Justin Sandifer

[Nour Naim| نُور @NourNaim88]

Lia, my 3-year-old cousin, killed by Israeli army. Her mother Asmaa and sister, Rima (1 year old), were injured with skull fractures!

This world is unjust, unjust, unjust!

[Justin Sandifer @jcs216]

@OctopusEnergy Turns out I do now!

[Justin Sandifer @jcs216]

@OctopusEnergy I was told I’d get one for free, when they were back in stock, does this mean I have to buy it instead?

[Justin Sandifer @jcs216]

@HenryRiley1 This seems very unfair to single out one ex minister. You must be able to find lots of sub post masters in other ex post office ministers constituencies who have similar experiences. What has sir ed done to get the extra scrutiny?

[Justin Sandifer @jcs216]

@FYeahGoodOmens Why is David Tennant getting photos with Brian Clough?

[Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 @JujuliaGrace]

Do you think a public limited company that made over £2.5 billion in pre-tax profit in the last financial year should be allowed to hold NHS contracts? 🚨

If not, please retweet this!💙
@EveryDoctorUK

[Justin Sandifer @jcs216]

@tomhfh Don’t bother using @marksandspencer customer service. They are not very good at helping customers

[Justin Sandifer @jcs216]

@LEGO_Group It was the original Lego technic backhoe, cutting the tubes was scary to get the right lengths!

[Justin Sandifer @jcs216]

@AndyPlumb4 @GoldingBF Poor little Paul, shat himself at the end

[Justin Sandifer @jcs216]

@reallorraine thank you for making the return to Lockerbie. Your compassion and kindness shone through every interview

[Christian Nightmares @ChristnNitemare]

Good morning!

[Justin Sandifer @jcs216]

@PippaCrerar It’s such a shame they have stopped Suella’s dreams coming true

[Justin Sandifer @jcs216]

@GregHands @biztradegovuk We haven’t seen the letter for ages, please just one more time?

[Justin Sandifer @jcs216]

@ShelaghFogarty it’s the dialysis patients I feel sorry for in Gaza, as a recovered dialysis patient the thought of not getting the treatment due to lack of water or energy is so horrible, a truly bad way to deteriorate

[Justin Sandifer @jcs216]

@HillF1 I still remember that race, Murray’s comments as you completed that final lap. Although he had a real curse against you for other races! I was so happy that you finally got that championship, especially after what happened in ‘94 and Michael’s strange steering in Adelaide!

[Justin Sandifer @jcs216]

@labourlewis @NEF @NorwichLabour @NorfolkLabourCC @genrentuk @ACORNunion I moved out of Bowthorpe in May, the landlord had twelve groups look at the property during an hour and a half session. Even though he’d given us a rent rise four months before, the house went on the market an extra 150 than what we paid.

[Justin Sandifer @jcs216]

@tomhfh You don’t have to listen to them, you have freedom of choice not to listen?

[Justin Sandifer @jcs216]

@WalthamstowBorn Where was Percival’s? Was it along hoe street?

[Justin Sandifer @jcs216]

@Conservatives @SuellaBraverman copying ideas from 1930’s Germany

[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.

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