Crime always pays for the Tories – that’s why they turn to it again and again | Martin Kettle

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The government’s law and order crackdown displays the performative cruelty that Priti Patel has made her own, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

Political campaigns like this are best described as performative cruelty, a policy-light approach whose central purpose is to savour the potential anguish of those it defines as threats. Donald Trump was a master of it; for him, the cruelty was all. Among all current British politicians, performative cruelty is also Patel’s particular stock in trade. It is to be found everywhere in her politics: in her approach to asylum seekers in the Channel, to the penal system and to crime.

 

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If only the socialist daily could tell us a single labour policy with any detail.

Crime ( and stabbing and rapes and extremism and drug dealers ), always pay the intelligentsia who remove pics & statues ignoring forced married INFIBULATION an a sense of faith v the Europeans waiting for the truth !

That’s how it should be isn’t it? We want our government to be tough on criminals

this clown still going to pay for the UK indirect domination of Tunisia and the Qatari role as their front cover, you cannot enforce the law against people while you exempt yourself from it, and you cannot blackmail governments in need of financial help by the vaccine.

Couldn't tell at first if this was a piece about corruption or political messaging.

Isn't it like some strange science fiction movie that this guy and Donald Trump kind of look alike and both serve the elite classes? Both inadvertently or purposefully engaged in behaviors and policies that seem to benefit their nation's enemies. Weird

It would help if they achieved anything. Its always jam tomorrow. Their priority is the economy. Mainly helping the rich get richer with a few peanuts for the rest of citizens, sometimes stale ones!

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