No child should be used as a political punching bag. Farage’s attack on #Glasgow’s multilingual pupils is code for attacking the children of those of colour and of refugee or immigrant backgrounds. Targeting migrant children is just another dog whistle and an utter disgrace. Shame on #NigelFarage.

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Beyond the paywall. Shabana Mahmood is engineering the biggest humanitarian emergency this country has seen in decades. With the latest shakeup of asylum and immigration policy - and it will fall to civil society to clean up the carnage.

🧵1. The BBC frames “asylum seekers using taxis” as if people are gaming the system. But every example shows contractor abuse: inflated mileage, pointless dispatches, bill-padding. This is a procurement racket the Home Office built and refuses to regulate. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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🧵1. The BBC frames “asylum seekers using taxis” as if people are gaming the system. But every example shows contractor abuse: inflated mileage, pointless dispatches, bill-padding. This is a procurement racket the Home Office built and refuses to regulate. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Beyond the paywall. Shabana Mahmood is engineering the biggest humanitarian emergency this country has seen in decades. With the latest shakeup of asylum and immigration policy - and it will fall to civil society to clean up the carnage.

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Well worth a read I think… Robina Qureshi: Shabana Mahmood's plans will cause a huge humanitarian emergency www.thenational.scot/politics/256... For more great content like this subscribe to the The National app here: www.thenational.scot/subscribe/

It will fall to civil society to clean up the carnage Shabana Mahmood creates, writes Robina Qureshi ✍️ 🔗 www.thenational.scot/politi...

HOME Secretary Shabana Mahmood is engineering the biggest humanitarian emergency this country has seen in decades with the latest shake-up of asylum and immigration policy – and it will fall to civil society to clean up the carnage she creates. 1/ www.thenational.scot/politics/256...

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HOME Secretary Shabana Mahmood is engineering the biggest humanitarian emergency this country has seen in decades with the latest shake-up of asylum and immigration policy – and it will fall to civil society to clean up the carnage she creates. 1/ www.thenational.scot/politics/256...

The revelation in The Herald on Sunday (26 January) that two-thirds of homeless children in temporary accommodation in Glasgow are from refugee households reflects the devastating reality we see daily at Positive Action in Housing. Read more: www.paih.org/home-is-wher...

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