#Rwanda is a performatively cruel, unworkable and massively expensive policy.

“Send them back” was the slogan of the National Front of my childhood. It’s now law. A shameful day for this country

When we get to July and Sunak is stood watching a plane fly to Rwanda, he’ll have spent around £500m to send 200 people away. Imagine how sick you must be to think that is a something to be proud of.
That time, effort, and money could have made a real difference to millions of us

So the Rwanda bill becomes law, with Britain an inspiration to the extreme right across Europe. Summary deportation with no right of appeal, some manacled in 21st century convict flights. If the ECHR dares to challenge, we leave that. All to reflect “ the people’s will”. Not mine

If Menzies is not fit to be a Tory and not fit to be an MP, there should be a by election. Professionalism. Integrity. And accountability. That is what Sunak promised. The tank has run dry.

Mishal Husain has got to be one of the best interviewers BBC have she has managed by her professionalism, research and questioning manage to undo any credibility that Suella Braverman & Andrew Mitchell thought they had bravo that’s what true journalism is all about #r4today

Mishal Husain is utterly brilliant, by the way. Absolute tour-de-force today. Well briefed, lightening fast, holding politicians to account on the facts rather than punch-and-judy Westminster bullshit.

So both main parties immediately reject EU’s proposal for a youth mobility scheme.
What a state we’re in.
Slamming doors in our own faces because better opportunities and closer cooperation with our own continent isn’t brexity enough.
What a stupid little place they’ve made us.

How long before this woman disappears from our timelines? Can’t wait…

The govt has declined the offer from the EU to join a scheme for 18 to 30yr olds from the UK to have the freedom to study and live in Europe. They claim that they want to make agreements with 'individual countries'. Another needless, wilful act of pettiness by this government.

Right-wing commentary has now regressed to the stage at which it is using 'woke' and 'lefty' and 'Marxism' in exactly the same way that pre-school kids use 'stinky' and 'smelly' and 'poo'.

In the light of today’s crackdown on people signed off as unable to work, a little reminder that Tory MPs are perfectly able to do their job but many instead swan off on book tours, holidays, reality shows, speaking at right wing conferences etc all while receiving our money.

Never forget that Sunak knew about Mark Menzies when he attacked Angela Rayner at PMQS yeasterday.

This about the sicknote culture: Lets have a clampdown on MPs swanning off to reality shows, recess being for months, letting the likes of Dorries take her pay despite not appearing in Parliament for 12 months and ignoring complaints and evidence of corruption shall we?

Positive news, but why limit this to 18 - 30 year olds?

A return to real free movement for all, which was always conditional, would also open up the EU single market & end some of the Tory Brexit bureaucracy !

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I suppose it had to happen one day…

I just want to live in a functional country where public transport & the NHS work properly; where water isn’t privatised & there isn’t actual shit being pumped into our waters; where education is about nurturing creativity and individuality; where we are outward looking. Just me?

Laura Trott has a degree in economics from Oxford and surely does know the difference between inflation rates and price levels. Her attempt to blur the line this morning was a deliberate bid to hoodwink the public.

Chris Fuel prices at filling stations have recently gone up again by around 4p a litre, for example. So this “fall” in inflation is pretty meaningless.

The Angela Rayner attempted assassination continues apace in the right-wing press.
So, to restore fairness, let's have every MP that has ever sold a house at any point in their life show evidence that they paid the correct capital gains tax.

While we're on the subject of thought police, wasn't it Braverman who was determined to shut down protest marches she didn't like by condemning them as hate marches? The same Braverman attending a forum of hate speech?