Even the UN recognises the dishonesty of the Brexit campaign

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It (The UN) said the EU referendum campaign had been marked by "divisive, anti-immigrant and xenophobic rhetoric"...
Imogen Foulkes, BBC Geneva correspondent, said the report had made some "pretty blunt criticisms".
She said it had called for politicians to be "much more open about condemning abuse" and for strict sentences against those guilty of expressing hatred.
"There are laws in Britain against hate crime that the UN feels are not being used and that therefore there is a climate of impunity," our correspondent added.
David Isaac, chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said the organisation shared the UN's concerns and supported its call for "effective investigation and prosecution of all acts of racist hate crime".
"There are concerns that the acrimonious and divisive manner in which the referendum debate was conducted exacerbated worrying divisions in British society, and has been used by a minority to legitimise race hate", he said.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37193140

Not only is the UN highly critical of the UK politicians during the referendum, but it also highlights the lack of action over race hate crimes.

Hopefully, the police will take note and conduct more rigorous investigations into those expressing racial hatred, and incitement to violence.
 
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The title should clearly read

"Even the UN recognises the dishonesty of the Brexit EU Referendum campaign"

...because that is what the article states. There was a good deal of divisive comment and rhetoric on both sides of the argument, granted the xenopobia was one sided. Just as now, post referundum, there is a responsibilty of all MP's to tackle the xenophobic behaviour of the vocal minority. And they are the minority.


Nozzle
 
The title should clearly read

"Even the UN recognises the dishonesty of the Brexit EU Referendum campaign"

...because that is what the article states. There was a good deal of divisive comment and rhetoric on both sides of the argument, granted the xenopobia was one sided. Just as now, post referundum, there is a responsibilty of all MP's to tackle the xenophobic behaviour of the vocal minority. And they are the minority.


Nozzle
I wouldn't disagree with your sentiment, although that specific phrase wasn't in the article, neither was the phrase that I used.
As I said, I wouldn't disagree with your sentiment except that the UN report was particularly highly critical of ""Divisive" and "anti-immigrant" rhetoric by UK politicians during the EU referendum helped to fuel a spike in race hate crimes in the weeks before and after the vote, a UN body has said."
That was hardly the fault of the remain side.


The government's and therefore the Remain contribution was:
"It said the UK government's anti-terrorism Prevent strategy had created "an atmosphere of suspicion towards members of Muslim communities"."
Whereas other parties were:
"It said prominent political figures had "failed to condemn" racist abuse and created prejudices during the campaign.
The report expressed concerns at the negative portrayal of immigrants in the UK and a rise of racist online abuse.
It said the EU referendum campaign had been marked by "divisive, anti-immigrant and xenophobic rhetoric".
Members also said they remained concerned at the "negative portrayal" of ethnic minority communities, immigrants, asylum-seekers and refugees in the UK, including coverage by the media."

It doesn't take much to work out the worst offenders.

I think that's a pretty damning report on the Brexit campaign.
 
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It's amusing to see that when Blair's government were in power, ihatemyjob didn't moan about Labour, and when Cameron's government were in power, he didn't moan about the tories. When Corbin won the leadership election he didn't moan either.

Presumably for the past 40 year he never moaned about being in the EU.

Can someone check that for me?
 
It's amusing to see that when Blair's government were in power, ihatemyjob didn't moan about Labour, and when Cameron's government were in power, he didn't moan about the tories. When Corbin won the leadership election he didn't moan either.

Presumably for the past 40 year he never moaned about being in the EU.

Can someone check that for me?
Perhaps it's just utterly boring for some to talk about politics all the time?
 
Best not to read political oriented threads, if you don't like reading them.
 
Not been on this forum that long so you wouldn't have heard me moaning about the EU & Bliar , who should be hung for treason ( oh, he can't as he done away with treason laws due to the fact he was 5hitting himself) I'm glad Corbyn is leader as Labour are now unelectable.
 
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Not been on this forum that long so you wouldn't have heard me moaning about the EU & Bliar , who should be hung for treason ( oh, he can't as he done away with treason laws due to the fact he was 5hitting himself) I'm glad Corbyn is leader as Labour are now unelectable.
Would you say you were right wing or extreme right wing, Ihitmynob?
 
It (The UN) said the EU referendum campaign had been marked by "divisive, anti-immigrant and xenophobic rhetoric"...
Imogen Foulkes, BBC Geneva correspondent, said the report had made some "pretty blunt criticisms".
She said it had called for politicians to be "much more open about condemning abuse" and for strict sentences against those guilty of expressing hatred.
"There are laws in Britain against hate crime that the UN feels are not being used and that therefore there is a climate of impunity," our correspondent added.
David Isaac, chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said the organisation shared the UN's concerns and supported its call for "effective investigation and prosecution of all acts of racist hate crime".
"There are concerns that the acrimonious and divisive manner in which the referendum debate was conducted exacerbated worrying divisions in British society, and has been used by a minority to legitimise race hate", he said.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37193140

Not only is the UN highly critical of the UK politicians during the referendum, but it also highlights the lack of action over race hate crimes.

Hopefully, the police will take note and conduct more rigorous investigations into those expressing racial hatred, and incitement to violence.

lol sorry but I can't take one iota of someones sentiments seriously when they use the phrase ''race hate crime''. Every crime is a hate crime for fuk sake :mrgreen: It's just a weaponised word like 'racism' that neo-leftists use to bager people into compliance with. Basically liberal fasicm, do and say what you want so long as I approve of it.

The left can fuk off.
 
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