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26 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Echoes of Trump today....1924 US Immigration Act under another GOP President aimed at reducing the number of immigrants flocking to the shores of America resulted in an inglorious moment when a German Ocean Liner, St Louis tried to dock with 1,000 Jewish passengers on board. 👇
The vessel was turned away - over a quarter of the 1,000 Jewish passengers were to perish later in Nazi Concentration Camps. This is the result of a nation's POTUS & legislature acting disproportionately by imposing draconian legislation with little opposition from US Congress.
Today another currently serving GOP President passed 3 executive orders on immigration in early 2017 that resulted in the children of Latin American Immigrants being separated from their parents and locked up in cages.
At this moment half of the parents have not been reunited with their parents. The US must never allow such executive orders and white supremicist racists to ever govern in their name again. #TrumpIsNotAmerica #TrumpOut #TrumpIsLosing

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Time we stopped being blinkered by privileged politicians or the current political system either - all political parties are untrustworthy, really poor value for money and mostly nothing but bloodsucking chancers and liars whom we don’t need to run any country #citizensassembly
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The Tories are up to their old tricks yet again in trying to deflect attention away from their own failures by laying the blame for the sweatshops of Leicester at the door of the local council and police.
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I admire the note of strong optimism but with the exception of England, the growing reality is that the other nations of the union have had more than enough of being tied into the fortunes of English nationalism and the disastrous outcome of decisions made at Westminster!
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The Jenrick scandal is not just a tale of a planning scam but a tiny glimpse of a much bigger issue that has given working class communities in the north of England real food for thought in a sobering realisation that this government is out to price them out of the housing market
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I’ll just leave this here in the faint hope that someone inside the British Labour Party will start acting honestly for once because when not if a second spike occurs in infections, they will carry equal blame as the Tories for a hugely reckless act. Health before Profit!
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