Small boat crossings are totally unnecessary and we continue to return migrants with no right to be in the UK.

Another flight left today with more planned in the coming weeks. pic.twitter.com/RCnLlqNGVM

— Home Office (@ukhomeoffice) August 26, 2020

Outrageous. Awful message to be sending out.

God, I hate what this country has become.

That this message is acceptable from anyone is depressing enough, but this is coming from our bloody government!

That’s so depressing

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People who want to uphold the legal rights of vulnerable people are ‘activists’ now eh. How long before we just call them enemies of the state or ‘traitors’.

Edit – looks like they’ve taken it down

Priti on the vodka tonight?

Another step towards Trump Britain. Awful, shameful populist politics.

Yep, taken down; can’t find it on Wayback Machine – that could be down to my technical incompetence…
Anything emanating from patel’s shrinking domain should be seen as poisonous, lying, vitriolic.
The UK is diminished and that is exacerbated by patel’s isolationist policies.

Activist lawyers = lawyers asking the government to behave lawfully, using the law created by the government.
The reason that the deportation flight was stopped was because all of the 23 deportees were being deported illegally and their cases hadn’t been given due consideration.
If you have the money and access to a good lawyer then most cases win on appeal (the government automatically refuse most initial applications)

I'm just a lawyer, standing in front of a government, using the law, to ask it to behave lawfully #ActivistLawyers

— Rose Arnall (Activist Lawyer) (@ArnallRose) August 27, 2020

Made the mistake of clicking on the hashtag #ActivistLawyers and then reading some of the replies… I guess you don’t need to be thick to be racist but it clearly helps.

Here you go, since someone seems to have deleted it.

https://twitter.com/DavidLammy/status/1299098826050072576/photo/1

The Secret Barrister is on point, as always.

The thing is that the government wouldn’t keep finding itself frustrated by enemy of the people judges and activist lawyers if it just stopped breaking the law.

— The Secret Barrister (@BarristerSecret) August 27, 2020

Test marketing for a slew of more overtly racist policies to come

Test marketing for a slew of more overtly racist policies to come

The Home Office has been overtly racist for a long time, Theresa May just did whatever the Daily Mail told her….