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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

She's representing her constituents. You know, like an MP is supposed to.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The hotel was set on fire last night, can you not see how pandering to far-right constituents can be dangerous?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Highlighting that our asylum system is broken and really needs sorting out so we don't need to use hotels to house asylum seekers is not pandering to the far-right.

It's actually Labour policy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

You can do that without saying that the local hotel has been taken away from locals by asylum seekers, and that it needs to be 'given back'. The rhetoric is clearly inflammatory.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

You are clearly rephrasing this to manufacture dissent.

Saying that a local hotel has been taken away from locals for asylum seekers and needs to be returned is just trying to get the government to talk about what the long term solution is. We are longer ruled by Tories, so the standard can improve.