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What Happened When I Visited the Choose Love Pop-Up Store

Sadiq Khan and a host of celebrities have been visiting the Choose Love pop-up on Regent Street, but as Charlotte Gill reveals, behind the glossy PR and pricey merch lies a selective silence on migrant crime.

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This week Sadiq Khan made a visit to the Regent Street pop-up store of the charity Choose Love. He is not the only one to do so. As well as an onslaught of celebrities appearing in recent times, yours truly popped in earlier in the month. Today I will share my findings with Daily Sceptic readers just to cheer you all up at this festive time.

But before that, a quick recap: Choose Love is a registered charity in the UK (and there is also “Choose Love, Inc” in the US) which says it is “a movement of people who are using love to make the world a better place”. On social media it posts messages such as “REFUGEES WELCOME HERE” and “Choose Love over hate. Stand with refugees.” Its very slogan implies that one’s attitude to border control is simply a matter of whether you “choose love” or (presumably) hate. Never do you see anyone representing Choose Love discuss the murder of Rhiannon Whyte last year by a Sudanese asylum seeker, who stabbed her 23 times with a screwdriver. In fact, the Choose Love pop-up actually had this display inside it:

Nor would Choose Love representatives bring up Wayne Broadhurst, who was stabbed to death as he walked his dog in Uxbridge. An Afghan refugee has been accused of fatally stabbing Broadhurst along with the attempted murder of his landlord and a 14 year-old boy. Did they not “Choose Love”?

Choose Love’s pop-up store is

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johnn635
johnn635
8 months ago

If people want to give their time and money then they are welcome to do so in the name of free speech. However, looking back to similar campaigns they will go away in the light of reality. Did we ‘Ban the Bomb’, ‘Flower Power’ ‘Crazy Horses’.

Just wait, although feel free to voice opposition.

NMSmith
NMSmith
8 months ago

I don’t think it’s a good idea to attract so many people to this country. If people are genuinely fleeing something in their own country, it’s not realistic that they can all come to Europe and UK. Surely it’s the responsibility of the country they’re fleeing from to sort themselves out. If everybody flees their country to the West, things will never improve. Also it’s’ clear that migration is causing problems in the UK and so we need to stop granting asylum to so many people at the present time, especially as it’s unlikely that they are all genuine. We have so many of our own problems to sort out. Instead of spending so much money on hotels etc., more money should be spent on investigating and trying to mitigate some of the problems that lead people to come to this country in the first place

However, that does not mean it’s necessary to paint all migrants as rapists and criminals.

coviture2020
coviture2020
8 months ago

Frequented and run by people who will never be exposed to the excesses of unfettered immigration

Epi
Epi
8 months ago

Looks like a very professional sign for an “impromptu set” – these people really do take us for fools.

Bloss
Bloss
8 months ago

🤢🤢🤢

Corky Ringspot
Corky Ringspot
8 months ago

I’m gonna need a bigger bucket.

Gezza England
Gezza England
8 months ago

Referring to the banner in the pic above the one of the retarded female in the stupid specs, I have often had to make journeys across the sea. Everytime I wanted to go on holiday other than on this island. But then I used a ferry and probably paid much less than the immigramts do.

Tonka Rigger
Tonka Rigger
8 months ago

It’s almost a parody of itself.

sskinner
sskinner
8 months ago

Love certainly has borders.
And since when were What is racism? and Migrant, Childhood classics?

Gezza England
Gezza England
8 months ago
Reply to  sskinner

Migrant could be all about one man’s journey from some Turd World shithole to the land of rape and honey.

Hound of Heaven
Hound of Heaven
8 months ago

Currently, some interviews for university places now include a surprise discussion on personal attitudes to immigrants (as well as climate bs.). No matter what the subject. No pressure, of course. “Othering” and demonising are to be deplored, unless it’s Trump or Reform, naturally, then that’s fine.

Gezza England
Gezza England
8 months ago

That would suggest it is not a university that is serious nor one you would want to go to.

Hound of Heaven
Hound of Heaven
8 months ago
Reply to  Gezza England

I would delete “serious nor ..” They are very serious indeed.

Jonathan M
Jonathan M
8 months ago

I have to hand it to Ms Gill – how she got through that experience without being overcome by uncontrollable vomiting I will never know.

Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
8 months ago
Reply to  Jonathan M

She’s a proper journalist.

WillP
WillP
8 months ago

Fame and celebrity are mentally deforming. Hence why so many of these creeps have trans kids.
A further pice of evidence of mental distortion is the portrayal of the ‘Palestine’ flag in LGBTQUERTY+ colours. Something that would literally get you killed in Gaza or the West bank (AKA Judea and Samaria)

Tonka Rigger
Tonka Rigger
8 months ago
Reply to  WillP

They just can’t rationalise this fact. It would literally make their heads burst were they to try.

Mogwai
Mogwai
8 months ago

Gawd this is puke-inducing. What a load of nauseatingly thick, out of touch women. I wonder how many identify as feminists…I think the same sex chromosomes are all I have in common with such idiots. They’re like a different species. Honorable mention to Chris ‘Woketard’ Martin, who probably identifies as a feminist himself, just like the Khant.🤨
I think their T-Shirts should’ve read “Choose Suicidal Empathy”, as they chug down their Kool-Aid oat milk macchiatos.🧋🤯

transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
8 months ago

As stewart pointed out the other day, it’s the same old left wing tactic of portraying everyone you don’t agree with as a bad person. Who wouldn’t “choose love”?

In a similar vein I saw some houses in my area with “Hold on to hope” posters in the window. Again who wouldn’t want to do that? Turns out it’s a “campaign” of Hope not Hate, which seems to exist primarily as an organisation for promoting open borders and portraying anyone who doesn’t agree as a horrid racist.

“Together, we build HOPEJoin a movement pushing back against hate and standing up for stronger, more united communities. Take action today: sign up, chip in, or explore our latest reports and stories to see the impact we’re making together.”

The above is one of many fluffy phrases that no-one could argue with, surely? But it’s a very particular kind of “hate” they are against.

For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
8 months ago

Were there any signs saying “Love Israel”

Jonathan M
Jonathan M
8 months ago

I think your question answers itself!

John Kitchen
John Kitchen
8 months ago

They don’t offer their spare rooms to the “refugees” they love so much though, so they do understand the true situation really.

How about changing their name to “Choose to Show Off”?

The Enforcer
The Enforcer
8 months ago
Reply to  John Kitchen

Good piece about people I have never met in real life. Do these naive, virtue signalling persons actually exist in the real world? Either they have too much time on their hands or they are backed by people with more money than sense who are hellbent on changing our British way of life.

Ben Bellak
Ben Bellak
8 months ago

Who is Sharon Horgan?

transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
8 months ago
Reply to  Ben Bellak

I’ve never heard of her

WillP
WillP
8 months ago
Reply to  Ben Bellak

Someone who wrote and starred in a TV series that was funny for about 2.5 episodes, and then spiralled down the woke toilet into a virtue signalling drama for the next three series

RTSC
RTSC
8 months ago

Someone’s making an awful lot of money out of the gullible, virtue-signalling, luvvies and naive girlies.

spud
spud
8 months ago

Two peaked caps – a good alternative mask for Palestine marchers.
Who are Sharon and Chris?
At least the 3rd year felt objects weren’t made in China.
Someone please buy those shoes for a trans friend.

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