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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Eritrea has mandatory conscription and its dictator is heavily financed by Russia. I'd suspect "recruits" is doing some heavy lifting here. It's not like they will have a choice. Hell, many can't even flee because so many countries are refusing refugees 1/
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UK government, although not uniquely, fails to remember that quite a lot of things are interlinked. It is easy for critics to claim that foreign aid is a waste of money and should be "spent at home" for example, but you can be damn sure someone will be paying it still though. 2/
When used to support the poorest and most vulnerable in a country it can help create long term stability and reduce poverty, two key drivers in preventing dictatorships. When it is used to finance the top it can reduce stability, increase poverty, and prop up dictatorships. 3/
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Apr 20
The #NationalityAndBordersBill has been shown repeatedly not to be compliant with international law, but if @VotePursglove is so confident it does not, why not clarify that in the bill itself. If you don't do that what's to stop someone else using it to break the law later?
Please, for the love of God, could MP's this far into the debate about the #NationalityAndBordersBill learn who constitutes as being a refugee? I don't think that it too much to ask when you are planning on destroying their lives.
Our current "family reunion" routes aren't working. We have unaccompanied children, with family members in UK, abandoned elsewhere. I would also argue that "we may have to provide children with care and don't want to" kind of undermines the "we want to protect lives" argument.
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Look, as shocking as this may be to some, Priti Patel lied, a lot, on Parliament yesterday and was then backed up by MP's such as Andrea Leadsom who also lied. I know, I know, shocking to find out politicians lie, particularly about asylum seekers. 1/ #r4today
For years advocates have been putting forward workable policy suggestions to break the model of smuggling and trafficking gangs, easier access to asylum system, removing carrier liability fines, humanitarian visas etc etc, all of which cost less than the #RwandaMigrationPlan. 2/
What these plans have in common is that, unlike the government's proposals, these plans wouldn't actually place people at more risk of trafficking. They would also require the UK to, shock horror, provide asylum to people instead of trying to bring that number down to zero. 3/
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Apr 19
Good to know that Priti Patel recognises that refugees actually benefit a country's economy. It does raise an itsy bitsy question as to why she is so determined to prevent as many as possible coming to the UK and then ship those who do 4,000 miles to another country though.
By the way, this is just an objective statement. Refugees, through multiple studies, are proved a benefit to host countries economies over time, and that's before getting into the whole "it's illegal to penalise them for manner of entry" part.

oecd.org/migration/refu…
Oh, before anyone buys into the easily proven false line that those crossing channel aren't refugees and are instead "economic migrants", a phrase which ignores that people move for a variety of reasons. Those "economic migrants" also benefit the economy.
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The joint statement by @pritipatel and @Vbiruta in the Times this morning is a masterclass in lying and disingenuity. Not only does it rehash the tired, and demonstrably false, "economic migrants" and "queue jumpers" line, it also shows neither knows what trafficking is. 1/
Absolutely nobody is being "advantaged" by being trafficked. It is also the height of hypocrisy to claim you care whilst pushing policies which are 100% guaranteed to benefit actual traffickers. 2/
Oh, and by the way @pritipatel, we have all been telling you for a very long time how to tackle both trafficking and smuggling, but you haven't listened because it would also involve actually providing safety for asylum seekers instead of dumping them elsewhere. 3/
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I should be spending Easter Sunday with my family. I have spent part of it at church. I should not have to spend a nanosecond of it explaining why denying safety to people by forcing them to a country which commits human rights abuses is not in the least fucking bit "Christian".
Here we are though. The same people who claim that "this is a Christian country so refugees should integrate" trying to claim that Jesus would have condoned shipping off some of the most vulnerable people to appeal to bigots. How fucking dare you desecrate my faith like this.
My job is to try and ensure people are protected. I get not everyone agrees with that and we have different perspectives. I get everyone views faith in a different way. I've never been so angry as I am watching fuckwits twist the teachings of Christ to defend the indefensible.
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