This a proper scandal. To meet Sunak's stupid target that no one cares about tens of thousands of aslyum seekers have just been withdrawn from the system.
Abandoned and whereabouts now unknown.
Hard to put into words just how enormous the recent flows of migration into UK are, so this chart 👇 is prob a better place to start.
This country has NEVER seen net migration as high as this.
Look at the population-adjusted figures going back to 1850.
It’s totally unprecedented.
November 17th, 2023 will go down in history as the first day on which planet Earth experienced a +2°C anomaly relative to the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline.
A very alarming milestone.
We have lost touch with our staff in Gaza, with health facilities, health workers and the rest of our humanitarian partners on the ground.
This siege makes me gravely concerned for their safety and the immediate health risks of vulnerable patients.
We urge immediate protection of all civilians and full humanitarian access.
We are horrified by the recent Israeli bombing of Ahli Arab Hospital in #Gaza City, which was treating patients and hosting displaced Gazans. Hundreds of people have reportedly been killed. This is a massacre. It is absolutely unacceptable...
So just to keep track:
• Stopped a non-existent tax on meat
• Stopped a non-existent compulsory car-sharing policy
• Stopping a non-existent plan for UK to take 100k asylum seekers
• Pledged new tram routes in Manchester and Nottingham which already exist
The most fundamental feature of Britain’s economic geography is that we host one of the world’s 2 capitals, and that happens to be the country’s commercial, cultural, financial and political capital rolled in to one, and that affects everything, including smaller cities…
Around 7:26pm I received an email that my train had been cancelled.
This was a surprise because:
a) I was still on a moving train
b) there had been no announcement on the moving train