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Moazzam Begg: The pogroms in #Belfast aren’t anti-migrant…

The pogroms in #Belfast aren’t anti-migrant. They’re unabashedly racist. The rioters descend from English migrant families. That’s why you’ll see Union Jacks and St. George’s in their areas, even though they’re on the island of Ireland and speak with strong Irish accents. You’ll never hear them attack America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Israel, nations literally built upon illegal European immigration. That’s because their own relatives and forebears are illegal migrants to these lands. These racists love illegal immigration so much you’ll find Israeli flags flying outside loyalist homes, above their own Ulster Banners. They loved apartheid in South Africa by white settlers against indigenous blacks. They revel in the genocide and ethnic cleansing of indigenous Palestinians by migrant Europeans. But, somehow, they can’t stomach a few Africans and Asians in their own areas. In addition to being racists, the street thugs and their enablers @RupertLowe10 , @Nigel_Farage , @TRobinsonNewEra , @GBNEWS et al are also hypocrites extraordinaire.

Robin Monotti: WHY BORDERS MATTER…

WHY BORDERS MATTER "Borders and national citizenship rules are a primary check upon migration. Migration is not limited just because of xenophobia. Unregulated migration now would undermine both citizenship and welfare rights. This would threaten democracy, which depends of the notion of a national community. Thus a degree of exclusion of outsiders is essential to democracy, and democracy is a key basis for the legitimacy of a government’s external actions. Borders and local policies of national security are now central to containing terrorism and organized crime. Citizens still identify with the nation-state. States are the largest bodies that can claim any sort of primary legitimacy. There is no global ‘demos’. If democracy implies a substantial measure of homogeneity in the demos, then the world is just too unequal economically and too different culturally for the rich to submit to the decisions of the poor, or for one established culture to accept the internationalization of the norms of another. The territorial state will remain a central component of the new division of labour in governance, even if it no longer has quite the monopoly of governance it had when it appropriated political power from the complex division of labour in governance of the later Middle Ages. Politics is no longer exclusively territorial. On the other hand, it cannot hold together unless it is rooted in the democratic political will of territorial states." Paul Quentin Hirst

June Slater: Blair side kick Alistair Campbell…

Blair side kick Alistair Campbell, used the attempted beheading in Northern Ireland as a reason to tell right ring politicians not to weaponise the attack for right wing Politics. Are we supposed to let it slide and not notice a deranged migrant trying to saw a man's head off? for liberalism 🤔 Stay calm. Because the country hasn't enough police to control unrest? But let's put people in jail for deleted hurty words on social media. How appalling
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