I get that it is easy to say "why isn't the news just covering the stories which interest me", but I have been shocked by how little, overall, coverage 200 missing children has received, obviously aside from #r4today's segment suggesting they were "willingly trafficked". 1/
Even when it has been covered, a lot of coverage has made out this is a new issue, when it has been going on for a very long time, and that it is the fault of Albanians. If this was 200 British children it would be front page news and Ministerial resignations would abound. 2/
Yesterday's protests were important, but they haven't really been mentioned. Instead, as the Home Office knew would happen, the story rolls on. Talking heads try and claim those missing may not have been children, or may have been complicit in their exploitation. 3/
The children are still missing. We know that some have already been exploited and many others will be right at this moment, yet the news moves on and nothing changes. People stop paying attention and children keep being trafficked due to @ukhomeoffice actions. 4/

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Feb 5
Dear God @grantshapps please learn at least the basics before speaking. Carrier liability fines prevent asylum seekers using commercial routes, and NO-ONE CHOOSES TO BE TRAFFICKED. This is where knowing the difference between trafficking and smuggling would be helpful for an MP.
The UK has very few, highly limited, government approved resettlement routes, which is why people have to make small boat crossings. It is the only way for many to seek asylum in the UK, and their right not to be penalised for manner of entry is guaranteed under international law
That by the way doesn't change on jot of the UK leaves the European Convention on Human Rights. It would also take leaving the Convention relating to the status of refugees and several other treaties which prohibit "refoulement", returning people to unsafe countries.
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Feb 4
Politics aside, yes, you know what, a ceasefire would be good. You know what else, Russia is actively engaged in committing a fricking genocide in Ukraine. Not arming Ukraine only ends the war in one way, with Russia finishing that genocide. Putin has made that pretty damn clear.
"War is bad" is a pretty universally agreed thing, and you can make any comment you want about "Western interventionism", but it still remains fairly widely agreed. "Whataboutsim" doesn't work though. It is possible to say "this aggressor is bad" without saying that one is good.
We have seen the way Putin's tactics work in Syria et al. Like it or not, and no there is nothing about war to be celebrated, just letting Russia walk over a country is not a solution. Already we are seeing Ukrainian children being "forcibly adopted". That is genocide.
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Feb 3
There are many reasons why plans to place asylum seekers in blatantly unsuitable accommodation like this, are seriously flawed, but "pressure on local children's services" is just a NIMBY argument which ignores that those services need investment as well.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi… ImageImage
I would also suggest that @BBCNews should point out when the @ukhomeoffice provides misleading information in their quotes. While there has been an increase in channel crossings, we have not seen a commensurate rise in over asylum applications... Image
This is pretty obvious, as other routes have closed people are forced into making more dangerous ones journeys. It does not explain, when overall numbers of applications have remained relatively stable, why the government has allowed the back log of applications to grow so much..
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Jan 31
Thread: No matter how loudly certain people shout about "turning boats around in the channel", "send them back to France" etc, the simple fact is that you cannot return people to a country you don't have an agreement to do so with. 1/ #r4today
theguardian.com/world/2023/jan…
The Rwanda plan, which itself is being challenged on its legality, only has capacity for sub-200 even if the government tried it. That means that all this talk about "returning anyone crossing the channel" is meaningless posturing. 2/
All of that is before you factor in how the UK is already not a main destination for asylum seekers, so the, actually pretty small, number who do seek it here are doing so for reasons, primarily family ties or language, which don't change no matter how much you shout. 3/
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Jan 29
When I was growing up I flipped between saying I was gay or straight, because I didn't know you could be bi. More people identifying as trans and non-binary shows we are getting better at recognising the diversity around us. It isn't a negative. It's something to be encouraged.
I got massively messed up, and heavily bullied, because no-body told me you could actually be bi. It was always made out you had to be gay or straight. That's being replicated with this whole manufactured panic about trans and non-binary individuals.
It is only by recognising that people do identify in different ways, and providing supportive environments for them to do so, that we can actually protect children. This rehashing of the same rehashing of the way homophobia was "normalised" in the 80's and before just causes harm
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Unveiling even harsher asylum policies, which seem to violate international law with blanket refusals, won't reduce channel crossings. That will only happen by recognising that people, including Albanians, need protection and not discrimination. #r4today
thetimes.co.uk/article/5aa2f1…
The thing is none of this is even new. The same tired old policies which have been tested, tried and failed every single time, through being illegal, inhumane, unworkable or all three. There is evidence that harsher policies make things worse though.
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People aren't "gaming modern slavery laws". Trafficking is increasing globally. The rise in people being referred to the National Referral Mechanism isn't from more people lying about trafficked. It is because we are getting better at identifying victims.

osr.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/correspondence…
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