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20 Dec, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Just fuck Rishi Sunak, honestly, and fuck everyone who pretended to think he was fit, too.
I know, I KNOW some people have been able to scrape together some savings during this, but a lot of us really, really haven't. A lot of us lost jobs or got a pay cut that has lasted nearly a year. A lot of us have depended on Statutory Sick Pay which is TOO LOW. Just fuck off.
If the only economic impact on your household this year was saving a bit on your coffees and your commute, I really suggest shutting your trap about it forever.
Wow, that one really made me angry...!
Oh and for the people responding to this who seem to be under the impression I have only just realised all Tories are scum... no. I have not only just realised this. Thanks for your concern.

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22 Dec
On the face of it, this looks good, govt extending the Seasonal Agricultural Workers' visa scheme from 10,000 to 30,000 to address lack of labour for farming industry after the end of Free Movement.
Here's grinchy Zoe to explain why it's bad. Sorry... thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/politi…
Until now, most seasonal agricultural work was taken on by migrants benefitting from the right to Freedom of Movement in the EU. This meant they could come, pick on this farm, move to that farm with the changing harvest, switch into other work, basically just live.
With the end of Free Mov the Home Office insists less & less convincingly that all lower-paid work our industries need can be covered by the domestic work force.

The "pick for Britain" drive to get British workers into these jobs was a car wreck, filling just 15% of vacancies.
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21 Dec
Finally using my free time to read properly the brilliant book I had only previously skimmed, by @aesager, called Against Borders.

Unsurprisingly, it's a book that argues against border controls. & does so very convincingly. But my favourite quote so far deals with the doubters-
"The claim that something is unrealistic often evokes an emotional response, rather than encouraging a clearheaded investigation into reality.

"It biases us in favour of dominant perceptions of the status quo...
"The infeasibility of open borders is more frequently assumed than argued

"And the appeal to 'realism' is too often a rhetorical trick to dismiss, rather than rebut, opponents."
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9 Dec
Right, here is my BIG THOUGHT for today: Yes, radical, transformative change in our immigration system is 100% achievable and we can convince the country of it, too. Sorry for the long thread.

Here is why:
People have views on immigration. People, who in most cases know nothing about the facts of it whatsoever.

Opinion does not fluctuate with facts or policies. Not with the number of immigrants, nor with the strictness of the system they face. These are almost entirely unrelated.
In surveys measuring people's perceptions, people hugely overestimate the number of immigrants in the UK. They also hugely overestimate what percentage of immigrants are made up of any group they're asked about.
So if you're talking about asylum seekers...
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8 Dec
If ending free movement was the most important aspect of Brexit (Tories) or you were happy to be entirely impassive over the fact that it inevitably had to end (Labour) & you were rabidly anti-immigrant (the press, among others) then you never had a soft Brexit on the table 🤷‍♀️
Despite the fact that many of us tried to change that. And I dont care how people wanna posthumously exonerate themselves in all directions. We were all there. We all know where we stood. Free movement was everybody's red line. In the end, Brexit in name only was untenable.
So, er. Here we are. A shit show that's going to damage too many protections to mention (looking fwd to the Tories' employment bill this year...) &, yes, all migrants are fucked over as usual, including folks from all over the world & the EU ones at risk of becoming undocumented.
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29 Nov
Conservative Home Secretaries sign THE deal that will FINALLY END irregular migration from France - A thread.
Theresa May: August 2015

New deal includes establishing a joint "control & command centre" and 500 more UK & FR police officers deployed in the area.

Cost to UK taxpayer: £7 million over 2 years
(on top of further £21 million spent on the issue under May in the preceding year)
Amber Rudd: August 2016

Bit wet this one, mainly words about closer cooperation, just 160 extra police on top of 1,000 already operating daily in the area.

Cost to UK taxpayer: Rudd was given no new funds, BUT £100 mil had already been pledged according to the text of her deal.
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22 Oct
Yesterday, the news was so relentlessly awful for the government. By half way through the day when the free school meals stuff really picked up I said the words out loud: look out for a tough-on-immigration headline tomorrow. #r4today... right on cue 😑
So what's this "new tough policy announcement"? #r4today is reporting that EU citizens with past prison sentences of one year or more will be "turned away" post-Brexit.
This makes no sense - we have established there will be visa-free travel with the EU, so how would they check?
Seems more likely EU citizens will be brought in line with existing rules for non-EU migrants on criminality, i.e. they'll face automatic deportation if they serve a prison sentence of over 12 months here in the UK.

If so, I cannot stress this enough, this is NOT NEWS. #r4today
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