking about how they had "travelled all the way from Bristol" to "vote" in the "by-erection", I can tell you that yes, he apparently is.
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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 07/10/2026
Germany's right-wing AfD and left-wing BSW are preparing their first joint resolution in Saxony-Anhalt, calling for an end to military aid to Ukraine, the removal of sanctions on Russia, and the restoration of economic ties. meduza.io/en/news/2026...
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Germany’s far-right AfD and left-wing populist BSW party now hold a majority in an eastern state parliament. Their first joint proposal: End aid to Ukraine and restore ties with Russia. — Meduza
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and the left-wing populist Union for Social Justice plan to pass their first joint resolution soon, calling for an end to military aid to Ukraine,…
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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I hate this so much. The BBC should be providing good quality, good value programmes that the private market won't cover. You and Yours (which I kind of hate), Thinking Allowed and Free Thinking are exactly the sort of programming that the BBC is i) good at, ii) not haemorrhaging money to make.
bbc.co.uk
BBC to cut raft of Radio 4 programmes including You and Yours
The corporation said it would be investing in a new consumer programme, while announcing more cuts.
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Bob From Brockley @bobfrombrockley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
…A small sample of the ghouls who denied Assad’s chemical weapon crimes, smeared civilian first responders, and amplified the testimony of a child obtained under duress
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Bob From Brockley @bobfrombrockley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
… as Chloe notes, this disinformation campaign didn’t just involve Kremlin state broadcasters;  it was actively promoted by conspiracy theorists in Western Europe and North America, such as David Miller, Peter Hitchens, Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate.
“It wasn't just Kremlin outlets doing the amplifying. In the UK, professors, retired military officers and former diplomats - people whose credentials lent an air of authority - helped launder the disinformation too, sharing clips of the press conference on "alternative" media as proof the west had made it up. It fed a broader
"anti-imperialist" story: that Assad was being smeared for daring to defy Washington and London. And it left behind an argument that still circulates today: that the OPCW was a corrupted, western-controlled institution. This narrative was anchored by one image that did more work than any of the diplomatic language around it: a child, alone at a conference table, telling the world the attack had never happened.”
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Dave Hill @davehillonlondon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Forwarded to me by a friend who live close by, leaflets today put through letterboxes of homes close to HQ of Board of Deputies of British Jews, located in Camden, which was the target of a demo. Case study intimidation and viciousness of a very specific kind.
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Philip Murray @philipmurray.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sometimes all we can do is speak out. I've written to each of my Green Party councillors, asking them to denounce the racism of their party.
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Hughstergeist @hughster.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Grimly humorous watching the Greens' victorious Zionism is Racism proposers leading a chant of "free, free Palestine" for the media before a comrade behind segués into "say it loud, say it clear, Zionists are not welcome here" & their body language screams "shhh, not now, the cameras are here"
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Hughstergeist @hughster.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Full Lubna Speitan clip from OP. Transcript: "We will continue until we dismantle Zionism, from every country, from every place, they will be shunned. And inshallah that time will come…when they are hunted in the same way as the Nazi[s] were … We will obtain freedom. It won't happen without force"
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
To keep track, the proposer of the Green's "Zionism is Racism" motion: - Wants Hamas de-proscribed - Said that God willing, a time will come when Zionists "are hunted in the same way as Nazis...We will retake freedom, it won't happen without force" - And this - www.jewishnews.co.uk/zionism-is-r...
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'Zionism is Racism' motion creator described as 'close friend' of Al Qaeda terrorist - Jewish News
Lubna Speitan confirmed she is still close to Minh Quang Pham, who plotted to murder hundreds at Heathrow airport, claiming that he had been "demonised"
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"I've agreed we should spend £10bn of taxpayers' money on this thing, no I don't know what it is or how it works, why would you expect me to know what it is or how it works?"
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A free 2000 word post on the sad irrelevant history of the 'Zionism is racism' debate davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/the-anti-z...
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The anti-Zionism of fools
On the Corbynising of the Green party
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"I'm not a defence expert." Even by Kemi Badenoch's lamentable standards, this is agonising. Just give thanks she will never, ever be Prime Minister. 🙏 #politicslive
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There's a student pro-Palestine demonstration in Central London on **October 7th** 🙃🙃🙃https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwkg5220l577o
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Met Police urge pro-Palestine students to move 7 October protest
The Met said it had tried to contact the University of London Coalition to postpone its protest.
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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Aaaaannnndddd Zack is liking tweets telling people who oppose the Zionism is Racism motion 'sometimes things don't go your way' and 'to move on'. Right.
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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What I suspect has happened is that they've run out of bombs, and there's no point in forward deploying your most expensive aircraft if there's nothing to hang on them. It'll suit the USAF to cite "security concerns" at Fairford, rather than say their magazine's empty or their logistics are shit.-
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Francis Sedgemore @hesgen.com · 05/10/2026
@daverich1.bsky.social reminds us that the author of the Green Party's antisemitic "Zionism is racism" policy has said that synagogues should be "confronted". Does this mean that my own house of worship, located in a Green stronghold, will be forced to tighten security even further?
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The Green Party descends into disgrace
As expected, the Green Party has today passed its motion declaring Zionism to be racism, and calling for Israel to be replaced by a single state of Palestine.
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 04/10/2026
Also, shame on Polanski for skipping voting on the motion. Complete abdication of leadership; pure cowardice www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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Polanski to skip ‘Zionism is Racism’ vote
Greens leader due to be on campaign trail in London when contentious motion is debated in Brighton
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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I see a lot of people complaining about the undoubtedly stressful conditions at present on London's roads. But I see few people complaining about motor vehicles. Yet in the last 24 hours three vulnerable road users have died after being hit by people driving motor vehicles.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 16/09/2026
I'm sorry, but what on *Earth* is that quote from Lisa Nandy? Who does Labour think its voters are? Does anyone in the party have any kind of theory of how they win the next election that isn't just slammjng the "appease racists" button over and over again until it starts working?
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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
£72 million will buy Reform a limitless number of targeted social media ads, not to mention billboards, battlebuses, personally addressed voter letters & all the more traditional means of delivering lies to voters. A potentially extinction-level threat to democracy in the UK.
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Luke Turner @luketurner.com · 12/09/2026
As Ben Delo's record £36m Reform donation is headline news, I can't emphasise enough that the media ought to be reporting on Delo's heinous funding of antisemitic conspiracy theorists in the High Court – anonymous contributors to the horrifying neo-Nazi account shown below. bsky.app/profile/luke...
A sample of neo-Nazi posts by the @ParallaxOptics account, displaying grotesque antisemitic caricatures and violent Jew hate.The @ParallaxOptics account's banner image depicting Adolf Hitler.Post by @ParallaxOptics of an article anonymously written by Nina Power and Daniel Miller: ON CULTS II "If we're proposing the the Left is a cult, the first question is what do cults want in general?"
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I'm feeling very dejected. Andrew is right. Nobody won anything.
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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 11/09/2026
The pedestrian detectors can "kill humans when focusing on a target,” say sad mad conspiracy theorists. But then, FFS, the journalist writes: “However, the medical and technological claims made by the group have not been independently established and remain allegations made by the Blade Runners.”
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 10/09/2026
What is this comment from the Labour MP? No, the issue here isn't that the attempted pogrom had the wrong targets!
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 10/09/2026
HOPE not hate can conclusively prove that Stephen Lennon AKA Tommy Robinson’s business empire has been built on fraudulent means, tax evasion, and perjury. This is a long one. Strap in.🧵 hopenothate.org.uk/the-grift/
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The Grift
Stephen Lennon, or Tommy Robinson as he is better known, has amassed a multimillion pound fortune by monetising hate and fear. But, as HOPE not hate can conclusively prove, his business empire has bee...
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's good that this story is getting attention, but it would be equally outrageous if the people whose doors were being hammered on actually were asylum seekers. It's not just a problem because they're international cricketers. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Group entered hotel of Pakistan cricketers mistaken for migrants
Protesters congregated at a Portsmouth hotel after false rumours that a coach of migrants had arrived.
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
JFC, this hideous horror really isn't hiding it at all now, is he
Going through Heathrow today, there wasn’t one white face in security or airport services. The Home office is staffed by the type of people we are trying to keep out! What hope?
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am the very model of a modern day typographer I know the type tonalities from elegant to jocular I am a master tracker and my kerning is harmonical I know the sacred swatches and can name the hues Pantonical (Full version of Modern Day Typographer now on my YouTube channel)
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Modern Day Typographer - Elle Cordova
YouTube video by Elle Cordova
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Raluca Terry-Enescu @ralucahippie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Also something deeply satisfying - and potentially quite effective about "Hey bigots and fash, wanna be assholes to a charity? Guess what - they're now getting an uptick in support and resources, enjoy!"
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Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Robert Jenrick Says Reform Supporter Who Attacked Woman At Party Conference 'Should Get A Medal' www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/robert...
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Robert Jenrick Says Reform Supporter Who Attacked Woman At Party Conference 'Should Get A Medal'
He previously said the heckler should “get a life”.
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Apparently organising black shirts to block key infrastructure, target the RNLI, attack police etc is not enough for anyone in power to act urgently. Begs the awful question as to what would it take for anyone to condemn this, never mind act.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I don't even think the issue is of 'skewed perceptions of balance'. On any policy issue, the frame, post-Brexit, is 'let's just cover this as a horse race', and on race and identity, 'let's have a heated debate between two poles!' is the default approach.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Daniel Thomas / Danny Tommo has today marched his private army of blackshorts to Daily Mail HQ to demand a new house for his mum within 48 hrs, after they doorstepped her for a feature on him. Apparently he plans to blockade them + cry at them until they do Bet those lads are glad of the balaclavas
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 09/09/2026
RNLI volunteers put themselves in harm’s way to save lives. They should never face abuse or threats for doing so. That includes the crews based on the Thames, who respond to hundreds of incidents every year. They deserve to be thanked, not attacked.
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Abuse of RNLI volunteers 'wholly unacceptable', chief says
Peter Sparkes says there has been "deliberate misinformation" spread about the charity.
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Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 09/09/2026
UNION WIN! London bus drivers to get air conditioning! Following negotiations between Unite, Mayor Sadiq Khan and TFL, air con will be installed in all bus driver cabs by the end of May 2027. During the heatwave cab temperatures could get as high as 40 degrees.
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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
As a non-practising Jew, I find this line of questioning utterly abhorrent. I also fully support Miliband's position. Jews are not a homogeneous bloc and should not be treated as such, it's dehumanising.
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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 08/09/2026
It won’t stop these reprehensible, cowardly pieces of shit attacking the RNLI, but here is a handy link to donate rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 08/09/2026
Make a donation to the RNLI: rnli.org/support-us/g...
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 08/09/2026
Two RNLI volunteers were pictured in Portsmouth this weekend while responding during the Patriot Platform protest. The far right responded by identifying them and branding them “traitors”. This is what the far right’s “peaceful” activism looks like.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 07/09/2026
If only there were some legal term for where 12 or more persons who are present together use or threaten unlawful violence for a common purpose and the conduct of them (taken together) is such as would cause a person of reasonable firmness present at the scene to fear for his personal safety.
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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Your country’s gangs of far-right rioters are Nazis. My country’s gangs of far-right rioters are overly enthusiastic patriots
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Darren Maughan @darrenm1973.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Oh to have a Labour Party that channels both Michael Foot and Denis Healy, the left and the right, to tackle the fascists.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It should not be beyond the wit of government and political communicators to draw a sharp distinction between what this vigilante blackshirt movement is without confusing it with people who believe that Britain should protect refugees in a controlled + better managed way bsky.app/profile/sund...
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
In case you were thinking that Reform might be rowing back on the racist rhetoric. British politics is both dangerous and depressing at the moment. Why are ministers incapable of getting ahead of the narrative on this stuff? These people will never be appeased.
Zia Yusuf

The political class are now giving invaders a police escort to their free hotel on our shores.

In defiance of terrified local people in Portsmouth.

They have every right to be scared and angry.

What kind of a government sacrifices its own people?

And what an insult to the millions who laid down their lives to protect Britain from invasion.

We know the military aged male invaders are much more likely to commit sex offences than British people.

British women and girls have been raped and killed by men who broke into Britain illegally like this.

Some have attempted mass casualty terror attacks on our soil.

The Tories and Labour meet these invaders with a free ferry service, free hotels, and now, incredibly, police escorts to freedom to loiter around our schools.

Literally endangering our women and girls at your expense.

Under a Reform government, invaders will be met by His Majesty's Royal Marines.

Their orders will be to make sure that not a single illegal vessel makes it to our shores.

Prime Minister Farage will declare a national emergency, and all illegal migrants will be detained and deported.

Earlier this year I announced that there will be criminal consequences for civil servants and public servants who aid and abet illegal entry and therefore the rape and murder of British people by illegal migrants.
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