Nov 1, 2022 07:09 PM
Russia claims British Prime Minister texted Antony Blinken saying 'it's done' shortly after the Nord Stream pipeline explosion
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...osion.html
KEY POINTS: Russia has accused Britain and the U.S. of conspiring to blow up the Nord Stream gas pipes.
Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov has not released any evidence to prove Liz Truss texted Blinken after the attack.
The claim comes after Kim Dotcom, who ran website Megaupload before he was convicted of fraud, began circulating the conspiracy.
Kim has not released evidence of the claim either.
He claims the information came from Truss's iCloud after Russia hacked her phone while she was foreign secretary.
Russia's claims appear inconsistent with what is known about Truss's phone hack, which was first reported by the UK Mail on Sunday.
According to the paper, the hack was discovered 'over the summer' while Truss was still foreign secretary and in the running to replace Boris Johnson as PM. (MORE - details)
The UK’s asylum system is in crisis, but the government – not refugees – is to blame
https://theconversation.com/the-uks-asyl...ame-193670
EXCERPTS: Kent Police are investigating an attack on a Home Office migrant processing centre in Dover, after incendiary devices were reportedly thrown at the building on Sunday October 30 2022. Reports have said that witnesses at the scene described these devices as petrol bombs, with one found in the car of the person, now deceased, who is reportedly suspected of having carried out the attack.
Just days before the attack, the independent chief inspector of borders and immigration, David Neal, told the home affairs select committee that he was left “speechless” by his visit to the Home Office’s short-term holding facility in Manston. He described an “alarming” and “really dangerous situation” of overcrowded and insanitary conditions.
The home secretary, Suella Braverman, has claimed the UK’s asylum system is “broken”, stating that she aims to stop the “invasion of our southern coast”. For the home secretary to blame asylum seekers for a failing system is concerning.
White tents and buildings among fields with the sea on the horizon.
[...] The UK’s asylum system is indeed in crisis, but not because of those making dangerous journeys to seek protection. As Enver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council has put it, it is a crisis “of the government’s own making”.
The number of people forced to wait over six months for an asylum decision has trebled since 2019. The backlog of people awaiting a decision is now a whopping 100,000.
People are waiting years for a resolution, during which they are kept in a dependent limbo of near destitution. They are forbidden from working, forcing them to rely on the Home Office for housing and subsistence. These amounts are tiny: asylum seekers live off £5.80 a day. The overall cost of the asylum system, however, is £1.5 billion a year.
These people have a legal right to claim protection from persecution and they are being failed by the UK government. The implications are dire for both them and the public purse.
And the imperatives are clear. When the home secretary blames asylum seekers for the failings of the system, she not only distracts attention from the real causes, she risks fuelling community tensions, normalising xenophobia and ultimately encouraging far-right extremism.
Rather than ineffective and cruel spectacles, such as threatening to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, the UK needs a functioning asylum system... (MORE - missing details)
U.K. minister under fire for calling migrants an ‘invasion
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/ar...nvasion-2/
EXCERPTS: Britain’s interior minister faced criticism Tuesday for describing migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats as an “invasion,” days after an immigration centre was attacked with firebombs.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman used the term while defending conditions at a processing centre for new arrivals where some 4,000 people have been held in a facility intended for 1,600. Braverman referred to small-boat crossings on Monday as “the invasion of our southern coast” and said “illegal immigration is out of control.”
“Let’s stop pretending that they are all refugees in distress,” she said of migrants crossing the Channel.
Her deputy, Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick, distanced himself from her words. “In a job like mine you have to choose your words very carefully,” he told Sky News. “And I would never demonize people coming to this country in pursuit of a better life.”
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who appointed Braverman after he took office last week, told his Cabinet on Tuesday that Britain “would always be a compassionate, welcoming country,” his spokesman said.
Braverman – a leading figure on the right wing of the governing Conservative Party who supports expelling people who enter the U.K. without authorization – did not respond to the criticism on Tuesday... (MORE - details)
[...] Just over 48,000 people applied for asylum in the U.K. in 2021, fewer than in Germany, France or Spain. But there has been a sharp increase in the number of people trying to cross the Channel in dinghies and other small craft as alternative routes, such as stowing away on trucks, have become more difficult.
[...] Britain and France have wrangled over how to stop the people-smuggling gangs that organize the journeys.
Britain’s government has announced a controversial plan to send people who arrive in small boats on a one-way journey to Rwanda – a plan it says will deter people from crossing the Channel and break the business model of smuggling gangs. Critics say the plan is immoral and impractical, and it is being challenged in the courts... (MORE - missing details)
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...osion.html
KEY POINTS: Russia has accused Britain and the U.S. of conspiring to blow up the Nord Stream gas pipes.
Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov has not released any evidence to prove Liz Truss texted Blinken after the attack.
The claim comes after Kim Dotcom, who ran website Megaupload before he was convicted of fraud, began circulating the conspiracy.
Kim has not released evidence of the claim either.
He claims the information came from Truss's iCloud after Russia hacked her phone while she was foreign secretary.
Russia's claims appear inconsistent with what is known about Truss's phone hack, which was first reported by the UK Mail on Sunday.
According to the paper, the hack was discovered 'over the summer' while Truss was still foreign secretary and in the running to replace Boris Johnson as PM. (MORE - details)
The UK’s asylum system is in crisis, but the government – not refugees – is to blame
https://theconversation.com/the-uks-asyl...ame-193670
EXCERPTS: Kent Police are investigating an attack on a Home Office migrant processing centre in Dover, after incendiary devices were reportedly thrown at the building on Sunday October 30 2022. Reports have said that witnesses at the scene described these devices as petrol bombs, with one found in the car of the person, now deceased, who is reportedly suspected of having carried out the attack.
Just days before the attack, the independent chief inspector of borders and immigration, David Neal, told the home affairs select committee that he was left “speechless” by his visit to the Home Office’s short-term holding facility in Manston. He described an “alarming” and “really dangerous situation” of overcrowded and insanitary conditions.
The home secretary, Suella Braverman, has claimed the UK’s asylum system is “broken”, stating that she aims to stop the “invasion of our southern coast”. For the home secretary to blame asylum seekers for a failing system is concerning.
White tents and buildings among fields with the sea on the horizon.
[...] The UK’s asylum system is indeed in crisis, but not because of those making dangerous journeys to seek protection. As Enver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council has put it, it is a crisis “of the government’s own making”.
The number of people forced to wait over six months for an asylum decision has trebled since 2019. The backlog of people awaiting a decision is now a whopping 100,000.
People are waiting years for a resolution, during which they are kept in a dependent limbo of near destitution. They are forbidden from working, forcing them to rely on the Home Office for housing and subsistence. These amounts are tiny: asylum seekers live off £5.80 a day. The overall cost of the asylum system, however, is £1.5 billion a year.
These people have a legal right to claim protection from persecution and they are being failed by the UK government. The implications are dire for both them and the public purse.
And the imperatives are clear. When the home secretary blames asylum seekers for the failings of the system, she not only distracts attention from the real causes, she risks fuelling community tensions, normalising xenophobia and ultimately encouraging far-right extremism.
Rather than ineffective and cruel spectacles, such as threatening to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, the UK needs a functioning asylum system... (MORE - missing details)
U.K. minister under fire for calling migrants an ‘invasion
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/ar...nvasion-2/
EXCERPTS: Britain’s interior minister faced criticism Tuesday for describing migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats as an “invasion,” days after an immigration centre was attacked with firebombs.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman used the term while defending conditions at a processing centre for new arrivals where some 4,000 people have been held in a facility intended for 1,600. Braverman referred to small-boat crossings on Monday as “the invasion of our southern coast” and said “illegal immigration is out of control.”
“Let’s stop pretending that they are all refugees in distress,” she said of migrants crossing the Channel.
Her deputy, Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick, distanced himself from her words. “In a job like mine you have to choose your words very carefully,” he told Sky News. “And I would never demonize people coming to this country in pursuit of a better life.”
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who appointed Braverman after he took office last week, told his Cabinet on Tuesday that Britain “would always be a compassionate, welcoming country,” his spokesman said.
Braverman – a leading figure on the right wing of the governing Conservative Party who supports expelling people who enter the U.K. without authorization – did not respond to the criticism on Tuesday... (MORE - details)
[...] Just over 48,000 people applied for asylum in the U.K. in 2021, fewer than in Germany, France or Spain. But there has been a sharp increase in the number of people trying to cross the Channel in dinghies and other small craft as alternative routes, such as stowing away on trucks, have become more difficult.
[...] Britain and France have wrangled over how to stop the people-smuggling gangs that organize the journeys.
Britain’s government has announced a controversial plan to send people who arrive in small boats on a one-way journey to Rwanda – a plan it says will deter people from crossing the Channel and break the business model of smuggling gangs. Critics say the plan is immoral and impractical, and it is being challenged in the courts... (MORE - missing details)
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