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MEP has claimed the white working classes are not being listened to, and that’s what led to the far-rightthere are a “myriad” of causes behind the anti-migration unrest which has swept through the country in the last week and a half.She said that included socio-economic reasons and the polarising language around migrants – while also claiming that not enough attention was being paid to the white working classes.
“Perhaps we need to take stock of why there is such resentment now within the white working classes,” she said.However, presenter Katie Razzall hit back: “There’s a lot of people who don’t get what they want, but they don’t end up resorting to street violence.” “And yes, there are extremists who then try to profit from that, they try to capitalise on that,” she said. “That is the fertile ground of resentment within which they’re going to start being able to turn people around to their narrative.
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