> Some of Britain’s biggest unions have accused the government of being “complicit” in attacks on hotels housing asylum seekers, and are urging members to “mobilise” against far-right groups seemingly emboldened by the rhetoric of senior Tory politicians.
>The first big intervention by trade unions on the increasingly politicised issue follows comments on Friday by the Conservative party’s deputy chairman, Lee Anderson, who said he had sympathy with people protesting outside hotels.
>His remarks came days after the home secretary, Suella Braverman, said hotels providing refuge to asylum seekers were causing “understandable tensions”, and protesters targeting them were not “racist or bigoted”.
> A wave of protests, many organised by far-right anti-immigrant groups, has targeted hotels in recent weeks, with a number culminating in violent clashes with police.
>One far-right group involved is Patriotic Alternative (PA), founded in 2019 by Mark Collett, an admirer of Adolf Hitler, who once suggested Mein Kampf as one of three books people should read. PA, Britain’s fastest-growing far-right group, delivered hundreds of leaflets attacking migrants to homes in Merseyside days before a riot outside a hotel in Knowsley housing asylum seekers.
>Now the leaders of 13 main unions including Britain’s largest, Unison, which has more than 1.3 million members, the GMB, which has 600,000, along with the National Education Union, which has at least 450,000, have issued a joint statement saying: “We know whose side we are on when we see far-right mobs attacking refugees, and politicians playing the mood music.”
The fact that there have been MPs filming themselves outside of the hotels giving right wing groups an actual clear image of exactly where to target certainly helps make their case.
Of course the government is complicit, they’ve been letting the immigrants in
The government know exactly what they are saying. And they most likely have some idea what the outcome is going to be of them saying it.
Essentially the equivalent of “shame if something happened…”
I keep getting YouTube recommended videos of “Asylum seeker tries to rape X..” etc lol. And the comments are full of hate towards these hotels. The videos are quite [compelling](https://youtu.be/h6Uzt1P0vk4?t=16) too until you consider one persons actions do not represent all. Very polarising tho effective way to spread hate especially randomly dropping it in peoples feeds
This might have seemed a bit controversial a few years ago, but now there’s no doubt that right wing Tory MPs including government ministers are responsible for these attacks.
They range from the likes of Suella Braverman lying and slandering them (eg. pretending that they’re economic migrants even though most of them have their asylum claims accepted proving that they’re refugees) to Lee Anderson openly stating that he supports the people who are assaulting refugees and setting fire to police cars.
The Conservatives and the right wing press are absolutely engaging in stochastic terrorism.
They are certainly complicit in the migration crisis in the first place.
Well, the government let them in in the first place, and put them up in hotels, so yes they are responsible.
Fascism to distract from large and growing inequality and a failing economy is a playbook as old as time
It’s a shame that there’s so much hatred towards those just trying to get to safety.
Out of curiosity, has anyone considered that the locals might have a legitimate complaint in how the immigrants are affecting their lives?
If you want to do something stupid, look up PA (patriotic alternative ) they’re openly mocking the left in how they are blaming them for protests they have nothing to with.
UK government ‘complicit’ in almost everything it’s been involved with, for years now…
I suspect many of those unions’ members will have voted Tory recently and share their antipathy towards immigrants.
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> Some of Britain’s biggest unions have accused the government of being “complicit” in attacks on hotels housing asylum seekers, and are urging members to “mobilise” against far-right groups seemingly emboldened by the rhetoric of senior Tory politicians.
>The first big intervention by trade unions on the increasingly politicised issue follows comments on Friday by the Conservative party’s deputy chairman, Lee Anderson, who said he had sympathy with people protesting outside hotels.
>His remarks came days after the home secretary, Suella Braverman, said hotels providing refuge to asylum seekers were causing “understandable tensions”, and protesters targeting them were not “racist or bigoted”.
> A wave of protests, many organised by far-right anti-immigrant groups, has targeted hotels in recent weeks, with a number culminating in violent clashes with police.
>One far-right group involved is Patriotic Alternative (PA), founded in 2019 by Mark Collett, an admirer of Adolf Hitler, who once suggested Mein Kampf as one of three books people should read. PA, Britain’s fastest-growing far-right group, delivered hundreds of leaflets attacking migrants to homes in Merseyside days before a riot outside a hotel in Knowsley housing asylum seekers.
>Now the leaders of 13 main unions including Britain’s largest, Unison, which has more than 1.3 million members, the GMB, which has 600,000, along with the National Education Union, which has at least 450,000, have issued a joint statement saying: “We know whose side we are on when we see far-right mobs attacking refugees, and politicians playing the mood music.”
The fact that there have been MPs filming themselves outside of the hotels giving right wing groups an actual clear image of exactly where to target certainly helps make their case.
Of course the government is complicit, they’ve been letting the immigrants in
The government know exactly what they are saying. And they most likely have some idea what the outcome is going to be of them saying it.
Essentially the equivalent of “shame if something happened…”
I keep getting YouTube recommended videos of “Asylum seeker tries to rape X..” etc lol. And the comments are full of hate towards these hotels. The videos are quite [compelling](https://youtu.be/h6Uzt1P0vk4?t=16) too until you consider one persons actions do not represent all. Very polarising tho effective way to spread hate especially randomly dropping it in peoples feeds
This might have seemed a bit controversial a few years ago, but now there’s no doubt that right wing Tory MPs including government ministers are responsible for these attacks.
They range from the likes of Suella Braverman lying and slandering them (eg. pretending that they’re economic migrants even though most of them have their asylum claims accepted proving that they’re refugees) to Lee Anderson openly stating that he supports the people who are assaulting refugees and setting fire to police cars.
The Conservatives and the right wing press are absolutely engaging in stochastic terrorism.
They are certainly complicit in the migration crisis in the first place.
Well, the government let them in in the first place, and put them up in hotels, so yes they are responsible.
Fascism to distract from large and growing inequality and a failing economy is a playbook as old as time
It’s a shame that there’s so much hatred towards those just trying to get to safety.
Out of curiosity, has anyone considered that the locals might have a legitimate complaint in how the immigrants are affecting their lives?
If you want to do something stupid, look up PA (patriotic alternative ) they’re openly mocking the left in how they are blaming them for protests they have nothing to with.
UK government ‘complicit’ in almost everything it’s been involved with, for years now…
I suspect many of those unions’ members will have voted Tory recently and share their antipathy towards immigrants.