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- 2015 Elections: 11 new BME MP’s make history
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- International Commissioners condemn the appalling murder of Tyre Nichols
- Iqbal Wahhab OBE empowers Togo prisoners
- Job Vacancy: Head of Campaigns and Communications
- Media and Public Relations Officer for Jean Lambert MEP (full-time)
- Number 10 statement - race disparity unit
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- The Colour of Power 2021
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- The UK election voter registration countdown begins now
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Race hate thugs kill Polish man
Six race hate thugs beat a man to death after hearing him speak a foreign language. The young men from Harlow, Essex all thought to be in their teens set upon Arkadiusz Jozwik like a pack of wolves, kicking and punching him and his friend outside a pizza parlor on Saturday night.
Arkadiusz brother, Radek revealed these attacks on polish people in Harlow are not new:
It’s happening a lot now. Nobody calls the police, they just walk home and forget about it.”
It will be difficult to see the unprovoked attack outside the prism of the xenophobic rise since the EU referendum debate and the vote.
Police and monitoring groups have recorded hundreds of attacks and racially abusive insults in the last few months. Operation Black Vote and others warned that a tragedy of this kind might occur given the hate filled rhetoric around the immigration debate that was central to much of the Brexit narrative.
For some people in some parts of the country we now have a climate in which they feel that racial hatred has become legitimized. For example, a caller on a recent radio phone in explained, ‘for so long we couldn’t say what we wanted about immigrants, but now we can’.
The Government has set up a Hate Crime team to tackle the recent spike in this crime. Sadly, it was too late to save a man who came here to better his life for himself and his family.
Simon Woolley