Good to hear someone point out that last summer the govt spent £16 million on another fence in Calais (worked so well), alongside many millions more on vanity projects since.
When the political will is there, money can always be found. Just not for our school kids today #r4today
(Someone, in this case, being the chair of the education committee, Robert Halfon. A Tory who seems to have spotted that his party only picks from its magic money tree when it feels like it.)
It's genuinely interesting how this government chooses to pick political battles over children's welfare issues.
You'd think the wide public support for, you know, feeding and educating kids in this country would sway them even if their conscience didn't... but not a bit of it.
LOL I did think it was odd that a Tory was slamming the Calais fence!! They just replayed the clip and he said £16 billion on DEFENCE... not a fence!!! 💀💀
Point stands. They did spend £16 million on a fence and it was another enormous waste of money! #r4today
I tweet immediately i wake up and half listen to r4 until (I think) I hear an immigration tid bit. This will teach me lmao.

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4 Jun
The UK & Denmark still locked in a despicable race to the bottom on how to slither out of responsibility for refugee protection.

Both of these two rich countries have given themselves permission to send asylum seekers away to any other country on Earth... amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun…
Of course the problem for both is it's not just your own permission you need to palm off your asylum responsibilities on other countries, but those other countries' permission too.

Neither has yet managed to convince another country why on Earth they should take on our refugees?
Interesting (in a completely sickening way) that each takes a slightly different tactic for ducking reviewing the protection claims of a few thousand desperate people.

Denmark seeks to just process people's claims elsewhere, presumably allowing those recognised back in again...
Read 13 tweets
3 Jun
One to watch out for. Did the Home Secretary act unlawfully in trapping vulnerable asylum seekers in filthy, dilapidated disused barracks during a pandemic?

Or was she behaving simply despicably & immorally?
Either way, what's the betting she won't be sacked?
Oh look, Priti Patel did in fact act unlawfully in detaining asylum seekers in the squalid, inadequate & Covid-unsafe Napier barracks.

The system for identifying victims of trafficking or torture or with mental health problems was totally inadequate. judiciary.uk/judgments/the-…
Are we surprised? No, we are not surprised. But it is still a shocking disgrace.

The verdict is absolutely damning:

"On the evidence, it was inevitable that there would be a major outbreak of Covid-19 infections at the Barracks."
Read 7 tweets
28 May
Literally how is it possible for idiot after idiot to go unchallenged on #r4today saying that Europe's borders are somehow "open" when we can see the desperate, often deadly, measures people are forced to take to try and cross them - PRECISELY BECAUSE THEY ARE CLOSED?
These people quite literally will not be satisfied that we have locked enough refugees out of our rich countries until we replace the fucking Mediterranean Sea with a mine field and barbed wire.

Their dream is a wall around the rich world. But people will always build a ladder.
Deep breath and I'll say once more: migration is natural. Migration is life. People move. Have always & will always move.

You make that work or you make it deadly. The one thing you cannot do is make it stop.
European borders are NOT open and THAT is why migration is a problem.
Read 6 tweets
26 May
Anyone who's been enjoying the Cummings thing today has forgotten that this government simply doesn't take accountability and even if everything Cummings said was 100% verifiably true almost definitely eff all would come of it & the Tories will gain 12 pts in the polls.
Biggest thing that could possibly come of it is Hancock goes and honestly, who gaf about that?
Yes. I'm bloody moody today, could you tell?
On reflection, I do not deny that some of it made for some quality content. But that's as far as it goes 🤷‍♀️
Read 4 tweets
24 May
Priti Patel will be announcing some re-hashed and possibly some new immigration policies today at an event by @BrightblueGB, nominally the progressive think tank of the Tory party.

I'll be tweeting my thoughts & some context if I can on this thread 👀👇
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
Patel will be once again claiming overwhelming public support for her anti-migrant and anti-refugee agenda, despite extremely limited evidence of anything of the kind.

Immigration is not a top concern in the country any more, but by God she's sure trying to change that.
Thanks to those who pointed out I in fact did mean @WeAreBrightBlue who are running the event alongside @britishfuture and who have put on a very interesting-looking couple of panels to follow on from the Home Secretary's speech discussing the challenges her policies provoke.
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22 May
OK. Not the slightest bit sorry, my account will now be a #Eurovision account for the next many hours.
My top five going in are probably...
- Finland
- Sweden
- Ukraine
- Italy
- Norway

Now. I've picked out a pair of sequinned fishnets, but I cannot work out what else... 😱
Help me out, guys, have a gone too serious for #Eurovision ?? It's a picture of me wearin...
Damnit I swear I tried to rotate it!! 🤦‍♀️
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