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Nigel Driffield retweeted
No. What you're seeing is a fundamental disagreement between people attempting to justify racist rioting and others who think spreading hate and making people (H/T @BBCr4today this morning) feel terror in their own homes is utterly wrong and wholly unjustifiable
Nigel Driffield retweeted
GB News complaining that nobody from the Government will talk to them any more, just seconds after falsely telling their viewers that Keir Starmer has been "labelling anyone concerned about immigration as far right".
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These are just some of the tweets that were put out by GB News presenter Darren Grimes in the run up to the general election.
The same channel that is now accusing the left of inflaming racial tensions in the UK
bylinetimes.com/2024/06/14/g…
Nigel Driffield retweeted
"Repeated and urgent counsel that far-right extremists were exploiting gaps in the law to foment violence on social media were ignored while top-rank politicians... sought to gain advantage by waging culture wars" -Sunak's former anti-extremism adviser theguardian.com/uk-news/arti…
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A reminder that the last Conservative Government published a review just last year claiming that there had been "too much focus" on tackling threats from the far-right.
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"Politicians saw privatisation and private infrastructure as a way to get access to a big bucket of money...in fact, the failures of privatisation are numerous and obvious."
Sound familiar? An Australian perspective on the scam of privatisation🇦🇺
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Nigel Driffield retweeted
Arrested rioters are about to find out that, when they are alone in their cells, Elon Musk, Nigel Farage, Isabel Oakeshot, Richard Tice and the staff at GB News won't come out to help them and their families. They'll be safe and secure at home while you do time
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A reminder
After the Aug 2011 riots, police & my prosecutors examined all the video evidence for MONTHS identifying & bringing offenders to justice - 1000s of them
Some didn’t get arrested till a year later!
Prison was the usual sentence
My boss was someone called Keir Starmer
Nigel Driffield retweeted
The BBC says: “Protesters target mosque”. Can you imagine saying “Protesters target synagogue? These are criminals. By platforming Farage, Oakeshott, Tice, Goodwin etc, the BBC normalised the far right. Now it legitimises them as so called “protesters” bbc.com/news/articles/cnl0lk…
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Although I've shared this before, it's always worth resharing when it pops up in my timeline.
(And I say this as a suit wearing, middle-aged white man.)
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Every so often @JohnJCrace is deadly serious, with deadly effect.
This - on the way in which @Nigel_Farage baselessly & despicably incited hatred - is outstanding. theguardian.com/politics/art…
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Investigative journalist @KDenkWrites has uncovered the source of the misinformation about the Southport attacker: a fake news website believed to be run by Russians.
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Nigel Driffield retweeted
Conservative leadership candidate Robert Jenrick says he has the right "values" to lead his party.
Here's a quick reminder of those values.
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The £6.4bn home office overspend on “asylum and illegal migration” - what yesterday’s official Treasury calls “resource DEL pressure” - is an enormous sum. For a policy like putting asylum seekers in hotels it is off-the-charts huge - and in funding it Rachel Reeves is taking precious winter-fuel cash from pensioners and cancelling an important reform of social care, among other painful cuts. It is all very well and obvious politics for Rachel Reeves to blame her predecessor Jeremy Hunt. But under our system, civil servants are under an obligation to either prevent this kind of debacle or to secure in writing from relevant ministers that they personally own the debacle. In this case you would expect the permanent secretaries at the Home Office and Treasury to have been abreast of the massive overspend and to have liaised with each other on it, as a precursor to obtaining from the then chancellor Hunt and then home secretary Cleverly a written “direction” that the overspend was sanctioned by them. If Reeves is serious about improving controls of the efficiency of public spending, she surely needs to launch an investigation into why this financial oversight at the Home Office and Treasury seems to have failed miserably, and make public what she learns. If Reeves is serious about re-empowering impartial officials to prevent reckless behaviour by ministers, as she claims has been her central mission since the financial chaos caused by the Truss/Kwarteng mini budget, she also needs to hold those officials to account when they seemingly fail to exercise those important responsibilities. In terms of rebuilding trust in government, a quality in short supply as the last election demonstrated, it is a mistake to fudge and cover up these failures. To be clear this is not to absolve the then Conservative ministers for their roll in this overspend. But it is to say that we have a Whitehall machine that is supposed to rein them in when the integrity of the public finances is in jeopardy, and something seems to have gone seriously wrong with it
'It would not have cost that money if Conservatives had been in office because we would have had flights going to Rwanda.'
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has accused the previous Tory government of covering up projected overspends, including the Rwanda plan, which she said was more than £6.4 billion for this year alone.
Former Chancellor Jeremy Hunt denies this number.
Nigel Driffield retweeted
Be clear. Nick Macpherson, former Treasury permanent secretary, is confirming Rachel Reeves statement there was a first order cover up about the state of Britain’s public finances. The Tories hid the truth.
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Yep - FE struggles to recruit & retain folk who are electricians, welders, platers, plumbers, bricklayers, quantity surveyors etc; largely down to a lack of fair, reasonable & sustained investment since the banking crisis.
Skills shortages, I constantly hear being cried 🤷♂️
“Colleges face significant staff recruitment and retention problems, mainly because of the £10,000 pay gap with schools which is likely to widen," says @AoCDavidH, AoC Chief Executive.
Read more:
aoc.co.uk/news-campaigns-par…
Nigel Driffield retweeted
NEW! The Sun reports Suella Braverman will not run in the Tory leadership race claiming the Party isn’t willing to confront the ‘woke virus’.
In other words, she’s too extreme for the most extremist Tory Party we’ve ever seen ..
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🧵 about #class #privilege and #privateeducation. Watching the Olympic swimming last night and Clare Balding said something in such an incredulous tone which summed up the establishment perspective and how their experience differs. 1/