THREAD: Okay, time for a fun game of "True, False or Disingenuous nonsense". Sharing the original video so you can all play along at home. Isn't this fun? probably not actually. 1/
Going to call disingenuous nonsense on this one, but I'll allow that it is debatable. You could argue that there is a "global migration crisis", highly debatable though. You can't claim a piece of domestic legislation tackles anything on a global scale though. 2/
Definitely disingenuous. Conflict is just one cause for people migrating. For refugees it is often thought as the only cause, but reality is that persecution is actually the main cause, and that does not require conflict. 3/
True, currently we are seeing a record number of being people officially recognised as displaced or refugees. Disingenuous, there are not 80 million refugees, majority of displaced individuals are actually displaced within their own countries. 4/
False. Not "playing out across Europe. Only one country in the top five hosting countries is fully in Europe, although Turkey is partially its main area for hosting refugees is not, and 85% of refugees are in developing nations outside of Europe. 5/
True, so so true. Without combating global poverty, conflict, persecution, climate change etc, there is no "easy fix" to forced displacement. Note "forced displacement". When you term it as "migration" without specifying you kind of muddy the debate. 6/
Skipping straight to gangs is definitely disingenuous. While gangs are undoubtedly involved, there is not only a difference between smugglers and traffickers to factor in, but also that many crossings are self-facilitated without the use of gangs. 7/
Disingenuous. Unfailing, studies show that the two main "pull factors" for the actually relatively small number of people seeking asylum in UK are language and family ties. Nothing in this bill changes that, and therefore as zero influence upon them. 8/
False: The #BordersBill will actually increase costs to the taxpayer, by a sizeable amount, for use on enforcement, deterrence and detention. So, that means less money to focus on other areas and resources. 9/
False, during much of the pandemic many resettlement routes have been closed, with drastic drops in numbers taken where they have operated. The Afghan resettlement, even all these months on, is still no closer to be setting up. 10/
Disingenuous at best. UK ranks about 17th per head of population for the number of asylum seekers it actually takes, but uses resettlement routes, which globally only account for about 4% of all asylum seekers, to claim it does more. 11/
False, even senior police officers have warned that the #BordersBill puts the victims of trafficking at more risk, and in so doing benefits the gangs who prey on them. 12
Bill violates international law and human rights. Rather than preventing trafficking it's liable to actually increase the power of gangs, at a far increased cost to the taxpayer, plus it creates a two-tier system for refugees, denying them safety. That's definitely not "fair" 13/

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9 Dec
Just so I have this clear, the PM has implemented further restrictions in order to shift the story from one about a party which he says didn't happen, and after apologizing to for the fact that people may have been offended by a clip of people joking about the non-party. 1/
Meanwhile though the real villains are the people wanting to know if Downing Street did break restrictions last year and hold a party, at the exact same time as telling the public that they couldn't see loved ones, because they are "playing politics".
But it is all okay though, because Johnson has appointed someone who may have been at the non-party to investigate if the non-party happened, but only the one non-party, and definitely not the one which people say the PM personally attended.
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8 Dec
And the lies have it. The lies have it, by 298 to 231. Every MP who voted in favour of the third reading of the #BordersBill just knowingly voted to put more lives at risk, violate international law, undermine the global refugee regime and benefit trafficking gangs.
For what? What's the point? To placate a dwindling number of bigots and embolden the far-right. Well hats off one and all. The UK just told the rest of the world that it officially has decided the rule of law and human rights do not apply to it. "Global Britain" my arse.
There are going to be a lot of tired and frustrated advocates tonight. More than that though, there are going to be tired and fearful migrants and refugees who have just been put in more uncertainty, at more risk, by a government which seems not to care.
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8 Dec
The Right Honourable Dame Eleanor Laing getting seriously annoyed at MPs seemingly delaying casting votes to prevent more debate on the #BordersBill. Highlights that this is an important piece of legislation and they aren't behaving as they should in a democracy.
Do find it hypocritical that Patel is now talking about the behaviour and the "tactics" of the opposition when her department has been churning out misinformation on the Bill for months, and she has seemingly directly lied regarding aspects of it.
Oh and this speech really adds to that. Patel knows that the bill will make things worse. She knows that it violates international law. She knows it will do nothing to combat gangs, and indeed benefit them.
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7 Dec
Christ on a bike, there is some weapon's grade tone policing from the Conservative benches here. Seems a bit rich considering some of the statements that the government has made in favour of the #AntiRefugeeBill
I'd sit this one out if I was a Conservative MP claiming that because the #AntiRefugeeBill doesn't specifically say that it is racist that it won't discriminate based upon race, particularly when government's own impact assessment warns of risks it will.
gov.uk/government/pub… ImageImage
Weird how so many of the people who claim "citizenship is a privilege not a right" are the ones who know that they couldn't possibly have it removed without significant issues and violations of international law in the first place isn't it?
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6 Dec
There's a growing cross party consensus that the UK needs to stop focusing on inhumane, and illegal, proposals, as set out in the #bordersbill. There's no "silver bullet", but offshoring is just abhorrent. 1/
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
I also have concerns about processing applications in embassies, if it is expected that individuals have to have them processed in the country they are being persecuted in, for obvious reasons, but processing them in any embassy might be a start. 2/
As I said, there is no "silver bullet" and these are complex issues, but more viable alternatives in the immediacy would be to remove carrier liability fines and introduce humanitarian visas so people can be immediately brought to the UK to have their claims processed. 3/
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6 Dec
Let's not focus on how late to the party OFSTED is and instead welcome the fact they have finally turned up. This has been happening for months. Separated children, including those who have been trafficked, placed at risk and outside legal protection.

thetimes.co.uk/article/5f192b…
The thing is that this is actually a growing issue. The government has said it will make the national transfer scheme mandatory, which would force all local authorities, unless they could give good reason why, to take unaccompanied child refugees.
It has not, however, made any moves to cease the use of hotels. Rather, they have started using more. Often the Home Office will place unaccompanied children in hotels with little to no notice for local authorities, all of which allows them to slip through the cracks.
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