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4 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
This is great. Totally normal and good. Tory/Brexit Britain operating just as we would like.

Instead of migrant butchers, just send the meat abroad! 🤓

After all, the climate footprint of the meat industry was really needing a bit of a boost, wasn't it? independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
You only need one story about how Brexit is going and it is this one. This one is it. If this is ok, then it's all ok. That's it.
On the other hand, if this is COMPLETELY INSANE, well...
This government is fucking up and taking the piss on such a grand and all-encompassing scale that I hardly know what to tweet about anymore.

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30 Sep
Now is the time to point out that when asylum seekers are given the right to work it must be under equal conditions as other workers
❗️Minimum wage
❗️Sick pay & paid leave
‼️ NO penalty on those who are not able to find suitable/not mentally prepared to take on work #LiftTheBan
While the campaign to #LiftTheBan is good and important and will give back agency, independence and self-esteem to many asylum seekers, we must remember that asylum seekers (especially women with kids, etc) are often unable to work - traumatised, etc. & that's legitimate too.
Really, giving asylum seekers the right to work should go hand in hand with giving asylum seekers back full access to welfare support or, at the very least, raising the pitifully low levels of asylum support for all.

Oh & ending NRPF while we're at it.
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29 Sep
So sorry to share such awful news.

Another child’s life cut short by the brutality of our closed borders. How many will be too many? Will it ever be enough? #r4today
Imagine the journey this 16-year-old had to take all the way from Sudan. You can’t.
Imagine how vulnerable he was at every closed border. How many bad people had complete control over him. What he must have seen and experienced.
All that for the life we take for granted. #r4today
By the time he reached Calais how can you possibly imagine that our last closed border could ever have stopped him?

The only thing in the whole world he probably had left would be his hope to get to the UK.

Our borders will kill as long as we pretend not to see this #r4today
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Zoe Gardner Profile picture
24 Sep
Lukashenko could not “use migrants as weapons” if the EU did not behave as though people seeking sanctuary & to build a better life were a threat.

Turns my stomach when EU states say THEY are being threatened, while it is migrants literally dying at our closed borders #r4today
There have already been four confirmed deaths at the Belarusian border. This is what pushbacks do. They kill. Quite simply.

There is no border control defence for leaving people to die. Passing the blame to Belarus will never wash the blood from the EU’s hands for this #r4today
This is not the first despot on Europe’s periphery to use our hypocrisy against us by ferrying desperate people to our borders.

The world of militarised borders we have led the way in creating has resulted in human beings used as pawns in a deadly game no one wins 😔 #r4today
Read 5 tweets
Zoe Gardner Profile picture
24 Sep
The solution to labour shortages is not and will never be more short-term visas by expanding the seasonal workers scheme.
These visas are associated with a high risk of exploitation, debt & trafficking because they are so time limited & give people such limited rights #r4today
If we need migrants to fill jobs, we need flexible visas that allow ppl to settle in UK long term if they wish, allows switching employer, enables unionising, bans zero-hours contracts.
In short, a sustainable model to improve conditions whatever the worker’s nationality #r4today
Of course. They couldn't ride out the bad headlines, their convictions crumble at the slightest disgruntlement in the right wing press

We're looking at a short-term stop gap, bringing in temporary workers with few rights. Run by absolute donkeys, I swear. ft.com/content/833516…
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22 Sep
If I had a Home Office decision made right first time for every time someone has asked me, like this Tory MP did,

"Why don't refugees claim asylum in France?"

Well... we might have had a functioning asylum system by now...
Priti Patel and the Tories say they're motivated by compassion, but being compassionate really isn't that hard.

If you believe in protecting refugees, protect refugees.
Don't play absurd games between countries of "who touched it last" to pass people back & forth across borders.
So, the next time someone thinks they're being smart by telling you they "should have stayed in France"...

here's the @JCWI_UK 5-step guide to responding, which doesn't involve pointing out how deeply they are lacking in either humanity or imagination...
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17 Sep
We need to talk about the Government's Equality Impact Assessment of the Nationality and Borders (Anti-Refugee) Bill.

More specifically, I could talk for hours about just this paragraph:
Let's take it line by line, shall we? I shall.

"There is a risk that increased security and deterrence could encourage these cohorts to attempt riskier means of entering the UK"

"These cohorts" specifically means Iranian, Iraqi, Sudanese & Afghan men.
This risk is indeed well-evidenced.
The Foreign Affairs Select Committee, which found in 2019 "a policy that focuses exclusively on closing borders will drive migrants to take more dangerous routes, and push them into the hands of criminal groups."
publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201919/cm…
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