It’s going to be the moral high horse battle I see… Islamophobia, antisemitism… But policy and reforms who cares…
That played so well in the States
JustWhy1222 on
“For example, they allege that keader Nigel Farage was Islamophobic when he criticised a mass Muslim prayer event in Trafalgar Square”.
If that’s the best example they’ve got then this is nothing more than performative nonsense.
VariousClassroom8056 on
And this will just win Reform UK even more votes – “They tried to silence us for speaking the truth” etc.
Cockapoo-Cockatoo on
Reform UK are a political party. If they want to run a campaign sensitive MP’s consider “offensive”, that’s their choice. Same goes for everyone.
omar_da_terror on
Accusing Reform of Islamaphobia while facilitating the genocide in Palestine is interesting. Im so sick of all the politicians in this country.
64gbBumFunCannon on
Reform supposedly hates Islam.
Labour supposedly hates Jews.
Tories hate the poor.
Is there a party I can vote for who hate politicians?
coffeewalnut08 on
Good. I am so tired of the hate and mudslinging.
The only people benefiting from these endless culture wars is Nigel Farage, Rupert Lowe and Elon Musk.
We could talk about other stuff like housing, environment, public transport etc., but instead we have to firefight all the phobias because people can’t stop falling for manufactured culture wars.
PreFuturism-0 on
Restore is significantly worse about this (even with Reform pretending to be moderate), yet, I think, Lowe’s son just married a muslim. I know there’s the argument that she’s “not one of the bad ones”, but you know a significant number of Restore supporters have extreme views.
UuusernameWith4Us on
I think this will backfire massively. Labour adopting a formal definition of Islamaphobia was controversial and mere months after it was adopted a load of their (idiotic) back benchers are trying to use it to silence their political rivals. It re-enforces so much of the messaging the right have been putting out on the topic, and of course instead of being silenced Reform will use this as an opportunity to stand their ground and say they’ve been proven right..
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It’s going to be the moral high horse battle I see… Islamophobia, antisemitism… But policy and reforms who cares…
That played so well in the States
“For example, they allege that keader Nigel Farage was Islamophobic when he criticised a mass Muslim prayer event in Trafalgar Square”.
If that’s the best example they’ve got then this is nothing more than performative nonsense.
And this will just win Reform UK even more votes – “They tried to silence us for speaking the truth” etc.
Reform UK are a political party. If they want to run a campaign sensitive MP’s consider “offensive”, that’s their choice. Same goes for everyone.
Accusing Reform of Islamaphobia while facilitating the genocide in Palestine is interesting. Im so sick of all the politicians in this country.
Reform supposedly hates Islam.
Labour supposedly hates Jews.
Tories hate the poor.
Is there a party I can vote for who hate politicians?
Good. I am so tired of the hate and mudslinging.
The only people benefiting from these endless culture wars is Nigel Farage, Rupert Lowe and Elon Musk.
We could talk about other stuff like housing, environment, public transport etc., but instead we have to firefight all the phobias because people can’t stop falling for manufactured culture wars.
Restore is significantly worse about this (even with Reform pretending to be moderate), yet, I think, Lowe’s son just married a muslim. I know there’s the argument that she’s “not one of the bad ones”, but you know a significant number of Restore supporters have extreme views.
I think this will backfire massively. Labour adopting a formal definition of Islamaphobia was controversial and mere months after it was adopted a load of their (idiotic) back benchers are trying to use it to silence their political rivals. It re-enforces so much of the messaging the right have been putting out on the topic, and of course instead of being silenced Reform will use this as an opportunity to stand their ground and say they’ve been proven right..