My pal just called...
She said:
I'm off to vote, who should I vote for?
I asked her postcode
I popped it into the website below
It said:
Vote Lib Dem
She said:
On it
And that's how easy it is to de-seat the Tories.
https://t.co/qnSnlX0wg4
Every year, the government makes available a personal tax summary showing what your tax contributions were spent on.
We’ve made our own version for costility. Here are some of the ways that the government is choosing to waste your money on punishing refugees.
Sorry to repeat myself, but you *really* need to know this.
Under the government's Public Order Bill, anyone who has protested in the previous 5 years can be forced to "submit to ... being fitted with, or the installation of, any necessary apparatus" to monitor your movements.
How many of you know what Cruella Braverman's Public Order Bill contains?
It's frankly unbelievable: legislation you might expect in Russia, Iran or Egypt. Here's a summary from my column today:
"A ruling delivered on Tuesday said the law had been “misunderstood” by the Home Office and Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), and that a legal “heresy” developed making asylum seekers believe they had no defence to the charge."
https://t.co/lVhX9hFade
If you’ve ever panic bought toilet paper or petrol, just remember you’re experiencing the tiniest fraction of the panic people feel when they’re forced to flee their homes or cross the channel.
A story I wanted to cover for years.
Did you know that #Greece is the world’s 8th largest exporter of strawberries?
Did you know that the biggest migrant camp in Greece is not #Moria?
In the informal camps in #Manolada 7,000-10,000 people during the strawberry harvest.
Home Office advice to asylum seekers:
"You’ll usually get a decision on your application within 6 months."
The Guardian:
"More than 50,000 people have been waiting more than 6 months for an initial decision from the Home Office about their asylum claim."
🚨#BorderTech: Using a database of 70,000 photos from Mexico, facial recognition is now being deployed at the US border.
“The government is building a system of pervasive surveillance, and that creates a society that looks very different from a free republic.” @scopesetic@eff
Many of the weapons being "battle-tested" on children in Gaza tonight will have come from Elbit Systems.
It has 4 subsidiaries and 2 joint ventures in this country. It was recently given £100m of our taxes by the MOD for it's "detect and destroy" technology.
Young people embrace the popular f*** and s*** – but that doesn’t mean they find nothing offensive
They have little tolerance for words that used to be common that harm marginalized groups
Full story: https://t.co/wc1hz9NWeF
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