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Former adviser: “May on holiday at time of ‘Go Home’ vans”. Let’s see…

19/04/2018by SKWAWKBOX 13 Comments

Former Downing Street adviser Nick Timothy has written a column in the Telegraph today, claiming that Theresa May is not responsible for the infamously loathsome ‘Go Home’ vans sent out […]

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Video: former head of civil service damns Tories over #Windrush handling and policies

19/04/2018by SKWAWKBOX 6 Comments

Sir Bob Kerslake, the former head of the civil service, appeared on the BBC’s Newsnight programme tonight to talk about the government’s ‘hostile environment’ immigration policies, the Tories’ attempts to blame […]

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Video: May refuses to answer what she is doing to bring back #Windrush wrongly deported

18/04/2018by SKWAWKBOX 7 Comments

Amid the justified fury about Theresa May’s decision to lie to MPs and the public about the decision to destroy landing cards that would have prevented ‘Windrush generation’ migrants being […]

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BBC ‘s had more time to check or qualify May’s Windrush lie. It doubles down instead

18/04/2018by SKWAWKBOX 7 Comments

As the SKWAWKBOX published earlier, Theresa May appears to have lied outright in telling MPs and the nation that the decision to destroy landing cards – cards that would have […]

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Video: May just lied to House and nation re Windrush – and BBC is promoting it. #PMQs

18/04/2018by SKWAWKBOX 14 Comments

Theresa May appears to have just lied outright to the House of Commons and to the whole country. Challenged by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn about the decision to destroy landing […]

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“Hostile environment” Windrush deportations not new – as chilling archive video shows

16/04/2018by SKWAWKBOX 4 Comments

The House of Commons – and social media – have been rightly brimming with outrage at the injustice of the treatment of ‘Windrush generation‘ immigrants to the UK from Jamaica […]

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Watch: Fury in Scottish Parliament as McVey brushes off sanction of heart attack victim

16/04/2018by SKWAWKBOX 6 Comments

DWP Secretary Esther McVey has long been reviled among disabled people and other benefit claimants, even when she was junior to Iain Duncan Smith, for the measures she pushed through […]

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UK’s NATO letter re Salisbury/Russia betrays flimsy case, contradicts earlier claims

14/04/2018by SKWAWKBOX 14 Comments

The mainstream media have generally attempted to spin the OPCW’s (Office for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) equivocal support for Porton Down’s analysis of the toxin used in the Salisbury […]

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#OPCW report’s ‘confirmed findings’ underline Boris Johnson’s dishonesty

12/04/2018by SKWAWKBOX 13 Comments

The mainstream media headlines are touting that the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons’ (OPCW) report, which was published at noon today, confirms the government’s claim that the substance […]

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Four curiosities in Yulia Skripal’s ‘official’ statement – and their significance

11/04/2018by SKWAWKBOX 38 Comments

The statement released by the Metropolitan Police today on behalf of Yulia Skripal has been treated with extreme suspicion by social media users It contains a number of ‘curiosities’ that […]

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