From Thatcher’s Swamped to Theresa May’s Hostile Environment to Suella Braverman’s invasion: Stand Down Tories
Ranking Roger former lead of The Beat died at the far too early age of 56 in 2019.
The original Beat split up in 1983 so is this just a bit of cultural history now? Sadly and definitely not.
The Beat were of course on Two Tone, deliberately focused on black and white coming together to fight the racists.
Before the 1979 General Election Tory leader Margaret Thatcher had made a speech claiming that people felt ‘swamped’ by those of a ‘different culture’.
The official Thatcher Foundation archive detail is here:
https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/103485
Fast Forward 40 years and we find the policy of former Tory Prime Minister Theresa May, architect of the hostile environment towards ethnic minorities, a policy which led directly to the abuse of numbers of the Windrush generation, rightfully in the UK but harassed by the authorities.
Now we find Tory Home Secretary Suella Braverman talking the language of the far and fascist right about an ‘invasion’ of migrants into Southern England.
I suspect that none of Thatcher, May or Braverman owned or own any Beat records…
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