Dan Sohege

Interesting that this dataset specifically singles out removals of Albanian nationals. No one else. Just, out of all removals, how many were Albanian. This is obvious politically motivated targeting of a nationality and in the context of asylum, where people’s lives are at stake, it’s totally wrong

Just spoke to LBC news about Labour's latest announcement of £100million into more "border enforcement. As with their lines about cracking down on social media adverts. It is just more of the same, and shown not to work👇
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The government will listen to a few hundred fascists threatening refugees but will totally ignore 100,000 peaceful demonstrators for trans people’s human rights at Trans Pride London.

Just as a sidenote, if you were looking to increase the number of people forced into relying on irregular routes, and thereby actually benefitting smuggling gangs, you would be hard pushed to find better ways than Labour's current policies of restricting visas and removing safe routes.

It also completely ignores that the circumstances which necessitate people seeking asylum change, so someone may come to the UK to study and then require asylum later. Gaining an education in certain circumstances can actually lead to people needing to seek asylum.

Nick Timothy has always been an unpleasant authoritarian racist but the direct endorsement of racist mob violence (and attacking the police for preventing it) is genuinely a new low.

This man is a Conservative MP and former No.10 adviser.

Labour rifling through the Conservatives failed anti-asylum policies and saying "let's have some of that, but more expensive".
We could be investing in communities to support everyone, instead we have a government wasting millions on performative cruelty. #r4today
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To save me, for once, from writing a long thread about why and how the protests against asylum seekers in hotels are not only not protecting women and children, but are actually putting some at risk, nor are they "legitimate concerns" I did a video instead 👇
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Don't mind me, just looking up my local support group and buying dice

Home Secretary to introduce fast-track scheme to tackle asylum backlog The Government faces mounting pressure to cut how many asylum seekers are housed in hotels

Due to the abysmal Home Office decision making process, by Home Office's own low standards, many individuals have to rely on appeals to get their asylum claims accepted. Labour's "fast track" system is guaranteed to lead to people who need it being denied asylum.

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We have almost exactly the same amount of undeveloped, vacant, not including any environmental agricultural etc, land as we have residential, with roughly 700,000 vacant properties, and France has a police force which routinely attacks asylum seekers and institutionalised Islamophobia as policy

Not if you don't feel safe in France, for which there are good reasons for many people seeking asylum, or if you have family ties in the UK, which majority of those seeking asylum do.

People do not risk their lives crossing one of the world's busiest shipping routes. They do it because they have no other alternatives. Pushing the whole "social media advert" angle reinforces the idea that people seeking asylum are choosing where to seek it like some twisted package holiday. 2/

Crackdown on Channel crossing social media adverts UK 2 Aug 2025 PA Media Suzanne Leigh BBC News People advertising illegal Channel crossings online could face up to five years in prison under a new offence the government plans to introduce.

Channel crossings: Patel calls on social media companies to take down videos BBC News 6 June 2021 Home Secretary Priti Patel has called for the removal of social media posts that "glamourise" dangerous migrant crossings from Europe.

Channel migrant numbers top 15,000 as government cracks down on social media adverts More than 15,000 migrants have now crossed the English Channel in small boats in 2023 Bob Dale BBC News 6 August 2023

Talking about "cracking down" on social media regarding small boats isn't new, it's the same pointless policy to try and grab headlines we have seen for years. We know it has no impact. What it does do though is feed a narrative that people shouldn't seek asylum. 1/
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A nice post to remember us all that the majority of folk are still decent human beings.

When teaching about The Holocaust I find it easy to find headlines in papers like The Mail and Express to show how similar language and framing in the media today mirrors antisemitism in Nazi Germany. It is not biased, it is objectively true they use racist tropes similar to those used historically.

I am so so sorry you are going through all of this Em. It is such a shit situation.

With respect, you are not helping, at all. The "but" in your original post was bad enough, then the defensive "we" bit here... please stop

One day I may even be able to ride it without risking breaking something 😁

Yes

Yeah.... I mean I have only seen one person use the phrase, but still...wtf

Deep sigh, I was actually in a good mood until like 30 seconds ago and then saw someone use "progressive racism" as an excuse for being shitty. No, attacking the likes of Badenoch, Braverman et al, or calling for their deportations, based on their heritage isn't "progressive" it is just racism.

Trying to remember who said that in a band the drums are the police the bass is the law 😁. I love it

Thank you so much.

It can be so easy to forget that at times, but you are so very right

I need to learn how to use the latter and remember how to play the former first, this may be content which could take another ice age to appear

Honestly, I am still blown away. It is also so gorgeous to play

Sharing this just to say there are some amazing, kind, and wonderful people on social media, and we/me can forget that among all the nastiness. You know who are, I hope you don't mind me not tagging you directly, but, once again, thank you so very much. It is a joy to play. 8/

Picture of a black and white Fender Precision Bass guitar, with a red and white stag electric guitar beside it and a blue unicycle behind it

Now, I am so happy getting back to not only being able to play the bass guitar, and honestly on one of my all time favourite bass guitars, a Fender Precision no less, OH MY GOD, being able to relax playing it, but also to be reminded every time I do play it that there are good people out there. 7/