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Satbir Singh

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CEO @opendemocracy . Ex @JCWI_UK / @CHRI_INT / @UN . Trustee @Praxis_Projects . Toddler-wrangler, writer, campaigner, complainer. He/Him. Views own. 🍉

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Satbir Singh

8 months

Making vulnerable people suffer more won't make you happier or better off. It won't reduce your rent or bills. It won't improve your wages or public services. Making us hate each other is how they win. Remembering that we weren't born hating each other is how we win.

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5 years

America: only guns can keep us safe. Britain: pass me that Narwhal tusk.

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“Unskilled” “Key Worker” What a difference a month makes.

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Saying it again because it's infuriating. We all sacrificed a huge amount in the first half of this year to give ministers time to make life safe outside of lockdown through mass testing and tracing. We did our part. They didn't. They have failed us all.

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The new Prime Minister’s greatest challenge will be gaslighting a country which has neither gas nor light.

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3 years

Channel 4 News was the first national broadcaster to cover the Windrush Scandal, the Cambridge Analytica Scandal and the 2015 Election Funding Scandal. Tomorrow ministers will outline plans to break up and privatise Channel 4. Also a scandal.

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Day 3: Been called a paki six times today. Have also switched to a new shampoo, so that’s something.

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In Afghanistan we are seeing the reality of what it means to flee. The world changes overnight. You grab what you can and run. If a smuggler says "I can get you to safety" you put your life in his hands and you pay what you can. There is no form to fill and no queue to join.

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4 years

Drowning a statue in a harbour has done more in a day to encourage people to learn about the history of slavery + empire than the national curriculum has in 30 years. That’s not a ‘distraction’ from the movement, that’s long-overdue impact.

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6 years

When they tell you it's migrants, not employers, that drive down wages, When they tell you it's migration, not austerity, that guts public services, When they tell you it's migration, not the financial system, that tanked the economy, They're lying. And we cannot let them win.

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Survivors of the Windrush Scandal will no doubt be fascinated to hear more about the Home Office's ability to pay 6 figure settlements pretty quickly when it suits them.

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If I seemed a little choked up today during some of these interviews it’s because, if I’m honest, I can’t shake the feeling that, but for the luck of having been born here or there, this could be any of us. And 39 people will never wake up. #PeopleMove

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'If we close off all the legal routes for people to move across borders all that is going to happen is we empower the smugglers. 'If you make illegal that which is inevitable all that will happen is illegality sets in.' - @SatbirLSingh on @Channel4News tonight

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@MParsfield I know but the other one was making my hair feel really greasy.

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Became a dad in the wee hours of this morning. My wife is an absolute goddess and neither of us can ever thank the @RoyalFreeNHS team enough for keeping mum and baby safe after we both tested positive for Covid just before labour began.

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Policeman today to my sister and her 18 month old baby: “Why have you driven here?” “Because we live in a block of flats and there’s no park near us to take him for a walk.” “You chose to live there. The law is the law.” 😕😡

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4 years

“Sources close to the Home Secretary state that she refused to tone down her attacks on lawyers, even after learning that a far-right conspiracy theorist attempted to murder a solicitor following Patel’s most recent remarks.”

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BBC Breakfast

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"His comments directly led to the violence and so far he's failed to condemn that violence." Home Secretary, Priti Patel criticises President Trump for his comments after armed supporters stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC.

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2 years

Don’t worry they’re going to bring in agency ministers.

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4 years

Nadia Whittome is the youngest MP. She donates £45,000 of her salary to charity because she thinks it's important for lawmakers to remember what living on a normal salary is like. She scrubbed up as a careworker during the pandemic. We should all be more like @NadiaWhittomeMP .

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This is why, even without getting into the morality of it, the government's Anti-Refugee Bill is simply divorced from reality. It says we will protect those who wait, in queues that don't exist, in places where there is no time to sit around and wait, and punish those who don't.

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Satbir Singh

5 years

Services like @FactCheck and @BBCRealityCheck are invaluable. But they’re no substitute for anchors and interviewers just being properly briefed about the facts and not being afraid to call out lies on air. Most people who watch an interview *will never* use a fact-checker.

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BBC Reality Check

@BBCRealityCheck

5 years

Boris Johnson told #MarrShow the Queen's Speech - which set out his plans for government including a bill to prevent automatic early release of prisoners - had been "blocked by Parliament" This is wrong. It passed by 16 votes

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The Home Office have written to us to apologise and have overturned their decision. My beautiful wife, my best friend and my soul mate will be here for Christmas. Thousands more remain separated. I will never stop fighting for them. #BringThemHome

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6 years

The guy sitting across the aisle from me is really triggered right now by the amount of Arabic being spoken. Murmurs of “Jesus Christ why can’t they just do the announcement in English” Dude you literally paid money to fly on Qatar Airways. #JustSaying

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6 years

Nancy told @ukhomeoffice she was too ill to fly. They said she was lying. She died 5 days later. They kept her passport so she couldn't be buried. Then they texted to say she'll be in trouble if she misses her appointment. This is Britain in 2018.

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Woman accused of faking illness to avoid UK deportation died five days later

South African Nancy Motsamai collapsed while being escorted through Heathrow airport

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5 years

I’d add that there’s many, many people out there, without the privileges & community I enjoy, who feel pretty uncomfortable or scared at the moment. Our job in the days to come has to be to let them know they are loved and they are safe. And that we’ll fight with and for them.

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4 years

The sacrifices we all made during lockdown were not just made to save lives. They were made to give government the time to make sure life could remain safe *outside* of lockdown. We kept our side of the bargain and we have been inexcusably let down.

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Totally healthy democracy with zero conflicts of interest in which the Chancellor gets interviewed on TV about his budget by two MPs from the ruling party who are also married to each other.

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Tomorrow Chancellor @Jeremy_Hunt will appear on Saturday Morning with Esther & Philip on @GBNEWS where he'll discuss next week’s Budget, and the government's plan to halve inflation, reduce debt & grow the economy.

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4 years

Next Thursday it will have been half a decade since Parliament agreed to hold a referendum on Europe. Imagine the things we could have done better with this time. The challenges we could have met, the problems we could have addressed.

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Satbir Singh

5 years

Just spoke on @LBC about why @DavidLammy is right to be alarmed about the return of the far right. Particularly enjoyed @NickFerrariLBC repeatedly suggesting that I don’t undertstand English. Quote of the day: “You really do need to learn the language, Mr Singh”. 🤔

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A British woman was made stateless so @SajidJavid could look tougher than @GavinWilliamson . So that when the courts eventually rule his actions unlawful he can blame it on “liberal judges”. A good wedge issue to boost his leadership campaign. And now a child is dead.

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Satbir Singh

4 years

If you're born British, raised here, radicalised here, commit a crime here (or elsewhere), you're still British and questions of criminality are questions to be answered by the British criminal justice system. This doesn't change if your *parents* were born somewhere else.

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And it makes the work of resisting this grotesque legislation even more urgent. We share responsibility for what is happening in Afghanistan. And even if we didn't, we cannot claim to be part of a shared humanity if we are unwilling to protect others from harm.

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6 years

Pro tip: when you're talking policy and you can't tell if someone's genuinely well informed or just really confident about everything they say, tell them you're worried about the situation in #Wakanda . Three people have already told me they're worried too.

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5 years

You can admit to using cocaine and have a decent chance of becoming PM if you were born in Manhattan & went to Eton. If you're black, carrying weed & your mate's oyster card can get you deported. But ok, sure #immigration policy isn't racist at all...

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This Man Has Lived In Britain Since He Was 4 But Now He Faces Deportation For Carrying Cannabis

“How can this possibly be just because I wasn’t born here? I grew up here, all my life’s been here... this is very hostile and cruel," Shannoy McLeod told BuzzFeed News.

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Satbir Singh

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There's no problem. There is a problem and we're sorry. It is only the Windrush generation. We're aware that there is a system wide problem. There are no removal targets. There are removal targets. We're getting rid of removal targets. 10 days at the @ukhomeoffice .

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5 years

Tories: “Apply for settled status NOW or we’ll take away all your rights and ruin your life”. EU Citizens: “Um...we have serious reservations about this but ok fine we’ll apply.” Telegraph: “OMG they love us they really love us!”

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Me for @Telegraph on how Leave's open and welcoming vision for Britain outside the EU is being vindicated by the numbers choosing to stay

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Satbir Singh

5 years

What is the correct way to word a funding proposal which says “we aren’t going to promise to do any more things, we just need some extra capacity to do what we’re doing now so we aren’t all so exhausted and unwell all the time?”

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Satbir Singh

6 years

- Theresa May has swapped her BlackBerry for an iPhone - Beyonce may have been bitten on the face, - The new Roseanne is 'not as good as the original' - An owl interrupted a wedding. Some of the stories that @BBCNews has covered today instead of the #ChrisWylie hearing.

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Satbir Singh

4 years

I have spoken to insurance providers three times today. All of them are clear that there is no protection as long as the protective steps you take are “voluntary” and “proactive”. Thousands of small businesses will collapse because the PM is playing around with semantics.

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There is one emerging theme to Boris Johnson's press conference: it's not our fault if you lose your job at a pub, restaurant or airline...because we're only making "suggestions" and advice...

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4 years

Prepping to talk a bit later on with the South Asian radio networks about the Channel crossings. Found this front page from a time that was so very different and yet so very much the same.

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4 years

I cannot believe this needs saying but: Buying everyone a plate of wings is not a sufficient macroeconomic policy response to an unprecedented, coordinated global slowdown.

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3 years

As interesting as Dominic Cummings' evidence is at the select committee today, I can't help but think of all the friends and loved ones we lost over the last 15 months, and the fact that this is all still just a big game of 'gotcha' to the entitled children who run our country.

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2 years

The UK agreement with Rwanda was signed weeks ago. They kept it in a drawer to be announced and used as cannon fodder when they needed us to look away from something else. These are the people who run this country. This is how they think. What a curse to be ruled by them.

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5 years

The @UKHomeOffice is trying to deport a gay man back to a country where we know he will be persecuted for his sexuality, but OMG look they changed their profile pic for Pride because they’re just so fucking woke and they REALLY want you to know it.

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2 years

They will try again. They will go for the HRA. And the judges. And the lawyers. It’s up to all of us to be ready.

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3 years

16,000 Belgian refugees arrived in Folkestone on a single day in 1914. A quarter of a million arrived over the next 4 years.

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4 years

The PM just learned, to his surprise & in the middle of a committee hearing, that migrants don't have recourse to public funds or support during a crisis. He was shocked, couldn't believe it and said he wanted to sort it out. We're happy to help.

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Remember: clap for your carers but insist they leave their kids behind. This island is a cruel farce.

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6 years

@Holmster79 @JAACable @NakulMPande @bentoth @HackneyAbbott @JuliaHB1 'Coloured' also comes with a lot of historical baggage (see: apartheid). And it also assumes that 'whiteness' is a baseline, i.e. there is a binary by which you are 'white' or just 'one of the 6.7billion other people', i.e. a deviation from whiteness.

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4 years

White nationalist thugs walking down Whitehall in large numbers and doing the Nazi salute. Can’t wait for the PM and the Home Secretary to give *multiple* front-page interviews and televised statements about how angry they are about this.

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Jacob Rees-Mogg sat in front of me last year and said the gov't should be ashamed of the #HostileEnvironment . Then he asked me where I was from. Then he asked me where I was 'originally from'. Then he retweeted the AfD. Snake.

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Rees-Mogg accuses BBC of 'lefty obsession' over far-right tweet

ERG chair hits back after BBC presenter questions him about tweeting video of AfD speech

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From 1820 -1920, roughly 10% of people in the UK took their bags, their children + their dreams and got on boats to start new lives across the ocean. The first time that most of them had 'papers' was when they arrived. A reminder that people have always moved and always will.

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6 years

Today @UniofOxford chose to retweet somebody calling @DavidLammy "bitter" for commenting on very obvious racial disparities in the university's intake. Today I cancelled my annual alumni donation. Money better spent supporting orgs like @RunnymedeTrust and @suttontrust .

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Satbir Singh

5 years

Trade Unions are funded by their tax paying members. Who are you funded by?

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Taxpayers are sick and tired of militant unions, holding the political system hostage while providing poor representation and diminishing benefits for an increasingly dynamic UK workforce 😡

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3 years

People are laughing at the Spoons guy without realising this is the logical conclusion of a national conversation that has repeatedly confused being ‘pro migration’ with being ‘pro migrant’. One is about inputs, outputs and profit. The other is about humans, rights and dignity.

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Satbir Singh

4 years

Just so sad to hear about the death of Paulette Wilson. When we met last month she was handing in a petition to Downing Street. I’ll never forget her words - “If they don’t know what’s wrong by now I don’t know if they ever will, but we have to try.” Rest in Power, Paulette.

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7 months

Quick update on where we are as a nation: The wealthiest PM in history made a £1k bet with one of Rupert Murdoch's best paid talking heads that he could definitely detain and offshore some of the most vulnerable people in the country.

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The Independent

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Rishi Sunak has accepted a £1,000 bet from Piers Morgan that deportation flights to Rwanda will be up and running before the General Election. The full interview is due to be shown on the Piers Morgan Uncensored YouTube channel at 2pm and TalkTV at 8pm on Monday (5 February).

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Imagine telling 60 million people to stay at home for 4 months (and asking the bond markets for £100bn) so you can put the resources + infrastructure in place to make normal life safe again... ...and then just doing other things instead.

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5 years

@blue_labour Define: ‘culturally conservative’ please? Asking for 5 million friends.

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Satbir Singh

6 years

BREAKING: We won! Court rules the #RightToRent is dangerous and beyond reform. @SajidJavid now has an opportunity to show that there’s no room for racism in his party and his government. The policy must go.

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JCWI

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WE WON! The High Court has ruled that the “right to rent” causes racism and cannot be reformed. The Government MUST scrap the scheme #hostileenvironment

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Satbir Singh

2 years

A lot of brilliant people have been raising this one very simple but vital point for years. And a lot of other people have been doing everything they can to avoid answering it. Next time someone says the words “proper channels”, play them this.

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Suella Braverman here realising on camera that she has taken away the possibility of asylum, even from the most vulnerable. She doesn’t care. But we should.

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Satbir Singh

4 years

We emailed you about this in March, before front line migrant workers started dying. Please check your spam filters.

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4 years

Those working to save lives in our NHS and social care sector are heroes. That’s why, given these extraordinary circumstances, @MattHancock and I are working together to remove NHS and care workers from the NHS surcharge as soon as possible. We’ll announce further details soon.

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6 years

The importance of this story cannot be overstated. The @ukhomeoffice denied a woman her visa and *subsequently* got the NHS to raise an invoice (for treatment she shouldn't be charged for in Scotland) to justify its decision. This isn't incompetence, it's calculated cruelty.

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This Lawyer Says The Home Office Used The NHS To Deny A Woman A Visa By Inventing A Debt

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We welcomed our daughter to this world yesterday. Her mama is remarkable and midwives should all earn six figures.

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4 years

“Home is not where you are born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease”. ― Naguib Mahfouz.

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4 years

POTUS is in the rose garden threatening to deploy active duty military personnel against civilians, while cops fire rubber bullets into crowds in Lafayette Park. This is going to a place it cannot easily come back from.

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Our access to water should never be dictated by the market.

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Because of measures in place to stop the spread of Covid-19, I have been unable to buy anybody what they asked for for Christmas since 2011.

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Satbir Singh

3 years

If you think that fleeing a crisis or an invasion means people have time to wait for a limited resettlement scheme, or that taking matters into their own hands and running makes their behaviour unlawful, you are not on the side of the Ukrainian people.

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Satbir Singh

6 years

A few weeks ago I was furious when Labour activists responded to accusations of antisemitism by saying "but the Tories are racist". Today I'm equally disgusted by Tory MPs who respond to questions about their #HostileEnvironment by saying "but Labour are antisemitic". Grow up.

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Satbir Singh

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If you can’t bring yourself to say that carpet-bombing civilians is wrong, disproportionate and illegal, that it must stop and, if it won’t you refuse to arm or support the state doing it, I don’t want you representing me or governing me.

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Well, this was unexpected. #kingsspeech

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3 years

Never let anybody tell you that the people, united, cannot make the world better.

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The 2 men have asked to say thank you to the Glasgow crowd. @itvnews

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4 years

If you don't think that time served through the criminal justice system is enough to rehabilitate somebody, maybe you need to invest in fixing the criminal justice system and in rehabilitating people who have served their time.

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New Economy Organisers Network

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The #Jamaica50 have already served their time in prison. In deporting them you are punishing not just the people themselves twice but their families. People who have got partners, children and grandchildren here @SatbirLSingh from @JCWI_UK on @AJEnglish

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Satbir Singh

3 years

Like lots of folks, my birth certificate was handwritten. When the registry was digitised my name was then misspelled. The upshot is it is now proving hard to confirm my son’s citizenship. There is literally no interaction with @ukhomeoffice that doesn’t require legal advice.

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Satbir Singh

5 years

Hey @EU_Commission - here’s a picture of my Indian grandfather and his friends from Nepal and Australia in World War 2. Just, you know, casually “protecting your #Europeanwayoflife ”.

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Those of us who remember being the wrong colour, worshipping the wrong God or speaking the wrong language in the shop in the months after 9/11 recognise the hallmarks of what’s happening and what’s to come. This from @theipaper which describes itself as ‘socially liberal’.

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Satbir Singh

6 years

I've been wondering for a while why I've been so out of the loop on *everything*. Then I realised I had muted @IanDunt back in April so he didn't spoil Avengers Infinity War.

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Satbir Singh

4 years

There has been no electricity for hours in housing run by @SercoGroup . 20 vulnerable women with small babies are sitting in the dark + freezing cold. One of them is Covid+. The food they bought with their £4 allowance is rotting. Serco and @migranthelp aren't answering the phone.

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1 year

Offering a public sector pay rise by squeezing £1bn out of migrants through fee hikes (already among the highest in the world) is such an awful, cynical attempt to use scarcity framing to divide workers and pit them against one another based on where they are born.

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Satbir Singh

5 years

@MrRBourne That’s not how numbers work.

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Satbir Singh

4 years

My brill colleague @MinnieRahman showing an incredible amount of grit + patience when asked on live TV whether a child drowning in the Channel was his own fault.

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New Economy Organisers Network

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Earlier this year the government closed down a route for unaccompanied asylum seeking children to enter the UK. If we're talking about responsibility we need to talk about the British government and the French authorities. @minnierahman of @JCWI_UK on #bbcnews

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Satbir Singh

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@matthaig1 Borders are imaginary.

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Satbir Singh

5 years

This should never have happened. But it did. And it will happen again. The ⁦ @ukhomeoffice ⁩ needs to be put in special measures.

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Satbir Singh

2 years

Windrush families + allies fought impossibly hard for every last inch of the limited justice that was won. To tell the world about the scandal. To have an inquiry. To have the inquiry fairly resourced. To ensure its recommendations were robust. Even just to have them published.

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Satbir Singh

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It’s not just the words in the piece. It’s not just that Matthew Parris wrote it. Or that the Times published it. It’s all of these things together. It’s a whole chain of people and decisions along the way, through which nobody thought it was wrong.

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Satbir Singh

6 years

And yet all we hear is that we aren't integrating quickly enough. You can live here, love here, work here for half a century - but you'll never be fully welcome.

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Ian Dunt

6 years

The Windrush kids story is truly appalling, even by Home Office standards. The message to immigrants is clear: you'll never belong here, not ever, not even after decades of legally living here.

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Satbir Singh

4 years

@PaulEmbery Yeah, thanks but no thanks, Paul. Nobody's rights, dignity & equality should be contingent on what we're able to do to support others in a crisis. And, for the uninitiated, radical protest is as much a part of our tradition as langar.

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Satbir Singh

4 years

“But campaigners claim that it’s not illegal to enter the UK to seek asylum” is so misleading when you consider that the *law* says it’s not illegal to enter the UK to seek asylum.

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Satbir Singh

6 years

In less than 48 hours, the @ukhomeoffice has conceded that it was wrong to have targeted 5 people scheduled to be deported on this flight. @SajidJavid may be comfortable with an error rate of at least 10% when taking away people’s rights but I doubt that the public are.

@ameliagentleman

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@ameliagentleman

6 years

Man who has lived in UK for 41 years (since he was four) has had his deportation to Jamaica cancelled. Which is good news, although seems crazy that anyone thought it was a good idea to deport someone to a country they have no memories of and where they have no ties. #windrush

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Satbir Singh

3 years

Theresa May split up families, deported black Britons, detained pregnant women, stopped DV survivors from going to the police and let children drown in the sea. Please, white liberals, can we have slightly longer memories.

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Satbir Singh

4 years

Next time I monumentally fuck something up I’m going to call it an “Australian solution”.

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Satbir Singh

3 years

I just stopped at the supermarket to buy some flowers. The cashier asked if they were for the Duke of Edinburgh. Reader, there was no good answer to this question.

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Satbir Singh

4 years

Make no mistake, when the government says it won't offer Indefinite Leave to Remain to the families of key workers who die of #Covid19 , it is saying: "People can come here and clean our shit, wearing plastic bags for PPE. And if they die, we *will* deport their families."

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Satbir Singh

6 years

Since Windrush, we’ve received no fewer than six calls at @JCWI_UK from senior @ukhomeoffice officials seeking advice on outreach & how to rebuild trust. Many other NGOs have received the same calls. 👇🏽 This is exactly why we cannot move forward. Because nothing changes.

@DavidLammy

David Lammy

6 years

The Home Office asked to come to my constituency surgery. They asked me about their “outreach strategy” to people who are too scared to come forward. Then they arrested my constituent and put him in prison. He went for his passport and left in handcuffs.

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Satbir Singh

4 years

The government has just published *massive* changes to the Immigration System without: ❌ Any notice ❌ Any scrutiny They come into effect in 5 weeks' time.

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Satbir Singh

9 months

Raising the MIR (minimum income requirement) for spouses and dependents is a wicked and vicious thing to do. Heartbreaking cruelty. I was raised not to hate but it’s very hard to see the humanity in people who stand at the dispatch box and play these games.

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Satbir Singh

2 years

That 5 years later a Minister can simply say "none of this binds or matters anymore", tells us not only how large the moral vacuum in Westminster is, but how limited we are in our options for winning meaningful social + political change through incrementalism.

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Satbir Singh

4 years

@omaromalleykhan I had this exact conversation with someone the other day. But you have to factor in the additional £11 billion that will need to be paid to consultants to deliver a delivery plan.

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Satbir Singh

6 years

- Labour Party is being investigated by the EHRC over racism; - Amber Rudd refers to Diane Abbott as 'a coloured woman'; - Andrea Leadsom says attacks on British Muslims are a Foreign Affairs issue. Yep, it's another really proud day for British politics.

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Satbir Singh

2 years

There are actually a lot of things that you could pause “out of respect” that would, you know, be quite respectful (and popular). Deportations, benefit sanctions, evictions… But unsurprisingly they never make the list.

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