In giving the small boat people hand-outs and immediate access to housing and public services, whether it is their intention, the authorities are making it clear whose side they are on – and it is not the ‘locals’. If as some say “Tommy has a point”, whose fault is that?
“From here, I’m afraid, the journey is all too obvious. The only way to prevent this is to reverse the re-racialisation of our society.”
One wonders whether he feels a kind of disappointed love for the Tories – or for them as he thinks they ought to be.
We be explaining on the doorsteps why voters should send representatives to an institution we pledged to have left two months previously.
The Home Secretary is afloat on a sargasso sea of returning jihadis, human rights laws, bewildering intelligence, gaps in the law – and a shrieking media.
“I don’t think a new Farage Party will be where the votes go.” Plus, Rees-Mogg’s view on Corbyn and May’s letters, and Tusk’s “confused” theology.
UKIP’s dominant figure tried and failed to keep his party free of Tommy Robinson’s poison. The worst possible people are taking over at the worst possible time.
Online they swarm when I ask for questions to Davidson: they must be frightened of her. Plus: what was May thinking? What I’ll be doing. Top 100 people on the Conservative Right. And: why Farage should quit UKIP.
Plus: Mugabe wrecked Zimbabwe. Tommy Robinson – and how Batten is wrecking UKIP. Can Farage save it?
We suspect that they are alarmed by the prospect of the legal and publicity circus that a trial here might well bring with it.
Reform UK feels like another iteration of a pattern. Its surge in membership demonstrates the power of personality but, as Corbyn’s Labour showed, membership alone doesn’t win elections