The Home Office will launch a surprise operation to detain asylum seekers across the UK tomorrow..
Officials will hold refugees who turn up for routine meetings at immigration offices & also pick people up nationwide.
They will be immediately transferred to previously prepared detention centres & held to be put on later flights to Rwanda.
Anyone who takes part in this disgusting operation is breaking international law.
"Police in Scotland have been put on alert because of the high risks of street protests and attempts by pro-refugee campaigners to stop detentions.
Local communities in Scotland have twice prevented deportations by staging mass protests on Kenmure Street in Glasgow, in May 2021, and in Nicolson Square, Edinburgh, in June 2022."
We need the spirit of Kenmure Street across the UK.
Well this is a terrifying graph I'd not seen before. No wonder the Tories are slathering at the opportunity to reduce disability benefits. #UKPolitics#LongCovid
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I felt I should edit this thanks to @swearylibrarian 's intervention. In case you don't notice it down there on the bottom left, I'd like to draw your attention to the fact that cunts made it on there.
Good work, people.
Savanta asked 2,000 people to give them one word to describe the Conservative government. Here's the word cloud they created.
This is a real piece of Government literature. Repeat, this is not a joke. @jkfanghanel you're even more right than you thought. #UKPolitics#Science#FFS
Our data rights are under attack in the #DataGrabBill.
Not only will organisations have more powers to refuse requests to access our personal data, but they'll be able to impose a paywall that'll impact marginalised groups the hardest.
Brilliant, brilliant point made by Jolyon Maugham of The Good Law Project, on the complicity of the media in facilitating and perpetuating Johnson's political career:
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"To all those journalists who are calling Johnson a liar now. Why didn't you call him a liar then? During the referendum? In the Prorogation? During Covid? That was your job - not kicking him now because he's finished. We've paid a terrible price because you didn't do it." #UKPolitics#UKJournalism
"Findings from the Open Rights Group report has revealed a lack of oversight surrounding the data retained by the Prevent programme, and the particular harms against children this could cause."
Our report shows the urgent need for a rethink of Prevent.
Wow. Brianna Ghey's mother is watching PMQs in the gallery this week, so Sunak decides to attack Starmer on his unwillingness to state the difference between a woman and a man.
Jesus.
"Oil in the North Sea is expected to be net-energy negative by 2031. This means that in 2031, it’ll cost more energy to extract the fossil fuels than we would gain by using them, rendering extraction unfeasibly expensive. Yet, rather than use our remaining years of access to these fuels to turbo-charge new energy infrastructure, fossil fuels are being extracted and burned for business as usual: quick cash. Around the world, the lights will go off in nations that don’t have back-up renewables. That’s most of them." https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-04-15/the-oil-crash-is-coming-sooner-than-we-think/ #oil#JustTransition#LightsOff#PeakOil#ukpolitics
24/7 GPS monitoring of migrants enabled the UK Home Office to collect vast amounts of personal data, invading people’s privacy and inflicting psychological burdens.
It’s a punitive and offensive measure that has rightly been found unlawful by the Information Commissioner’s Office.
"The health minister Maria Caulfield told Sky News it was 'pretty severe and serious stuff to be accessing notes that you don’t have permission to'."
Perfectly fine to give an international spyware company access to the entire nation's NHS records before you've even finished negotiating the terms of the contract though.
Remember if you are normally eligible to vote in UK general elections you will, for the first time, need photo ID to vote.
You can apply for a free "Voter Authority Certificate" if you do not have any other suitable ID.
Please check with friends and family to see if they are aware of the new requirement and help them if they need it.
Probably best to get in early. https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-photo-id-voter-authority-certificate #UKPolitics#GeneralElection#VoterID
How come #NigelFarage gets to turn up out of nowhere and decree that this is now “the immigration election”‽
Ordinary voter here, and I don’t give a tinker’s toss about #immigration. I’d much prefer this to be “the climate change election”, please. If you agree, give this a RT. ♻️
BREAKING: Officials at the Department for Business and Trade have threatened to stop work on arms exports licences to Israel, according to emails leaked to Sky News.
Edit: "The PCS confirmed to Sky News that it is considering legal action against the government"