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Jan 17,

If you support the #PolicingBill you have to be supremely confident that at no point in the future you or anyone you care about will disagree with any British government. This isn't just about silencing protests now. It silences them afterwards as well. #r4today 1/

That's the thing with freedom and rights. When you celebrate them being stripped from people you disagree with, you inevitably ignore they're also being stripped from you. That's why we need to #KilltheBill, because of the precedent it sets and dangers to freedom it creates. 2/

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You can't, as @RobertBuckland attempted to do on #r4today, argue that "proportionality" would protect people when you look at the disproportionate use of force by the police already against some peaceful protesters, such as at the Sarah Everard vigil. 3/ theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/j…

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Jan 16,

Operations "red meat" and "save the big dog" aren't I would suspect massively badly chosen names, but actually quite deliberate. Number 10 knows that is is leaking like the Titanic after the iceberg, so it has to play with what it has. 1/

It has also been working on its "culture war" for long enough that it can finally start to use it to pay dividends, see also attacks on BBC among other things. They know, I suspect, that they can't actually argue their way out of the mess they are in, so have to lean into it. 2/

So, what do you do? Well, you make what would otherwise be seen as elitist, self-serving egotism come across as more "one of the lads. Down to earth plain speaking". You don't try and polish the turd, so to speak, because there's no way you can do that. 3/

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Jan 16,

Thread: Here's the thing, the government can, and does, already strip people of their citizenship, including arguably making some stateless against international law. Clause 9 doesn't change that. 1/
theguardian.com/politics/2022/…

What Clause 9 of the Nationality and Borders Bill does is mean that the Home Office doesn't need to notify individuals that their citizenship has been stripped. As seen in the article above, it is already incredibly difficult to appeal when you are out of the country. 2/

If you don't know that your citizenship has been stripped then you don't know that you need to appeal in the first place, which makes it kind of impossible to appeal it when you think about it. 3/

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Jan 15,

THREAD: It doesn't matter what side of the "debate" you are on, the fact that we have turned immigration into a "debate" is possibly one of the single largest root causes of the issues we have with it. 1/

Setting personal political affiliations aside, and looking at it objectively, we can see way in which migrants are talked about across the political spectrum as being dehumanising, just by the very nature of deciding that their lives are something we have decided to "debate". 2/

It's not just politicians either, from right wing think tanks to left wing organisations, way in which immigration is framed treats migrants as "commodities". Whether it is to make a point, or even help raise funding, they are portrayed as "something", rather than "someone". 3/

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Jan 12,

"Never too late to apologise" doesn't really cut it when you make it so obvious that you are using the apology to avoid further scrutiny and try and absolve yourself from blame. #PMQs

Holy f**kballs, he is actually blaming "the way people saw it", rather than the fact he had a sodding party when the rest of us were sticking by lockdown restrictions and people couldn't be loved ones when they died.

Didn't realise it was a party? I spend most gatherings hiding in the kitchen and even I would shy away from trying to pull that one. If you think 100 people drinking on your lawn is a work event then I am worried what you count as work.

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Jan 5,

THREAD: The Home Office has announced today that it is setting up a new "Scientific Advisory Committee" to provide advice on ways to check how old an asylum seeker is, and to say there are concerns to be had about this is underselling it spectacularly. 1/

gov.uk/government/new…

First off, the need for such assessments is being based on somewhat specious arguments. Current "Merton Compliant Age Assessments" are fairly subjective, and can fail to take such things as cultural differences into account, leading to children being wrongly classed as adults. 2/

This has led to age disputes resulting in children being miscategorised as adults, with mistakes being hard and protracted to rectify. This has in the past led to children who have been mis-aged being attacked and abused after being treated as adults. 4/
theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/m…

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