Chris 🏳️‍🌈

Calling for unity is as meaningless as 'Thoughts and prayers'

Think on this. A LABOUR government would rather this far right win seats from them than a party of the soft left.

Let that sink in.

Labour is a lost cause.

Napoleon complex meets incel toxic masculinity meets Alvin, Simon and Theodore.

Xenophobic and looking for anyone else they can blame for their shitty unfulfilled lives.

I don’t buy the characterisation of some Reform voters as “sick of the establishment and just want something different.”

I know people who would describe themself that way but if you dig into their views they just are quite racist and reactionary. It’s an excuse. The new “reasonable concerns”

Anyone who wants to attack my facecard, go ahead. I'm not defending it. I'm not that interested 😂

Yeah. Thoughts and prayers.

Yeah. Gauff laid an egg today. Swiatek might challenge Sabalenka but I feel like it's Sabalenka's to lose.

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.

I haven't really watched the Australian Open but based on the scorelines it feels like there have been relatively few blockbuster matches.

Ahhh. Yes Minister. Classic.

The biggest story @zackpolanski.bsky.social is that you still have enough energy to go clubbing. How do you do it?

Gotta love a homophobic dog whistle. Surprised it's not the Sun to be honest.

What the fuck is going on up in here on this day?

Just because we're not all agog at your plungeless plunge teapot.

Out of all the films starting with American in the title, we haven't had American Fascism yet?

We're one week in honey!

Use a VPN?

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Board of Peace - Season 1

Anne Frank quote on protester sign today in Minnesota..."Terrible things are happening outside. Poor...."

Protest sign in Minnesota today...

Seems like the big names are doing a good job of keeping their powder dry in week 1 at the Australian Open. Perhaps a lack of blockbuster matches but should make for a great week 2.

It might make William Wallace feel it was all worthwhile?

Absolutely not. They can do them, but I'm out of here in my 60s (and sooner if I can!)

or control of an extra-legal slush fund.

Absolutely. We all taught you all you needed to know 😞

When it comes to atrocities America is not exceptional. Australia, Belgium, Britain, Canada, China, Germany, Italy, Japan, France, Spain, Portugal, Russia...modern society is gaslighting ourselves about history. America is a beast, we're the biggest and one of the youngest. But we're not alone.

I'm 47, my knees work great and I have minimal back pain.

It's the little things that you need to be thankful for.