Belfast Riots & Starmer Courts the Far-Right w/ Dr. Ed Anderson

“Racist violence and rhetoric hasn’t really been effectively shut down, and in fact is often valorized and legitimized by the media and other parts of the political establishment.”

Dr. Edward Anderson, professor at Northumbria University and senior fellow at SOAS, University of London, tells BT Live’s Rania Khalek and Zoe Alexandra the anti-immigrant mob violence that rocked Belfast on June 8 and Southampton a week prior “is part of a much longer picture of appeasement of far-right politics and a real shift in political discourse in this country.”

“Keir Starmer went about essentially establishing the Labour Party as being the antithesis of everything Corbyn stood for and that extended to immigration. He’s really tried to appease the far right.”

“Starmer went about establishing Labour as being the antithesis of everything Corbyn stood for and that extended to immigration. He’s really tried to appease the far right”

Dr. Ed Anderson discusses how Britain’s political elite fueled the Belfast riots