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The Tory government is exaggerating the scale of the refugee situation to curry favour with its xenophobic and racist base. This base has been active in the current Channel crisis. On 20 November, a Royal National Lifeboat Institution volunteer crew was “blocked” from launching out to sea on an emergency call-out by a small crowd which accused the crew of going to the rescue of “illegal” asylum seekers. Bigots of this kind are being egged-on by far-right politicians, like Nigel Farage who described the RNLI as "a taxi service for illegal immigration." More
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This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org and was authored by Kenneth Surin.