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Caz's avatar

What really drives me mad is the over-representation of Deform MPs in the media. There are only 5 of them and they're bloody everywhere!

Graham Giles's avatar

Yes, there was a good joke on Twitter about that, something along the lines of;

"Special episode of Newsnight tonight. Nigel Farage, Richard Tice, Sarah Pochin and Lee Anderson get together to discuss the question of whether or not the BBC is giving Reform too much attention."

Carolyn Anderson's avatar

In the 70's, parts of this country were horribly racist. It was normal to hear people talk of "those paki's, chinkies, nig-nogs" etc. I thought we had left all that behind. Now, thanks mainly to fartage, we see CHILDREN screaming PEDO at brown people, women yelling at a young girl for describing her attackers as "not immigrants" while men forcibly drag her off a stage, a Chinese restaurant is daubed with red crosses, and Muslim women have their hijabs ripped off their heads. And when an actual MP says the sight of black people on TV makes her mad, her leader backs her up.

Racism never went away. It was quietly put to one side until reform and the tories made it acceptable again.

I deplore what is happening in this country now. I see the dreadful things going on in the USA and know that reform will try to destroy the UK by copying the demented orange maniac. Hopefully, our civil service and courts will stop them before they go too far.

Ian MacHardie's avatar

I don't actually care who appears in adverts it's the product that is being promoted not the person. I am more concerned with the overt racism of several in Reform. Racism is like a disease, it's insidious, it becomes an obsession. There are many more things in the world to be concerned about than the colour of someone's skin.

Stephen Glynn's avatar

To put it another way, the ethnic makeup of the town in which I live is pretty close to the median for the UK as a whole. It's slightly less white and more Asian than the median but pretty close in other regards.

I would, therefore, be surprised to find that no customers in a busy shop of any size I use, or no one I passed in the street, or none of my neighbours, were Black or Asian, and that's certainly not my experience.

GH's avatar

I tried using fact the other day; research from Oxford Migration, the LSE, IFS as well as data from the ONS. Waste of time. The latest rebuttal is that one is ‘naive’ and swallowing the lies of ‘them’ whilst not truly knowing what is going on. Obviously the gateway to the truth is to read the Daily Mail, Express or Telegraph.

Andy Berry's avatar

Great article. Thank you.

Mark Tomblin's avatar

Excellent work. Thank you.

Helen Cooper's avatar

I like your renaming of them