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[Warwick Mullan 💙💛 @WMullan]

@Wolves Incredible action @Wolves Well done, making a positive difference 👏👏👏

[Warwick Mullan 💙💛 @WMullan]

@SouthernRailUK Morning @SouthernRailUK , does this mean that race participants will not be able to use Preston Park to access start?

[Warwick Mullan 💙💛 @WMullan]

Coffee art @costa #countyoakcrawley

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

As it's Friday, I'm asking all my followers to please retweet this photo to help my little bird account to beat the algorithm and be seen!🙏
To make it worth sharing, here's a cute Robin having a bath! 😍
Thank you so much!😊🐦
#FridayRetweetPlease

[Warwick Mullan 💙💛 @WMullan]

@official_danik @TLRailUK @GNRailUK .@cubicts your latest development in smart ticketing?

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

On Monday hundreds of people held up this sign outside courts across the country to show solidarity with Trudi Warner, who could be imprisoned for up to two years.

🔄 RT if you stand with them

[Mark Kieran - Democracy Activist @MarkKieranUK]

WARNING: THREAD CONTAINS GRAPHIC LANGUAGE

🧵 What a morally vacuous, embarrassingly incompetent monster Suella Braverman is.

Having worked at the Home Office deciding asylum applications, I know the 1951 Refugee Convention's terms are far clearer than her pernicious propaganda would suggest.

She says many asylum seekers base their claims on “feeling” discriminated against in their home countries. But the scope of the Convention is limited to people who believe they have a “well-founded fear of persecution” for some specific reasons. Those reasons are race, nationality, religion, membership of a particular social group or political opinion. Mere feelings of discrimination would not meet that rigorous test, and any application made on those grounds would (rightly) be fast-tracked for refusal.

She suggests that persecution, by definition, must involve a threat to life. Not true. Persecution often DOES involve a threat to life, but other things can qualify as persecution (arbitrary detention, unjustified confiscation of assets, withdrawal of state protection from crime). Braverman knows this, but the boneheads whose votes she is soliciting do not, so hey, why not spin the line?

In my time at the Home Office, I refused many asylum applications which, on the evidence presented, clearly did not meet the test of a well-founded fear of persecution on Convention grounds. The majority of those applications were made by people (mostly young men) who appeared to be seeking better economic futures for themselves and their families. That's completely understandable, and I never blamed them for trying, but it's not grounds for asylum, so neither did I feel any guilt in refusing them…that's not the purpose of the asylum system.

But I did grant asylum to a number of people who had clearly faced unimaginable horror in their own countries before escaping to the UK, where they felt safe and where they believed they would be able to live the rest of their lives in peace.

There was the Sikh activist who had a kettle of boiling water poured over him during a police interrogation. There was the woman from a minority Muslim sect who, when her husband died, and her neighbours started throwing stones through her windows at night, sought the protection of the local police only to be publicly ridiculed and then gang-raped by six officers in front of her three young children. There were the young Tamil men forced to inhale the fumes of burnt chilli powder by Sri Lankan police. Others hung upside-down and beaten for days until they confessed to crimes they played no part in. And many, many more with genuine, provable experiences just as gruesome.

Nearly thirty years on, I can still recall the faces of those people as they recounted their experiences to me during interviews and the tears in the eyes of the interpreters as they translated words no one should ever have to hear.

Since my days in the Home Office, I can’t recall a single Home Secretary who hasn’t had to wrestle one way or another with the asylum system. But neither can I recall one who has approached the task with as little humanity in their heart as Braverman. Truly, she is in a league of her own.

I simply don’t believe the majority of people in this country support the cruel policies that Braverman embraces so enthusiastically. As I listen to her today, my sincerest hope is that when Open Britain and our partners finally deliver a functional democracy in this country, monsters like her will never again be able to game their way into high office and abuse the power they find there.

This is our fight.

If you've read this far, please consider giving this a retweet and following me, @OpenBritainHQ and @StopTheRot_UK so you can be part of this positive change. Thank you.

[Warwick Mullan 💙💛 @WMullan]

@threadreaderapp please unroll

[Ros Atkins @BBCRosAtkins]

THREAD...on the 10 attributes that I am looking for in an explanation. And the 10 questions that help me try to deliver them each time that I’m communicating.

[John Twelvetrees #FBPE #RejoinEU #Bluesky @JohnTwelvetrees]

Please retweet if you want Labour, LibDems and Greens to cooperate at the next election in order to oust the Tories and introduce PR so that we never again have to endure a Tory Government with an eighty seat majority, secured with only 44% of the popular vote.

[John Twelvetrees #FBPE #RejoinEU #Bluesky @JohnTwelvetrees]

Please retweet if you want Labour, LibDems and Greens to cooperate at the next election in order to oust the Tories and introduce PR so that we never again have to endure a Tory Government with an eighty seat majority, secured with only 43% of the popular vote.

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

If everyone who has been grateful for the NHS over the past 75 years followed and retweeted we’d reach a million by midnight

Please take just two seconds to show you care

[Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 @JujuliaGrace]

I’ve just tweeted about Grant Shapps and a donation he’s taken from a private hospital. Shall we… raise awareness and hit 5000 retweets?🤞

[Marcus Chown @marcuschown]

Shame on Sunak.

Shame on Braverman.

Shame on the Conservative government.

They do not speak for me.

Retweet if they do not speak for you either.

#IllegalMigrationBill

[Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward]

This Express poll is looking v unhealthy. Can you help?

(Note: you don't need to enter an email address. Just ignore the request.)
https://t.co/lI9w2JrfwI

[Freddie @FreddieBailey96]

A billionaire who is missing at sea viewing the Titanic is front page news.

300 migrants die in a boat off the coast of Greece and the British media talks about them like they aren’t human.

[Otto Von Jizzmark @Ottojizzmark]

GREAT NEWS
My campaign to limit the number of people retweeting this partygate clip and causing any upset to the Conservatives has made great progress I'm now so confident that nobody will RT it that I am going to tag in @Conservatives so they can see how well we're doing
Thanks

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

It is absurd - and an insult to the new King - that an ex PM forced to resign from Parliament in disgrace should be allowed to “honour”
cronies, donors and Covid party cover uppers. Sunak must block it. Sign the petition https://t.co/Mvn9e2tFUK via @38degrees

[Warwick Mullan 💙💛 @WMullan]

I just signed the petition calling on Boris Johnson's resignation honours to be blocked. Will you sign too? https://t.co/3MPCCgmscc via @38degrees

[Warwick Mullan 💙💛 @WMullan]

@parkrunUK @tilgateparkrun with @MullanOlivia and Arlo🐶