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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
John Crace

Up pops Katie Lam to outbigot Robert Jenrick on the nastiness scale

Katie Lam.
Speak to people inside the Tory party and they will tell you that Katie Lam is one of their rising stars. Photograph: Jonathan Hordle/ITV/Shutterstock

Oi. You there. The foreign looking one. I can see you. Don’t try to sneak away and hide. Your time is up. We’ve had enough of you. And don’t try to play the racist card. It’s nothing to do with the colour of your skin. I hate everyone who isn’t British. What’s that? You have indefinite leave (ILR) to remain? Well, not any more you don’t. Look. It’s not personal. It’s just that you’re not culturally coherent. If you get my drift. You somehow don’t look right. Smell funny. You don’t fit in.

Welcome to the new Compassionate Conservatism. Remember the old days? Theresa May’s hostile environment. Home Office vans driving around towns with a sign telling immigrants to bugger off home. Sometimes you can be just too nice. Well, those days of sweet-talking foreigners are over. It’s now clear they aren’t going to leave of their own free will, so the time has come for mass deportations. Enough is enough. Send in the ICE squads now.

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