It’s very clear that this platform doesn’t align with our values. We know many people are leaving, for good reasons - but for now, we've decided to keep fighting for asylum rights here. Here’s why we’re NOT leaving, and what we’ll be doing differently from now on. A thread 🧵👇.

RT @LouCalvey: 🚨We need your help. People trapped in the Syrian asylum freeze are going to Parliament on Monday. They need your support. Th….

On Monday, Syrians in the UK whose lives have been “frozen” will be urging MPs to end the legal limbo they are stuck in at a parliamentary event hosted by @DavidTaylor85 . Use this easy letter-writing tool to ask your MP to attend 👇✍️.

It's not a real safe route if it relies on someone else being robbed of their right to claim asylum. Like the Rwanda plan before it, this 'deal' is an attack on the human right to asylum - and it goes hand-in-hand with violent police enforcement that will cost lives.

“We ask you: how many more people must die before your actions are deemed ‘tough’ enough?”. Question posed to Starmer and Macron by 65+ refugee groups in the UK and France telling our governments to work together to protect lives not put them at risk, as seen in @M_Star_Online

RT @4refugeewomen: 🚨 The PM has announced a shocking new 'one in, one out' deal with France to be piloted in the coming weeks. Under the d….

We don’t need another expensive, ineffective, dangerous Rwanda-style gimmick. We don’t need more enforcement making journeys even more dangerous. It's incredibly simple: the only way to stop people from making dangerous journeys is to give them real safe routes to seek sanctuary.

The new UK-France border plan aims to let police attack boats full of people seeking sanctuary 300m out to sea. This will kill people. We're one of 65+ refugee groups on both sides of the Channel telling our Governments to work together to protect lives, not put them at risk.

Will a returns deal with France stop crossings? No. Will it save lives? No. It's another expensive, Rwanda-style scheme to ship people straight back to the people smugglers. There's one way to stop irregular migration and save lives: safe routes.

RT @AsylumMatters: Alright then, let's talk about pull factors shall we?. This morning, @GMB is asking: is Britain just too kind to people….

RT @ZoeJardiniere: For an honest comparison of UK & other European support for asylum seekers & refugees there's a v useful breakdown here.….

Something we probably all need today: someone talking sense about people seeking sanctuary. The UK's illogical work ban is totally out of step with other countries - it makes no sense and it needs to go.

@GMB @HelenBamber Deterrents don't work, pull factors are a myth. So how about we get to work on an asylum that works better for everyone?.

@GMB @HelenBamber Its cruelty is incredibly expensive - we could save huge amounts of money by letting people work, by making decisions faster so they can get on with their lives. But instead of saving money AND treating people better, we're focused on whether we should be even crueller.

@GMB @HelenBamber Politicians on both sides of the Channel are using long-debunked arguments about pull factors to evade the basic, human responsibility to take care of others and not put lives at risk. Our current asylum system is cruel, convoluted and in desperate need of reform.

@GMB @HelenBamber But you know what the biggest "pull factor" is? . Peace, safety and democracy. People come to the UK because their lives were at risk elsewhere. People travel all over the world to reach safety and, yes, some of them come here.

@GMB @HelenBamber If you were forced to rebuild your life in an entirely new country, wouldn't you want to do it somewhere where you knew people, or where you at least spoke the language?.

@GMB @HelenBamber So why DO people come here? For some, it's family ties. For many, it's language: the majority of people come from countries with links to Britain's colonial past - countries affected by British resource extraction and conflict, whose populations are more likely to speak English.

@GMB @HelenBamber How "attractive" does that all sound to you?.

@GMB @HelenBamber For everyone else, it's £49.18 a week for everything you need, including food. Amid this cost of living crisis, it's barely enough to get by on - 91% of people told us they don't always have enough money for themselves and their children to eat:

@GMB @HelenBamber But won't you get generous benefits and all your food paid for? No. The only people whose food is covered is those in hotels, who then get £9.95 a week for EVERYTHING else: clothing, toiletries, travel, communication. Plus zero control of what you eat and when.