Wes Streeting
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And that is why, for all the grief it took and the bereavement I felt and the risk...
I felt I couldn't stay.
And it's why I just urge my colleagues to look at what's going on in the country, to look at the results we've just seen at the ballot box, and to listen to the voters.
Very much so.
And one of the things that...
has moved me and like the thing that has exercised me is the people I represent on the London-Essex border they're not just frightened of what we're seeing they're experiencing it I've got I've got boys in one of my local secondary school
who were actually quite emotional, which is quite something for teenage boys to do in front of each other, describing to me their direct experience of racism in this, one of the most diverse cities on earth.
I had one of my constituents, who's a Muslim woman, walking down Oxford Street, wearing a hijab, broad light of day, first thing in the morning, busy metropolitan shopping mall,
District.
Verbal abuse.
Man tries to forcibly remove her hijab.
I had one of my party members almost in tears at one of our most recent meetings because one of her kids was abused coming out of the local tube station with racist abuse.
This is an online phenomenon, sure, and that's a really big challenge.
But this is also happening on our streets and we've got to take it seriously.
And as for Musk...
And as for the tech brollygarks that are either complicit in their platforms being used to incite hatred or are actively fermenting it, and look at what Grok did this week, doxing the wrong police officer, but whether it was the right police, doxing people.
Now she's come under threat and her family's come under threat.
Lewis, this is the rule of the mob, not the rule of law.
And again, like,
When you see the pillars of society being shaken in this way, democracy, freedom, the rule of law, we have to act.