‘Brummies uniti contro il razzismo’: la campagna di manifesti prende l’estrema destra | Birmingham
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/12/brummies-united-against-racism-birmingham-poster-campaign-takes-on-the-far-right
di JackStrawWitchita
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Must say Jenrick is good at one thing – uniting people against him.
“The Birmingham campaign has been inundated with people who want to show solidarity with people of colour and religious minorities under increasing threat. “People are literally begging us on WhatsApp, can we have a poster?” said Anthony, who lives on the same street as Mus. To meet the demand, a [fundraiser](https://www.gofundme.com/f/brummies-united-against-racism-and-hate-poster-campaign) has been launched to print out 10,000 posters and distribute them across the city.
“Birmingham is a multicultural city and I think it’s important to stand in solidarity with our neighbours, regardless of race, culture or religion,” he said. “Recent events such as flagging and rise of Reform UK are not things I feel comfortable with.”
The campaign also hopes to spread beyond the city. According to Mus, activists in Worcester want to mobilise a similar, poster-led initiative.”
Good, but this looks like the Birmingham branch of the Guardian readers club.
These people will have zero resonance with those living in more deprived communities, the communities the likes of Reform are targeting. If they looked like or better still were people living in the deprived inner city and council estate areas they might resonate with these people and get the message through.
Think about The Specials (who were from Coventry) and other ska bands of the era who were doing their thing to combat racism, they looked like and felt like they were from more deprived communities. They got their message across because they were “just like us”.
>The leaflet, written by a far-right group, was distributed along her street three years ago in Moseley, a leafy suburb of Birmingham. It went on to blame NHS waiting lists, a shortage of social housing and even traffic on “the rising population”.
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These things are pretty self evident outside the leafy suburbs.
“When Mus unfurled the leaflet lying on her driveway, she was left shocked, angry and upset. “White Britons are already a minority in London …”
White British are a minority in London (37%), Birmingham (43%), Leicester (41%), manchester (48%), and Luton (45%) according to the 2021 census.
When you break down the white British into their respective subgroups (NI, Wales, English and Scottish), representation is obviously even smaller, such that white English account for around – 30% of London, 33% of Leicester, 37% of Luton and Birmingham and 40% of Manchester.
So, there have been noticeable demographic shifts in recent decades that have led to reduced numbers of White British and White English subgroups in major British cities.
Mus’s shock and anger doesn’t deligitimise anyone’s experience of the demographic shifts that have happened.
Until we confront the reality of failed immigration policy over the past decades, with regards to unsustainable numbers, poor integration, and lack of social cohesion, we will not be able to heal as a society.
I therefore feel such articles are unhelpful to the debate as they only serve to restrict meaningful change that needs to occur, so we can move towards a better future.
“Wealthy suburbanites united for policies whose consequences they are too comfortable ever to feel”
Love to see communities standing together like this — real strength comes from unity, not hate.
Another one of these things that needs to change from what you’re against, to what you are for.
No shame in saying you are pro-migrant, and accept the good things that come from that, or even the mundane!