The First Botes posted:

In tabloid rhetoric, especially the Daily Mail (whose campaign of vilification is too deliberate and ugly to be seen as a mere moral panic), the few nuances in these assumptions disappear:
the untypical is made typical; the insulting labels are applied to all. (The bogus/genuine dichotomy appeared also in 58 per cent of all relevant articles over 1990–1995 in The Guardian, The Independent and The Times; one-third of Guardian and Independent references either criticized this idea or were citing others.)

This area is crucially different from my other six examples.

First, although there have been intermittent panics about specific newsworthy episodes, the overall narrative is a single, virtually uninterrupted message of hostility and rejection. There is a constant background screen, interspersed with vivid little tableaux: Tamils at the airport, stripping in protest; Kurds clinging to the bottom of Eurostar trains; Chinese suffocating to death in a container lorry.
Second, these reactions are more overtly political than any others – not just because the problem is caused by global political changes, but because the reactions have a long history in British political culture. Moreover, successive British governments have not only led and legitimated public hostility, but spoken with a voice indistinguishable from the tabloid press.

The media’s lexicon of verbal abuse has kept up a constant level of bigotry. A recent analysis shows Scottish newspapers highlighting the same negative words and racial stereotypes; presenting asylum myths as fact; openly hostile about the presence of asylum seekers in Britain and openly suggesting they go back to their country of origin. (Note though that only 44 percent of references were judged as wholly negative, 21 per cent as balanced and 35 per cent as positive.)

[there's a giant list of hateful headlines 1992-2002 here]

The immediate effects of such sustained venom are easy to imagine, but harder to prove. In three days in August 2001 a Kurdish asylum seeker was stabbed to death on a Glasgow housing estate and two other Kurds attacked.
The UNHCR issued a statement saying that this was predictable given the ‘climate of vilification of asylum seekers that has taken hold in the UK in recent years’. This branding has become so successful that the words ‘asylum seeker’ and ‘refugee’ have become terms of abuse in school playgrounds.

In May 2002, the Labour government announced a new round of plans under the slogan of ‘zero acceptance’: shut the Sangatte refugee camp on the French side of the Channel Tunnel; intercept boats carrying illegals; speed up deportation procedures.

learnincurve posted:

Need something added to every OP. DWP have been told not to tell sanctioned people about this.

If you get sanctioned then to prevent your housing and council tax benefits falling like a house of cards, and in some case get access to a utility bill fund, call your local council for a "Nil Income Form".

Nuclear Spoon posted:

unrelated. i thought this was a nice post. we are all oompa-loomping thru it

https://bsky.app/profile/vore.sex/post/3kmltecj3y42s

Guavanaut posted:

bluesky user vore dot sex more wholesome than any mainstream UK media

Apraxin posted:

lmao, can't alloway the galloway



local independent was second on 6k, three main parties between them barely added up to 8k

Darth Walrus posted:

More stats:

https://x.com/taj_ali1/status/1763397199960928577?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q

Yeah, even accounting for the various catastrophes in other parties' local campaigns, this seems like an extremely convincing repudiation of them on a national level.

PawParole posted:

no Galloway will the next PM. It makes perfect sense if you think about it.

PawParole posted:

if the tories do destroy trust in media, then that will hurt them because they’re friends with Murdoch and the dumbest possible option for PM will happen.

that’s why I’m betting on Galloway or Another kook becoming PM.

PawParole posted:

my prediction for 2024: labour will undergo pasokifacation by 2024, and George Galloway will be PM, and make cat girls real, and bomb the Free-mason Illuminati aliens of brussels into the stone age

PawParole posted:

don’t come asking me for 100 million quid from my winnings to buy a black market loaf after Galloway forces everyone to live on cat food or get sent to the Isle of Wright gulags.

Darth Walrus posted:

Yeah, even accounting for the various catastrophes in other parties' local campaigns, this seems like an extremely convincing repudiation of them on a national level.

Maugrim posted:

Happy birthday to meeee

PawParole posted:

galloway pm by 2030

Skarsnik posted:

are you allowed to wear a hat in the commons

Nuclear Spoon posted:

Skarsnik posted:

are you allowed to wear a hat in the commons

Failed Imagineer posted:

I'm glad she's out there showing people that she's actually quite good looking

fuctifino posted:

and indeed

smellmycheese posted:

Hopefully they’ll offer her a last minute slot on Celeb Big Brother.

Mega Comrade posted:

I somewhat feel sorry for Rochdale, he will be a poo poo MP for them. But it's very funny seeing this happen to Labour.

smellmycheese posted:

Oompah Loompah lady breaks cover and is on ITV