Five people, including a child, died attempting to cross the Channel this morning - just hours after the Tories passed their Rwanda Bill.
Deporting people to countries with questionable human rights records isn’t going to stop them making these journeys. We need safe routes.
Priti Patel’s own parents left persecution in Uganda to come here. In 1972, Ted Heath agreed to take in 28,000 Ugandan Asians fleeing Idi Amin. 28,000 in one year, despite the protests of Enoch Powell.
And the daughter of that generation does them a dishonour.
I genuinely think people convicted of hate crimes should get put on a register like sex offenders. We have a right to know who we are working with and living near
Can we remember...
Marcus Rashford is 23, raised £200m for kids to eat last year.
Jadon Sancho is 21, opened up new football pitches for those in the suburbs of London.
Bukayo Saka is 19, a voice for the youth of football today & helping local communities.
#StopHate#ENGITA
They can't even leave. Do people understand that citizens of Gaza are unable to leave? The land is besieged, movement is severely restricted with almost all entry & exit points closed. 96% of the water is undrinkable and they get mere hours of electricity per day
@katywayne@malorieblackman Helped my little brother with his year 8 language thing where you have to do a persuasive speech and he did it on racism and became really interested so I bought him Noughts and Crosses and he’s loving it ! Such a great book.