I remember where I was when I watched the final episode of Blackadder Goes Forth and how I sat stunned at the end. One of the best pieces of tragicomic writing ever, in any form; worth another look today of all days.
This is an undeniably dark day and millions of people around the world will be afraid of what comes next. It's now more important than ever that we stand together, organise and continue to fight for our liberal values of equality, democracy, human rights and the rule of law.
I called families to tell them their beloved was dying. I read out messages from absent family members. I saw the British public behave with such *staggering* decency as they obeyed the rules to protect the vulnerable.
Is my anger 'overblown'?
She has absolutely no idea.
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Robert Jenrick: "I walk the streets of Dover... & I met pensioners who had illegal migrants in their bedrooms when they woke up in the morning."
Trump: "They are eating the dogs & cats of the people that live there."
Jenrick is sounding more & more like Trump.
What did they have??
James Cleverly spent £655 a head on in-flight catering for one-day trip to Rwanda
FOI request reveals then home secretary spent £9,803.20 on catering for flight to Kigali to sign deportation deal that never deported a single person
https://t.co/p5nvw5nj1g
Robert Jenrick says he would reduce immigration to "the tens of thousands, or lower" if he was in Government.
A reminder that when he was actually in charge, as immigration minister, net migration to the UK rose to 685,000.
Tom Baldwin hits the nail on the head over freebies.
"No policy was changed... no public money was involved & no law was broken... & the people who want to draw moral equivalence between this & the last govt... there is no moral equivalence..."
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Tory leadership candidate @RobertJenrick is telling @bbclaurak the ECHR “a foreign court”
the European Court of Human Rights IS NOT A FOREIGN COURT - it’s an international court which we signed up to and he knows it!