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‘Marxism’ wins? Tory MP boycotted England’s game over taking the knee and it made victory even sweeter

Petty or standing up against ‘Marxism?’ either way one Tory MP didn’t watch a team blessed by immigration comprehensively beat the Ukraine 4-0.

Gareth Southgate’s side will take on Denmark at Wembley on Wednesday evening and the winners of that game will face the victors of the Italy v Czech Republic match held at the same ground on Tuesday.

Lee Anderson said the national team’s decision to take the knee was supporting a ‘political movement’ and risked alienating ‘traditional supporters’.

‘For the first time in my life I will not be watching my beloved England team whilst they are supporting a political movement whose core principles aim to undermine our very way of life,’ the MP for Ashfield in Nottinghamshire declared in a Facebook post.

Well as you can imagine the folks on social media had to say about it?

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Joe Mellor

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