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Apr 24

@BBCr4today

#THREAD

With 7 minutes to go, @BBCr4today had a piece on seagull impersonators in Belgium. 😬

Then with less than 3 minutes to go, @KenLoachSixteen was asked about his new film #TheOldOak, based on real events around the arrival of Syrian refugees in neglected County Durham.

@MishalHusain

With 1 minutes to go, @MishalHusain asked Ken Loach about Jeremy Corbyn standing as an independent. Ken said "The programme that Jeremy Corbyn stood on nearly won the 2017 election, & now you don't include that in the Today programme - it's not included in the mass media at all".

@UKLabour

"There's a real political vacuum. You haven't told the story that over 200K members have left the @UKLabour Party. Starmer has split the Labour Party when he promised unity. Again, that's not part of your story. There's a huge political vacuum of angry people. Can I just say..."

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Apr 24

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In October 2022, the UK Government Digital Service entered into an initial one-year contract with #Fujitsu, which “will be responsible for all the technical delivery, design iterations and 24/7 operational support” of the emergency alerts system tested yesterday.

Fujitsu previously fulfilled a one-year £665,000 contract covering project-management and support services during the development of the alerts service, which has been in the works since 2018 and was tested in several parts of England in 2021, before its nationwide launch.

Concerns have been raised about why the Govt awarded the £5 million contract to run the emergency alert programme to Fujitsu, the company behind the Post Office IT scandal that led to the conviction of more than 700 postmasters, as well as suicides & wrongful imprisonment.

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Apr 24

#THREAD

More than 830 UK health professionals & representatives from leading medical bodies have signed an open letter to Sunak expressing “grave concerns” that the Govt’s #Rwanda Plan will cause “catastrophic mental & physical harm” to people seeking safety.

PLEASE READ IT:

"As health professionals, we, the undersigned, are writing to express our grave concerns about the health implications of ongoing plans to forcibly remove individuals seeking protection in the UK to Rwanda, as set out in the ‘Migration & Economic Development Partnership’."

"Using this approach to advance hostile border policies rooted in unevidenced deterrence & externalisation objectives, despite clear documentation of the medical harm caused, is unconscionable."

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Apr 22

The barbaric UK Govt is set to deport people to #Rwanda, where the chances of developing severe, often fatal, malaria, is almost inevitable, & where immunity is developed through years of recurrent childhood infections, which many children do not survive.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/a…

#Rwanda has holoendemic falciparum malaria - high malaria transmission of THE most deadly malaria variant, in all areas, in all seasons.

Rwandan adults have a reasonable level of immunity, although they can still get malaria & become seriously unwell.

The unethical & unnecessary UK Government's unlawful plan is to send asylum seekers to #Rwanda from a broad swathe of the globe, including north Africa, Albania, the Middle East, & Afghanistan, which have either no or low malaria transmission.

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Apr 21

@Conservatives

"We've secured new free trade deals with over 70 countries since 2016. That's over £800bn worth of new global trade" - Lying @Conservatives

"FAKE news is 70% more likely to be shared than real news. So always read beyond the headline & THINK BEFORE YOU SHARE" - @cabinetofficeuk

@Conservatives

The Tories' claim of "over £800bn worth of new global trade" was a lie. 🤥

This prompted Sir Robert Chote, chair of the UK Statistics Authority, to write to the @Conservatives on 8 December to say their infographic was "misleading" & they should "be more transparent" in future.

Chote also chastised the Dept of Health & Social Care for tweeting a "poor & misleading representation" of nurses' pay by exaggerating the increase, risked undermining "public confidence in the output of the department & in the presentation of official statistics more broadly".

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Apr 18

ASYLUM BACKLOG #THREAD

At the end of 2018, there were 27,256 cases awaiting an initial asylum claim decision.

End of 2020: 77,245 cases.

End of 2021: 81,978 cases.

By the end of 2022, there were 132,182 cases (160,919 if we include family members applying with them).

WHY?

@Conservatives

Some people argue that the REAL reason that so many asylum seekers are housed in the UK, & the backlog of asylum claims is so high, is because rather than reducing asylum costs, the @Conservatives DELIBERATELY MANUFACTURED A CRISIS to weaponise this issue as a POLITICAL STRATEGY.

CONTEXT:

Of the 132,182 main applicants awaiting an initial decision at the end of 2022, 67% (around 89,000) had waited for more than six months - hence the rising cost of housing asylum seekers (currently £6million/day).

(The approval rate for asylum claims was 76% in 2022).

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