In regards to the #AntiRefugeeBill, I get and understand the arguments for meeting halfway, but the world doesn't work like that. This isn't a bill which you can just tweak. It needs totally scrapping. No amount of tweaks will make it safe or humane. 1/
Is that risky, professionally speaking I would say yes, but it is also necessary. Even if all of the Lords amendments get reinstated and passed the bill is still fundamentally damaging not only to refugees, but also child protection, among other things. 2/
Sometimes compromise is good. Sometimes it is necessary and sometimes it is just enabling inhumanity on the basis it isn't "quite as bad as it was". That argument doesn't help those whose lives are destroyed by how bad it is though. 3/
I find that in this sector there are two competing trains of thought. 1) start at the bottom with small changes, work with them and gradually chip away at the whole. 2) Start by thinking big and going after everything which is wrong. 4/
I tend to be a believer in number two at the best of times. When you start big you can always if necessary scale back. If you start small you will always get steamrollered. With the #BordersBill there is no question though. The whole thing needs to go. 5/
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