“I’m being used to whitewash the story of empire and I’m not going for it.”
As he releases his memoir Track Record, George the Poet explains why he turned down an MBE and how the UK's political culture has moved "in favour of the elites".
Home Office admits it has no evidence to back up one of the key justifications for its crackdown on small boat crossings.
As home secretary, Priti Patel said “70% of individuals on small boats are single men who are effectively economic migrants”. https://t.co/M1AvexFLLU
Regardless of where someone is from, how they happen to be in the UK, their skin colour or background. They are human beings before anything else and deserve to be treated like any of us would expect too
This article is a prime example of discrimination
https://t.co/ByQu86ioKN
Amazing story of the hotel near where I live in North Somerset and the way the community has responded to 100 asylum seekers suddenly moving in - https://t.co/X0TTmwyry3
This is England.
The two major parties in this country both largely agree on immigration policy.
There's no alternative, only worsening and worsening human rights abuses.
🚨EXCL: For over six months, I've been speaking to asylum decision-makers, including some recruited from McDonald's and Tesco. They say they're left alone to conduct complex asylum interviews within two days, then make "life and death" decisions. (Thread)
https://t.co/55M5JOqIGM
Media around ‘migrant crisis’ is off the scale. So a reminder - we’re talking about around 75K people - the same capacity as Old Trafford. Numbers of small boat crossings have grown as other routes have closed. There is no migrant crisis. There’s a safe routes crisis.
Dozens of young children are being held at Manston detention camp in Kent.
Mothers, fathers, children and babies from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere.
We went today and heard them chanting for their freedom.
This is persecution. FREE THEM AND CLOSE IT DOWN.
A workers ability to withdraw their labour is a fundamental right - @RMTunion will fight any attempts by these extremists to remove the right to take legal industrial action.
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