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20 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Anyone who thinks that the brain drain is a thing to be solved by trapping people in places without opportunities (or, in some cases safety), but isn't going to wall off London from immigrants from Blackpool can suck my dick.
Either everybody, not just brown people, stays put in the box they were born in and make the bloody best of it regardless... or we value people more highly than we do places, in which case, genuinely, stfu.
Oh, and fuck Dido Harding most of all. Obv.
People do not "belong" to a nation unless and until they choose to. Any other position is authoritarian in the extreme. Think through your positions for crying out loud.

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22 Jun
I'm hearing on #r4today that working class white kids have poor educational outcomes because of "the concept of white privelege" & not a series of Tory govts over 11 years that have alienated teachers' unions, cut youth services to the bone & torn up the benefits system 😐😑
So. That's a relief.
Asked what data supports claim that it is "white privelege" holding poor white kids back, we hear that Robert Halford is Jewish, actually. Fascinating.
Pushed on whether this is actually relevant he complains, I kid you not, about "pitching one group against another" 🤦‍♀️ #r4today
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15 Jun
Interesting thread on the new Australia deal here. With an interesting tidbit about "movement of people"

Here's my prediction on what this might mean... #r4today
It's possible ofc, that this government really is aiming to achieve what the governments of the 80s were not QUITE racist enough to fully implement:
A free movement area with the "old" (white) colonies.
I highly doubt it, but no doubt some will characterise it as such either way.
More likely imho is an increase in limited legal migration pathways. I've banged on about the India deal here, explaining why a few thousand time-limited visas is likely, if anything, to *increase* the number of people who end up living here without papers
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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...
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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."
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3 Jun
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.
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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.
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