Lord Dubs, who came to the UK from Prague, said: “I think anything that encourages hostility and is undermining mutual respect, undermining compassion, is xenophobic in its intent and xenophobic in its consequences. And that’s not the sort of thing we would expect a senior politician in the Tory party to be talking about.
It’s exactly what I’d expect them to talk about. I don’t know why you’d have high expectations of Conservatives.
Naich@lemmings.world 1 week ago
“However, Alf Dubs, a Labour peer who came to the UK as a child refugee, said he believed xenophobia was an accurate description of Jenrick’s comments in the Mail on Sunday last weekend in which Jenrick said the arrival of asylum seekers on small boats made him fear for his daughters’ safety and that he would not want them as neighbours.”
How the fuck is that not xenophobic?