#Islamophobia in @Conservatives has been approached with denial, dismissal & deceit by the party. Thread.
1) During his premiereship, @BorisJohnson has:
i) Employed Chloe Westley in his Number 10 digital team - she called far-right Islamophobe a "hero"http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/26/boris-johnson-adviser-chloe-westley-far-right-activist-anne-marie-waters …
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ii) Promoted
@ZacGoldsmith - a man who embodied#Islamophobia when he ran a racist campaign to be Mayor of London http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/3081439/zac-goldsmith-promoted-to-cabinet-role-as-resignations-spark-mini-reshuffle … ... Mr. Goldsmith has still not apologisedhttp://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/06/zac-goldsmith-attacked-by-senior-tory-over-tactics-in-london-mayor-election …5 antwoorden 116 retweets 200 vind-ik-leuksDeze collectie tonen -
MCB heeft geretweet Miqdaad Versi
iii) Promoted Nadine Dorries - a woman who unashamedly re-tweeted Tommy Robinsonhttps://twitter.com/miqdaad/status/1197664064509501445 …
MCB heeft toegevoegd,
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2) In the last two weeks alone, Mr Johnson has: i) Done nothing as the
@Conservatives candidate Karl McCartney has been found to have repeatedly shared far right postshttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50546353 …3 antwoorden 149 retweets 206 vind-ik-leuksDeze collectie tonen -
ii) Done nothing as dozens of
@Conservatives councillors have been found to have engaged in#Islamophobia@LBC: http://lbc.co.uk/news/dossier-showing-10-tory-councillors-islamophobia/?__twitter_impression=true …@guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/12/revealed-conservative-councillors-islamophobic-social-media …3 antwoorden 129 retweets 175 vind-ik-leuksDeze collectie tonen -
iii) Done nothing when a local
@Conservatives association was found to have engaged in Islamophobic questioning of a Muslim candidate (a local deputy chairman,@KyleBPedley, resigned as a result)http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07ty26x …2 antwoorden 81 retweets 141 vind-ik-leuksDeze collectie tonen -
iv) Allowed Anthony Browne, former adviser to
@BorisJohnson, to be a candidate for the@Conservatives despite having accused Muslims of having divided loyalties http://www.itv.com/news/2019-11-11/tory-election-candidate-faces-call-to-stand-down-over-disgusting-racism/ …1 antwoord 76 retweets 129 vind-ik-leuksDeze collectie tonen -
v) Taken no real action after
@Conservative candidate for Wakefield, Antony Calvert said that Colonel Gaddafi should have ‘fled to Bradford’ if he wanted to ‘wander the streets unrecognised’. He also described himself as living in ‘Londonistan’.http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tory-candidate-racist-sexist-facebook-posts-wakefield-antony-calvert-mary-creagh-a9196451.html …2 antwoorden 97 retweets 130 vind-ik-leuksDeze collectie tonen -
vi) Done nothing when it was discovered that the
@Conservatives not only knew about their candidate Anjana Patel's Islamophobic tweet but actively encouraged it being hiddenhttp://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/conservative-candidate-islamophobic-tweet …4 antwoorden 109 retweets 143 vind-ik-leuksDeze collectie tonen -
Als antwoord op @MuslimCouncil @KevinPascoe en
The Tory’s have formpic.twitter.com/YxrBEQvbKZ
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It stinks
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