‘We just need to grow up and get a grip’

Richard Haviland Exactly this. We're losing ourselves in detail and normalise the rejection of people in need. We're discussing procedure and are losing sight of humanity.

I wonder what the response would be if, instead of a leading and convoluted question about Rwanda, they’d asked ‘Do you believe the UK should allow people whose lives are in danger to request asylum, and provide safe and legal routes for those wishing to do so?’

Excellent thread to read today

The Home Office just told an Immigration Judge that a traumatised Afghan 13-yr-old, living by himself in a Middle East country, doesn’t need to come to the UK to be reunited with what’s left of his family, because he can enjoy family life with them via WhatsApp

I agree with the whole of this thread. Tweets 3 and 4 are particularly relevant.

That Baratheon Girl 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🌹 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👏🏼

Since the Conservatives no longer believe in conservatism, you can see why they’re confused by parties who pursue policies consistent with their own name.

Next they’re planning to attack the Liberal Democrats for their obsession with liberal democracy.

‘It’s ok because it’s all very low key and anyway she’ll be off at the election’.

Things I’ve learnt since the Elphicke/Labour story broke:

1) There are arguments in favour of Labour’s decision that I hadn’t thought of, but they all still leave me somewhat queasy.

THREAD

‘Starmer’s team…believe the defection will show voters who backed the Tories in 2019 that if Labour can attract an MP like Elphicke, who was hardline on Brexit and immigration, the party has changed’.

Well indeed.

This isn’t ‘winning over Tory voters’.

It’s following them.

An excellent and topical thread

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Genius

All the arguments I’ve seen in favour of Labour’s decision to accept Elphicke boil down to ‘that’s politics’ or ‘that’s the system’, with an extra slice of ‘don’t be so naive’.

But the thing is, you can boil everything down to that if you really want to.

Do we really want to?

All the arguments I’ve seen in favour of Labour’s decision to accept Elphicke boil down to ‘that’s politics’ or ‘that’s the system’, with an extra slice of ‘don’t be so naive’.

But the thing is, you can boil everything down to that if you really want to.

Do we really want to?