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Worth saying on #WindrushDay that this by ⁦amelia gentleman⁩ is required reading - a forensic account of state cruelty, neglect and racism. Are lessons being learned? Listening to so much political discourse since I read it last year, I doubt it. ⁦Windrush Lives⁩

‘Unless they’re from a poor family and have more than one sibling’.

So utterly disingenuous. It’s the ugly rhetoric rather than the content that has caused such anger. And rather than acknowledge that was a mistake, some Labour MPs are doubling down and generating a massive ‘why can’t we talk about immigration?’ straw man.

Straw man alert. Ignore the ugly rhetoric and pretend that it’s all about people trying to close down debate on immigration.

And this also explains why we’re f***ed. 50% saying it’s ok doesn’t make it ok. 95% saying it’s ok wouldn’t make it ok. If you’re in government and especially if you’re PM you have to apply your own judgment.

One of the most relentlessly stupid ideas in British politics is that the public just randomly develops certain sentiments. And therefore MPs are duty-bound to act on them. Anti-immigration attitudes, as such, are treated as if they just float up from the ether. You could of

‘With extortion as an organising principle of politics, what you definitely have whether Farage makes it into Downing Street or not is a system that cannot be defined as democracy’. Brilliant piece by Nesrine Malik on the corrosive cynicism of Labour.

I suspect the consultation won’t give primacy to those migrants themselves.

‘In the meantime, the elderly can get stuffed’.

Remember the Labour leadership remains committed to keeping us out of the single market and customs union, and utterly opposed to freedom of movement. Whatever the merits of this week’s deal, this is gaslighting of epic proportions.

In which an opinion writer explains why only her fellow opinion writers are allowed to have views about more than one topic.

1)Today the government announced changes to the immigration rules. EU citizens and family members with pre-settled status will qualify for settled status when they’ve been resident in the UK for at least 30 months (2.5 years) in total in the most recent 60 month period (5 years).

"Labelling organisations as terrorist which take direct action but don’t deliberately seek to kill people looks like using the law to make a political point. It weakens the concept of terrorism". Would that a few more MPs had read this by George Fergusson before voting today.

Diluting the definition of terrorism to capture something it shouldn’t will not only suppress dissent and lead to ludicrous miscarriages of justice, it will bolster the spurious claims of genuine terrorists to political victimhood.