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Home office staff Q+A going well.

Our thoughts and prayers are with all struggling against cold, heartless systems like the Home Office, and whose dreams won’t be coming true this Christmas.

Including Suella.

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“The fact that the Home Office hasn’t even done a risk assessment on the climate dangers posed to refugees it plans to deport there reveals its lack of care and concern for their wellbeing,” — ⁦John Sentamu⁩ independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

“If the UK wants to claim to understand climate change, let alone be a leader on it, it needs to have more understanding of its impact across the world.” standard.co.uk/news/environme…

PCS has called for home secretary Suella Braverman to resign following the tragic deaths in the Channel early this morning. pcs.org.uk/hsgo

This account from a 'security manager' at Manston detention camp written up in the Times is one of the most disturbing things I've ever read about the UK asylum system.

'When the sun goes down at Manston, the crying and wailing begins'

thetimes.co.uk/article/when-t…

🚨EXCL: For over six months, I've been speaking to asylum decision-makers, including some recruited from McDonald's and Tesco. They say they're left alone to conduct complex asylum interviews within two days, then make 'life and death' decisions. (Thread)

theguardian.com/world/2022/nov…

‘The attack yesterday has hit people hard and makes many of us wonder what it is we are doing working here,’ a Home Office official tells Sima Kotecha

#Newsnight | bbc.in/2Ps915G

Manston is a concentration camp. It’s now housing 4000 people, in space for just 1000. Hundreds were bussed in yesterday.

“asylum seekers on the site are asked to wear wristbands with a number on them. They are referred to by number rather than by name.”

theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/o…

Plans to GPS tag people “likely” to protest sounds a lot like what already happens to some people seeking asylum. Neither have been convicted of a crime.

First they came for…

independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

'This government will not hesitate to act – and keep the law-abiding majority safe.'

Safe from what?

Not so much: 🌊🔥🌡🦠🛢💀

Maybe: 🥫?

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Old news, but 🤣 at The Telegraph captioning these as our protest posters.

Nope, this is the real Home Office goods 🙃

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…

There can be more than one nasty party.

Being non-partisan has never been easier.

independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

Our first #BHM2022 event is from 6pm-7.15pm, and asks what's next after the PCS legal challenge to the Rwanda deportation plan?
Speakers include:
Baroness Shami Chakrabarti CBE - politician, barrister and human rights activist pcs.org.uk/bhm2022 #StopRwanda

Great to see the Prime Minister is a fan of M-People and Heather Small's music. The PM should try being more compassionate like Heather and ditch her brutal Rwanda plan #StopRwanda

The civil service code requires us to be “fair, just and equitable” and to “comply with the law and uphold admin of justice”.

Since the Refugee Convention prevents punishment for entering a country to seek asylum, policy in this direction forces us into resistance.