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Migrants, LGBT & Human Rights. She/Her.

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@LouCalvey
Lou Calvey
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Yes. Butch women exist. And we’re fabulous 😘
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@LouCalvey
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They’re inciting hatred and encouraging bullies to target disabled people now. The open fascism in our country is overwhelming.
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@donmcgowan
Don McGowan
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Hey @DVLAgovuk. Are you aware of this website with zero privacy policy, contact details or security, mirroring your tax checking function on @GOVUK?. This seems to be a heinous and egregious breach of GDPR and likely criminal harvesting of UK driver's details. It encourages.
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@LouCalvey
Lou Calvey
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RT @ewangibbs: The British right is redefining ‘working class’ to include landowning farmers and business owners whilst denigrating unionis….
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Lou Calvey
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To see a Labour Prime Minister reinforce & underline the most shameful episode of Tory rule, continuing to punish refugees and making headlines out of them, is utterly appalling. The problem is not the people. The problem is political abuse of people.
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@LouCalvey
Lou Calvey
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Yes they do have every right. And the answer that a decent leader would offer is that the Tories deliberately & knowingly grew a backlog and dumped people in hotels, throwing our money at private providers, then punishing the poor sods caught up in their vile game of politicking.
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@LouCalvey
Lou Calvey
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We need our media and politicians to calm down, stop being so hysterical, and recognise the harm their inflammatory anti migrant framing inflicts on people. Racist violence is growing again.
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@LouCalvey
Lou Calvey
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Ali Milani is spot on here. The same findings came out of a Home Office report years ago, people come here because of family links & ties, colonial legacy and because they speak the language. And it’s a tiny minority of displaced people that come to the U.K.
@FubarRadio
FUBAR Radio
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Dismantling right wing myths about immigration, @AliMilaniUK . Politics Uncensored | Listen on FUBAR Radio .#UKPolitics #politicsuncensored #immigration #asylumseekers
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@LouCalvey
Lou Calvey
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15,000 people who aided the U.K. government, with their data out there, living under the Taliban regime. Where are they? What’s happened to them?.
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@LouCalvey
Lou Calvey
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The story will be about the money spent and the super injunction. What’s the story about the thousands of lives placed at risk & then covered up. Reports that at least 19,000 people included in data breach and just 4,500 people have arrived safely. Where is everyone else?.
@lewis_goodall
Lewis Goodall
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Defence Secretary John Healey addressing Parliament about this story RIGHT NOW. "This superinjunction is. unprecedented". Parliament has been denied its right to scrutinise the leak, the up to £7bn spent and policy decisions for two years.
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@LouCalvey
Lou Calvey
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Reform council leader urges Labour to reconsider curbs on care worker visas. “this is totally unsustainable, and the risk is that many care workers at this level will go home and leave providers on a cliff edge”. Reform FAFO. Curbs haven’t even hit yet.
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@LouCalvey
Lou Calvey
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Several asylum hotels being invaded over the weekend. Some with groups of screaming fascists, some with random fellas shoving cameras in peoples faces and demanding they ‘go home’. All narcissists with God complexes. They ain’t no hero’s, just bog standard bullies.
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@LouCalvey
Lou Calvey
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New country guidance for Syrian asylum claims following announcement this morning that government are recommencing asylum decision making for Syrians. At a very quick glance it doesn’t look great, looks like they’re lining up for high refusals.
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@LouCalvey
Lou Calvey
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Whoever you are Callum, you’re a top fella. These kids have been through more than the grown adults obsessively demonising them could manage. Council’s have been investing in children & young people for years, until austerity demolished youth provision - let’s talk about that!.
@LBC
LBC
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'Anyone that gets angry about vulnerable children getting a nice day out needs to check themselves.'. Caller Callum goes head-to-head with Vanessa Feltz over local councils paying for young asylum seekers' 'trips to the circus'.
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@LouCalvey
Lou Calvey
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RT @SamanthaAsumadu: Soooo I forsee a future where police stop every black and brown person they want to and ask to see their papers. Aust….
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Lou Calvey
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The two year anniversary of Wethersfield Asylum Camp. The Labour Party pledged to close it, but current occupancy is higher than it ever, with no signs of the promised closure. #WethersfieldMustClose #CommunitiesNotCamps.
@AsylumMatters
Asylum Matters 🧡
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It's two years today since the opening of Wethersfield: the prison-like camp where hundreds of people seeking sanctuary are shut away. Here, we look back at two years of suffering & scandal to show why Wethersfield MUST close. [CN: thread contains suicide & torture mentions]
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@LouCalvey
Lou Calvey
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Many of us would much rather share our country with people that risked their life to be here, than those who are born here but spend all of their time & energy on resentment, hatred, and conspiring to harm.
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@LouCalvey
Lou Calvey
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Burning effigies of refugees. The impact of the hysterical media obsession with migration and their constant dehumanisation of people displaced.
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@LouCalvey
Lou Calvey
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An utter disgrace. This law would simply compel public bodies to tell the truth. And government have just blocked it, after promising the people of Liverpool, the survivors and the families of people lost, they would pass it.
@IanByrneMP
lan Byrne MP
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This is the moment the Government blocked the Hillsborough Law - officially known as the Public Authority (Accountability) Bill. Thank you to my friend @johnmcdonnellMP for being in the Chamber with me – and for expressing his outrage at the Government's behaviour.
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@LouCalvey
Lou Calvey
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‘Why are the anti migrant fanatics such obsessive, pearl clutching, snowflakes?’ Is the much more relevant question. Followed swiftly with how does he know they’re migrants? Are they stopping people to ask for their ‘papers’ now?
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@LouCalvey
Lou Calvey
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Well. This is hopeful from across the pond. 79% of Americans think immigration is good, 78% support pathways for citizenship. When people see their friends & neighbours being locked up & brutalised the reality hits home. Good for them.
@Young25Tim
Tim Young
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NEW GALLUP POLL: the pendulum has swung drastically since last year. 🟢 just 30% want immigration decreased (55% last year). 🟢 79% of Americans think immigration is GOOD for the country (record high). 🟢 Path to citizenship (78%) beats mass deportation (38%)
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@LouCalvey
Lou Calvey
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One of the best things we can do right now is demand our Parliamentarians sit down with people directly impacted by our terrible asylum policies, they deserve to be heard.
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