Seeing a lot of chat about how it's not fair to call those rioting "far right", and people making excuses for them. If you're doing Nazi salutes on the streets of Britain and engaging in violent disorder, you don't have "legitimate concerns" and you're not a patriot. End of.

Attacking mosques, advice bureaus, libraries, places where people commune, develop, advance. A politics capable of only destroying, not building, funded by some of the most powerful people on earth and encouraged by huge swathes of the political and media class for years.

Last Friday, I held my constituency surgery at #SpellowHub – our recently-refurbished library, which provides support for people to gain education and employment. During last night's shameful scenes, it was burned and ransacked. These criminals care nothing for our community.

🚨NEW: Mick Lynch has urged RMT branches to contact local mosques, refugee centres and solidarity groups to offer the union’s solidarity and support Lynch has called for a "movement-wide response so that we do not allow such vile shows of racism to divide working class unity"

Tonight the far right are being sent a clear message by decent communities all across the UK - we are many, you are few. We cannot stop until racism is off our streets, out of our workplaces and banned online. Well done to the tens of thousands standing up tonight.

Really warms the soul to see these big crowds. Reinforces what a minority that the horrible mob of Robinson, Farage, Musk and the rest of the far right really are.

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Eric Pickles (now a Lord) was the minister in charge of fire safety before the Grenfell fire. When he appeared in front of the Grenfell inquiry he told them not to waste his time.

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