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Journalist & author. Still with BBC after 53 yrs, trying to make sense of a mad world. Travel's in the blood. http://bit.ly/simpsonsworld  Instagram @johnsimpsonnews.

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    John Simpson‏Verified account @JohnSimpsonNews 21 Jun 2018

    Matteo Salvini, Italy's interior minister: “We need a mass purification. Street by street, quarter by quarter.” He's talking about immigrants, by the way.

    4:32 AM - 21 Jun 2018
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      1. Nigel King‏ @NigelBig 21 Jun 2018
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        Chilling. History tells us that he won't stop with immigrants either.

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      1. Bruce Henderson‏ @brucekinabalu 21 Jun 2018
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        Haven’t we heard this before? In the 1930s perhaps?

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      2. Olcan Shaw‏ @olcan_shaw 21 Jun 2018
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        The 'moderates' have done nothing but enable them for at least a decade

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      1. Colin Todd‏ @ColTodd 21 Jun 2018
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        What are we becoming?

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      1. Ale M‏ @papaimayo 21 Jun 2018
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        Very worrying

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      1. Paul Bishop: We're waist deep in the Big Muddy‏ @PaulPJB 21 Jun 2018
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        Is he? Start with the easiest targets and move along.

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      1. swivelhead‏ @ah_go_on 21 Jun 2018
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        Absolutely horrific

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      1. Just a pleb  🏴‍☠️‏ @Jon_a_Ginge 21 Jun 2018
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        And yet no one saw this coming.... blind fools

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      1. stand free and eat bacon‏ @crispybear1 21 Jun 2018
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        Sounds like one from the mussolini playbook...dangerous rhetoric, very dangerous

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