Refugees Welcome, 2023

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This authoritative, fascist government (who have introduced voter ID and criminalised protest) have introduced an anti-migrant boat bill which is basically an anti-refugee bill which says amongst other things, people who “arrive here illegally” will not “be protected from the UKs modern slavery system”. Gary Lineker tweeted “this is just an immeasurably cruel policy directed at the most vulnerable people in language that is not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 1930s”. Because he refused to apologise, he has been removed from presenting MOTD (biggest football pundit show in the country) and all of his co-presenters (Ian Wright, Alex Scott and Alan Shearer) have boycotted being in solidarity with their co-star and freedom of speech. This has escalated to commentators on MOTD boycotting as well as BBC 5 Live sports presenters. The state broadcaster BBC should not be censoring people as they are supposedly impartial. How can the BBC be impartial when the current Chairman, Richard Sharp has donated £400,000 to the Tory party as well as helped ex-PM Boris Johnson to acquire an £800,000 loan just before he was appointed chairman! The BBC are straight up censoring. People have been saying the BBC is a tory mouthpiece for a while, they push extremely Transphobic views and stoke the fires of division. Yesterday it was also announced that the BBC would not be broadcasting a David Attenborough documentary about british wildlife “for fear of right wing media and tory politicians” but if many high up positions in the BBC are held by Tory’s/Tory donors then this is straight up censorship. Just because the government are pals with the people causing environmental destruction, and facilitating the dumping of sewage into our waterways, they are censoring David Attenborough.

Another fuckery which just sums up the british class system is Boris Johnson suggested his dad Stanley Johnson to get a knighthood as part of his resignation list (the fact this is a benefit to Prime Ministers in the first place is so ridiculous) and it has come to light that Stanley broke his ex wife’s (boris’ mum) nose. The reason I bring this up is because on BBC Question Time, Fiona Bruce mentioned that “it was a one time incident” which many women’s refuge charities have come out to say is an incredibly dangerous rhetoric which diminishes the other 99% of what makes up domestic abuse. The BBC are a tory mouthpiece, the fact our state broadcaster is censoring criticism against the government should scare everyone. Let me just mention our home secretary  Suella Braverman, who when faced with a Holocaust survivor who said “please stop using inflammatory language like invasion, because thats how Hitler described my people in the 30s” Suella refused and said she wouldnt change. Now when Gary Lineker said the same thing, Suella is suddenly offended by the Nazi comparison because her husband is Jewish. Its a fucking disgrace that two british asian people are the poster for such cruel legislation, while people cant heat their homes, access healthcare and feed themselves, the government and media want to scapegoat refugees and Trans people! REFUGEES WELCOME! NO BORDERS! CARE FOR EACHOTHER! TRANS RIGHTS!