Modern Slavery legislation isn’t protecting prisoners though, it’s protecting ordinary people, and refusing to act on law breaking as the victim is undocumented is completely discriminatory. Especially if those people have a right to claim asylum here.
The BBC is bias, they removed a documentary by national treasure and all round good guy, David Attenborough, because they were worried about Right Wing backlash and had pressure from right wing MPs. Let’s not forget the Tories appoint the head of the BBC who is a former head of communications...
I dunno I wouldn’t have argued against the comparison until the tweet about modern slavery legislation, that’s a murky path that I didnt think they‘d go down, but this is probably the worst thing they’ve said they are going to do. I mean there’s a current MP who said he’d like to send people who...
Yeah fair enough don‘t disagree, I don’t think he’ll be PM in 2025 In my gut, but there’s always the horrendous fear of what could be, and this is the road we could head down.
It’s desperation for sure but will it pay off that’s the question.
I agree it’s unlikely that this is anything more than dog whistling, but let’s say they win the next election. They have a mandate to follow through this sort of thing, and even the mere suggestion of the kind of exclusionary and human right abusing policy show that there isn’t a low that they...
Yes, my great grand father was a Jewish refugee from Russia, who settled in Germany, who then in turn moved to Stamford Hill and eventually Brighton. Who had to legally change his name from Moishe Rosenthal to Monty Rose to avoid persecution. I’ve visited Auchwitz myself with family. The laws...
Just isn’t true though, they are putting forward the idea that anti slavery laws do not apply to illegal immigrants, that is utterly depraved and completely akin to the rights minorities were afforded in Nazi Germany.