Not the point @iandunt.bsky.social was making here but “organised by colour and most of them white” is a perfect summary of the immigration policy the Conservatives appear to favour.
What Jamie says, and also mumsnet. Mumsnet was taken very seriously by politicians, who saw it as a way to win over a key group of supporters, and there was a time when a lot of senior politicians in the UK would do AMAs with mumsnet
This is the problem. Services are underfunded and then rather than fix it, it's easier to find a scapegoat to blame.
The long term impacts of migration (both internal and external) are clearly beneficial (and I'd support them even if they weren't since i see movementas a fundamental human right), but ignoring the short term stresses allows them to be amplified by the bad faith actors that dominate discussion.
That is factually incorrect, and ignoring it feeds into the racist narrative just as much as amplifying it does. Any rapid and localised population increase will place pressure on local housing and services until the capacity increases to match.
You can be legitimately concerned about pressures on services. Shortage of housing, etc. Of course, those concerns seem more legitimate when not only applied to to immigration... It's like the people who's areas of "legitimate concern" somehow by pure coincidence all involve trans people.
Don’t give into the narrative that you have to entertain racist, empty, fascist or conservative ideas. You don’t. They are morally and intellectually bankrupt.
On Twitter, the questions are “is climate change real?” And not “how do we stop it?” In Twitter it’s “how many trans people really mean it and deserve to live as themselves?” Here it’s “how do we protect people being targeted by a clear pogrom.” They are admittedly different, but better, questions.
The problem isn't the affair, as you rightly point out they have equal complicity. The problem is that she had a position of authority and supposed impartiality as a reporter covering the presidential election. To be involved with a candidate without declaring it breaches journalistic ethics.