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The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be…

The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.

It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

Call me a debbie downer but I think “we don’t even need a very good rule” doesn’t bode well with respect to safety regulations

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Suella Braverman defects to Reform

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Kwik Fit madness

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How Do Do It All Do It

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Tasty tasty Bran Flakes

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The absolutely bonkers Vivian Stanshall Ruddles ads

The Labour Party rn

‘Your brain isn’t fully formed until you’re 25’: A neuroscientist demolishes the greatest mind myth | BBC Science Focus Magazine Whether you are young or old, your brain is always changing.

Some of the oughta-be obvious points

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Rights of Trans Children in Scotland. In: The International Journal of Children's Rights. Authors: Cal Horton and Ruth Pearce. Abstract. In January 2024, Scotland incorporated the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) into domestic law, strengthening commitments to child rights. Trans children are vulnerable to a wide range of rights violations in systems and institutions impacted by ignorance, pathologisation or prejudice. This article outlines trans children’s rights under the CRC, drawing attention to implications for organisations working with trans children across Scotland and beyond. It applies CRC rights to key policy arenas, including Scotland’s failed gender recognition reform, trans children’s healthcare, and segregation policies introduced in 2025, highlighting areas of recognised or potential rights violations. The article then examines the processes that can enable rights-based policy and practice for trans children. This can include monitoring and recording trans children’s rights violations, and efforts to enhance child participation and child accountability. The article emphasises the importance of targeted action to uphold trans children’s rights under the crc. Institutions need to critically appraise current approaches, protecting trans children’s rights and ensuring compatibility with CRC obligations. Keywords: children; transgender; lgbt; youth; rights; crc; participation; accountability; ethics.

New research on trans children and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC):

With the UNCRC recently incorporated into Scottish law, @fiercemum.bsky.social and I teamed up to discuss the urgent actions needed to protect trans children's rights.

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🌈 She Just Wanted to Wear the Uniform — How a Six-Year-Old Trans Girl Was Left Behind An impact story of a 6 year old trans girl.

Reading how the UK Girl Guides has treated a 6 year old child is beyond heartbreaking. This story should be published everywhere except we know the mainstream news would never dare.

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Yep. Would like to write something long form about the various anti-trans neuromyths. This nonsense is so tenacious.

Sorry sciencey-sounding trans-hating folks, you can't make being cisgender mandatory. You can't enforce it. I'm sorry you are soooo deeply worried about how fragile cisness is, but this is just handwaving waffle to make you feel more comfortable about being evil.

Ever notice that there is no stage at which the human brain is sufficiently developed to withstand transness?

- Under 11: handwaving about Piagetian concrete thinking
- Under 25: handwaving about frontal lobe development
- Over 25: what if dementia makes you forget you transitioned

Two BBC plays:

- The Flipside Of Dominic Hyde
- In The Year Of The Sex Olympics (Nigel Kneale script)

The OP is on the flipside of writing off popular music, both angles relying on the pretension of knowingly being above it all.

Yeah, stuff that just follows different rules from the norm is very much not “random noise” - there’s not that much actual aleatoric music out there.

Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen with women lead singers

Free Kitten
Milkweed
The Lovely Eggs
Honeyfeet
Ezra Furman

They have their hooks deep into the UK National Health Service in the wake of the Cass Report

Organizations like Genspect are specifically campaigning for “repathologization” of trans people, and this is precisely their goal

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Stop Sex Matters infiltrating the Council of Europe In just one week, the Council of Europe will be voting to ban conversion therapy. This would be an incredibly important step to stop the rollback in the rights of LGBTQ+ people. But Sex Matters is inf...

I've just used Good Law Project's tool to email MPs on the Council of Europe and let them know they don’t have to bend down to Sex Matter’s transphobic threats.
The more they hear from us, the harder it’ll be for them to ignore us. goodlaw.social/9f10d1

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Someone needs to release the Vegas In Space theme on vinyl, am I gonna have to set up a record label just to achieve this

Firm predicts 1,000 clients may join gender identity clinic claim Clinic set to close after criticism over quality controls for new treatments.

@johnhyde.bsky.social following your article about potential legal action against the Tavistock in 2022: www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/firm-pr...

I thought you might be interested in this update - An FOI has uncovered that NO legal action was ever received by PG: www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/numb...

One bigotry after another

Background / debunking

And in fact we are on the sharp end of this corrosion that this superficial, glib kind of non-analysis results in. Healthcare, rights, social acceptance all being swept away on the basis of uncritical acceptance of this kind of hucksterism.

“Haidt is not a malevolent figure”

Trans people might beg to differ there, he promotes the conspiracy theory pseudoscience of “ROGD”, which is also one of the drivers of Streeting stripping away our healthcare

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They are based in Switzerland

If you're thinking about privacy, they have a transparency report here