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27 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
A world where the UK and Denmark are trying to palm off their responsibilities to refugees onto Rwanda... there's something wrong with this picture 🤦‍♀️
Reading this now I just feel like crying. But there will be no crying. Only fighting back.

And there'll be no God forsaken refugee processing hub in Rwanda for fuck's sake.
They couldn't do offshore processing when they threatened to in the 90s, nor the 00s. And just cos zoomers are wearing low rise bootcut jeans now it's no bloody excuse to try it over again.

We're not having it.
Anyway. Damn the person (@chaipatel0) who drew this to my attention this evening instead of letting me carry blissfully on till morning at least.

Nobody pls try to talk to me now till Christmas.

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30 Jun
Today is deadline day for EU citizens to apply to stay in their homes in the UK.
An incredible self-inflicted disaster. Starting tomorrow & over the next years, tens or even hundreds of thousands more people are going to lose rights & be forced into the hands of criminals.
Those people's landlords, employers and GPs are going to become gatekeepers for what essential services they can access.
We've already seen people wrongful turned away, there will be many, many more. ImageImage
IPPR has found out over 100,000 of our EU citizen neighbours are still waiting in limbo. This settled status system was never going to work.

Add to that the Home Office's track record of incompetence and cruelty and this is a disaster waiting to happen.
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28 Jun
Simply no justification whatsoever based on the idea of "safe first country" to send people to Rwanda.

Makes a complete mockery of their own flawed logic.
That was well explained by a @UNHCRUK rep on #r4today just now - UN being unusually vocal in its criticism of Patel's plans.
To be absolutely clear, though, this is not going to happen. This country won't stand for it and, frankly, nor will the likes of Rwanda. Patel and Johnson have misread the public again if they think there is widespread support for this level of abject, insensate cruelty #r4today
These are pathetic, re-hashed-from-the-90s, failed approaches of the past that our clueless Home Secretary will lay before Parliament in her new Bill come this week or next.

We must demand MPs throw them out with the contempt they deserve & introduce a real new approach #r4today
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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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20 Jun
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.
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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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