Lucy Frazer vs Lineker
Dear Ms Lucy Frazer, In the House of Commons on March 9 2023, you spoke as minister for Culture, Media and Sport in respect of Gary Lineker’s tweet (1). Please explain why “as somebody whose grandmother escaped Nazi Germany in the 1930s, I think it’s really disappointing and inappropriate to compare government policy on immigration to events in the 1930s” (2)? What makes any reference or comparison to the events of Nazi Germany in the 1930s disappointing and inappropriate? Is it your opinion that what the Nazis did to the Jews with their final solution of concentration camps and gas ovens was so much worse than the home secretary’s proposed “The Illegal Immigration Bill” that descendants of those who suffered the Nazi atrocities will feel their suffering is being trivialised by comparison? Do you feel that? In the 1970’s I attended a school in London. Although not a bad school, it wrestled with the effects of poorly handled immigration and the racial hatred that created. A working-clas...