Just to make it clear...I have Conservative friends that are definitely not racist and I know working class would be Labour voters that naively are and read to much S*N. I should have made my post clearer, I omitted to say the amount of press coverage of Corbyn being anti semitic is clearly meant for one purpose and one purpose only. I have never in all my years in The labour Party seen anything anti semitic ..I have seen criticism of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians and have criticised them myself...that doesn't make me or any other person anti semitic.
As for Diane, she had 8 interviews and was told to take a break due to her diabetes, the woman was ill. She wasn't deporting legal immigrants, go read Diane Abboy's twitter if you want to look at real racism...or Guido Fawkes the Tory bloggers forum. The same week Philip Hammond and Michael Gove got their figures wrong, hardly any of it reported.
Dame Ann Average, that's fine, but that's my honest experience of Tory voters is that most of them are racist in one way or another. Anecdotal but in my experience, I've met more racist Tories than non-racist Tories. Usually being 'concerned about immigration' but that concern is usually rooted in something more prejudicial when you scratch the surface - like 'grooming gangs', 'terrorists', 'gang/knife drug culture'. These minorities are frequently presented by as representative of the whole. If you are predisposed to do that on racial lines, then you're a racist.
I suppose if racists are allowed to say, "I'm prejudiced because I've seen this, this, this, in my experience" then I'm allowed to state that most Tories I've met have been unapologetic racists. Maybe I've just been unlucky!
However, almost every Tory voter I've met in my life has been a racist or at the very least, having some animosity towards immigrants. Seriously, I've never met a Tory voter who was prepared to acknowledge any positives among immigrants.
Maybe it's where I live but that is my honest experience that I've never met a Tory voter who didn't have a strong axe to grind against some non-white ethnic group.
I honestly do feel very sorry for you, Carnelian ... I say that with no sarcasm whatsoever, I genuinely do think it must be horrible to live in such a toxic environment
Not horrible, but just annoying. Most are racists in the way that they're not going around marching, abusing anyone or beating anyone up, they just wouldn't want a their neighbour to be, say a Muslim or if they were hiring, they would hire a white even if their CV showed less appropriate experience.
Fair enough, but I'm being honest. Maybe I mix in dodgy circles and yes, to reply to DAA I have known Labour voters who were racist too but I've never met any that were antisemitic. They will exist somewhere, I have no doubt, and I know the type of left wing politics that breeds them but it's not the 'thing' the media is claiming it is and I do seriously think that racism among Tories is vastly more common, unofficially tolerated and even tacitly supported.