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Published 10:08 13 Jul 2021 BST
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"I am disgusted (editor's note: lol) that England players who have given so much for our country this summer have been subject to vile racist abuse on social media. It has no place in our country and I back the police to hold those responsible accountable."Here's a refresher of what she said when racists booed the same players taking the knee. Long story short, she called the knee - a gesture not instigated by a Marxist group in Hackney but rather Martin Luther King Junior - 'gesture politics'. Most right-minded people found what she said absurd, none more so than England international defender Tyrone Mings, who clearly has a longer memory than Patel would hope, as he called her out for her - even by Tory standards - woefully cynical cake-eating attempts. He said:
"You don’t get to stoke the fire at the beginning of the tournament by labelling our anti-racism message as ‘Gesture Politics’ & then pretend to be disgusted when the very thing we’re campaigning against, happens."https://twitter.com/OfficialTM_3/status/1414655312074784785?s=20 Great words by Tyrone Mings. If only we had an opposition leader willing to do the same.
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