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May’s still on course for a bigots’ Britain

Well, well, well. Once more it’s been severely embarrassing week for the rightwingers and bigots in the Tory party who saw their rabidly xenophobic policies hit a stumbling block in the upper house.

It’s not much in the grand scheme of things but God we need something to cling to at the moment. Rather like an orphan refugee child desperately clutching a piece of flotsam in the Mediterranean.

May and her cronies received a good kicking from the Lords who voted to amend her deliberately ambiguous plans for resident EU nationals many of whom have lived here for years contributing to the economy of these septic isles.

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