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Reform and Tories are in a racialised race to the bottom. They disgrace us

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10.10.2025

Policies from Farage and Badenoch for mass deportations and ICE-style removal squads are the antithesis of everything Britain stands for, our Writer at Large Neil Mackay argues

Roll up! Roll up! Thrill as the Great Extremo, Nigel Farage, disappears 600,000 migrants before your very eyes!

Then gasp as Kemi the Chaotic tops his feat with her world-famous ‘Illegals Illusion’ and magics an astonishing 750,000 human beings out of Britain to despotic regimes!

And there’s more!

Marvel as politicians wrestle in an actual gutter as they race-bait and shame society!

Tremble at their promises to bring Trump-style ICE snatch squads to Britain to kidnap your friends and neighbours off the streets!

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Delight as the media pours petrol on their flammable flim-flam, torching the last shreds of decency!

Gasp as Britain’s moral authority vanishes on the world’s stage!

What a show, ladies and gentlemen! Step inside! Don’t look away, even though you really want to! All it costs is your acquiescence in the destruction of British values!

It feels like British politics has become some grotesque carnival, filled with con-artist barkers hawking increasingly sick and freakish stunts masquerading as policy.

I’m old enough to remember when politics was a serious business. Today, it’s drenched in the fever-sweat of Twitter and the smeared make-up of reality TV.

Politics is a realm for the morally corrupt, for liars,........

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