Whoops! Miriam Cates says the quiet bit out loud on Politics Live:
"The concern seems to be that Rwanda does not want to be part of something that clearly breaks international law. But the bill as it stands, already disapplies various aspects of international law." #UKPolitics #RwandaBill #TogetherWithRefugees
I'm sure Gary's quaking in his boots 😂
Telegraph: "BBC urged to part ways with ‘insolent’ Gary Lineker
Former director Danny Cohen says presenter is ‘running rings’ around bosses on Twitter and ‘behaving as if he’s much bigger than his club’" https://archive.is/0mkEO #UKPolitics#TogetherWithRefugees#TeamLineker
@lostsettler@BBCRadio4 I'm amazed you still have the fortitude to put it on in the mornings. I scroll through the # on the other place and that's infuriating enough.
What stuns me is that all the talk of the HRA and ECHR, no one seems to recall that the GFA and the TCA are contingent on being adherents to both, as does the Windsor Framework Sunak signed only six months ago. #UKPolitics#GoodFridayAgreement#RwandaBill#TogetherWithRefugees
The fact that someone took their own life on the Bibby Stockholm today doesn't seem to be impinging on the consciences of all the MPs pretending to give a shit - but still voting for - the Rwanda bill.
These people just aren't human in the commonly understood meaning of the word. #UKPolitics#BibbyStockholm#RwandaBill#TogetherWithRefugees
GPLB: "Sir Bob Neill, the Conservative chair of the justice committee, says he can just about vote for the bill. But he stresses that he is a constitutionalist."
As usual, I've got poetry books open on my desk as a way to offset the horror of the news. I've just turned the page and found Matthew Arnold's Dover Beach. If you replace "faith" with "justice", this passage is horribly relevant to the country (and the world) we're living in. #UKPolitics#TogetherWithRefugees#Poetry#Bookstodon
Led By Donkeys doing their thing on Rwanda.
"‘Things happen in Rwanda which, bluntly, are not good sometimes. Things happened, people have disappeared who have been captured. Critics can be locked up…’ says the man once employed by the Kagame regime to run Rwanda’s public relations." #UKPolitics#TogetherWithRefugees https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS-rn3PHxRmk8rGz5DVSPJg
WHAT
THE
ACTUAL
FUCKING
FUCK
GPLB: "Cleverly wraps up his speech urging MPs to back the bill to create a fair asylum system."
Just get in the fucking sea, you cunt. #UKPolitics#TogetherWithRefugees#RwandaBill
Care4Calais statement on today's death on the Bibby Stockholm today:
"The UK government must take responsibility for this human tragedy... They have wilfully ignored the trauma they are inflicting... We have regularly been reporting suicidal intentions amongst residents and no action is taken." #UKPolitics#RwandaBill#TogetherWithRefugees
GPLB: "Cleverly says bill 'pushing at edge of envelope' but still 'within framework of international law'
[He] says the supreme court’s judgment was based on the facts from 18 months ago."
Those Supreme Court judges, eh? What do they know? 🤬 #TogetherWithRefugees#ECHR#FuckTheTories
@HelenG Did you see the links I posted earlier to the report and to some analysis from a KC on X?
Here's a letter to the Times from Mark Elliott, Professor of Public Law at Cambridge, on the same subject. #UKPolitics#TogetherWithRefugees#RwandaBill#HumanRights
Lee Anderson: "“We need a system (Rwanda) that reflects the will of the British people. What the people want is to stop the boats and to tell overpaid crisp salesmen to put a sock in it."
Gary Lineker: "I guess we’ll find out what the will of the British people is at the next general election. If you do end up out of work, I’ll put in a word for you with Walkers Crisps."
😂 😂 #TogetherWithRefugees#UKPolitics#Rwanda#TeamLineker