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@DailyMail About thirty grand would buy an explosive drone, so I hear. You'd only have to sink a few boats, word would get around.

Grim Migrant Milestone: Number of small boat crossings poised to hit eye-watering 200,000 total since crisis began - despite hundreds of millions of pounds sent to French to stop it trib.al/Pu6hydu

@Beatlesjimbo @Pee1875 It's really all you merit.

@Pee1875 A brilliantly constructed and well thought out counter argument there. Well done.

Oh dear, poor Reform. Why aren't Labour shouting louder about this though?

@ToryMemo82 So, you acknowledge having these creatures in a community represents an inherent threat: noted.

Vote Reform, or we'll put a detention centre in your area... so, basically a threat. Classy. Party first, country second.

@JossSheldon You can identify as a potato, if you so desire; you don't get to blanket categorize people who aren't trans as "cis", though.

@cheeerfulsort You may be trans, and good for you! But some of us are cis. Please don't deny us our identity.

If you want Britain to be a "Christian country", then please start by loving your neighbour - be they Christian or not, British or foreign, cis or trans.

@DavidHenigUK Your position is that men with a propensity for rape should be able to wander around freely. Thanks for clarifying.

Vote Reform for concentration camps. Utterly vile on any level. No wonder Farage would be too cowardly to be interviewed between this and taking 5 million gifts from crypto wealth

@hamid There's no such thing as "Palestine", by the way; it's a terrorist pseudo-state, and it's where we'll be sending you in the not-too-distant future, so we don't have to listen to your eternal victimhood fifth columnist bleatings.

I remember a moment when I was travelling on the number 93 bus home when I was young. In Putney a group of white men got on the bus. There was a family with South Asian heritage on the bus. A woman, a man and two young kids. The woman had a bindi applied and was wearing a sari. It took all of two minutes for the guys to start, extremely loudly, saying things like ‘I smell P*kis’. The man and the woman had to put up with this most of the way to Wimbledon. They could have left the bus and waited for the next one, risking that group honing in on them or worse, getting off with them somewhere where there weren’t people around. They could have challenged the scumbags at the risk of even worse racism or possible violence. Instead, their kids had to witness and be exposed to this kind of stuff at that age. Now, I bring this up because I was very young at the time and this moment was probably my first time understanding how consequence-free white racism was. It was the first time I’d seen it without eg my father being around to mollify or distract me. And nothing has really changed for non-white people in Britain. If you go to Tile Hill in Coventry on a Friday night as an Asian group of friends or East Asians, you’ll get a ton of shouted racist abuse from drunk racists with nothing better to do. So, while I empathise with Shrimsley, assuming that this odd parable whereby his presumably white son is randomly asked in a bar if he’s Jewish is true, then it’s barely scratching the surface of what non-white Brits have to face day-in, day-out without the option of saying ‘no, no I’m just as white as you’. If this comes as a shock to Shrimsley, he should be grabbing a giant gong and bashing it endlessly about the type of British racism that leads white people to horrifically assault Sikh women because they look to them visibly “Muslim” or indeed to Jewish men asked if they’re Jewish in bars.

@hamid Verbal abuse of this Pakistani family sounds unpleasant, but if we hadn't enabled the presence of Pakistanis in the country, tens of thousands of white girls wouldn't have been raped. They shouldn't have been abused; they shouldn't have been here

@bkelly776 Yes, the presence of tens of thousands of migrant rape orcs in our country is, indeed, dystopian stuff.

This is absolutely abhorrent. Proper dystopian stuff.

@algorecrave If they vote Green, with their no borders manifesto, they're presumably happy being close to migrants. Win/win for them, no?

@JackWDart "I don't have a problem with migrants or living near them - they're great!" "The vow to make me live near migrants is a horrible act of intimidation".

I don’t have a problem with migrants being housed near me. In truth, I would sooner live near them than near the people whipping up this ugly campaign against them. My experience, after meeting many immigrants and refugees over the years, is that they are decent, hard-working people who want safety, stability and the chance to build a life. The right’s fixation with presenting foreigners as a threat is a disgraceful joke, engineered to divide communities and redirect anger away from the politicians who have failed them. No issue has been weaponised more cynically by Nigel Farage and his acolytes than immigration. He used it in 2016 to frighten people about European migration, and he is using it again now against people seeking asylum. The method is familiar enough: take an instinctive human fear of the unfamiliar, inflame it, then harvest the resentment. This latest stunt, a vindictive act of intimidation which may well be unlawful, belongs to that same nasty tradition of dehumanising politics. The difference now is the tone. It has become more openly cruel, more performative, more imported from the worst habits of American right-wing politics, where humiliation itself becomes the point. They are getting nastier and dirtier, and they should be called what they are: a disgrace. A movement prepared to treat vulnerable people as props in a political game is nowhere near fit to govern.

@TomHulme79 Yet somehow the superfluous apostrophe in "it's" manages to be equally offensive. If colonialism created "inequalities that we still benefit from today", it sounds like a great thing; thanks to the system that enabled us to fritter away time in crab museums.

I’m utterly baffled by every word of this. What makes European countries especially imaginary? What makes their royalty so particularly fictitious? How has colonialism hurt so many people if empires only exist inside people’s heads? And what has any of this got to do with crabs?

@sp4rkl3jumpr0p3 Sounds great. Can they put it on pay-per-view?

I am begging all apolitical Reform voters to understand that the change they will bring will be TRAUMATISING to witness Your neighbour kidnapped from your corner shop A dad down the road ripped out of the family home Teenagers abducted walking home from school

@socasamuelmusic @metpoliceuk

@cheeerfulsort @metpoliceuk THE SUN BURNT, BENIDORM PACKAGE HOLIDAY, LOBSTER RED, TOMMY ROBINSON FAR-RIGHT ARMY ON TWITTER/X ARE UPTIGHT THAT A BLACK/MIXED RACE MAN DARED TO FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE AND CALL THE RACIST SLAG A WHITE BITCH!!! 🤣 I WOULD DO IT AGAIN. ANYTIME A DUTTY RACIST CAUCASIAN FRAMES ME!

EYE FOR AN EYE… 🖕 RACIST KAREN!!! FALSE ACCUSATIONS!!! 🤮 I WAS MINDING MY OWN BUSINESS WHEN KAREN WALKED INTO STRATFORD WESTFIELD AND GAVE ME DIRTY LOOKS SO I ASKED “WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU LOOKING AT LIKE THAT?!” SHE STEPS TO ME SO I STARTED FILMING. #Racist #Karen #London

@socasamuelmusic @metpoliceuk I'm not your "boy", negro. Yelling obscenities in front of a crowd of families means you should be charged with a public order offense. You seem deranged, though your low IQ makes it hard to judge.

@cheeerfulsort @metpoliceuk @nickyb_avfc MY WHITE FAMILY WOULD CALL HER A WHITE KUNT TOO. BECAUSE SHE MADE RACIALLY DRIVEN DISGUSTING FAKSE ALLEGATIONS. GOOGLE IT. EMMETT TILL. THAT’S HIS NAME. BOY! Get to know.

@LeftwaffenWatch @garyseconomics

Why has @garyseconomics started talking with a black ghetto youth accent?

@10DowningStreet @vonderleyen @Keir_Starmer We're "reaping the benefits" of working with France (that is, handing them hundreds of millions) to the tune of several hundred imported rape orcs per week.

When the UK and the European Union work together, we all reap the benefits. In these volatile times we need to go further and faster on economic, energy and defence security.

@tm1fox Can't wait til these public propaganda pieces get Colstoned.

Thomas J Price’s A Place Beyond, an 18-foot bronze sculpture outside V&A East. Crudely made (not sculpted obviously), banal, seeks to punch you in the face by size alone. Tells you what to expect inside - colonialracistslaveowning.

@ScandicAtheist They're grotesquely jarring and incongruous. Yet there's probably a generation growing up who view this as normal, who just accept it as a given that they're surrounded by creatures in desert garb or sportswear-clad Africans with their hands down their pants.

I can not describe accurately how fucking sick to death I am of seeing this absolutely everywhere. All day, every day every place. Africans, Arabs and Indians as far as the eye can see.

@ted_splitter @ArturNadol7566 @ameliagentleman Jew-hating ageing prick, probably draped in a tablecloth to feel down with the kids. Deport to Cunttardia.

@cheeerfulsort @ArturNadol7566 @ameliagentleman Alright Playstation Wayne

BRITISH GOVERNMENT CALLED ITS OWN CITIZENS ILLEGAL In November 2017, Amelia Gentleman @ameliagentleman got a tip. She spent the next six months doing what the entire British government had chosen not to do: listening to people. The people she listened to were the Windrush generation. Caribbean-born men and women who had come to Britain legally, often as children, built lives here for 50 years, paid taxes, served in the NHS, worked, stayed. Then the Home Office, under Theresa May's hostile environment policy, started treating them as illegal immigrants. Jobs lost. NHS care denied. Pensions stripped. People deported to countries they hadn't lived in since childhood. Some died before receiving a penny. The Home Office had destroyed the landing cards that proved their arrival. There was no documentation because the government had shredded it. Then the same government demanded documentation. Amelia Gentleman published the stories anyway. Name by name. Case by case. And the government, for months, did nothing. Ministers claimed they were unaware. Amber Rudd told Parliament there were no deportation targets. The Guardian then published a leaked six-page memo showing she had been told about those targets. Rudd resigned as Home Secretary on 29 April 2018. Theresa May apologised. The compensation scheme that followed has paid out £94 million to just 2,600 people out of 8,800 claims. The independent Windrush Lessons Learned Review concluded that what happened was foreseeable, avoidable, and consistent with elements of institutional racism. The unit set up to reform the Home Office after the scandal was quietly disbanded in 2023. Amelia Gentleman won the Paul Foot Award, the Orwell Prize, and Journalist of the Year. The people who wrote the hostile environment policy faced no criminal charges. Theresa May said in her 2023 memoirs she regretted using the word hostile. That was the only thing she regretted. Sources: @guardian | @ukhomeoffice | @HumanRightsWatch | Others