WOW @allandoransMP
"Will the Home Sec listen to the 50 organisations inc Save The Children & @amnesty who wrote a joint letter in @thetimes last wk calling for..a rethink on #NationalityAndBordersBill which discriminates against refugees depending on how they reach our shores?"👏
@YvetteCooperMP Qs Patel's "bespoke humanitarian route" "extremely unclear..on details & who it will apply to?
Ukranian ppl are showing great bravery, but we know mothers & young children, elderly patents who have left to find sanctuary, the UK has always done its bit to help..
those fleeing war in Europe & it will come as a relief to many ppl who've been calling for action if the govt is prepared to do more.."
"BUT:
Why so much confusion!? Russian invasion began 5 days ago. Other countries responded with clear sanctuary arrangements immediately...
Troops have beeen gathering since mid-Jan, British intelligence WARNING of an invasion for WEEKS!"
WHY is nothing worked out already?
WHY is Home Sec so poorly prepared for something she's been warned about for so many weeks?" @YvetteCooperMP👏#UkrainianRefugees #HomeOfficeQs
@HackneyAbbott
"many members of this House are dismayed that she did not make a statement in the normal way, so she could have been questioned in the normal way🤔..not just disrespectful to @HouseofCommons it shows a lack of real concern for those desperate ppl escaping Ukraine."
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OMG @IoWBobSeely = IMPORTANT speech atm on: #SLAPP & eg major legal firms don't do "know your client checks" as know "inherently corrupt"😱
"I note some oligarchs are distancing themselves from President Putin: (names 3!!)..I'm sorry I do not buy it!" @carolecadwalla@peterjukes
Go back to Ukraine
"Firtash, now wanted by the Americans was set up by #Gazprom & by Putin, he was given sweetheart deals, so to import vast amounts of cheap energy into Ukraine. The vast profits he was able to garner from those sweetheart deals gave him a good life, but..
..but much more importantly he funnelled that money to buy up chunks of East Ukrainian industry, effectively as a front for the FSB(?) the former KGB, but also critically to purchase politicians & to fund the pro-Russian political parties in Eastern Ukraine.
"Ony 6 mths ago we were describing the chaotic retreat from #Afghanistan as the biggest failure of western foreign policy for decades.."
4 PTS
1."We are not a global military power, despite the Govt's hubristic rhetoric"!
"The pivot to the east was a MAJOR STRATEGIC MISTAKE & should be reversed..." 2. "our most important security and economic relationships are with Europe. Windy talk of GLOBAL BRITAIN CUTS NO ICE when the Russians can seize a friendly European democracy." 😢 #RussianWar #Ukraine
3. "we need to strengthen global structures & programmes which promote our values. With #Russia & #China on the Security Council, this is not going to be easy, but we should at the very least do what we can within our own powers & resources to begin to address this..."
7 STEPS FROM DEMOCRACY TO DICTATORSHIP
"Democracy doesn't disappear over night. RW populism doesn't goose-step into power fully formed, it CREEPS!"
7 SIGNS 1. Create a populist nationalist MOVEMENT #Brexit
Target the 'left behind'
Erdogan called it 'the will of the REAL people'😲
5. Design your own Citizen! #JohnsonRegime eg Heaton-Harris dictating how academics lecture on #Brexit & Education Sec says students can't criticise PM!
(Erdogan now arrests critics!)
6. Laugh at the Horror! Inhumane cruelty RE refugees, Afghanistan, kids in poverty! #PartyGate!
@bbcsml
☡"WE NEED TO BE CAUTIOUS" [@mvankerkhove of @WHO]
"We're NOT out of the woods yet!
We need to exit this gracefully, carefully & slowly.
This virus is moving to an endemic state, but can't reach an endemic state in one country, while the pandemic is thriving elsewhere"🔥
WE ARE WORRIED about NEXT VARIANT❗
We're tracking descendant sublineages of #Omicron BA.1, BA.2,
BA.3❗
AND 30 sublineages of #Delta we're tracking worldwide❗
The virus is still evolving❗
Virus is NOT behaving like a seasonal respiratory virus❗
It will thrive in any climate❗
NATIONAL IMPORTANCE #Lawfare 20/1/22 @DavidDavisMP
'..those with exceptionally deep pockets & exceptionally questionable ethics. These people use our justice system to threaten, intimidate & put the fear of God into British journalists, citizens, officials & media organisations..
What results is injustice, intimidation, suppression of free speech, the crushing of a free press, bullying& bankruptcy. It results in protection from investigation & gives encouragement to fraudsters, crooks & money launderers...
It's turned London into the global capital of dirty money. In extreme cases, it can undermine the SECURITY OF THE STATE by allowing people to act as extensions of foreign powers.
This is LAWFARE—lawfare against British freedom of speech, lawfare against the freedom of the press