Fliss🧡

My wee random ramblings *views my own*. Often tweet about asylum/refugee rights, sea/loch swimming, Scottish Independence and food.

[Fliss🧡 @FlissKeefe]

Some organisations here in #Scotland who work their socks off to support ALL displaced people #RefugeesWelcome🧡
The war in #Ukraine will increase the demand for all of these services.
First off - the amazing @Refuweegee; welcome packs/phones/buggies/welcome letters & much more!

[Scottish Refugee Council 🧡 @scotrefcouncil]

“This is a national scandal which must not be repeated.”

Scores of asylum-seeking children missing from Home Office hotels are likely to have been trafficked, report finds.

https://t.co/uXvEQ71skQ

[Lou Calvey @LouCalvey]

There are 4-500 people held on the Bibby Stockholm. In around 200 cabins. Since Leonard’s suicide they’ve dumped more people on this floating prison.

This monstrosity is a ghoulish representation of Tory Britain. It needs to go. Shut it down Labour.

https://t.co/7qecR9OBIQ

[Talat @talatyaqoob]

.@PassTheMicScot and @UniStrathclyde have worked together on media monitoring through the general election to count the number of women of colour - it’s worse than I thought: Only 1.5% of people in all Scottish media stories about the election were women of colour.

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

Leaving anyone, let alone children, adrift on a raft in the sea is beyond what most humans are capable of even imagining.

It is an act of unspeakable evil and criminality.

And it is completely the norm for the Greek coastguard.

[Fliss🧡 @FlissKeefe]

@MohammadAsif_1 Never knew you had such a great snack platter to hand - jealous!

[Benny Hunter @BennnyH]

First image out of Diego Garcia of the living conditions that asylum-seekers are enduring. This is a camp, on British Overseas Territory, in which both adults and children are living.

[Lou Calvey @LouCalvey]

When you KNOW people in small boats are overwhelmingly refugees, and the refugee convention protects their right to travel irregularly to seek asylum, and yet continue using ‘illegal’ you are part of the anti migrant rhetoric.

No human is illegal.

[Scottish Refugee Council 🧡 @scotrefcouncil]

Today, we join 300 organisations and 500+ individuals in calling on @10DowningStreet to fundamentally overhaul our broken asylum system.

https://t.co/9WKnPp9kVb

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

"Good Riddance To The Worst British Government Of My Lifetime"

I have waited 14 long years to write this piece.

This is what the UK got rid of tonight, on an historic night. This is what the Tories *did*.

Read/share/subscribe:
https://t.co/KNNG29VvnX

[Mhairi Black 🏳️‍🌈 @MhairiBlack]

With the Greens now having the same number of seats as Reform, the UK media should provide them the same platform and level of coverage as Farage’s ilk. Will it happen though? #GE24

[Fliss🧡 @FlissKeefe]

The joy this gives me!

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

Senior Conservative Jacob Rees-Mogg loses North East Somerset and Hanham seat to Labour

#BBCElection live ⬇️

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

If turnout is around 57% and Labour got around 35% of the vote, that means barely one in five eligible voters actually cast a vote for the Labour Party.

20% of the electorate delivers a 160 seat landslide?? The first past the post system is an anti-democratic joke. Time for PR.

[Tim Farron @timfarron]

We have recalled Agent Truss from the field, her work is complete.

[Kirsty Lockwood @AuthorKLockwood]

So sad to see @alisonthewliss lose her seat. She was an effective, dedicated MP and it’s such a shame to lose somebody of her talent from Westminster.

[Talat @talatyaqoob]

BYE.

[Talat @talatyaqoob]

At the very least, today, I am looking forward to the end of such an incompetent, divisive and harmful Govt. (And I will enjoy the absolute disastrous election campaign the Tories have had and the decimation they will face). The new Govt must counter their years of harm, but…

[ScotDetaineeVisitors @SDVisitors]

Please read this piece from our brilliant visitor, Cetta.

[Fliss🧡 @FlissKeefe]

Vote your socks off folks.
Voted✔️ #ToriesOut #GeneralElection2024

[Scottish Refugee Council 🧡 @scotrefcouncil]

Today, people are voting for the next UK government. This is our chance to show politicians from all parties that we’ve had enough of cruelty, scapegoating and division. We want a kinder, fairer and more effective plan for refugees #FairBeginsHere