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Sep 30, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
The MV Earl William, a former cross Channel ferry, was purchased and used to house up to 240 asylum seekers in 1987. It broke free in a storm after 6 months and the occupants had to be rescued, at which point that experiment was abandoned. Until now...
As I wrote in Welcome to Britain, “the government of the day was unafraid of or indifferent to accusations of using a Napoleonic-era floating prison hulk.”
I only mentioned Blair’s ‘regional protection zones’ plan from 2003 in passing in the book (p129...) because I thought that idea was (rightly) dead and buried.
It seems like there’s nothing new under the sun. The differences today are that there are less than half the number of asylum seekers entering the country and over half of them get asylum from the Home Office now compared to 4% in the late 1990s (p138...).

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Apr 23
🧵 1. The Illegal Migration Act prohibits any person arriving illegally after 7 March 2023 from being granted asylum or legal status. One of three things can happen to them: (a) be removed to a third country, (b) voluntarily depart to their own country or (c) stay in the UK with no legal status.
2. Voluntary departures likely to be tiny. So unless no. of removals to Rwanda is equal to or greater than number of new arrivals, there will be an ever-growing perma-backlog of asylum seekers who can never be granted status. More people will enter the backlog than leave it.
3. No-one thinks more than a couple of thousand of people a year can ever be removed to Rwanda, if that. So new arrivals have to reduce from c.70-80k per year to around c.2k per year or less.
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Feb 21
1. I don’t think preventing care workers bringing their family will cause a shortage of care workers. I agree with @alanmanning4 and @robfordmancs on this. Plenty will still want to come here without family.
2. It is possible the average profile of care workers might change from women with partners and children to women or men without dependent children or partners. Not likely though.
3. The countries of origin may change. Some countries from which care workers traditionally originate have a long tradition of emigration for work and sending remittances home to families.
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Dec 22, 2023
1. I don’t know about you but I’m totally exhausted. Doesn’t help that I’ve been bed-ridden for most of the last week, admittedly. The recent government “climbdown” on the minimum income rule for spouses and partners is a good illustration of why I’m so, so tired of it all.
2. The pattern is a deliberately or incompetently over-egged govt announcement which is so stupid or outrageous it will have a calamitous effect. Outcry and reality intervene. The government “compromises”. But the new plan is still a terrible one.
3. It looks to the media like a government climbdown and a victory for the campaigners. That’s the story. They move on. All the energy goes out of the campaign. We’re stuck with the compromise, no matter how terrible it is.
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Sep 26, 2023
1. When Braverman (and many others) claims that refugees who passed through safe countries aren’t real refugees, she is arguing those safe countries should do more than they do already. Think about it in the real world for a moment.
2. In the UK we receive VERY few refugees compared to, say, France and Germany. Never mind Poland or Turkey or further away. Are we seriously telling those countries to “step up” or whatever, while we do so little?
3. And what are those countries supposed to do anyway? Detain refugees to prevent their onward movement? Accept transfer from us even though they already receive far, far more refugees than us?
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Jun 29, 2023
Rwanda case live stream here, now: youtube.com/live/ilGULIDgF…
Appeal allowed on Rwanda being safe - as in, the claimants succeed on that ground.
There are substantial grounds for believing genuine refugees might be returned from Rwanda to their own countries to face persecution.
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Jun 19, 2023
1. I know there are many that disagree with me on this but I’m fine in principle with citizens having more rights and preferential treatment in some ways than temporary migrants or even permanent residents. That’s kind of what citizenship is. But in the UK it is complicated…
2. Under the ‘immigration’ (actually quasi nationality) reforms of the 1960s and 1970s, fully codified in the British Nationality Act 1981, many former citizens were turned into permanent residents. This was the Windrush generation.
3. They retained some citizenship-like rights including voting, access to social safety net and the NHS and so on. But they were denied full citizenship rights. Their residence was precarious: they lacked proof and they were deportable at the discretion of the Home Secretary.
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