You don't need to carry signs or chant or even stay hours Just show up where these actual white nationalist-organised anti-immigrant gatherings happen make it clear you stand with common humanity not xenophobia Stand Up To Racism will try to make a counter presence but oft outnumbered spread thin
This is a test of what we are as a country, oh England, my England. Asylum seekers are getting basic care while living in conditions that are often not fit for human habitation, in decaying old hotels This was all arranged by the previous government deliberately to piss people off, to their profit
If asylum seeker accommodation is in Tory voting areas, it's because if you own a run-down hotel which is not commercially viable, you can make money by letting it to the govt. And until last year, a Tory MP was more likely to to get you that contract
It's more likely that this mess was created by Tory incompetence and petty corruption than by any planned action. Putin was probably laughing his head off and saying "I wish I'd thought of that."
The whole of the Covid PPE scandal was exactly this sort of "petty corruption". The family-and-friends fast-track channel was vivid demonstration of how Tories think the public purse is available to their thieving hands.
Conservative Party policy scapegoated immigrants as cover for Austerity post-Brexit they created the asylum seeker hotel situation with a deliberate backlog policy + hotel placements Disinformation distraction, red meat for the under-informed + xenophobic Someone to blame to stop people looking up
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