There is something genuinely sick about this from the @ukhomeoffice Comms team. Using the deaths of 27 people in the channel to push disingenuous bullshit aimed at promoting a policy which has repeatedly been shown will benefit gangs and cause more deaths. 1/
https://twitter.com/ukhomeoffice/status/1469580461819117569
This week 307 MPs voted against an amendment to the bloody bill which had one purpose, to prevent loss of life in the channel, but the @ukhomeoffice comms team keep churning out the same old wildly debunked misinformation, without any concern for people's lives. 2/ 
The "resettles more" line is a particular master stroke in avoiding recognising just how far fewer asylum seekers the UK actually takes than many countries, but being disingenuous is probably the most consistent thing about @ukhomeoffice Comms. 3/
https://twitter.com/stand_for_all/status/1468236626182742026?t=ndqWAJjL_MgMFnhsSV2CZQ&s=19
Talking about disingenuous lines, this one is a good one. This is something which asylum advocates have been pointing out for a long time, problem is @ukhomeoffice leaves off the second line, "which is why policies of pushbacks and deterrence won't make a difference to them". 4/
Gangs care even less about people's lives than @ukhomeoffice appears to. They aren't worried if pushback operations cost lives. They don't care if trafficking survivors get arrested and deported. They are distanced from this and the bill won't make a difference to them. 5/
What the bill does do though, is further criminalise trafficking survivors, making it harder for them to come forward and therefore more likely to remain trapped by gangs, which can use the threat of prosecution against them. 6/
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