‘Stop the boats’: How the language of division fuelled the race riots
The IndependentOne of Britain’s less fastidious newspapers has covered the riots under the headline “Far-Right clash with Muslims in rioting”. It is striking just how often in these disturbances that slogans such as “Stop the Boats”, a Tory slogan pioneered by Rishi Sunak, and “We Want Our Country Back” – a Reform UK mantra – have been co-opted by baying mobs who have taken over the streets. Farage declares, with scant evidence, that “three quarters of Muslims pose no threat to Britain” – with the clear implication that a quarter and a “foreign number of young Muslims” don’t subscribe to his own undefined set of values. From the improbable figure of Priti Patel, herself no moderate on the refugee issue, now come words of unalloyed common sense about “two tier” policing: “There’s a clear difference between effectively blocking streets or roads being closed to burning down libraries, hotels, food banks and attacking places of worship.
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