He has the fascists and the racists beaten every time!
Jeremy Corbyn, vilified and excluded from the Parliamentary Labour Party on trumped-up claims about anti-Semitism, attended the Council of Europe last week to speak in a debate on the rise of far-right-wing ideology in European politics.
He knew what he was talking about – he has seen it take over the party that he would have brought to general election victory in 2017, if not for interference from a far-right faction.
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And he took the opportunity to reiterate how it is the right – not the left – that uses racism to demonise minorities:
Yesterday, I was at the Council of Europe to speak in a debate on the rise of the far-right.
I stood up for refugees who are being demonised across Europe.
Refugees are not our enemies. They are not our rivals. They are human beings trying to reach a place of safety. pic.twitter.com/pxq6VgC2Pi
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Keir Starmer: a flag and a fancy haircut are no substitute for political policies that might help people.
Keir Starmer took the opportunity of an LBC radio appearance to tell junior doctors and refugees that he doesn’t support them against the government.
Who does he help, apart from himself? Good question.
Responding to a junior doctor who asked whether a Labour government would provide full pay restoration – bring pay back up to the level enjoyed under Gordon Brown’s New Labour administration – he said he could not make that promise, but he was grateful for what junior doctors do and wanted them to know he was on their side.
That doesn’t pay the bills.
Starmer to junior doctors:
"Unfortunately, you'll still be paid shit wages under my Labour government but, rest assured, we'll be on your side in spirit. That's the difference my Labour Party will make in power. Less sticking plaster politics. More vibes." https://t.co/swVIs1Miqu
— Frank Owen's Legendary Paintbrush🥀🇵🇸🇾🇪 (@OwenPaintbrush) April 3, 2023
And, challenged on what he would do for asylum-seekers, he said putting them into concentration camps on military bases was unavoidable, and did not put forward any alternative ideas to relieve the pressure that has been created by the failure of the Tories to address the issue in any meaningful way.
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Jeremy Corbyn: his Project for Peace and Justice has just announced its five demands for government (of any stripe) to deal with the cost of living crisis and bring real prosperity to everyone.
After Jeremy Hunt announced his “E’s and Wizz” Budget and Keir Starmer brought out his “five missions”, here’s a message from the Project for Peace and Justice, brought to you by Jeremy Corbyn:
Last week, the Chancellor announced a budget that did nothing to alleviate the obscene levels of poverty and inequality in our society – instead protecting the riches of global corporations and the wealthiest in our society.
He should have used the opportunity to present policies to deal with the cost of living crisis with a budget that could have made a difference to the lives of all those that have suffered under 13 years of austerity, the Covid-19 pandemic and a decline in real wages.
That’s why we need an alternative budget that puts people first, based on the following five demands:
A REAL PAY RISE FOR ALL
Everyone has a right to live and work with dignity. That means giving nurses, teachers and public sector workers an above-inflation pay rise, implementing a minimum wage of £15 per hour, banning zero-hours contracts and reversing cruel benefit sanctions.
DEMOCRATIC PUBLIC OWNERSHIP
As millions struggle to pay their energy bills, fossil fuel giants are taking home record profits. Private profiteering is ripping people off and destroying our planet. Alongside water, rail and mail, it’s time we put energy back where it belongs: in public hands.
Democratic public ownership will empower communities, bring prices down and kickstart a Green New Deal that invests in clean energy.
HOUSING FOR THE MANY
Housing is a human right, not a commodity – everyone deserves a decent, safe, warm and affordable place to live.
We need an immediate rent freeze and reduction, an end to no-fault evictions and an urgent mass council home building programme.
TAX THE RICH TO SAVE THE NHS
After years of austerity and privatisation, our NHS is on its knees. It’s time to end outsourcing, invest in a fully public system of universal healthcare and build a National Care Service.
The government says there’s no more money for our NHS – but they’re wrong. We can give our public services the money they need by introducing a wealth tax, raising income tax on the top five per cent of earners and making corporations pay their fair share.
WELCOME REFUGEES AND A WORLD FREE FROM WAR
Refugees are being scapegoated for an economic crisis they didn’t create. We must work towards a world of peace, free from nuclear weapons where conflicts are resolved through diplomacy and negotiation. We need a humane migration system based on dignity, compassion and care, which gives asylum seekers the right to work, healthcare and housing.
The refugees of today are our doctors, teachers and neighbours of tomorrow.
As we face the starkest cost-of-living crisis in a generation, we cannot afford to be timid. We need to offer a clearer alternative to the Tories’ failed economic experiment. As striking workers in Trafalgar Square demonstrated, there is an appetite for something different.
The manifesto [Labour] put forward in 2017 and 2019 gave hope to millions around the country – and now we must continue to build [a] radical alternative vision for our country. You can find out more about these demands in my article in the Morning Star.
We must unite, organise and build our vision for a fairer world. I hope you will join me in demanding and campaigning for these policies, and sign up to support them here.
Fair enough?
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A former Labour Party leader who was wrongly painted as a racist by gossips, factionalists and fake journalists spoke at a rally against racism – with a message that was highly pertinent to today.
As Suella Braverman flew to Rwanda to pretend her policy – of deporting people coming to the UK to flee persecution – is somehow humane, Jeremy Corbyn explained the facts:
The asylum seekers of today are our doctors, carers, teachers, neighbours and friends of tomorrow.
Proud to join thousands of anti-racist campaigners today to stand up for our shared humanity, oppose the Tories’ asylum ban, and say loudly and clearly: refugees are welcome here. pic.twitter.com/jfCWvEdSpa
And he spoke eloquently on the new Illegal Migration Bill:
.@jeremycorbyn on the Immigration Bill- never in his entire parliamentary career before had he seen the Gvt introduce a bill with a statement on the first page stating it doesn’t comply with Human Rights laws and legislation! @AntiRacismDay pic.twitter.com/VmECKEBWPg
Remember: the only reason the Tories can’t cope with the number of people coming to the UK is that they have chosen not to; Boris Johnson declined to continue a ‘Returns’ agreement with the European Union that would have made it possible for the UK to send back more Channel migrants than are currently traveling here.
So whose view do you support? Corbyn’s or Braverman’s?
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Suella Braverman arrives in Rwanda: what a pity she isn’t being forced to stay there.
The thought of sending vulnerable, homeless fellow human beings to Rwanda , a country with a record of horrendous human rights violations and the Home Secretary in Rwanda , glorifying a deal , seems like just a terrible nightmare from which I will awake . Yet here we are.
Yes, here we are – and there she was: Suella Braverman has indeed been on a propaganda-fuelled junket to Rwanda, where homes are being built for the couple of hundred “migrants” (also known as asylum-seekers or refugees) into the UK that the African country has agreed to accommodate.
📍 Kigali, Rwanda 🇷🇼
The Home Secretary @SuellaBraverman is in Rwanda to see the ongoing operations to solidify our ground-breaking partnership. The UK-Rwanda Migration and Economic Development Partnership is an important part of our plan to stop the boats. pic.twitter.com/lGAYe9r7EU
Suella Braverman has pitched up in Rwanda, with her chums in the right-wing press, for an expensive taxpayer-funded photo op. pic.twitter.com/pO89gRzKeK
The clip makes the very good point that the Tory government’s attempts to send people over to Rwanda – which has a very poor human rights record – are mired in legal challenges.
Here’s Peter Stefanovic to expand on that:
The Government’s Illegal Migration Bill is a flagrant breach of our obligations under the Refugee Convention & European Convention on Human Rights – the PM & members of his Cabinet know it & are lying to the public to force it through & this is the headline – absolutely shameful https://t.co/kWhXv6nG5w
Does anybody really think Braverman wanted the name of the Rwanda homes interior designer?
Neither do I. If she was given it, I expect her to have binned it – which is exactly what she is planning to do to any asylum-seekers and refugees who are unlucky enough to be sent there.
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Hate face: would you trust Priti Patel with a duty of care over any human beings at all?
Priti Patel should stop lying that refugees from foreign countries arriving in the UK are merely “economic migrants” looking for a bit of easy money.
That’s the gist of a report by the United Nations’ refugee agency:
The United Nations high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR) told the Guardian that those travelling by small boat to the UK should be considered to be asylum seekers or refugees, and not migrants.
“Based on currently available Home Office data, UNHCR considers that a clear majority of those recently arriving to the United Kingdom by boat are likely to be refugees. Refugees and asylum seekers are not, and should not be described as, ‘migrants’,” the spokesperson told the Guardian.
“Access to asylum should never be contingent on mode of arrival or nationality. Equally, the only way to establish whether people are refugees is through a fair and efficient determination of their claims, for which the UK has a clear responsibility.”
The intervention comes as the Home Office prepares to deport the first set of people to Rwanda, after Patel announced her intention to emulate a failed Israeli plan to do the same that was wound up a few years ago.
The policy is explicitly focused on people who arrive via so-called “irregular” routes, such as in small boats across the Channel or hidden in lorries.
Here’s the part of the Home Office statement referring to this (that isn’t waffle):
“Only those with inadmissible asylum claims who have made dangerous, unnecessary and illegal journeys will be relocated and to suggest otherwise is wrong.”
Inadmissible in what way?
Because they arrived by an “irregular” route? Who defines what is an “unnecessary” journey and what are their criteria?
Are they as described by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees? If so, is the UK breaking UN rules again, as it did with sick and disabled benefit claimants?
And will the Tory government get away with it yet again, after the UN proved utterly toothless in effecting change?
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Daniel Kawczynski: Is this is excuse this time? It was when he was found guilty of bullying but with reference to refugees, is it a case of “in vino veritas”?
Bullying drinker Daniel Kawczynski, Tory MP for Shrewsbury and Atcham, has been causing trouble again.
Displaying what we probably guessed was the real Conservative attitude towards Ukrainian refugees, he has tweeted: “British Left wing parties demand Britain takes in more Ukrainian refugees. This is illiterate and immoral.
“When war is over Ukrainians will need to return home to rebuild their country. We should be supporting Ukrainian refugees in frontline states like Poland & Romania.”
But this was too much, even for his fellow Tories. Simon Hoare, Chair of the Commons Northern Ireland committee, responded with a harsh verbal slapping: “What utterly risible, illiterate, immoral and offensive bile. Haven’t you heard what @BorisJohnson has been saying?
“You do not speak for the Tory party. I’m not sure you speak for humanity #whitehotfury.”
Kawczynski has now deleted his tweet, which is why This Site can only quote it, rather than actually show it.
He drunkenly bullied civil servants … after IT issues made it impossible for him to take part in discussions of a Parliamentary committee. He got drunk, bullied one of the civil servants who had tried to help him, and lied about both of them to his colleagues.
This is the bully who, in 2018, threatened legal action against an editor of the BBC’s Newsnight, Ian Katz, who had suggested that his defence of Saudi Arabia’s war of annihilation in Yemen might be linked to the size of his expenses budget whenever he took trips to that country.
In March 2020, tweeted support for his fellow Tory bully, Home Secretary Priti Patel, who was later found guilty of bullying civil servants by a Cabinet Office inquiry but went unpunished because Boris Johnson refused to accept the decision.
In December of 2020, he refused to make another Newsnight appearance for fear of “bullying” behaviour by presenter Emily Maitlis.
He is the entitled Tory bully who wanted to override the will of the Welsh people – and abolish the Welsh Assembly and its government – so he could visit the beach. Wales has different Covid-19-related restrictions and at the time – May 2020 – these included a ban on people crossing the border from England. The incident marked Kawczynski out as a fool because his nearest beach isn’t in Wales – it’s in the Wirral.
In February 2020, he received a formal warning and reprimand from the Conservative Party – but did not have the whip withdrawn – after he shared a platform with right-wing populist politicians such as Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán and the former deputy prime minister of Italy Matteo Salvini.
He’s a serial offender.
And it seems he hasn’t learned his lesson yet.
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Good cop/bad cop? Priti Patel says she’s trying to find ways to let more refugees into the UK – but her pal Boris Johnson reckons the current situation, that has allowed just 50 people into the UK, is fine.
Can anybody explain the lunacy over entry visas for Ukrainian refugees to come into the UK? Is the confusion simply because the Tories don’t want them here?
We know that the UK has granted just 50 visas so far – 12 days into the Russia-Ukraine war.
We know Home Secretary Priti Patel has said she is exploring legal options to grant humanitarian access to people without family ties to the UK or third-party sponsorship, after the government was criticised for restricting admission to the country in those ways.
But we also know – now – that Boris Johnson has denied that a third way in would be opened. It seems he reckons that many more than 50 people have already been allowed in – although he wouldn’t provide a figure. “I can’t give you the number, we’re processing thousands right now,” he said.
It seems clear that under Johnson – yet again – the UK is saying one thing and doing another.
He said we were the first to introduce sanctions against Russia; we’re the last.
He said we were accepting thousands of Ukrainian refugees and we’ve taken in just 50.
He says whatever he thinks will make him look good – and it seems he is too stupid to understand that we can see through him.
And we can:
Priti Patel says no one is being turned away at the border.
British man, David, on @SkyNews with Ukrainian wife and their two children stopped at Calais by UK Border Control.@pritipatel stop playing games with the lives of people fleeing for their lives.
This poor family on Sky news right now… British man can’t get into the U.K. with his Ukrainian wife and children. It’s madness.
— Bronwen 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 #proEU 🇺🇦 (@Marlen9165) March 6, 2022
In a letter to Priti Patel, French interior minister Gerald Darmanin says that 150 Ukrainian refugees have been turned back at Calais by Border Force officials, accusing the Home Secretary of a "lack of humanity" and a"completely unsuitable" response.
Perpignan SW France. Today Received 200 refugees including 100 children from Ukraine. They sent buses to collect them from Poland. The donations and hospitality has been amazing.
This is not an inability to achieve a stated aim within an acceptable time.
It is a political choice to turn refugees away. Is it because Boris Johnson secretly supports Putin?
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For a start, it’s an attempt to seize control of the dialogue by engaging the public; by ensuring that the general population got to see his proposals, Johnson hoped to ensure that at least some of them would have support.
Also, he tried to seize control of the language used to discuss the issue.
And of course this meant that Johnson was trying to dictate the posture that France should take – that asylum-seekers should be prevented from trying to reach the UK for their own safety and that not doing so is helping people-traffickers.
It seems, as well, that the content of Johnson’s letter was radically different from what he had previously said to the French President in person.
No wonder M. Macron was enraged.
According to the BBC,
At a press conference on Friday, Mr Macron attacked Mr Johnson over the posting of the letter on Twitter, saying: “I spoke two days ago with Prime Minster Johnson in a serious way.
“For my part I continue to do that, as I do with all countries and all leaders. I am surprised by methods when they are not serious.
“We do not communicate from one leader to another on these issues by tweets and letters that we make public. We are not whistleblowers.”
A French government spokesman accused Mr Johnson of saying different things in his conversation with Mr Macron and in the letter, adding: “We are sick of double-speak.”
The result: a furious France has retracted an invitation for Home Secretary Priti Patel to discuss the matter with her counterparts in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.
Macron is also understood to believe that Johnson tweeted the letter to address flagging support from his fellow Conservative MPs, rather than to achieve anything serious.Sickckckckck
Johnson has worsened the UK’s position internationally. Yet a-bloody-gain.
BREAKING: Priti Patel’s meeting in France on Sunday has been cancelled by the French government.
A remarkable snub as the French fume over the PM’s letter yesterday setting out a five point plan which placed much of the onus for the migrant crisis in the channel on France.
In my opinion – Johnson's letter to Macron last night- and posted on Twitter – was deliberately aimed to be provocative. He has no conception of how a PM should behave or conduct relationships with other world leaders His sense of entitlement is now becoming pathological.
The meeting without Patel will undoubtedly be more productive than if she had been allowed to attend. I mean, consider the state of this:
Priti Patel said on the 17th August as they abandoned Afghans to the Taliban, that refugees could “start a new life in safety in the UK, away from the tyranny and oppression they now face”. Lie.
That’s an accurate criticism. The UK has spent decades causing chaos in foreign countries and making promises to their populations – then, when the time come to honour those promises, they turn out to be lies.
Earlier in the week we heard that one of the men who died was a former Afghan soldier who had worked with the UK and whose life was endangered after the panicked withdrawal that Dominic Raab couldn’t be bothered to leave his holiday to oversee.
Even knowing that, Matthew Garrahan’s words ring true:
There don't seem to be many people making the connection between the US and UK withdrawal from Afghanistan this summer – and the increased number of Afghans now fleeing the Taliban and desperately trying to get to places like the UK
Secondly, as This Writer has previously stated, there should be an easily-accessible and legal route for asylum-seekers to take. Blocking off the routes only makes these people prey to the traffickers.
And that leads to deaths.
This Site has commented many times on the fact that Tory government policy on disability benefits has killed (many) more people than the Nazis did with their Aktion T4 purge of disabled Germans, back in the 1930s and 1940s.
Now it turns out that the false barrier the Tories have made between the UK and France has killed more people than the false barrier the Communists created between West and East Berlin:
More people have died trying to cross the English Channel in the last decade than those who crossed the Berlin Wall for the entire time it was up (almost 30 years).
Forget appeals to historic authoritarianism and suffering – these are the bad old days. https://t.co/YQ36i2KZ0v
Yeah. British jingoism refers to the Nazis and the Communists as the bad guys, but it turns out that the people making these comparisons have killed more people than Johnny Foreigner.
Are continuing to kill more people.
And they’re lying to us about what’s happening:
Apparently only 3% of "migrants" who enter the EU try to get to the UK. To listen to @pritipatel you'd think it was 110% …
— Neil Sellers 3.5% Rejoiner #FBPE (@neilsellers666) November 25, 2021
More people are currently leaving the UK than entering it. The racists haven't even got 'Britain is full up' to fall back on.
On second thought, it’s probably a blessing in disguise for Johnson and Patel that they are being excluded from Continental discussions on the subject.
If they tried to float their lies and silliness around serious politicians, I dread to think of the international consequences.
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The lucky ones: a packed plane leaves Kabul – no thanks to Boris Johnson and his gang of UK government ditherers.
What a mess. This was not a retreat; it was a rout.
It seems clear that Boris Johnson’s withdrawal of the UK presence from Afghanistan was unplanned, unco-ordinated, and left behind much information of interest to the Taliban who have taken over.
The decision to move the military and leave civilians behind means more than 1,000 of our people are still in Kabul – and Johnson’s promise to do something about it rings as hollow as all his other promises.
‘We’ll shift heaven and earth to get them out’ says man who has just ended the operation to do so.
Isn’t that what he said about Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who remains imprisoned in Iran, years after he involved himself in her case as the UK’s Foreign Secretary?
Thanks to those reminding me that Johnson promised as Foreign Secretary promised to move ‘heaven and earth’ to secure the release of Nazarin Zaghari-Ratcliffe …
So who believes in phase 2 of the Afghanistan refugees Johnson "will move heaven and earth" to go back to bring back the people that have been left behind. Yeah me neither.
The UK evacuation is over and many have been left behind
As I said above, Kabul is Boris Johnson’s Dunkirk.
But whereas Dunkirk was carried out in comparative efficiency, with everybody working to help everybody else get out of France before the Germans arrive, it seems Kabul represented Boris Johnson’s “everyone for themselves” philosophy.
So:
Round 1K Afghans who worked for UK still in Kabul. Johnson expressed regret (again) & Ben Wallace reckons they'll be airlifted out today with the last of our troops. No fan of Macron, but this fiasco could have been avoided if our govt had acted in as timely a fashion as France.
— Ann Johns, Grumpy Geordie Gran. I SUPPORT OUR NHS! (@AnnJohn30914404) August 28, 2021
Indeed. Also:
"We cannot give up on the Afghan people"
Shadow Defence Secretary John Healey says despite evacuating more than 14,000 people, there are 1,000 Afghans who will be left behind despite the "promise to protect", calling on the PM to implement 'Phase Two'.https://t.co/224MdwlBB3pic.twitter.com/sb6A4hz6OT
‘The british evacuated 200 dogs and cats from Afghanistan and then apologised for leaving people behind’ has the potential to become one of those facts that people remember for literally hundreds of years https://t.co/uavuC0D9aX
This refers to former marine and animal charity founder Pen Farthing, who has escaped Kabul with around 200 rescued dogs – but whose staff were not allowed to leave.
The fact that dogs were allowed to leave may seem like a huge victory for animal-loving Brits – but the fact that the UK allowed human beings to be left behind will almost certainly make a mockery of us in Taliban propaganda.
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace had claimed he would prioritise people over pets but it seems the huge amount of publicity Farthing had received via media and social media had forced him to change his mind. We’ll find out in the future if that was a wise decision.
Meanwhile, it seems communications sent to the government email address that was supposed to be used to work out which Afghan nationals needed to be taken out of Kabul have gone unread – including cases flagged up by ministers:
An official email address used to collate potential Afghan cases from MPs and others regularly contained 5,000 unread emails throughout the week.
In many cases, emails detailing the cases of Afghans who fear for their families’ lives appear to have been unopened for days. An email from the Labour leader, Keir Starmer, sent on Monday was still unread on Thursday. There also appeared to be unread messages from the offices of Victoria Atkins, the newly appointed minister for Afghan resettlement, the home secretary, Priti Patel, and the Tory chair of the defence select committee, Tobias Ellwood.
The revelation calls into question the suggestion from ministers that the number of Afghans left behind would be up to 1,100 in total.
So it seems the 1,100 figure for personnel left behind may be a huge underestimate.
Documents were left behind that could be hugely harmful for unevacuated personnel
British Embassy workers who did a runner from their compound to the relative safety of Kabul’s airport around two weeks ago failed to destroy documents identifying local workers and job applicants, according to reports.
Who knows what other sensitive documents were left lying around? And why did it happen? Normally, one of the key protocols in a sensitive diplomatic withdrawal is the shredding of sensitive and classified information, but this seems not to have happened.
Have I already put my finger on the problem – that Boris Johnson and his dimwit Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab dithered so long about taking a decision that Embassy staff ended up having to scramble to save their own skins and weren’t able to do the necessary?
If so, then the Taliban may now have access to any amount of information that they could find extremely useful in the future. Depending on how they use it, we could be in for a lot of trouble – and ultimate blame will rest with our terminal b*ttf**k of a prime minister.
Look at this:
+UPDATE+
New Dominic Raab scandal emerging as its confirmed that senior FCO management took no action & had no strategy as it became clear UK Govt documents including contact information of Afghan workers for UK govt were about to be uncovered by the Taliban.
And how about this, in response to a tweet I sent about Johnson’s domestic disasters:
He's full of japes his latest is his ineptitude in Kabul, handing our friends over to the Taliban, he even left them a list in our embassy
— Dave Pritchard 3.5% # Tory sleaze (@Esscrew) August 28, 2021
It reached the point where some people have satirised the situation, finding humour in the fact that the Johnson government employs people who are very good at losing documents – but didn’t put them in the right place:
The DWP are experts at destroying documents—they should have been hired to staff UK's Afghan embassy.
Samuel Miller ought to know – he has been campaigning to raise awareness of the unfair, persecutory mistreatment of benefit claimants, particularly those who are sick and/or disabled – for longer than I have.
Hypocrite Priti Patel has been greeting refugees on arrival in the UK and talking down other countries who she says should do more
Even here in the UK, government ministers are doing everything they can to humiliate us as a nation.
So Priti Patel, the home secretary who has locked refugees in squalid concentration camps to catch Covid-19, and who wants to make it illegal to save refugees from drowning if they are trying to cross the Channel into the UK, has been greeting Afghan refugees at Heathrow Airport.
Why?
The Home Secretary patiently took every Afghan aside individually and explained they're not welcome https://t.co/ONNs2n4hx8
Apparently the woman who has been trying to seal up all legal routes for refugees to come here has now claimed that refugees must only travel to the UK through legal routes.
Do you think she is wondering why she received responses like this?
Priti Patel: refugees must travel to the UK through legal routes
Possibly the worst news available for these refugees is the fact that, by throwing their lot in with the UK, they have now ended up in a poverty trap:
Priti Patel is personally greeting every Afghan refugee arriving at Heathrow to explain that after bombing their country for 20 years, we are going to pay them the lowest refugee allowance in Europe at £36.93 a week!
— Boris Johnson MP (parody) (@GetBrexit_Done) August 28, 2021
And Patel has apparently told other countries that they must do more to help refugees – because she has absolutely no sense of shame:
In a sane country, every government body involved in this monumental fiasco would be out of a job and possibly facing charges in the International Criminal Court – but the United Kingdom is now so riddled with corruption that Johnson and his gang are most likely to shrug it off.
They’ll go looking for the next crisis they can turn into a calamity. After all, their lives aren’t on the line.
If Winston Churchill had presided over such a fatal mess, This Writer feels sure that he would have done the decent thing and swallowed a high-speed bullet.
But Churchill, for all the faults that he did have, was not an indecisive incompetent. He would not have made Johnson’s (and Raab’s, and Patel’s) mistakes.
And, sadly, Johnson does not have Churchill’s quality of character – so we can’t expect him to do what Britain Expects of him. He’s too much of a coward.
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