Dan Sohege
Director of human rights consultancy Stand For All. Specialist in refugee and migrants' law, rights policy, comms and advocacy. NOT A LAWYER. Also talking about being autistic and LGBTQIA+ rights. (They/them). Purely my views, no-one else would want them.
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- Just because you stop recognising and protecting trafficking victims it doesn't mean that they stop being trafficked. Albania remains a high risk country for people to be trafficked from. Returning trafficking victims just reinforces the cycle of trafficking. That's not a "success". #r4today
- If as a politician you are complaining about Pride banning political parties I would strongly suggest you look within yourselves as to why this decision has had to be made, the rampant, and unrepentant, attacks on the LGBTQIA+ community for starters, before criticising those who have made it.
- People who have built lives here, and paid tens of thousands of pounds to do so, with the idea that after five years they could apply for indefinite leave to remain now being told they have to pay tens of thousands more and wait another five, at least. It's disgusting. www.bbc.com/news/article...
- International aid is often accused of being "charity" by its opponents, but it is a crucial measure in promoting global security, stability and even trade. It saves, and indeed earns, far more than it costs. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
- Starmer, Cooper et al are going to further wreck the country with this latest round of anti-immigration policies. I wonder how it will play with the mythological "public opinion" they claim to follow once that happens and infrastructure like the NHS is made even worse? news.sky.com/story/govern...
- Can you not make out this is some philanthropic gesture in the headline BBC? There's already a serious question mark over exactly how much profit some of these companies are making off of people seeking asylum, but we know it is millions. They're forced to hand some back. www.bbc.com/news/article...
- I am sure people will understand, but watching Labour ignore the lived experiences and lives of myself and my friends on, currently, at least three different levels, migrants, trans and non-binary individuals and disabled individuals, does make me less inclined to be moderate in my opinion of them.
- At this level of politics there is no way someone didn't know Starmer's "island of strangers" line would be heard loud and clear as a dog whistle by far-right groups in the vein of Powell's "found themselves made strangers in their own country". Just stop with the defences of it. It was deliberate.
- People have genuine, serious, concerns which need to be recognised and addressed. The problem is they keep being told that these concerns are caused by immigration, and when you are struggling you will take what you can as a reason. This isn't to say people are stupid or racist, just struggling. 1/
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- It isn't migration which has caused high streets to all but shut down. It isn't migration which has left sectors such as manufacturing on their knees. It isn't migration which has failed so many people in this country. It is successive governments, including Labour. 6/
