What Braverman is doing in talking about a 'hurricane' of refugees is obvious: she's trying to whip up hatred. But she's correct: the #ClimateEmergency is going to create a wave of forced migration unprecedented in human history. What we on the left must do is to build a spirit in our communities which says, clearly, #RefugeesAreWelcomeHere. If we sit on our hands, or fudge, the tide will sweep us away as it floods to the right.
@malin Which is precisely why we need to start preparing now.
The right oppose action on #ClimateChange and support the #HostileEnvironment policy for good reason: they know that when people are frightened and panicky they vote for 'strong' leaders. By accelerating the #ClimateEmergency while opposing #Migration they hope to create chaos and crisis, because it is in chaos that they thrive.
Theresa May continues to blame others for the consequences of the hostile environment while stating she regrets the term. But as pointed out here, the govt were fully warned of its dangers the same year that key legislation was implemented. Wendy Williams’ review showed this was a fundamentally flawed approach that would always have resulted in injustices - not simply a case of the ‘wrong’ people being affected https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/aug/31/theresa-may-says-she-regrets-using-term-hostile-environment
This is just pure evil. "Robert Jenrick has cartoon murals painted over at children’s asylum centre
Paintings were considered too welcoming at Kent centre for lone children arriving in UK"
"Painting over murals for children at asylum centre cost #HomeOffice £1,550
FoI request reveals cost of work at #Manston centre in Kent, where cartoon murals meant to welcome children were painted over"
And #BenefitSanctions and the two child cap make it less likely that people will find work, not more. They give money saving as the justification for these things, but it's actually a punitive policy of deliberate cruelty.
"I am a part of the Windrush Generation, however my parents were not on the HMT Windrush that arrived in Tilbury, Essex on 22 June 1948.
My mother (& siblings) arrived in Southampton aboard the TN Ascania on 25 June 1958, they were four of the 567 passengers on board; that is when my personal Windrush generation history really started in the UK."
Do yourself a favour and read the whole of @VjosaMusliu’s chapter (it’s chapter 9) on “British Hospitality” in Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe.
(And read it till the end even if it makes your blood boil because you’ve had to go through similar life-draining bullshit – I know I did before I had my EU citizenship. Because the end is just… chef’s kiss) 🤣