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[1/4] To remain silent is to remain complicit.
As one of the United States’ closest allies, the UK has a moral duty to speak out when the freedoms and rights of the people of the US are under attack.
#BlackLivesMatter
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-trump-george-floyd-protests-us-twitter-a9547296.html …
[2/4] President Trump has used increasingly violent rhetoric in response to protests over racial injustice & police brutality. We have seen peaceful protestors & journalists beaten & attacked by police officers. The UK Government’s refusal to condemn this behaviour is shameful.
[3/4] The situation in the US is also a stark reminder of the systemic racism here in the UK. We have written to the Prime Minister urging him to set out the steps the UK government are taking to prevent deaths like George Floyd’s happening in the UK.pic.twitter.com/Mz2WO6zrk1
[4/4] Yesterday PHE published a report into the disproportionate impact of coronavirus on BAME people, yet it failed to put forward any recommendations.
We must see more action from this Government if we are to tackle the inequality in our society 
https://www.libdems.org.uk/bame-coronavirus …
Indeed. And that's why #blacklivesmatter - their lives are the ones being most devalued at the moment. See the attached comic for a great explanation!pic.twitter.com/JTEyEj56u9
All lives matter.
#timetopayback:
Make them pay...
https://www.newstatesman.com/economics/2014/04/much-britains-wealth-built-slavery-so-why-shouldnt-it-pay-reparations …
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/britains-colonial-shame-slave-owners-given-huge-payouts-after-abolition-8508358.html …
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs//
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