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Daniel Sohege 🧡

@stand_for_all

Feb 9

@UKHouseofLords

Something to say about the age assessment debate yesterday in the @UKHouseofLords. Lord Hodgson complained that Baroness Bennett disregarded "evidence" from Migration Watch, an easy thing to do based on Migration Watch's track record. 1/

More importantly is how both he and Baroness Neville-Rolfe disregarded evidence from medical experts, social workers, child centred NGO's etc. Implementing the current proposals for age assessments with a "review" after a year, as they suggest, would place children at risk. 2/

In the space of that year how many children will be incorrectly classified as adults, something which when it happens is incredibly hard to appeal, and will become harder under proposals in the Judicial Review Bill. 3/

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Daniel Sohege 🧡

@stand_for_all

Feb 8

"It isn't about changing the refugee convention. It is about amending it" That is akin to someone being charged with breaking and entering claiming they were just "interpreting the law". The UK's #BordersBill clearly and unambiguously violates international law.

"interpreting" not "amending"

For many people changing the wording from "reasonable likelihood" to "balance of probability" may sound like semantics, but in reality makes it far more difficult for those fleeing persecution to be granted asylum by the nature of the higher burden of proof which will be required

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Daniel Sohege 🧡

@stand_for_all

Feb 8

Offshore detention doesn't "deter" asylum seekers. It does put them at risk and undermine the UK's obligations to international law. The mental and physical toll which it places on asylum seekers leaves lasting damage, as well as costing lives. #BordersBill

The "Australian model", and evidence supplied by the Australian High Commission, is not supported by the evidence seen on the ground. Offshoring is ineffective, costly and inhumane. More than all this though, it costs lives.
kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/publication/po…

"Offshoring" asylum seekers would result in an effective denial of rights and would leave asylum seekers in limbo. More than that though, offshoring has been shown by its nature is not "temporary". It is a denial of status and an abhorrent attack against refugees.

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Daniel Sohege 🧡

@stand_for_all

Feb 8

We really need mainstream media outlets publishing easily accessible, non-political, pieces about refugees to help ensure public are properly informed and harmful misinformation is debunked, before we see a re-run of what happened on the Belarusian/Polish border for starters. 1/

Just in relation to situation with Ukraine, we're already seeing hyperbolic and misleading information, as shown above. In a more general sense so, misleading information and language has become so normalised that even those who ostensibly feel for refugees think it is genuine 2/

Even something as innocuous as refering to asylum seekers as "migrants", technically correct, but more importantly has the underlying effect of ignoring the very specific rights which refugees are granted and the difference between asylum and immigration systems. 3/

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Daniel Sohege 🧡

@stand_for_all

Feb 4

https://twitter.com/MhairiHunter/status/1489615293882281988

The argument that "it was just a joke" doesn't wash. Yes, comedy can offend at times, it can push boundaries. We are talking about the attempted extermination of an entire people. How in holy hell is that "just a joke"? 1/

https://twitter.com/MhairiHunter/status/1489615293882281988

Currently the UK government is pushing legislation which would see the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities effectively criminalised. An entire culture criminalised and eradicated. 2/

Obviously that is not on the same level as what that Nazis did, but it does show how that hatred still exists. "Jokes" like Carr's normalise that hatred. They "legitimise" it. "Oh it's only a joke". It's a "joke" calling the mass murder of an entire people a joke. 3/

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Daniel Sohege 🧡

@stand_for_all

Feb 3

https://twitter.com/christopherhope/status/1489302905152851981

Okay, now I know I definitely don't have the worst take on this whole mess, here's my theory. Mirza's resignation was "interesting", but it gives Johnson an out, very specifically. He can now properly retract his Savile comments, not that half-arsed attempt earlier. 1/

https://twitter.com/christopherhope/status/1489302905152851981

"Seen the error of my ways. Lost a close friend and trusted confidant because of this. Remorse, waffle, remorse, apology, let's move on". Meanwhile the deed is done and we are all talking about the Starmer/Saville comment and not Partygate and Mirza gets given a job elsewhere. 2/

It is a pure dead cat strategy, a strategy not uncoincidentally set out initially by Lynton Crosby, a man who, unlike Cummings likes to stay behind the scenes, and who was reportedly joining Johnson's team. Excuse me I just need to get some more string for my wall. 3/