’30p’ Lee DENIES Reform’s involvement in race riots – yet 800k of HIS party’s voters support them

’30p Lee’ Anderson was at it again on his favourite cheap excuse for a media channel GB News. The chief whip of the chief instigators of the fascist domestic terrorists carrying out violent pogroms and race riots across the UK spouted his trash takes on its programme.

And surprise surprise, Anderson advocated for – wait for it – the far-right’s latest febrile obsession: two-tier policing. Because it’s alright when it lets the violent Islamophobic, racist rioters off the hook, naturally.

That is, after a week of far right neo-Nazi lynch mobs attacking Black, brown, Muslim, and migrant communities across the UK, the newly-minted Reform MP, wants Starmer to “sit down and talk to them”.

Reform race riots: incited by dogwhistle racist politics

On Tuesday 6 August, Reform MP and commentator Lee Anderson took the GB News (hot) airwaves. Predictably, he had a lot of shit to stir about the far-right fascist race riots:

Chief whip of Reform UK Lee Anderson on GB News said “British working class lads out throwing stones and damaging things aren’t far right thugs”

He goes on to downplay their actions, saying they have “probably had one too many and got involved with the wrong crowd”

Anderson… pic.twitter.com/3Sk3dDyiqx

— GB News Spin Room (@GBNewsSpin) August 6, 2024

First, he downplayed their abhorrent actions over the last week:

There’s a lot of British working class lads out, you know, throwing stones and damaging things. They’re not far-right thugs. They’re just, you know, they probably had one too many.

Stones, petrol bombs, damaging things, assaulting people, what’s the difference? Short answer, very little, because the perpetrators were white, and the victims, Black and brown. In other words, not people to Anderson: “things”.

Then, Anderson denied Reform’s role in inciting the “unrest”, calling it “absolute nonsense”.

Except, a YouGov poll from the same day showed that it was of course Anderson who was chatting absolute bullshit. It found that over a third of Reform voters felt the riots are justified:

Reform UK voters are the most likely to have positive opinions of the riots and rioters, although this is still a minority view among these voters

Support the riots
Reform: 21%
Con: 9%
Lab/LD: 1-3%

Have sympathy for the views of the rioters
Reform: 25%
Con: 8%
Lab/LD: 2-4%… pic.twitter.com/Pv4C0cHI3Z

— YouGov (@YouGov) August 6, 2024

Translation: a third (over 1.3 million) of Reform voters are out and proud racists. Who would have guessed?

In fact, the polling showed the people supporting Anderson’s nasty party were exactly what you might expect. That is, a raging rabble of far-right nationalistic bigots frothing at the mouth for violence against minority Black and brown communities.

It didn’t get better from there either. First, a quick note on the YouGov poll. It fed the rightwing’s line that these are simply ‘protests’. Of course, we’ve seen establishment politicians and corporate media mouthpieces only too readily lap this up and parade this trash take around in the last week. As such, it drew a distinction between ‘peaceful protests’ and ‘riots’, asking respondents their opinions on these separately.

Here’s the thing though – nothing about the past week of this shithole Island’s race riots has been remotely peaceful. They’ve tried to burn refugees seeking asylum to death in hotels. Drawing up hit lists and hunting down Black and brown people is just a few lads getting too pissed though, right? To imply on any level that these have been ‘peaceful protests’ is to loan legitimacy to the racist, fascistic undercurrent running through the heart of the past week’s rampages.

We’re not doing it. Instead then, the Canary is going to take the answers without drawing this distinction. On this basis, eight in ten – over 80% – of Reform voters felt the events of the last week were justified.

What’s more, half of Reform’s goons thought that these disgusting lynch mobs are just ‘people with legitimate concerns’. Because, sit them down in a little healing circle with the prime minister and they can all bang on about sending Bangladeshi’s home together, am I right? Someone pass the talking brick.

And of course, gammons gonna gammon. The Farage fanclub breeds only true patriots, not monstrously racist roving bands of far-right domestic terrorists. At least, that’s what the YouGov poll showed Reform voters think. Over a quarter of Reform supporters said they’re ‘patriotic’, and only around a fifth agreed they’re in fact racist or far-right.

But no, nothing to see here.

Two-tier policing is suddenly a great idea

Anderson wants the public to think it’s just a handful of “British working class lads” gone astray after a few too many drinks down the pub (probably with their mate Nigey).

People on X weren’t buying it:

I had one too many and did stupid things when I was young, but it didn’t include looting, trashing a mosque, attacking the police, burning down a library and attempting to set fire to a building knowing there were people inside. Lee Anderson is a reprehensible, racist scumbag. https://t.co/MysGoUtl03

— Matthew Clark Leach 🖊️📘 (@LeachJuice) August 6, 2024

“We all do daft things when we are young “ says @LeeAndersonMP_

Trust me Lee me and my mates never tried to burn a fucking hotel down with kids in it

SHAME ON YOU. SHAME ON YOU LEE ANDERSON. PRICK ! https://t.co/q3gEv3JwpC

— Spencer Melia (@SpencerMelia) August 6, 2024

Come on, who amongst us hasn’t torched a library, looted a phone shop, thrown bricks at a copper and vandalised a place of worship at some time in their lives? Youthful high spirits from a few giddy scamps who’ve got into the wrong crown. https://t.co/xYwBv3iMVl

— Giltbrook Pie (@giltbrookpie) August 6, 2024

How pissed were they exactly? Only they’ve been rioting for a week https://t.co/x7DEbdWC7V

— Dianne Bancroft (@DianneBancroft) August 6, 2024

And don’t call them far-right thugs! Actually, I agree – let’s call them what they are – neo-Nazi scum:

Goebbels was just a local PR operator who got caught up with the wrong crowd.#NeverVoteReform #NeverVoteConservative https://t.co/nvVF7ozkqQ

— Simon Gilbert ⚒️ (@simon_gunyah) August 6, 2024

If he has a problem with that too, Anderson can take it up with the ‘patriotic protesters’ making Nazi salutes and praising fascists with swastika tattoos. I hear it’s “pure British” body art in Anderson’s ‘right’ crowds these days.

If anything, the pogroms are the violent, visible face of the UK’s systemic racism and Islamophobia. People highlighted Anderson’s mind-blowingly blatant double standards. His comments on this, to his opinion on the cops stamping on a Muslim man’s head at Manchester airport provided the perfect case study in the pertinence of the “this you?” meme:

Lee Anderson has gone from defending police officers kicking people in the head to defending rioters as hapless dweebs who might have had a bit too much to drink and fell in with the wrong crowd. Can’t for the life of me work out what the difference is between his two stances…

— Georgia Lewis (@georgialewis76) August 6, 2024

Lee Anderson – I applaud that policeman for booting that restrained man in the head

Also Lee Anderson – The rioters aren’t far right, they just had a beer too many and fell in with the wrong crowd… don’t jail them… sit down and try and talk to them

pic.twitter.com/D3ouHpJ98M

— Stuzi 🐝🐝 (@stuzi_pants) August 6, 2024

Because suddenly, two-tier policing is all the gormless gammon rage:

Every law and order fascist wants restorative justice the moment a nazi is arrested https://t.co/T2VPp48Oj2

— Mallory Moore (@Chican3ry) August 6, 2024

Two Tier Politics in action – https://t.co/NdumqefmAg

— Gavin Esler (@gavinesler) August 6, 2024

While we’re on the topic of two-tier political punditry, it was the prime example of the far right hate-propagator’s rank double standards:

An example of @LeeAndersonMP_ on said Two Tier Media. @LeeAndersonMP_ is also employed by this Two Tier media channel so this interview is GB News employee interviewing fellow GB News employee 🤷‍♂️ https://t.co/sYUlPj7Vpc

— Jamie Deakin (@JamieRdeakin) August 6, 2024

Of course, it’s not the only channel engaging in this right-wing corporate media nepotism this week. I raise you, the GMB host Ed Balls- home secretary Yvette Cooper marital bliss-take.

Right-wing politics to gobshite gammon pipeline

30p Lee is the poster-boy for the rightwing Labour to Tory, to Farage cult pipeline:

Lee Anderson, ex-Labour MP, ex-Tory MP & now Reform MP & GB News ‘commentator’. Always the racist bigot that you’d want to avoid down the pub. https://t.co/FcMksvakNW

— Alistair Sinclair (@Alistair1965) August 6, 2024

Because when it comes down to it, there’s not really a fag paper between the nasty bully-boys of Reform, the Tory Bullingdon boys club, and Labour’s class traitor billionaire stooges – and it shows.

Take Starmer then. For his two cents – or 30p if you like, the gammon-baiting grifter veered so far to the right, it has been hard to make head nor tails of where Labour begin, and the Tory/Reform fash begin. Probably also because he’s so far up his own arse, we can’t make out a shred of decency or integrity among his migrant “crackdown”, “smash” the boats diatribes. Then there’s the Forde report, the party’s treatment of Abbott, Shaheen, and its Muslim voters. Need I go on?

Let’s not forget Labour hung Farage opponent and Black candidate Jovan Owusu-Nepaul out to dry just days before the election.

Reform race riots: maybe some milkshakes?

One poster on X had a helpful interpretation of Anderson’s gobshite:

So what I *think* Lee Anderson is saying is that you can throw rocks at the windows of his home and his car and he doesn’t want you to go to prison… 🤷🏼‍♂️

Noted! 📝 https://t.co/8iPKZdoJYA

— T h ø m a s (@Arsenal_Calcio) August 6, 2024

May as well throw a few milkshakes over his racist, Islamophobic thick skull while you’re at it. They just GoT IN wItH ThE WrOnG CrOWd Lee:

Reform UK MP Lee Anderson claims rioters ‘aren’t right-wing thugs’ and ‘probably got involved with the wrong crowd’ – (photo shows example of ‘the wrong crowd’) pic.twitter.com/sEPKHsX3BL

— Have I Got News For You (@haveigotnews) August 6, 2024

If you’re a white “working class lad” then, Anderson will just sit down with you for a chat. But who in their right mind would actually want that?

Feature image via X – GB News