What the whatting what?
#WilliamWragg #Tories #HoneyTrap #CommonSenseGroup #UKPolitics
I'm not sure how many Lab/LD/Grn people have picked up that there's now a GOP-inspired far right extremist group actively terrorising LGBT venues and events on a regular basis...
https://mastodon.scot/@Stoat/110441296240350039
...and a #CommonSenseGroup Tory MP (#MarcoLonghi) is actually in charge of it, several others have praised it (including #Braverman, because obviously) and only a month ago the PM was asked directly to condemn it and refused:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/apr/17/conservatives-turning-point-uk-labour-lib-dems
Attached: 4 images Some photos from the Honor Oak protest this morning, standing against Turning Point UK. Pics © Aaron Coe. https://nitter.net/Shootaaroncoe #HonorOak #Drag #Protest #FarRight
*Already* Tory backbencher #MiriamCates has invoked the spectre of "cultural marxism", the far-right antisemitic conspiracy theory. #Braverman also mentioned it a few years back, as have various members of the far-right #CommonSenseGroup
https://nitter.net/peterwalker99/status/1658027580870541312
Cates says UK children are being indoctrinated with “cultural Marxism”. Your regular reminder that this is a conspiracy theory often associated with the far right and antisemitism, eg https://amp.theguardian.com/news/2019/mar/26/tory-mp-criticised-for-using-antisemitic-term-cultural-marxism
I make that two members of the far-right #CommonSenseGroup who've openly praised far right anti-asylum protesters. And both of them are ministers.
Add this to the increasingly brazen transphobia and the case that stoking hatred as a distraction is a deliberate electoral strategy becomes more compelling.
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