Dan Plant

[Darren Parkinson 🌍💚🤘 @DarrenBar88]

Farage on the BBC...again. And not a Green in sight.

A reminder:

Greens: 4 MPs 800+ councillors

Reform: 4 MPs 600+ councillors

When will the BBC give the Green Party the same amount of coverage as Reform?

#BBCLauraK

[Dan Plant @dnplnt]

This is what we need all of our politicians in Europe to be saying. No mealy mouthed appeasement, just clear pragmatic truth telling that is vital in these times we find ourselves in. Do yourself a favour and watch the whole thing. https://t.co/QmY02eNNOW

[Jazzy Jones willnotsilenceme @theywillnotsil1]

@maddenifico Musk is the biggest propaganda machine! Take away his security clearance and take away the billions (yes billions) in grant money. Kick his ass out!

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

This gentleman has one of the most accurate descriptions of Elon Musk I've heard yet. 🎯🎯🎯👇

[Dan Plant @dnplnt]

@BBCSport Simone manages to be the greatest even in second place. What a gracious gesture to her greatest rival. Lovely!

[Steve Peers @StevePeers]

This is incredibly poor judgment - endlessly giving a platform to a man who cannot be bothered to run for Parliament, with no role for anyone from the LibDems, SNP or Green party

[Dan Plant @dnplnt]

@AMAZlNGNATURE I'd film in landscape!

[Dan Plant @dnplnt]

This ad was such a clear miss by Apple - really surprising that they didn't see it. It isn't even a clever idea, or particularly original, but it is definitely upsetting

[Hugh Grant @HackedOffHugh]

The destruction of the human experience. Courtesy of Silicon Valley.

[Dan Plant @dnplnt]

One for us oldies

[National Park Service @NatlParkService]

If it runs into itself, game over.

[Sean Adams @seaninsound]

Every. Word. Of. This.

👏 @GeorgeMonbiot

Never heard an applause like this on #bbcqt either.

[Dan Plant @dnplnt]

@LADbible you should be better than this. The headline should be "proven faker tries to trick us again and desperate news outlets suck it up". No serious scientist even entertains this utter nonsense. Shame on you
https://t.co/X9Fgvnf6bx

[Dan Plant @dnplnt]

OMG we only went and did it! So chuffed for our team that has worked so hard for this.

[Media Week Awards @MediaWeekAwards]

Congratulations to the winner of the 2023 #MediaWeekAwards Media Agency of the Year category: @Starcom_UK

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[Media Week Awards @MediaWeekAwards]

Congratulations to the 2023 #MediaWeekAwards Gold winner in the Econometrics category @Starcom_UK for @Primark

@Campaignmag

[Dan Plant @dnplnt]

@nawBitbot @davetrott @rorysutherland Definitely a joke - look at the follow up tweet

[Stop Funding Hate @StopFundingHate]

GB News would like you to know (again) that they strongly condemn personal, ad hominem attacks...

[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.

[Lisa Nandy MP @lisanandy]

Suella Braverman is wrong.

Multiculturalism isn’t the problem.

But we know what the problem is…

#bbcqt

[Dan Plant @dnplnt]

@DrFrancesRyan Please stop using £10k a term for your straw man argument - the average terms cost for a day-only school is less than £5k and most families who pay it have to make real sacrifices to do so. You don't know, don't assume you do.

[Jon Sopel @jonsopel]

‘Multiculturalism has failed’ says Suella Braverman who is from Kenyan and Mauritian background and married to a Jew, serving as Home Secretary in a govt led by someone whose family came from India.
Wonder what multicultural success looks like…..