Good Morning, all

#C4News' undercover exposé of the racism, homophobia & xenophobia among Reform's campaigners & volunteers was shocking but not surprising.

Yes, Rishi Sunak deserves some sympathy for Reform's references to him as "a fucking Paki."

But MSM's focus was wrong. More disturbing were calls for the Army to use boat people for target practice.

Ironically, #AndrewParker is likely of a generation who fixated on that WW2 trope condemning Nazis who machine-gunned sailors in the water.

In 2011, he tried repeatedly to raise the alarm with #MI5. After a meeting with junior agent went nowhere, he wrote to the #mi5dg #jonathanevans #andrewparker , which resulted in a further meeting with 2 agents in a government building in #Whitehall. #whistleblowers

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/21/mi5-refused-to-investigate-russian-spys-links-to-tories-says-whistleblower

Reading the #RussiaReport made him “suddenly aware that maybe the story I had was more significant than I thought” he wrote to #CressidaDick, then commissioner of the #MetPolice. #putinspuppets