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Mar 14 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
🧵Last night, hundreds braved the wind and rain in Parliament Square as the House voted on the #IllegalMigrationBill to make their thoughts on this hateful legislation clear: 1/
The impromptu #StopTheBill demonstration heard from former refugees and campaigners like @haoussou, who called on the Government to reject the Home Secretary’s nativist Bill and show solidarity with people across the world affected by conflict 2/
.@Ntunasi reminded the crowd that the Government’s harping about ‘illegal asylum seekers’ grossly oversimplifies the reality of finding your way to a safe destination as a refugee 3/
Also speaking was @CarolineLucas MP, who condemned the Bill as “poisonous, performative politics at its worst” 4/
Labour’s @NadiaWhittomeMP called for a solution that will actually end dangerous Channel crossings: an expansion of safe routes to the UK for people seeking asylum. 5/
Though the Bill passed last night as expected, our work to stop this “legally, morally and practically unworkable” Bill continues. bestforbritain.org/_legally_moral… 6/
Sign Best for Britain’s petition to stop this dangerous Anti-Asylum Bill #RefugeesWelcome #StopTheBill bestforbritain.org/stop-anti-asyl… END 🧵

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Today, another tragedy in the Channel took the lives of yet more people seeking asylum in the UK.

As much as the Government tries to push blame elsewhere, it was *their* cruel, ineffective policies that forced those affected by today’s tragedy into their dangerous journey. 1/
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