Zoe Gardner
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UK & EU refugees & migration. LGBT+, feminism & generalised incoherent ranting to boot. I do research & campaigns. Dehumanisation is not a line, it is a circle.
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“If they really are refugees, why don’t they have to stay in the first safe country they reach?”
“Why don’t they just claim asylum in France?”
Here is my answer, once & for all. To Jonathan Gullis, and to everyone else who ever wondered.
#RefugeesWelcome
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Good morning to this woman. I hope she’s having a fucking gorgeous day 😍
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There’s really only ever been one “trans debate” I’ve thought was worth having.
And it’s been done, here on French TV.
So we can all move on with our lives now please, and leave trans folks in peace.
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Literally. ANYTHING but a pay rise, huh?
Benches unveiled to honour front line NHS and key workers during the Covid-19 pandemic
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Sturgeon is correct: “Abusive men are a threat to women. Trans women are not a threat to women. This is about further stigmatising & excluding an already stigmatised group. Real feminists should be concerned with real threats to women, not with stigmatising trans women.”
#r4today
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Just wait till this dude hears about refugees.
Increasingly uneasy about how Djokovic is being treated. Whatever your views on the man, he was approved to board that plane. And now? An 8hr interrogation, a glorified detention centre, and global ridicule. This does not feel like 'rules are rules'. It feels like a show trial.
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2 minutes on Newsnight last night to say:
The government has deliberately created a crisis as a campaign tool
They have stopped processing asylum claims, letting numbers build up, in barges or hotels, just so at the next election they can say they’re the ones to fix it
#r4today
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Every single person Priti Patel tried to deport today have been found to have the right to stay in the UK.
Another slow clap for the Home Office.
EXC: Home Office forced to abandon deportation flight to Spain today for Channel migrants after all 23 were sprung by three law firms:
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I hope this woman is having an absolutely brilliant day.
Love her.
"How would you feel if something suddenly happened here and we had to flee somewhere?"
"We should be embarrassed. It's an atrocity."
This woman takes less than a minute to completely destroy the Tory government's archaic anti-refugee policies.
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Why the fuck do you need an independent investigation into some Tory watching porn in the chamber when two women saw him do it and reported him by name. Just sack him for FUCKS SAKE.
#r4today
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We’re going to have to ask ourselves-
What really is the difference between Sudanese people & Ukrainian people, which means Ukrainians have free entry to Europe & a visa pathway to the UK, and Sudanese are kept out with brutal force?
'It's sheer chaos'
Sky's
@YousraElbagir
reports from Port Sudan which has become an evacuation point for thousands of people since fighting broke out in Sudan
Read more:
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Whenever a Tory says “we’ll do whatever it takes to stop the boats”😭😭😭
Just remember, the one thing they won’t do is give asylum seekers a safe, regulated alternative way to cross from France to the UK.
That’s the real lie from Jenrick, Braverman, Sunak, the lot of them.
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Am I perfect? No.
But do I try my best and keep a positive attitude? Also no.
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This is so simple & important & yet you almost NEVER see it happen.
Big props to
@krishgm
who has done his research and can tell Jenrick plainly “that’s not true” when he lies about what the Refugee Convention says.
Hi 👋
@BBCNews
presenters, it’s called journalism, take notes
"They're not asylum shoppers they're asylum seekers... That's not true."
@krishgm
challenges immigration minister Robert Jenrick after he claims "asylum shoppers" should seek sanctuary in the first safe country they reach under the "Refugee Convention".
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If a 19-year-old rape victim is trying to cover her face in every photo the press take of her, maybe the press should stop illustrating their social media tweets about the story with pictures of her. Maybe.
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Impossible not to draw comparisons between a billionaire tourist ship on a risky journey to visit a wreck & desperate, homeless refugees on a hugely risky journey for a chance at a safe life -
Both lost at sea, with vastly different resources committed to their location & rescue
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Always a pleasure to debate my old friend Jonathan Gullis, today on
@bbc5live
about high net immigration.
I am sick of politicians coming up with new ways to punish migrants who work in essential jobs all because of their own failure to invest in the services we need.
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Syrians. It's 15 Syrians who have been served with a removal notice that they'll be sent away to Rwanda on 14 June.
We cannot stand for this barbarism. Syrians refugees, ALL refugees are welcome here.
Johnson probably believes that if he can get one poor asylum seeker who is seeking protection from atrocities at our shores onto a plane to Rwanda, he can survive a confidence vote.
It's the most despicable explanation I can think of and so it's probably the right one.
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Also. Fuck everyone who supports a Brexit that allows the free movement of goods but not that of people.
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‼️Security guards who protected British embassy staff in Afghanistan rounded up in the UK, arrested, locked up and told they will be deported 😱😱😱
This is beyond the pale, even for this government. Their assault on refugee protection must be stopped
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Just fuck Rishi Sunak, honestly, and fuck everyone who pretended to think he was fit, too.
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Holiday at the British seaside, which the Tories voted to pump full of literal shit.
Swim in raw, British sewage because the Tories can’t manage a border system that lets you get out the country before your annual leave runs out.
Oh and vote Tory, yeah?
Why not take a holiday break in the UK to avoid the delays into France? Plenty of great places to stay.
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Oh whoops, we've refused someone with a public platform again 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
@Dahabalaylaali
Hi Dahaba. We have been trying to reach you today. Our dedicated team of brilliant civil servants are on hand to support you. Please call 0300 123 7379
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A quarter of Brits are the most tedious kind of xenophobe.
A quarter of Brits (26%) - and 41% Leave voters - say they're bothered when they hear those from a non-English speaking country talking to each other in their own language whilst in the UK
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We dont want your second attempt at Brexit.
We dont want to follow Putin's Russia out of ECHR.
We don't want your prison ships.
We don't want your rivers of shit.
We want you Tories out.
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Yesterday was a historic day in Spain. The last migrant was released from the last detention centre. No more expulsions during a global pandemic, no more detention either. Today every detention centre in the country stands empty. What a moment for Spain! 💪💪💪
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Here’s the thing on “Rwanda plane was never meant to take off, it’s all a dead cat” : No.
1. The people who were supposed to be on that flight have been traumatised. This govt deports people whenever it can & would have deported them. Each one of them is what matters most.
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Very pleased & surprised at the kind, supportive response to the video of me schooling Gullis at the Bill Committee
There’s an extra 8,000 or so of you now- welcome! 😊
If you’re looking for positive facts & occasional rants about immigration, you’re in the right place, friend!
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Portuguese government has decreed that ALL asylum seekers and ALL undocumented migrants with pending applications for residence are AUTOMATICALLY granted and may access ALL STATE PROVISION including healthcare and benefits. I'm going to faint.
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This woman is a disgusting excuse for a human.
I will be sharing this tweet with every dickhead who asks me “what about OUR homeless”
The Tories spit on them. That’s what.
What do you do?
The British people are compassionate. We will always support those who are genuinely homeless. But we cannot allow our streets to be taken over by rows of tents occupied by people, many of them from abroad, living on the streets as a lifestyle choice. 1/4
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This is utterly revolting. Any sane country would just sack the government that does this.
WATCH: Untreated sewage was released into Langstone Harbour, Hampshire for 49 hours.
Photographer Chris Pearsal, who captured the footage, tells
#BBCBreakfast
‘it needs to stop’.
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The 3 things you need to know:
1. Most refugees never come to rich countries like the UK, more go to other countries.
2. Those coming to the UK have ties to this country.
3. Geography is no excuse to shirk responsibility & leads to a race to the bottom with disastrous results.
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THE COURT OF APPEAL FINDS RWANDA IS NOT A SAFE COUNTRY FOR REFUGEES TO BE REMOVED FROM THE UK
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Sunak can’t sack Suella Braverman for her latest fine-dodging corrupt nonsense or she’ll have the extreme right Tories withdraw support for his govt.
We have a PM beholden to extremist loons that represent almost no one in Britain. Sunak can’t get a grip, it’s pathetic. Weak PM.
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Therese Coffey says there are safe routes for Afghans to come to the uk. In the year to March 2022 we offered that safe route to EIGHT WHOLE PEOPLE.
#r4today
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It's come to my attention again that few people have any idea what the government's "stop the boats" illegal migration bill does, so:
It ends the right to seek asylum in the UK.
No decsions. No applications will be processed. From Afghans to Albanians. Limbo forever for all.
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You do not have to have family members in a country to receive refugee protection there. That is not a rule that exists.
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I look at a LOT of opinion polling on immigration, and I just don’t think cutting the family rights of foreign students is something the country desperately wants.
We want a fucking funded health service and some fucking affordable homes. You useless fucking pricks.
From today, the majority of foreign university students cannot bring family members to the UK.
In 2024, we’re already delivering for the British people.
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🔔🔔 LORDS VOTE TO REMOVE CLAUSE 11 FROM THE
#NationalityAndBordersBill
And after this knock-out blow dealt by the cross bench Peer Lord Kerr, how could they do anything else?
A blow to the government's
#AntiRefugeeBill
and a stand taken in solidarity with Ukraine & refugees
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Here it is: I challenged ex-Tory MP Mick Dubois to name one currently operational safe route for refugees to reach the UK & he couldn’t.
We’ve given a safe route to just 54 Afghans, and the government’s lie that safe routes exist is what allows people to drown in the Channel.
I, er, got quite aggy and called out the “safe routes” rubbish for the lie it is on TalkTV just now…
I don’t even know whether to share the clip…
I don’t regret it, though.
That lie is killing people every day.
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Been sobbing over videos from Kenmure Street.
There is nothing more beautiful than a community standing together in solidarity against the racist violence of deportations.
Thank you Glasgow, from my heart ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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I’m not surprised Suella Braverman refused to roll out humane, community-based asylum seeker housing costing HALF what the current approach does
Nor that it hasn’t made the news
I AM tired of hearing the lie that no alternatives are on the table
#r4today
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Imagine earning over 80k and not even shutting up and being happy about it? Imagine being such a miserable fuck that you still reckon you're hard done by at that point.
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Thank you, with all my heart, to everyone who showed up for refugees last night.
This is London ❤️
We are diverse but never divided. This cruel bill will never pass in our name.
We will stand together with the most vulnerable against the powers pushing an agenda of hate 💪🔥
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I’m so sick of them gaslighting us.
It’s just straight up racist what Hester said about Diane Abbott, same as what Lee Anderson said about Sadiq was.
It’s not “rude”.
It’s not an “unfortunate turn of phrase”.
It’s racist. We all know it.
Conservative Spox on Frank Heather's comments about Diane Abbott:
"Mr Hester has made clear that while he was rude, his criticism had nothing to do with her gender nor the colour of her skin. He has since apologised."
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The part no one has explained is HOW Johnson, of immensely privileged background, on PM salary, with two tax-payer-paid houses, could possibly need not only a 6-figure loan, but not have been able to get one alone??
But nurses using food banks need to learn to budget?
#r4today
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Ugh. Friends who live 15 min walk away stopped by on the way back from the shops to say hi (from a distance) and wish me a happy birthday. We sat down on spaced out benches to chat for 5 minutes. Cue some wank of a neighbour shouting and taking pics. Fuck all a'you wannabe stasi.
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It is indescribably depressing to wake up and hear that our government and the French are doubling down on another of the same old deterrence deals.
More patrols, more police, and no recognition that we need to offer people an alternative to the smugglers’ boats.
#r4today
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Over the last year, BBC guidelines have changed.
Where previously they referred to asylum seekers, maybe “asylum seekers making irregular journeys” maybe a mix of asylum seekers & “economic migrants”
The exact same people are called “illegal migrants” by all presenters now.
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The police reaction to Chris Kaba’s killer being charged is telling. They believe they are above accountability.
While hundreds of their colleagues are under investigation for attacking women, they still believe they should be allowed to shoot & kill us in the street.
#r4today
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Gove can fill his nose with coke, say he made a mistake & carry on as one of the most powerful politicians in the UK.
Black kids who get mixed up in drugs not only actually serve time, but may then be literally banished from the only country they know.
Stand up for the
#Jamaica50
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Wish me luck, friends, I’m off to tell another Tory MP how badly they’ve messed up the asylum system on
#NewsNight
in a bit!
Tune in and send me calming positive vibes please 😅😎
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Politicians say they’ll do whatever it takes to stop the boats & the drownings.
But the one thing they won’t do is give people safe alternative ways to travel.
So we’ll always be waiting for the next tragedy.
Safe routes are the only thing that will stop the smugglers
#r4today
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I am so fucking sick of today already.
A one year old Syrian baby died in the cold at the Polish border, and Priti Patel wants us to know that it’s Europe’s open borders creating refugees.
So we debate if the solution is drowning them or sending them to Albania. FUCK. OFF.
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The news will be all about Galloway today - that’s why the government published these 13 immigration inspection reports in one go yesterday, to bury them.
But the scale & degree of chaos, mismanagement, dereliction of duty & incompetence they reveal is astounding, truly
#r4today
Just skimming through the big dump of ICIBI's reports that the Home Office tried to burry by publishing today.
Just to give you an idea of the level we're talking...
The Home Office doesn't know whether all staff working in hotels with unaccompanied children are DBS checked.
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The Home Secretary did not accidentally repeat a racist trope, proven false by the research of her own department.
Her words are entirely deliberate and designed to provoke the “conversation” we’ve been having today.
Better that than one on teacher’s pay or NHS waitlists, huh?
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A clip from today - once again asking why we are told that the real crisis in this country is a few thousand people asking for protection, instead of the longest waiting times in A&E on record and doctors & nurses forced to strike for decent pay in a cost of living crisis.
Just heard
@ZoeJardiniere
talking to
@SangitaMyska
on
@LBC
. Pulling no punches and being knowledgeable and informative as usual. One of my favourite humans at the moment.
#RefugeesWelcome
#ToriesOut
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Listen, for god’s sake. Abusive men have ABSOLUTELY NO NEED to “pretend to be trans women” in order to abuse us. It is simply not a credible risk. I will not be responding further to any transphobic comments.
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Actually they could fix this thing tomorrow.
Just process asylum claims.
Other governments have done it, and they’ve done it when numbers of applications were far higher too.
This is a cynical, manufactured, unnecessary theatre of cruelty & refugees pay the price.
#r4today
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MPs voted *against* their own right to vote on trade deals yesterday and I swear to God I just hate them.
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I was asked by someone on here, “What’s your solution then, smart arse?”
1. Formalise existing migration routes
2. Take control of those routes back from smugglers
3. Plan & invest the infrastructure we need to make sure our communities share the benefits of migration
Interesting conversation as always with
@AndrewCastle63
on
@LBC
this morning about why the government’s migration policies are such a disastrous failure.
Spoiler: I think, to a degree, that’s the point.
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When Suella Braverman lays her hateful anti refugee bill in parliament today, she’ll say refugees should take legal routes, or we will wash our hands of them.
When she does, think of Yosra, a 52 female Afghan judge, refused safe travel to the UK.
#r4today
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Tonight, we cry, hug each other, thank everyone, from the bottom of our heart who spoke up or stood up in any way at all.
Tomorrow, we regroup, we keep fighting to get this disgusting racist Rwanda deportation policy thrown OUT for good. ❤️🤩💪💪❤️❤️
Solidarity forever!
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I largely gave up on asking why Labour is often so crap aages ago because, honestly, what’s the point?
But I’m frankly appalled at their silence on the Rwanda flight. This is a straightforward issue about the soul of this country… & they’re being outflanked by Prince Charles 😶
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My one interaction with Frank Field was a debate on r4today in-which he attempted to smear asylum seekers as criminals based on a report he admitted in debate he had not read (I had) and that was not about asylum seekers at all...
And he thinks he's the one who's bullied?
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UK Supreme Court: The Court of Appeal was RIGHT
RWANDA IS NOT A SAFE COUNTRY FOR THE UK TO SEND REFUGEES.
In other words - decency has only gone and bloody won it, lads.
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It’s been 8 years since Syrian 2-year-old Alan Kurdi’s body washed up on the shore of Greece and we all responded like it mattered.
This week another FOUR young refugee children are known to have drowned off that very same coastline. You haven’t even heard of them, have you?
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Firstly Tom is - not for the first time - being a total shit. This time so as to tread dirt on the memory of a man who died.
Secondly, of course, simply being a qualified doctor does not get you a visa to the UK. Requirements are a little more complex but why bother finding out?
Sorry but if you are a qualified doctor who could work in the NHS, why would you pay a people smuggler many thousands of pounds to come across on a small boat?
Why wouldn’t you apply legally? 745k visas were issues last year. I just don’t get it.
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Moh Farah: what a legend.
Incredibly brave to come out about having been smuggled to UK when the govt is attacking & criminalising these desperate escapes like never before.
This should force a conversation about the senseless cruelty of our closed borders to refugees
#r4today
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Beautiful. Listen to it. Thank you to this kind woman ❤️
Our country is full of decent, caring people who understand that refugees are just decent, caring people too.
The government’s cruelty & dehumanisation won’t save their rotten political skins. It’s over for them.
Lady in audience, "The Conservative government is using asylum seekers as a smoke screen to distract people from the real problems in this country."
#BBCQT
- Follow for more
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All I know is, it's -i n t e r e s t i n g- someone who's apparently 20 is presented as a 'vulnerable young person' or even 'a child' by The Sun in this mess of a story about a BBC presenter.
I swear there's some other vulnerable young people The Sun treats quite differently🤔
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Grown men deserve to live, too. In freedom and security. Yes, they do. This is not hard.
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Y'know they like to say Muslim refugees are a threat to "our" women, but hand on heart I've never been harmed in any way by any Muslim. People who look exactly like this, though - lagered-up sweaty white boys - have given me all sorts of trouble through my life. THEY scare me.
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Immigrants are good for our country!
High net migration figures out today are brilliant news!❤️
Not one politician out there bashing foreigners today can give a good reason WHY we should want less of them.
Rishi Sunak has no idea.
What matters is how we treat people.
#r4today
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If Piers Morgan loses his bet & planes take off taking people by force to Rwanda, it means nothing to him.
It's refugees who have everything to lose. Not Piers. Not Rishi.
& if a plane takes off, but your nan is still on an NHS waiting list for her operation, what have you won?
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All the client media puff pieces about Braverman’s Rwanda stunt don’t change the fact that it’s morally abhorrent to transport men, women & children and dump them halfway around the world in a country the size of Wales, whose people live under dictatorship & largely in poverty.
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I, er, got quite aggy and called out the “safe routes” rubbish for the lie it is on TalkTV just now…
I don’t even know whether to share the clip…
I don’t regret it, though.
That lie is killing people every day.
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According to this TalkTV presenter, Suella Braverman went all the way to Washington, to advocate for keeping the asylum system for LGBTQ refugees exactly the same as now 🤷♀️🤪
He called me Ava throughout as well… which to be fair is very flattering & I don’t hold it against him.
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Robert Jenrick: taking action on the people’s priorities, which apparently now includes making children feel less safe & welcome.
I can barely find words to express how despicable this is &
@RobertJenrick
should be made to answer for it.
This craven villainy represents no one.
Independent immigration policy expert, Zoe Gardner, on LBC:
“Robert Jenrick, the minister for frightening small children.”
Pithy, to the point and utterly damning.
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The “Kwai Kwarteng is just too clever to be a good Chancellor” line that I’m hearing on
#r4today
right now is blowing my tiny mind.
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Imagine another week at
#PMQs
when a terrorist firebombing attack had taken place, where neither the Prime Minister, nor the opposition even mention it.
Worse, they both fight to show which of their parties holds more contempt for its victims. Utter disgrace.
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The Rwanda plan is cruel, regardless how today goes.
If we force a few 100 people onto flights in the next months, the British people are no safer, able to afford our bills, or get a GP appointment.
None of our country's problems are solved through cruelty to refugees.
#r4today
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🥁🥁🥁Decent people must stand up against plans for mass detention and rejection of refugees!
On Monday MPs will debate the new horrific Bill in parliament - tell them
#StopTheBill
For
#GaryGate
, for all good people's right to raise their voice, for safety, for
#RefugeesWelcome
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If you missed this over the weekend, this might be one of the most important interviews I ever gave.
We need to check this spiral to the extreme right in how we discuss migration. There will always be migration.
If we respond with humanity or not is our only choice.
#r4today
Zoe Gardner: "It would be extraordinary, a couple of years ago, to talk about refugees seeking protection... as illegal immigrants. It would have been extraordinary... for the British PM to attend what is the successor to a neo-fascist tradition in Italy... "
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Hi, my name is Zoe & I'm a Men's Rights Activist now, apparently. Send help.
Actually I'm just tired of hearing the lie that being a man means you are not a refugee.
Of course you can be a man & a refugee.
The govt has no right to deny men protection.
#MensRightsAreHumanRights
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We don’t know the details of this case yet, but we know a man came to us seeking sanctuary.
We had every ability to help him, but we put him on a barge instead as a symbol of our cruelty and hostility to people like him.
We know our asylum system is designed to kill hope.
Asylum seeker dies on Bibby Stockholm barge as MPs prepare to vote on Rwanda plan
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She is quite obviously deliberately lying & sees that as being her Home Office brief.
And that's why our media, especially shows like
#BBCLauraK
are not fit for purpose because Laura Kuenssberg is the one not on top of her brief enough to enable her to expose & confront the lies.
Braverman is trotting out so much easily disprovable nonsense. Either she is massively ill-prepared or just lying. Either way she shows she is not on top of her brief. A lot of what she is saying has been demonstrated to be wrong by the Home Office's own analysis.
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It will be four years tomorrow since the referendum to leave the EU, and I just have to ask to all those of you prats who know who you are, once more with feeling....
How's Lexit going?
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Around 70 thousand Ukrainians live in the UK. We must show this community support, lift income requirements and other limitations on family reunion to allow them to bring loved ones to safety.
We can learn from our disastrous failure to do this in Afghanistan & get ahead of this.
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I had a bit of clash with Jake Berry this afternoon on
@TalkTV
, turns out he’s another Tory MP moonlighting as a presenter & I didn’t even realise 🙄
He wrongly claimed offshoring asylum procedures worked in Australia, where it was in fact a total disaster.
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Worst thing when you meet a loud & proud Tory at social events is how they always think because I’m interested in politics it means I’m interested in debating *them*. I am not.
Your personal justification for your shitty, selfish politics do not challenge or fascinate me. Trust.
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Today the House of Lords debate & vote on the
#NationalityAndBordersBill
#AntiRefugeeBill
Under this law, Ukrainians reaching the UK for protection would be considered criminals, denied the right to seek asylum, sent to offshore detention. It must be thrown out.
#r4today
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The Rwanda bill passed.
Very few asylum seekers will ever be sent there, but this morning, thousands of homeless men, women & children who came to us with nothing & asked for help but we left in limbo, have fear hanging over them of violent deportation to a dictatorship
#r4today
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