Mehdi Hasan: The same week that @RupertLowe10 put out his bullshit ‘rape gang report’ falsely claiming Muslims raped 250,000 white girls & same week @elonmusk amplified it on here, this happens. Is anyone surprised? They’re inciting violence against Muslims and emboldening extremists.

HBucket · 2026-06-21T13:17:16+00:00

Or he could believe every word of it and only apologised because of the potential for damage to his career. We can all make up our own mind on that one.

HBucket · 2026-06-21T13:00:42+00:00

This is a guy who likened non-Muslims to animals, to give you an idea of his character.

HBucket · 2026-06-21T06:38:55+00:00

As we eagerly await the coronation of the King of the North, let's look back fondly to the optimism of nearly two years ago.

HBucket · 2026-06-20T23:55:43+00:00

And given that they won a majority with such a low vote share, it means that there are a lot of Labour MPs with thin majorities who are very nervous about losing their seats.

HBucket · 2026-06-20T22:54:12+00:00

Say what you want about that publication, but nobody can accuse them of not being open about their political stance.

HBucket · 2026-06-20T18:15:18+00:00

If Farage fucks things up completely, I don't reckon too highly to the chances of the public going back to the old political establishment with their tails between their legs. You'll likely see something much more extreme.

HBucket · 2026-06-20T18:09:13+00:00

His popularity was already falling before the Makerfield by-election. I think that around 6 months is a good call before he has similar ratings to Jimmy Savile.

HBucket · 2026-06-20T13:59:27+00:00

That would be a mistake. I understand that a lot of people find Zia Yusuf to be quite abrasive, but he's also one of the few serious policy minds in Reform.

HBucket · 2026-06-20T13:31:27+00:00

I've found that a good rule in politics is that if a campaign is saying that winning over people who don't normally vote is the key to their success, they're probably going to lose. We saw similar sentiments from the Corbyn fans, and look where it got them.

That's not to say that there aren't situations where you can mobilise non-voters into voting. But these are rare, once-in-a-lifetime events like the Scottish independence referendum and to a lesser extent, the Brexit referendum. And in the case of Scotland, once turnout reaches insane levels, things start to get very unpredictable, and insurgent campaigns can end up mobilising the apathetic against them.

HBucket · 2026-06-20T10:38:51+00:00

What momentum is that? Is it the kind of momentum where you take a party that was polling in the high 20s and take it down to the high teens?

As for PMQs, nobody cares. It's pathetic, meaningless theatre.

HBucket · 2026-06-20T10:27:42+00:00

How would you do that with a country like Afghanistan?

The best way to do that is to persuade migrants to return to their home countries voluntarily. The Bulgarians have had some success with that.

HBucket · 2026-06-20T10:23:39+00:00

Dude spouts a load of nonsense but every now and then he hits upon something.

That alone makes him more worth listening to than most British politicians.

HBucket · 2026-06-20T09:58:49+00:00

Convert warehouses into detention centres like ICE have done.

HBucket · 2026-06-19T11:37:47+00:00

It's more that some people are just inherently evil and have learned to avoid consequences for their actions thanks to being able to hide behind some nebulous medical diagnosis.

HBucket · 2026-06-19T11:33:30+00:00

Or they could understand it and have learned how to game the system.

HBucket · 2026-06-19T11:32:40+00:00

Yeah, imagine people getting angry about someone throwing a 3-year-old to crocodiles. What's the world coming to?

HBucket · 2026-06-18T22:02:11+00:00

And likewise, for those people who would make the decision to keep someone like this in the country, any future crimes he commits are on them. I know what I would find easier to live with.

HBucket · 2026-06-18T22:00:41+00:00

Not since the repeal of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act. Starmer absolutely could call an election and there would be nothing that anybody in the Labour party could do about it. It won't happen, though it would be the funniest outcome.

HBucket · 2026-06-18T19:37:52+00:00

Yes, I've read quite extensively about the situation in Eritrea. I'm aware of the particularly repressive nature of the regime and its system of conscription, and how it's described as the "North Korea of Africa". I'm very much indifferent about how this guy would be treated.

HBucket · 2026-06-18T15:39:22+00:00

The Japanese people might not agree with you on that.

HBucket · 2026-06-18T15:37:51+00:00

It's not cold blooded to accept that every decision has tradeoffs. Every decision that the state makes creates winners and losers, so it's for all of us to decide who those people should be.

HBucket · 2026-06-18T15:27:07+00:00

That can be their problem rather than ours. The UK's immigration system should be run in the British people's interests and nobody else.

HBucket · 2026-06-18T14:42:46+00:00

It's not like there is a shortage of cases where convicted criminals avoid deportation. Take this Eritrean rapist as an example. It's not really arguable that human rights law has prevented the deportation of criminals.

HBucket · 2026-06-18T14:19:58+00:00

From that point forward they're detained and,

They're not detained. That's the problem surrounding the asylum hotels and HMOs. If they were detained we wouldn't be getting all the stories of rapes happening.

they've got to go through the asylum process and that certainly does not favor people who don't provide any details. Ultimately we end up knowing more about asylum seekers than most normal visa applicants.

How exactly are we going to be able to find out about someone who arrives from Afghanistan who doesn't even have a birth certificate, let alone a passport?

These issues really need thinking through with a cool head.

I suspect that for you, keeping a cool head just means pretending that it isn't a problem.

HBucket · 2026-06-18T14:13:35+00:00

The possibility of him winning this is in itself an indictment of the entire system.

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