Of COURSE it makes sense to say work from home if you can but to still allow Christmas parties

It's about REDUCING contact. Prioritising our social gatherings over sitting at a desk unnecessarily is obviously preferable. What is this inane puritan streak in this country #r4today
Sajid Javid is "not quite sure" why Allegra Stratton resigned for laughing at a party that supposedly didn't happen LOL #r4today
Of course the "investigation" by Simon Case is the get out clause that allows them to say "I'm not going to preempt the findings" ffs. What a slippery, duplicitous lot. #r4today
Incredible that Javid has the gall to say "no one is above the rules"

Can someone please ask him WHO he has received these "assurances" from? Because as far as I can tell so far no one has owned up to knowing the facts 🧐🧐 #r4today
Ah. He won't name names on that front. Well. There we are then. #r4today
If this doesn't show you how they are closing ranks & lying to us, I can't help you. Clearly they are admitting that *someone* knows what happens. That person is allowed to stay anonymous while "assuring" everyone else that no rules were broken.

They take us for mugs. #r4today

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8 Dec
Horrible report of how rights of women have been ripped up by the Taliban in the months since it took over.

No surprise Afghanistan has now overtaken Syria as the biggest country of origin for asylum seekers in Europe. Meanwhile our govt voted yesterday to push them out #r4today
If when Donald Trump was president he had enacted a law to allow him to push back refugees at sea *explicitly* without regard for international maritime law, every one in the country would know about it & be outraged.

Happens here in our own government? Tumbleweed. #r4today
They have explicitly refused to put in law that they must not endanger lives at sea.

27 people drowned & they declared themselves “horrified” & we’re supposed to buy it?

They have the actual gall to say their approach is about saving people from “dangerous journeys” #r4today
Read 5 tweets
7 Dec
There are genuinely so many ways in which the #AntiRefugeeBill is going to ruin people's lives. It wont even be possible for me to cover half of it.

The list of new clauses & amendments they will debate in parliament today, only on ONE section out of 7 barely fits on my screen. Image
British democracy: Where our parliamentary representatives get about five minutes per life-ruining, justice-denying, cruel, ineffective, barbaric measure in the #AntiRefugeeBill.
For those interested in why 51 is highlighted up there, it's one of the government's new ones. Snuck in last week so most wont even hear about it, yet it's one of the worst of them.

It imposes a four year prison sentence on anybody who is unable to renew their immigration status
Read 44 tweets
22 Nov
They're going to be banging on about Channel crossings in parliament all afternoon.

Brace for a bad time. Small comfort is that the government will have a bad time too. I'd imagine the opposition will largely hate it and come out pretty badly as well.

A bad time for all. Great.
Home Office orals followed by a UQ on Channel crossings brought by Labour's Shadow Home Sec. I may tweet along a bit if I can bare to. No guarantees. Anyway what could there possibly be that's new to say about this whole nasty mess?
Andrew Gwynne asks why decision making on asylum claims has become so much more slow? Just 20% made within 6 months, while in 2014 87% were made within 6 months.

Patel lies saying that there are solutions to speed up the system in her Anti-Refugee Bill. There are not.
Read 17 tweets
17 Nov
Tom Purseglove (Immigration Minister) appearing at the HASC this morning.

Cooper starts with a factual question: The number of asylum claims this year and last year.

Purseglove: In the year ending July 2021 - a 4% reduction in the number of asylum claims in the UK.
Purseglove: Channel crossings are being deployed from a longer stretch of coastline and taking greater risks

This is in line with the evidence: When governments clamp down on irregular journeys without providing an alternative route, crossings are displaced, they don't stop.
Cooper draws his attention to the Home Office Action plan from 2019 that pledged to halve the number of small boats crossings by the Summer.

The government's approach is not working. It is making the situation worse.
Read 24 tweets
11 Nov
There is nothing more shameful about being European, than that we have made it possible for the world to “destabilise the continent” simply by pushing families of poor people across our borders and watching us immediately abandoned every professed value we claim. #r4today
If there had been any possibility we’d behave like reasonable humans when faced with a few thousand poor brown people pushed across our border by Belarus, this crisis never would have happened.

They can rely with perfect certainty on Europe’s self-defeating inhumanity. #r4today
We're playing into Putin and Lukashenko's hands just like we've played into Erdogan's hands in the past. There will always be a few more thousand poor brown people they can push through to us. Only when we stop treating them as a threat will that not BE a threat.
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4 Nov
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...
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