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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1h

My current understanding is that - Restore have a laissez-faire "no boundaries" policy to all forms of racism - Reform may well sanction/exclude office-holders or members who call for Kemi Badenoch to be deported (though other attacks on her heritage do appear to be allowed, eg Nigerian fraud)

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1h

I am also canvassing views on Restore's approach for my column on the politics of racism + remigration within the right. "Will it help or harm Restore Britain - electorally - to have members + activists campaigning for the deportation of Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch?"

Will it help or harm Restore Britain - electorally - to have members + activists campaigning for the deportation of Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch?

Is this something Restore should adopt & encourage, discourage or exclude, or welcome different views in the party on it?

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1h

Sally Symonds is an Restore member + activist, who tweets that "the Badenoch bounce should be bouncing her back to Yoruba land". (Its still Restore party policy to refuse to have any sanctions or exclusions for any form of racism by party office-holders or party members). She calls "Reform Yookay"

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1h

Mr North on the n-word slur and other racist epithets.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1h

Vlad supports the petition to deport the Conservative leader. He is a Restore Britain member, Free Speech Union member seeking revenge and retribution. But Vlad is v confused: he would not back Restore if they would deport people with ILR or citizenship (They say they will)

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2h

There is a lot of organisation into party branches. Those who see Lowe as a mainstream figure could call this "entryism". However, it is also a conscious Restore Britain decision to allow entryism by refusing to have any policing of membership for extreme views or associations with neo-nazis.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2h

Callum Barker - formerly of Patriotic alternative - would deport Badenoch. He campaigned for Restore Britain in Holborn. He says Restore allowing entryism gives "nationalists the opportunity to, organise, network, graft, and put themselves in a position of power" despite finding Lowe too soft

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2h

Anita supports Britain First's call to deport the Conservative leader. " Rupert Lowe fights for us in Parliament, Tommy fights for us on the Streets" she says, despite disapproving of Robinson's money grifting + support for Israel. She sees Farage as just another Tory who will let migrants in

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2h

Mark supports the Britain First petition to deport the Conservative Party leader. He is a Reform supporter, who believes Farage will be Prime Minister.He wants Lowe to work with Farage. He also worries about Farage undermining Reform by having ethnic minorities in the party, posting racist memes

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2h

Lucy Kelly sees herself as a middle of the road mostly ethno nationalist who is publicly advocating the Britain First campaign for the deportation of the Conservative Party leader. She supports Restore, seeing Reform as too timid on remigration, but would welcome a Farage-Lowe pact if Lowe led

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2h

Robert Stevenson is a Reform and Nigel Farage supporter who backs Britain First's petition to deport Kemi Badenoch. Robert believes that Lowe's Restore is an establishment conspiracy to stop Farage, and wants Farage and Lowe to team up to deport all of the migrants + minorities

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2h

Alan Galloway is a Restore supporter who supports Britain First's call to deport Kemi Badenoch. He regularly promotes Britain First rallies while campaigning for Restore too. x.com/AlanGallowayX1

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2h

This supporter of the Britain First petition identifies as a supporter of Reform *and* Restore

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2h

Restore Britain supporters are sharing Britain First's petition to deport Kemi Badenoch

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2h

The defunct ex-party have 19,000 signatures for the racist petition. They hope for 50k signatures. But they would especially value supporters of the petition outing themselves publicly as racists. "Once you have signed the petition below, be sure to share it using the social media buttons"

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2h

Britain First have an online petition to deport the Conservative party leader "for pretending to be English", saying "At her recent conference speech, Badenoch claimed to be 'English', which is a total lie". (It is actually a lie by Britain First that she claimed to be English herself (!!)

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2h

Paul Golding of the far right Britain First is also occupying a similar trolling space that some pro-Reform voices are advocating

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3h

This is a call for the retrospective execution of politicians and journalists (fantasising about trials after the revolution) Here he has a shared project with the radicalised X site owner Elon Musk on socialising action against "traitors" + preparing for civil war

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3h

The advocacy of violence on X is in plain sight

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3h

James McMurdock MP is often engaged with the most overtly racist accounts available on X

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3h

This Anglo-Reconquista X account claims to be the same person. It advocates 1. Bringing back BIg Time Charlie. Audit minority recruitnent but pivot to something + too 2. Promote Restore as a voting option for remigration 3. Buikd pro-Restore networks that turn to violence if losing electorally

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3h

The range of "traitorbase" activities ought to be explored by the police

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4h

The recruitnent consultant called Rishi Sunak an “invader”, claimed he has “always employed Anglo Saxon men only” and said he “never had friends from other races” (This is a claim to practice systemic unlawful discrimation; excluding all women ss well as minorities). Also donated to Restore

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4h

"Some of us are are trying to work out real solutions to real problems rather than resorting to brain farts" writes Mr North of his plan to ban Ed Miliband, Kemi Badenoch, Suella Braverman, Zia Yusuf (& even the children of Burnham + Farage + Jenrick) from parliament using the 1700 act of settlement

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 13h

Richard North feels banning Ed Miliband (and Milibands as a "species") on ancestry grounds along with Kemi Badenoch would be a popular election pitch!

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 14h

His brain thinkd the Tories must have lost because they chose an Asian and black leader - calling voting for Badenoch "liberalism" (black right-wing Tory) This is an absurd hypothesis about 2019!-24. How does he explain Sunak starting more popular than the party, converging down. Badenoch above.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 14h

Sullivan's view of what British people might think - sourced online - is out of line with what those watching it in this experiment thought

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 14h

"Olukemi Olufunto Badenoch herself is foreign-born" Surprised to see Andrew Sullivan get so much wrong here. Wrong on fact of birth. Does not seem to know this is a racist meme, not clever wordplay. Believes bullshit projection of white minority. Quite wrong on public views too in several ways.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 14h

Interested to see what people think of what the phrase conveys without this specific case

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 16h

A v interesting finding from @steveakehurst.bsky.social One hypothesis (held by Reform) is that this kind of attack on them would backfire with right of centre voters. Not here. So this nessage works with Tory-curious swing voters. That suggests challenging racism can have a pretty broad reach

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17h

His son got chucked out of the Tory party for explaining he had cast a leadership vote for Jenrick for racist reasons - and joined Homeland

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17h

Racism against Kemi Badenoch seems to be the driver of the proposal There are lot of fried brains on X proposing ideas that Rupert Lowe will realise are a little too toxic even for Restore to openly advocate

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17h

Richsrd North, once a mainstrean Eurosceptic, wants to ban the newly elected Holborn MP and Kemi Badenoch (along with Zia Yusuf & Suella Braverman & deputy speaker Nus Ghani Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg from elected office). He would want two British-born parents to be the test of eligibility!

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 18h

The Somali-born child refugee + local council leader was as popular as Andy Burnham with the constituency's electorate and with Labour voters in particular

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 21h

General Election timing. Shifting bookmakers odds today now imply these probabilities. 2027: 34% (15/8) 2028: 15% (5/1) 2029: 51% (10/11) (Ladbrokes) This is a shift of betting market sentiment towards 2027 (but these are prices, not predictions)

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 21h

A typical Commons contribution on government debt

I thank the Chancellor and the Minister for their speech and statement. We know that the Conservatives’ Brexit deal has hit national GDP by as much as 8%, costing the country up to £90 billion a year in lost tax revenues. Will the Government Toggle showing location ofColumn 722now pull the largest zero-cost growth lever available to them by negotiating a growth and defence partnership with the EU, including joining the single market and a new customs union, rather than clinging to the same failed red lines, which are costing businesses billions every year? Being outside the single market and the customs union directly links to the 13% fall in the UK’s export of goods since 2022, which has hit traditional manufacturing regions the worst—the same places that the Government’s reindustrialise-the-north agenda claims to prioritise. I would like to understand whether she acknowledges the reality of that linkage or not.

I welcome the Chancellor’s emphasis on the importance of fiscal credibility and, linked to that, meeting the fiscal rules. However, the reality is that those rules have been easily gamed by successive Governments, with our budgetary process being summarised as speculation without scrutiny, short-term headroom chasing and gaming the system, with an approach of jam today, which is spending, and pain tomorrow, which is tax, but tomorrow never arrives. The result is that it has been more than 25 years since we had a balanced Budget, and our national debt is now six times larger than 20 years ago.

Will the Chief Secretary demonstrate that she is serious about tackling our debt and agree that a key way to do that is to grow our economy? Will she consider what we can learn from how other countries such as Switzerland, Sweden and New Zealand have addressed and solved their budget process problems?

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 22h

Raheem Kassam replies that he is "trolling the UK establishment" for kicks. "Just highlight someone’s own words and suddenly you’re a racist" he writes - which is a somewhat inaccurate + incomplete description of his description of Kemi Badenoch as a "Nigerian scammer" and "woke anchor baby"

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23h

Some of the non-EU citizens are white, eg USA, Australia, Canada, etc. Jenrick may also mean the smaller number of naturalised citizens from Europe migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/br...

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23h

The "millions and millions" refers *only* to those who are British citizens now - so this is about Jenrick talking about millions + millions of people who all arrived before the pandemic + the Johnson government who are British citizens, who he does not believe should ever have become citizens

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23h

Jenrick's "millions and millions" rhetoric would mean that *most* naturalised citizens (> 2/3) do not in his eyes meet a British identity, cultural integration test. He thinks their [fixed] non-white Eng ethnicity makes that worse Its of a piece with Rupert Lowe's "millions must go" for Restore.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Restore got 2.5% - which is 3/10 of the joint Reform and Restore share of 8.5%, or 4/10 of the Reform 2024 share. 7% in Makerfield was 15% of joint Reform/Restore share, or 21% of Reform 2024 Said they could not win due to migration/diversity: seat is 55% white, 33% white British. 55% UK-born.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Holborn + St Pancras is majority white (54%) White British 34% White other 18% Bangladeshi 10% African 8% Mixed 6%+ Chinese 4% Indian 3% Irish 2%

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The ethno-nationalist case rejects integration + promotes mass remigration as racial protection – within a catch-all grievance politics that shifts seamlessly from complaints about the absence of integration to fears of a minority takeover. www.easterneye.biz/british-cohe...

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Justin Webb put this kind of point to me. But this simply conflates + confuses concerns about too little integration with a backlash against ethnic diversity (integration!) reaching the top of public life.

In an interview about Sunak’s article, Today programme presenter Justin Webb asked me if the argument was really about how “too many people who have come to this country who do not have British values and lead separate lives”.

That confuses two quite distinct integration debates. It takes a feat of mental gymnastics to see objections to Sunak, London mayor Sadiq Khan or Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch holding leadership roles as reflecting concerns about too little ethnic minority integration, rather than a backlash against too much.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Robert Jenrick of Reform on why he wants a debate about who is not ethnically English, not just a debate about cultural integration. But it is deeply illogical to claim insisting that Rishi Sunak + Marcus Rashford can't be English is driven by a concern about too little integration!

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"His legal claim against the police and courts is thought to be the first time a member of the Royal family has challenged the lawfulness of criminal proceedings against them since the trial of Charles I in 1649" (Telegraph)

Mr Mountbatten-Windsor has always maintained his innocence and, with misconduct in public office a notoriously difficult charge to bring, is confident of clearing his name.

His legal claim against the police and courts is thought to be the first time a member of the Royal family has challenged the lawfulness of criminal proceedings against them since the trial of Charles I in 1649.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Friends say "Fightback Starts Now" for Andrew, formerly known as a Prince, describing it as "long overdue" Andrew has had perhaps the worst media advice/operation of just about any person in the history of the United Kingdom, albeit the spinners aren't responsible for the contentful problem

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Holborn and St Pancras est to have voted to Remain by 73% to 27%making it just inside the top 25 most pro-Remain constituencies out of 650 in 2016.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've asked Tom H if the 2024 election shows that too

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