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Alt-Right Ipswich MP, Tom Hunt, Send Refugees to “a safe European country, Rwanda.”

Tom Hunt is the Conservative MP for Ipswich. His background includes He was head of media for the Countryside Alliance which campaigned for hunting (hah!) and shooting. Hunt holds alt-right views, railing against ‘Cultural Marxism’ (1) and is a member of the Common Sense group of Tory MPs who fight ‘wokeness’. One of his first acts on becoming MP in 2019 was to join the Brexit ultras of the European Research Group, . In April 2021, Hunt called for the flying of the Union Jack to be made compulsory in all schools, stating on Twitter that “If any pupils and teachers have concerns about this then surely they can be “educated” about what the flag actually represents”.
Recently, the 13th of April, Hunt was again in the news:
Mr Hunt claimed that the Prime Minister didn’t break any law and suggested calls for his resignation are premature.
“Aren’t you belittling it in a way?” Andrew asked, to which Mr Hunt said the public are “right to feel angry and upset at what happened.”
Andrew pushed the Tory MP: “If Boris didn’t break the laws, did the Met get it wrong?”
“It would be a bit much for me to say”, he said.
“From what I can see I think the decision was a bit harsh to fine the Prime Minister and to fine the Chancellor.”
And this,
“Mr Hunt had said that the Prime Minister had not knowingly broken the law and that the event he had been fined for, when he was presented with a birthday cake, came after Mr Johnson almost died, and that “they’ve done a surprise greeting with a birthday cake. I don’t judge that to be a party”.
A Conservative MP responded like a toddler when he was criticised for defending Boris Johnson.
He has also wadded into this controversy:
Much merriment was created when this story appeared (19/4/22)
Tory MP Suffers From Foot-In-Mouth On Live TV As He Forgets Where Rwanda Is
Appearing on the BBC’s Politics Live programme on Tuesday, Hunt described the plan as an “offshoring processing” strategy which would allow the asylum seekers to stay in Europe – even though Rwanda is in East Africa.
He told the panel: “I’ve often felt that offshore processing is the only way to truly tackle this issue.
“This is obviously offshore processing to stay in Rwanda, not here,” presenter Jo Coburn said.
He replied: “To stay in a safe European country, Rwanda.”
A divisive figure, yesterday Hunt said in the Ipswich Star,
I firmly believe that schools should be helping our younger generations grow up with a strong understanding of British values. I also think it is important that schools create a sense of pride in our country. Sadly, this seems to be something which some on the Left disagree with.
(1) Ipswich Star 2020. “I do think it is unfortunate that some of the leadership figures of BLM have at times strayed beyond what should be a powerful yet simple and unified message in opposition to racism that still exists in our society, straying into cultural Marxism, the abolition of the nuclear family, defunding the police, overthrowing capitalism.”
Stop the War Coalition Challenges “the idea that (invasion of Ukraine) is “a battle between “Western civilisation and Russian degeneracy.”

Stop the War Coalition…..
(I note that after being widely mocked for having the likes of Tariq Ali posing as experts on Ukraine the StWC had finally got a Ukrainian people to speak, a pacifist Yuri Sheliazhenko and, “Ukrainian activist Oksana Solomou (who) said her home city of Chernihiv had been “60 percent destroyed by the Russian invasion” and that “40 percent of houses had been destroyed”. But she opposed Nato intervention. ” *).
Socialist Worker.
Around 400 people joined an online teach-in on Saturday analysing the roots and consequences of the war in Ukraine. It was organised by the Stop the War Coalition, which opposes the Russian invasion but also calls for no Nato escalation.
The size of the meeting shows there is an audience for those who do not go along with the dominant idea that the only villain is Vladimir Putin and that Nato is some sort of humanitarian body. The meeting was supposed to be a physical event, but the spread of Covid forced it on to Zoom. This restricted the opportunities for interchange of views, but it was still a useful event.
(Name the other villains!)
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Chris Nineham, the vice-chair of the Stop The War Coalition, said the invasion had been a “disaster for the people of Ukraine but also for those in the region and across the world”.
But he challenged the idea that it was a battle between “Western civilisation and Russian degeneracy” (has anybody ever ever said that?). Instead he argued the need to recognise that “rivalries of big power competition” are central. He said the West’s propaganda was “shockingly hypocritical, Eurocentric and amnesiac, an attempt to bury the history of what they have done”.
He said the anti-war movement in Britain had been on the streets and would “need to do it again”. But he said that there was also a need for “education and organisation—public meetings and teach-ins”.
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Rob Ferguson, a member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and the Stop the War Coalition steering committee, spoke. He said that the West’s manoeuvres had intensified the divisions and hostilities in Ukraine. He particularly pointed to the Bucharest Nato summit of 2008 that welcomed Georgia and Ukraine’s “aspirations for membership” and had led almost immediately to war in Georgia.”
So, it is Nato to blame all along.
Building the anti-war movement is vital to stopping the horrors of the war in Ukraine
Read this perisher’s puff…..
march for Ukraine
rob marsden reports on Saturday’s protest in ‘Solidarity with Ukraine’.