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I suspect that Johnson-nominated peers will not want to share the ‘honour’ that I and a relatively small band of us are enjoying, to stay till midnight or so battling against the inhumanity of the govt’s treatment of refugees in the #IllegalMigrationBill
I told a lie. We have not stopped at midnight. The govt is exerting macho power by forcing us to debate crucial issues about their plans for arbitrary indefinite detention into the early hours of the morning.
I had better restrain what I say about them, it is unprintable
At 00.20 - look it up later - my colleague @Paulscriven gave magnificent vent to his feelings about the govt front bench contemptuously making us debate issues of life & liberty of vulnerable people at this hour of the night, ‘just to be able to wave red meat at the red wall’.
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Repeating some of my thoughts on the #IllegalMigrationBill as it begins its House of Lords stages. It is undoubtedly designed to reduce human rights protections for migrants, disapplying aspects of the Human Rights Act … /1
The government accepts the Bill may well breach a whole toxic soup of ECHR rights (life, torture, slavery, fair trial, detention, family & private life, discrimination, right to a remedy) /2
It makes it more difficult, or impossible, for claimants to challenge decisions or enforce their rights in the UK courts. Thus the likelihood is that more cases will go to the ECtHR in Strasbourg, setting up the risk of a clash there /3
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If the UK Government goes ahead with proposals to detain asylum seekers on cruise ships and barges today, it will be repeating history 🧵Please RT #IllegalMigrationBill #AsylumSeekers @BBCNews @guardian
In 1776, British politicians decided to bring in a temporary act that authorised the use of disused trading ships to be used as floating prisons. ‘Hulks’ were in fact used for over 80 years, across the Victorian era.
Have you seen the new @BBCOne #GreatExpectations? Hulks are hitting the headlines again today, but not for the right reasons
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*precisely* why tories are *SO* desperate to create a cultural divide via #IllegalMigrationBill

Braverman *explicitly* dog whistled to far right & #PatrioticAlternative on #KGBNews

tories *WANT* the far right & fascists to scream:

"Immigrants are criminals & rapists"
watch & listen carefully to what Suella Braverman says here, whilst clearly, *VISIBLY* sat in front of her special "Red Box" to add weight & authority to what she is saying as the *Home Secretary*

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🧵Last night, hundreds braved the wind and rain in Parliament Square as the House voted on the #IllegalMigrationBill to make their thoughts on this hateful legislation clear: 1/
The impromptu #StopTheBill demonstration heard from former refugees and campaigners like @haoussou, who called on the Government to reject the Home Secretary’s nativist Bill and show solidarity with people across the world affected by conflict 2/
.@Ntunasi reminded the crowd that the Government’s harping about ‘illegal asylum seekers’ grossly oversimplifies the reality of finding your way to a safe destination as a refugee 3/
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