It's not "racist" to merely talk about immigration. This article is about immigration. However it is "racist" to use hyperbolic language and tell outright lies about the subject like Jim Ratcliffe did
Froggage also repeated the lie about 12 million. They know that their base are unlikely ot fact check them. They also never own the fact that this situation is entirely of their own making.
Not forgetting that Jim’s companies, over the years was and continues to be a beneficiary of government grants and loans offers totalling nearly £200 million to date Now who’s a benefit taker Jim???
'The population of the UK was 58 million in 2020. Now it's 70 million. That's 12 million people'
👉BBC FACT CHECKED & TOTALLY WRONG‼️
UK population figures are compiled by the Office for National Statistics. Its mid-year 2025 provisional estimate was 69.4 million, compared with 66.7 million in 2020 - an estimated increase of 2.7 million people, not 12 million.
But his supporters don’t want to check facts. However much they’re told to, they won’t check facts. It’s a cult. “Facts” are “what Nigel says.” The real fact is that if you stand shoulder to shoulder with racists to help them get what they want, you don’t get to complain when people call you a racist.
A grown up conversation on immigration is required. We don't seem capable of that.
Same for many topics, black and white thinking, lack of nuance or subtlety is the norm now.
It's also very connected to language, and I don't just mean the difference between sensible discourse and childlike stone throwing, I'm taking about that control that's been exerted, the loss or redefinition of words.
Given the topic, here's an example.
When I was young, people could be racist, which was defined as hatred of people or feelings of superiority/lesser-ness of people due to their race.
Or maybe they were xenophobic, with irrational fear of foreigners
And finally we had the prejudiced, who had certain assumptions about people of other races or religions.
I think it would help if we went back to a more nuanced version of language.
Froggage also repeated the lie about 12 million. They know that their base are unlikely ot fact check them. They also never own the fact that this situation is entirely of their own making.
Yup. What I said. And Owen Jones yesterday (12/02)
Not forgetting that Jim’s companies, over the years was and continues to be a beneficiary of government grants and loans offers totalling nearly £200 million to date Now who’s a benefit taker Jim???
'The population of the UK was 58 million in 2020. Now it's 70 million. That's 12 million people'
👉BBC FACT CHECKED & TOTALLY WRONG‼️
UK population figures are compiled by the Office for National Statistics. Its mid-year 2025 provisional estimate was 69.4 million, compared with 66.7 million in 2020 - an estimated increase of 2.7 million people, not 12 million.
But his supporters don’t want to check facts. However much they’re told to, they won’t check facts. It’s a cult. “Facts” are “what Nigel says.” The real fact is that if you stand shoulder to shoulder with racists to help them get what they want, you don’t get to complain when people call you a racist.
A grown up conversation on immigration is required. We don't seem capable of that.
Same for many topics, black and white thinking, lack of nuance or subtlety is the norm now.
It's also very connected to language, and I don't just mean the difference between sensible discourse and childlike stone throwing, I'm taking about that control that's been exerted, the loss or redefinition of words.
Given the topic, here's an example.
When I was young, people could be racist, which was defined as hatred of people or feelings of superiority/lesser-ness of people due to their race.
Or maybe they were xenophobic, with irrational fear of foreigners
And finally we had the prejudiced, who had certain assumptions about people of other races or religions.
I think it would help if we went back to a more nuanced version of language.