Graham Spring

Disgruntled, dissatisfied, disgusted, changes are needed.

[John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellMP]

A government that is stagnating politically, economically and, in the light of Windrush, morally too. https://t.co/zmL0lrYW70

[Tory Fibs @ToryFibs]

Six Tory Fibs on Windrush now exposed:

•Rudd WAS aware of deportation targets
•May WAS warned about Windrush in 2016
•May DID set deportation targets
•Landing Cards op decision WAS Oct. 2010
•Albert Thompson ISNT receiving treatment
•Theresa May DID sanction “Go Home Van"

[Graham Spring @Graspring]

Marriage starts off with two hearts and a diamond and ends with a wish for a club and a spade!

[Transparency International UK @TransparencyUK]

🔎 Almost 40k properties in London where the identity of the owner is hidden 👤
🔎 £4.4bn worth of property across UK bought with suspicious wealth 🏛
🔎Most within 3 miles of Buckingham Palace💂‍♀️

Time to end UK’s role as a safe haven for corrupt 💰 ! https://t.co/ssR1yF6PUF

[David Lammy @DavidLammy]

Nick how can something happen when the Home Secretary is opposed to the specific thing that the Home Office is doing? Where is the evidence of this? If TM was opposed to go home vans when she was Home Secretary how and why did they happen? She was in charge of the department! https://t.co/hQFc8UKwA1

[The Spectator @spectator]

Last weekend, it was as if the Chilcot report never happened, says Peter Oborne.

Britain, cheered on by a bellicose press and a largely docile Parliament, launched airstrikes that showed the same disregard for due process against which Chilcot warned.

https://t.co/3ziOZwZRxN

[David Lammy @DavidLammy]

In 2004 Theresa May said "I find it extraordinary that a Minister isn’t willing just to step up to the plate and take responsibility... I’m actually sick and tired of Government Ministers who simply blame other people when something goes wrong".

I agree.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The Border Agency discussed destroying the #Windrush landing cards in 2009, but the decision to do so was taken in October 2010 when Theresa May was Home Secretary.
So Theresa May was disgracefully duplicitous at #PMQs to blame this on the 2009 Labour government.

[David Lammy @DavidLammy]

Ministers who mislead the House should resign. Home Secretaries who lose control of the Home Office should resign. Ministers who are in charge of a department that threatens innocent people with deportation & makes their life a misery stripping them of their rights should resign https://t.co/0HYSxKT5zE

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

Whoops https://t.co/FdgZo75dUt

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

Anyone else think it's time for the mainstream media and a whole load of MPs from both major parties to apologise for creating the environment in which racist and xenophobic policies - like those affecting the #Windrush cases - flourish? #PMQs

[The Labour Party @UKLabour]

365 days of May. 365 days of mayhem.
Let’s take a look back on some of Theresa May’s “highlights” from the last 12 months...

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

How to avoid saying ‘this is state-led racism’! Your ‘anxiety’! No, it was our ‘discrimination ‘ against you. ‘Errors’! No, it was our deliberate harassment and racist actions. ‘Data protection’ : no deliberate wiping out of people’s history. #linguistics #language #grammar

[Dr David Wrigley @DavidGWrigley]

For all those watching BBC #hospital this is the reason why there are no beds, staff are at their limits & patients suffer due to an NHS on the edge. NHS staff are super heroes & deserve all our thanks for everything they do. It’s a political choice how much the NHS is funded...

[Sara Tomlinson @teachertomo]

Education funding crisis? 'Earlier this year, the National Audit Office (NAO) revealed that converting schools into academies had cost £745 million since 2010-11' - that's money to lawyers and consultants

[David Lammy @DavidLammy]

The Home Office’s excuse is that they destroyed Windrush records because of data protection. That is a disgrace and an insult to thousands of people. They destroyed the records and now you are destroying lives. I fail to understand why a Minister has not resigned. Shameful. https://t.co/YatpH6MUj1

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

Let’s work really hard, politicians and press, to make the Windrush scandal look like a mistake, a little bitty bureaucratic error, an oversight, someone looking the wrong way, over-zealous implementation. No, no, no. It was racist state-run harassment.

[Mark Steel @mrmarksteel]

It's touching that the government is sorry. We all make mistakes, some of us spill a cup of tea, and some accidentally spend 10 years screaming about immigrants and promise to create a 'hostile environment' for them. Whoops.

[David Lammy @DavidLammy]

James is right. This is not a flaw this is not an accident this is not bureaucratic error. This is the direct result of the pernicious hostile environment Theresa May proudly boasted of, pandering to far-right anti-immigrant filth. If you lay down with dogs then you get the fleas https://t.co/YX1g4t2Y5M