no, the leave campaign originally started out by saying it was an economic decision to not seem racist, but once pretty much every leading economist, the IMF, the bank of england etc came out to say that was bullshit, they swiftly started bringing out the racism.

The leave side have been massively scaremongering over immigration, and anti-immigration stuff is probably the biggest reason why people are voting leave.

She was an aid worker before becoming an MP last year and has campaigned for help for refugees and immigrants, particularly children. I think her stance made her a target.

There are two main components to the argument: the economic side, which Remain are generally considered to have won, and the immigration side, for which Leave feel they have the stronger case.

If his local MP had been someone like Ed Balls or Andy Burnham, do you think he’d have had the nerve to walk right up to them on a public street and stab them? My bet is on no.

There’s been a lot of racism against people from Eastern Europe coming to the UK to work... It’s the same kind of “They’re taking our jobs!!!” racism that you see here in the US. It’s also partially due to the fact that according to its EU obligations Britain has to take refugees, which a lot of nationalists don’t…

Staying in the EU makes it easier for immigrants to come to the UK, as I understand. So yes, there is some aspect of race there. Nationalism, xenophobia, and racism are very closely linked.

Instead of educating myself on the issues, I saw JK Rowling tweeted #StrongerIn, so I support GB staying in the EU.

He’s trying to underline the point that immigrants are the ones who pose a violent threat to society.

I started crying at my desk when I read this. There is no place a woman is safe. Jo Cox was literally just standing on a public street, outside a library.

I saw that there’s already an American tweeting at the BBC about how he ‘didn’t think things like this happened in the UK’ and how all the bystanders running away from the shooter were ‘fucking cowards.’ Doesn’t take long for these pieces of shit to show up.

This makes me so afraid for our awesome progressive female politicians. Good to know that male fragility and racism is a threat to even elected politicians.

As someone who has been hearing a lot about a potential Brexit over the past couple weeks, I actually spent yesterday evening educating myself on the issue. I figured I would probably fall pretty handily on the “Remain” side, but I figure I probably shouldn’t assume without reading up... my instinct was right. And now…

It’s like any other wreck... Gotta confirm... “Yup... it’s insanity over there.”

Jayda Fransen, deputy leader of Britain First, said the party was “looking into the reports right now”. “We were extremely shocked to see these reports and we are keen to confirm them, because of course at the moment it is hearsay,” she said. “This has just been brought to our attention. This is absolutely not the…

And if anyone comes on saying that gun laws don’t work cos of this they can kindly go fuck themselves.

Apparently there are at least three seperate witnesses saying that the guy was yelling “Britain First” so sadly this probably was a political murder.

This is comparatively local to me, and it’s breaking my heart.

I think ultimately it depends upon how much investment the instagrammer has in the product. For example, I follow Sarah Michelle Gellar and she really seems to care about the product she’s promoting (perhaps because she’s a stakeholder in it), so I think more people are willing to buy that product. Whereas Naomi…

Probably. I’ve never known anyone to buy a pair of shoes that they saw on instagram, but I know plenty of people who get their skincare/haircare “recommendations” that way. I’ve heard people say “oh, X has oily skin like me and uses Y product so I’m going to pick it up”, and I’ve heard “X always talks about her issues…