Lee Anderson’s Vile Anti-migrant Comments Pose This Question: Do We Want Politics Like This?

THE GUARDIAN: Even Thatcher’s governments were above the hateful, toxic rhetoric now being favoured by Sunak and his lieutenants

Does it matter if Lee Anderson, the deputy chair of the Conservative party, thinks disgruntled asylum seekers should “fuck off back to France” and says so?

“If they don’t like barges then they should fuck off back to France,” Anderson said. “These people come across the Channel in small boats … if they don’t like the conditions they are housed in here then they should go back to France, or better, not come at all in the first place.” He was speaking to the Daily Express, with the knowledge that this once-great British newspaper now thrives on printing such things.

One can be dismayed, if not surprised. Anderson likes to see himself as his party’s man of the people. He serves a purpose as the supposed link between a political organisation controlled and given its raison d’etre by the hyper-wealthy and the Friday-night saloon bar of a rundown pub. » | Hugh Muir | Wednesday, August 9, 2023

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