Maya Goodfellow
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Author: ‘Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats' - . *NEW edition out now*. Instagram: mayagoodfellow
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Immigration isn’t bad for the economy or for ‘British culture’.
It’s anti-immigration politics - not immigration - that’s the real problem in the U.K. Remember that in this election.
Get a copy of HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT if you want to hear more
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Not into 'gestures' says the politicians who spent the past few months clapping for the NHS that he helped underfund
Boris Johnson says he would not take the knee: 'I don't believe in gestures'
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Full solidarity with the amazing
@DawnButlerBrent
who handles this awful exchange really well.
An example of how the act of naming something racist is treated as worse/more “offensive” than actual racism (racism which itself is erased and denied)
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Matt Hancock says he's worked all of his political life to tackle discrimination. He's part of the government that created the Windrush Scandal
#Marr
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People are angry about the statue of a slave trader being torn down because it apparently erases British history?
Look forward to them joining the campaign to put teaching about the brutalities of Empire on the curriculum.
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Would be good if everyone, including media outlets, could stop using the term "illegal immigrants". Deeply dehumanising. Implicitly reinforces anti-immigration politics. People can't be illegal.
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Put our colonial history on the curriculum – then we’ll understand who we really are
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Learning about the British Empire isn’t a key, compulsory part of the curriculum - but it should be
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I’ve generally little time for the Honours List but seeing Iain Duncan Smith being given knighthood is just awful. He’s overseen so much misery and pain - him being given a knighthood is a sign of how deeply unfair and unjust the UK is right now
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Priti Patel implying that people coming into the UK 'illegally' to claim asylum should be deported. Completely - and it seems intentionally - ignoring that under the Refugee Convention, if you enter a country 'illegally' it shouldn't impact your asylum application.
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The BBC have confirmed Labour have gained Kensington - the constituency in which The Daily Mail is based
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Corbyn: if every single bit of our manifesto was carried out tomorrow, we would just about reach the level of public spending of France and Germany. That is how far backwards we have gone
#BBCDebate
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It is grotesquely inhumane for journalists to film people crossing the Channel to try and get to the UK.
It also fits into the government’s anti-asylum campaign: giving the idea that this is apparently a crisis – not for the people forced to make these journeys, but for the UK
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Boris Johnson congratulates Marcus Rashford on his campaign to force Boris Johnson to make sure children are fed over the summer 🤔
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David Davis tries to sexually harass Diane Abbott and papers focus on her telling him to fuck off. This is how misogyny is works.
Diane Abbott tells Brexit minister to 'f*** off' after he attempts to kiss her in Commons bar after Article 50 vote
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Unbelievable. The Home Office have reiterated that "low skilled" migrants won't be able to come to the UK from January.
That includes those who are KEY WORKERS right now - the nurses, carers and cleaners who are risking their lives to keep people safe.
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If you want people to understand British history better, put Empire on the curriculum.
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We'll see many Conservatives celebrate Windrush Day today, as if the Windrush scandal is over. It's NOT:
-Many still haven't received compensation
-The Windrush review recommendations haven't been implemented
-The Hostile Environment is still in place; still destroying lives
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The attacks on Abbott continue. Diane Abbott didn't 'manage' to keep her seat. She has a 35,000 majority. Amber Rudd's majority is 300.
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“Your Chancellor was working at Deutsche Bank selling the very derivatives that caused the banking crash in the first place” -
@RLong_Bailey
taking on the myth that Labour caused the 2008 financial crisis
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I've spent the past few months interviewing people who are struggling to survive during the pandemic because of No Recourse to Public Funds. And Boris Johnson doesn't even know what it is.
They peddle anti-immigration politics and don't care how it impacts people. Grotesque.
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This Prince Andrew interview highlights how rich and powerful men view abuse. Almost zero thought for the abused girls, instead much focus on the supposed impact it’s had on him - an unimaginably entitled, privileged man
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Too little Brexit discussion is about how the EU referendum debate was centred around scapegoating migrants and it was *undeniably* racialised. Whatever you think should happen, let’s not pretend xenoracism didn’t play a role in Brexit
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In the U.K., calling something racist is treated as worse than actual racism - racism which itself is continuously erased and denied
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Up on BBC papers shortly. Will be asking why so few front page newspaper headlines mention that 980 people in the UK died in the last 24 hour period - the worst daily death rate of any European country bar France. But France include deaths in care homes and the UK don't.
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980 people in the UK died in the last 24 hour period - the worst daily death rate in Europe.
This should be *the* headline news in all the papers.
We knew this was coming. Serious questions need to be put to Government about what they’ve done wrong.
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The High Court has found that the Home Office’s £1,012 child citizenship fee is unlawful.
It’s been described as“shameless profiteering”.
Appalling so many have been impacted by this policy but well done
@PRCBC1
for bringing the case and winning!
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The U.K. is 2% of the world’s population, currently this country makes up 13% of the covid19 deaths globally
#newsnight
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Two things that are actually sad about May's resignation:
One is it was Brexit, not Windrush or Grenfell that forced her out.
The other is that none of her replacements are any better because it's the Conservative government that's the problem, not just who is in charge of it.
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So the government forced schools to stay open - criticising teachers and the unions who called for remote learning - only to then close them twenty four hours later. Totally, totally shambolic.
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Laura Pidcock rejecting anti-immigrant framing on
#r4today
: "Migrant labour does not undercut wages...it isn't right that we place blame on immigrants for wages, those employers that seek to undermine those national agreements are to blame for the exploitation of *all* workers."
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This is misogynoir. Diane Abbott went to Cambridge, was the country's first black woman MP and has been a parliamentarian for years. When people say she's stupid or isn't qualified for her job, all they're doing is showing their own prejudice.
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I see people are talking about the UK as 'tolerant' again. Aside from not being accurate (it's almost as if the Windrush scandal didn't happen), saying you're 'tolerant' essentially means putting up with something you don't like. Hardly a marker of anti-racism🤷♀️
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Priti Patel and Sajid Javid in top government jobs isn’t progress.
Along with Johnson and others, they voted *against* banning the detention of pregnant women.
Detaining and deporting people isn’t better when it’s the children of immigrants doing it
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Tell me again anti-immigration politics has nothing to do with race
"A third of British people would want no Nigerians or Pakistanis to come to the UK, but just one in 10 would want to stop those from 'culturally close' countries, such as Australia"
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Every time you see the word “migrant” replace it with “person”.
The immigration debate runs on dehumanisation, treating people as numbers or economic contributors - the left needs to challenge this
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Protestors who torn down the statue of a slave trader aren't "thugs". They did us all a favour in a country that continues to glorify Empire.
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Liverpool fans singing “Oh Jeremy Corbyn” in Salzburg
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It would be good if mainstream figures condemning the attacks in New Zealand also reflect on how Muslims have been consistently demonised by media and politicians, and how Islamophobia has been normalised.
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It's important to challenge the toxic narrative that migrants are drain on the NHS and recognise that since it began migrants have worked in the health service.
But people's humanity and right to live here shouldn't be contingent on how much they contribute.
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The way Churchill is remembered in the UK has always been tied up with ideas of white superiority. Why do you think so many people of colour are critical of the way he's celebrated? The way the far-right are behaving today is terrifying but not surprising.
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If you care so much about not editing or censoring the past - why isn't it compulsory to teach about the violence of Empire?
We cannot now try to edit or censor our past. We cannot pretend to have a different history. The statues in our cities and towns were put up by previous generations. 3/8
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So infuriating to watch each Tory candidate talk about some of major the problems in the UK as if they've not helped create them while in government for the past nine years
#C4Debate
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Schools aren’t having to beg for donations because of immigration. A&E waiting times aren’t at an all time high because of immigration.
Tory cuts, not immigration, are the problem.
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The Immigration Bill passes the second reading 351 to 252 votes.
In the middle of a global pandemic, the Tories haven't put in place basic provisions to protect migrants. But they are forging ahead with their anti-immigration agenda that treats people like commodities.
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Don't forget Theresa May was responsible for this. Current levels of xenophobia weren't created in a vacuum
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Last night Tory MPs voted against introducing basic changes that would ensure migrant women could access domestic abuse services.
Women are being denied support just because of their immigration status.
MPs have voted against New Clause 22, by 330 to 207 votes.
New Clause 22 related to the application of certain provisions of the Immigration Acts to survivors of domestic abuse.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg’s comments about Grenfell weren’t just clumsy or a gaffe, they were the mask slipping. He’s representative of an elite that thinks it’s superior to most people - that’s not only clear from what they say but their policies
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"The country needs you" - resident in Kensington tells Corbyn
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The collective ridicule and harassment of Diane Abbott - the country's first black woman MP - has been disgusting
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100% confirmed: Labour gain Kensington. Dacre smeared Corbyn. Corbyn's response? Make him go to work everyday in a Labour constituency
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Either Cummings broke the rules, and Johnson is willing to to undermine public health to defend him.
Or the rules were so poorly communicated that 1000s of people struggled when they didn’t need to
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I'm not usually into arguing with people on Twitter. But this untrue. In 2014 Umunna said free movement should be changed, as there was 'too much' 'low-skill' immigration from the EU. In 2016, he accused immigrants of leading 'parallel lives', which is a core anti-immigrant myth
Around half of residents in the Cities of London & Westminster are non-UK born. 1 in 5 was born in another EU country. As I’ve done since 2010 in the House of Commons, if elected as CLW’s next MP I’ll continue to make the positive case for immigration.
#VoteLibDem
#StopBrexit
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Good to hear Diane Abbott say on Radio 4 that Labour need to call out the idea that migration is responsible for economic problems in the UK. Instead of committing to ending FoM, Labour need to explicitly and repeatedly take on anti-immigration arguments
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A former Tory Prime Minister is joining an election rally tonight aimed at blocking a Johnson majority.
Imagine if this were about Labour - it would be *everywhere*
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People talking about the fact that Jo Swinson is the first Lib Dem women leader. Sure, but she also supported and defended austerity - low income women of colour have been one of the groups worst impacted by the cuts
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Some still saying Labour would've won a majority under another leader. Let's be clear: they won votes because of Corbyn not in spite of him
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This
@MichaelRosenYes
piece on fascism seems particularly appropriate for
#NationalPoetryDay
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Johnson’s claim that people are looking at the UK's "apparent success” couldn’t be further off the mark.
We have one of the worst death rates in the world.
Frontline staff still don’t have PPE.
The government has serious questions to answer
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Grant Shapps literally changing government guidance to justify Dominic Cummings's actions. Absolutely unbelievable.
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In PHE's report on BAME deaths, they say one factor is BAME people are more likely to be born abroad so they "may face additional barriers in accessing services". They say that's likely due to "language and cultural" differences. Surely the HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT is relevant here?
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Listening to the debate on the immigration bill: many Tory MPs framing immigration as a problem and immigrants as 'things' to serve UK interests. This rhetoric and the bill itself shows that quite predictably they STILL haven't learned the lessons from Windrush.
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People questioning the Tory/NHS sell off revelation by asking if the government would do something that would be deeply unpopular and make basic things - like medicine - more expensive...Look at the Conservative history on privatising rail and water
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The insistence that coverage of Meghan Markle hasn’t been racist shows how poorly racism is understood and talked about by large sections of the media.
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The government pay Serco and Deloitte millions for a disastrous test and trace system but deny 1.4 million children free school meals during the holidays.
This is what “free market economics” looks like
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The SAME DAY Dominic Raab encouraged us to clap for the workers risking their lives to keep society going, the government restated that some of those same people won’t be allowed in the country come January
My piece on how the government treats migrants
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Today, the biggest ever strike in the UK's Higher Education sector begins. We're striking over an attack on staff pensions. But this is also about the marketisation of universities - student fees, insecure contracts and the commodification of education
#USSstrike
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The government are pushing ahead with their Immigration Bill today.
This is key to their plan to stop cleaners, porters, care workers and others they call 'low skilled' from coming to this country. Some of the same key workers they clap for each week.
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Iain Duncan Smith on
#r4today
repeating the fallacy that immigration is to blame for low pay. He says that the "overall numbers" of migrants "needs to be reduced". No matter what happens, the Tories are going to continue to scapegoat and dehumanise immigrants.
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The new rules are depressing but obviously necessary. But this was NOT inevitable. It's because of government failure after failure after failure.
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Clive Lewis rejecting the label 'non-white' on
#r4today
: "I, like billions of black people across the world, don't like to define myself by what I'm not, I'm actually black"
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Corbyn says the poorest people in the world are impacted the most by climate change. Members of the audience heckle him?!?
#LeadersDebate
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As well as Mark Field violently grabbing the neck of a non violent protestor being totally unacceptable, let’s remember why the protestors were in that room. The Tories have failed on climate change - we need a new government
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"People from 'developing' countries are 'economic migrants', but if someone leaves the UK and goes to Germany, they’re more likely to be called an 'expat'-these terms, just like the immigration debate itself, are racialised"
My long read on immigration:
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The day after the Tories implied Labour's plan to extend a £10-an-hour minimum wage to under-18s was "reckless", The Sunday Times Rich List shows the richest 1,000 people in the UK are sitting on of £771.3bn - up £47.8bn since last year. Our economy is broken.
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Watching the Sunday Times story being played down on
#Marr
with the argument: hindsight is easy.
But that obscures the *main point* of the investigation. The government ignored scientific warnings and failed to act early.
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If you want to see real "thuggery" look no further than the government's immigration system. The immigration system that caused the Windrush scandal
#SittingInLimbo
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Anyone casting Iain McNicol's resignation as another step in Corbyn's "takeover" of Labour still hasn't understood what's actually happening in the party - it's shifting to the left AND it's democratising
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This whole confected row is useful for the government; obscuring the racism embedded in their policies.
I bet this will get more attention than Mercy Baguma, who died in extreme poverty - next to her baby - after immigration rules meant she wasn't allowed to work.
"I think it's time we stopped our cringing embarrassment about our history" says
@BorisJohnson
on Rule Britannia! row at BBC proms
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Yesterday Dominic Raab was talking sanctioning human rights abusers. The very next day they announce this.
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This is amazing - and a BIG victory for campaigners.
But the problem is the NHS immigration surcharge itself - not just who it's applied to. Abolish it for everyone.
BREAKING: Government says PM has asked for surcharge for NHS and care workers to be removed ASAP
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No matter what migrants do, they can't win - politicians like Johnson will always treat them as the problem.
They're both not 'integrating' enough and 'integrating' too much by treating the UK as if it's "their own country"
EU migrants have been able to “treat the UK as if it’s part of their own country” for too long, Boris Johnson said yesterday as he reprised the core message of Vote Leave’s 2016 EU referendum campaign.
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It's surely no coincidence that the Tories are attacking migrants on the day it's announced A&E waiting times are at their worst ever levels - trying to distract from their terrible record in government by going after immigrants
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Priti Patel claims protestors pulling down Edward Colston's statue 'undermines' antiracism protests
It actually highlights exactly why they're needed. Endemic racism runs so deep in the UK that all over this country we still have statues honouring slave traders and colonialists
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Johnson uses meaningless soundbites about Brexit to distract from the fact that under the Tories child poverty, homelessness and in-work poverty have all sky rocketed.
He’s not “new” - the Tories have been in power for nearly a decade and look at the state of things
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“Progressive patriotism” is just another form of nationalism. People using it should explain how it won’t reproduce racialised forms of exclusion that already exist in the U.K.? Who will be seen as “belonging” and who won’t?
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It should be a national scandal that the test and trace system *still* isn't properly functioning because the government chose to give private companies millions to do the bulk of it.
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So good to see Corbyn defending free movement - saying it "enriches the lives of all of us" and not just talking about migration through the prism of economics. Looks like Labour are moving in the right direction on this
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You’ll hear lots of talk about “illegal immigrants” today. This is the government whipping up a moral panic about asylum again.
They’ll force even more people to risk their lives to get here.
**People cannot be illegal**
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Corbyn at his last
#pmqs
as Labour leader: my voice will not be stilled. I'll still be demanding justice for the people of this country and the rest of the world.
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So private schools are criticising plans to get more poor students into university, saying it would lead to class discrimination against the wealthy 🤨
Here's a video we made about how private schools entrench class inequalities
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This term "illegal immigrants" reproduces dehumanising anti-migrant discourse. Stop using it. People can't be illegal.
UK government has not had up-to-date estimate of number of illegal immigrants for 15 years, report says
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Make no mistake: Abbott gets a disproportionate amount abuse because she's a black woman in frontline politics who challenges the status quo
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Some are complaining that Corbyn used
#PMQs
to ask May about poverty and not Brexit.
But so much of our political discussion is about the Brexit process. Corbyn is right to highlight rising poverty caused by the Tories. It’s impacting people’s lives now
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Journalists and MPs on the left and right keep talking about "illegals" and "illegal immigrants". This is part of a toxic, dehumanising narrative that treats migrants with suspicion - it is the backdrop to the hostile environment. Labour need to explicitly push back against it
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It's a mistake for Labour to keep their commitment to ending free movement. Doing so not only implicitly reinforces deeply entrenched anti-migration narratives, it will also mean a significant expansion of border controls. The focus should be levelling up non-EU migrant rights
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Rising numbers of homeless people and 4 million children in poverty - this didn't come out of nowhere, it's the product of nearly a decade of Tory government.
We need a government that will fundamentally transform our economy and put climate at the centre of that change
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