Thread by @SarahLudford

I suspect that Johnson-nominated peers will not want to share the ‘honour’ that I and a relatively small band of us are enjoying, to stay till midnight or so battling against the inhumanity of the govt’s treatment of refugees in the #IllegalMigrationBill

https://twitter.com/dianne49/status/1666558271447072769

I told a lie. We have not stopped at midnight. The govt is exerting macho power by forcing us to debate crucial issues about their plans for arbitrary indefinite detention into the early hours of the morning.
I had better restrain what I say about them, it is unprintable

At 00.20 - look it up later - my colleague @Paulscriven gave magnificent vent to his feelings about the govt front bench contemptuously making us debate issues of life & liberty of vulnerable people at this hour of the night, ‘just to be able to wave red meat at the red wall’.

Opposition peers are being punished for raising crucial constitutional issues of the rule of law, whether a politician - the Home Secretary - should be able to detain a person indefinitely unhindered by any judicial power to stop her.

No doubt they thought that forcing (largely elderly) opposition peers to sit till 04.25 would bully us out of raising objections to their law-breaking, authoritarian #IllegalMigrationBill and break our spirit.
It didn’t and it won’t.

I have rubbed along fairly amicably with what I thought were non-rabid Tory peers. But the way even some of them participated in last night’s despicable attempt to bully us into curtailing our objections to the rule-of-law defying #IllegalMigrationBill has removed any blinkers