"oh you don't get me I'm the end of the union": lol brexit is how we're all gonna die

“Please find enclosed papers that relate to a decision taken by the home secretary, to deprive your daughter, Shamima Begum, of her British citizenship,” the letter read, according to the programme.

“In light of the circumstances of your daughter, the notice of the home secretary’s decision has been served of file today (19 February), and the order removing her British citizenship has subsequently been made.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/19/isis-briton-shamima-begum-to-have-uk-citizenship-revoked

it's fine - I'm sure there are no security implications for us letting a bunch of IS fighters wander about around the syria-lebanon border while stateless

Jim, I'm sure I read yesterday that they may be able to do it because her mum has Bangladeshi citizenship, or that was at least one of the lines that would be tried.

Jim, I'm sure I read yesterday that they may be able to do it because her mum has Bangladeshi citizenship, or that was at least one of the lines that would be tried.

― michaellambert, Tuesday, February 19, 2019 12:47 PM (fifty-two seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

creates a real 2 tier level of citizenship. "you're a bit foreigny so we can take your citizenship away because you did bad things"

Yep & provides red meat to every racist in the country. Unfortunately the UK deciding human rights don’t apply to certain groups of people isn’t anything new - see internment, Guantanamo Bay...

Windrush

Extraordinary rendition.

this is so shortsighted too

there’s a whole bunch of other IS repatriation cases in the pipeline - I don’t want a bunch of connected, stateless IS fighters milling about the middle east. how can that be good for UK security ? I mean it’s not syria or its neighbours are in a position to try and detain them

looking forward to a definitive ruling on what actions by UK citizens abroad lead to loss of citizenship

Is Gary Glitter still a citizen?

Javid would revoke his own UK citizenship before Gary Glitter's.

another labour resignation

chicken coup mk II in full flow

Who?

I'm not sure if there's a legal basis for detaining them upon return to the UK but the potential intelligence value is surely pretty big?

labour right trying to burn down their party; tory right trying to burn down the country; and both have support in large swathes of the press. truly blessed to live in the greatest rainy fascist island

Xp Joan Ryan, Enfield North.

Who?
― suzy, Tuesday, 19 February 2019 22:26 (fifty-eight seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

can't even remember. joan someone?

How many MPs have to resign before it becomes a major problem?

this many? idk, waiting for the tankie line

obviously 'antisemitism' is largely a jumped-up pretext at this point (despite some real actual problems which could be dealt with like adults by all concerned) and these people are all indulging some sort of one nation tory fantasy that will - they hope - result in coalition with the conservatives at some stage. they must be trounced

nick watt reporting on news night that woke soubz, wollaston and allen might jump to split club seven eight tomorrow

would be genuinely surprised if any tory actually follows through with a threat to leave the party

agreed

unless it's to go further right, i.e. carswell

otm

I'm sorry I just can't picture Anna Soubry in the same party as Mike Gapes.

That really is the thing. You have to represent something that’s not just, idk, anti-Corbyn.

Also:

RT 🔒: Joan Ryan is a racist who criticised Jeremy Corbyn for visiting a Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan on the basis that if - as Corbyn advocates - these refugees were granted a right to return, Israel would no longer be ethnically pure. https://t.co/oBDb0PaJiV

— ciarán (@schmrn) February 19, 2019

The gapes party is a very broad church

Broad and lactose-tolerant.

Why is it funny to post pictures of milk to Mike Gapes? I only know it as an alt-right threat, but that doesn't really work in this context.

looking forward to a definitive ruling on what actions by UK citizens abroad lead to loss of citizenship

The definitive ruling will be that none of them do as it is transparently illegal, as Javid well knows. He gets to look like a hardman and whinge about the courts in a few months so it’s a win-win for him though.

Xp,

Gapes has a weird milk obsession and made a long speech in parliament once about how awful it is that milk from the north of England and milk from the south of England gets mixed before reaching the consumer iirc.

matt - think the magic number is 36. it's at that point they overtake the SNP as third largest party (attracting short money, questions at PMQs etc.)

the thing they need is time more than numbers tho - time to organise, consolidate into a party, build a base, design a policy platform, get known by the public etc. there's a very real risk with everything coming to ahead so soon that theresa may (her political instincts such that they are) will call an early GE pretty soon. she'll feel buoyed by her chances following this no doubt - if that happens, the labour party will unite and these lot will likely get swept away

"What's going on in the Commons?" I absolutely do not hear you ask pic.twitter.com/PBqO5R0Btp

— Esther Webber (@estwebber) December 4, 2017

Mike...thank you for your service. pic.twitter.com/8vobOdIMbk

— Reel Politik podcast (@reel_politcast) February 18, 2019

SV I think the milk speech was about NI vs Ireland, and the complexities a hard border would throw up etc? In context not such a crazy thing to be talking about.

its londondairy nest pas

May might actually want to sweep them away on the grounds that if they don't consolidate further they might represent enough of an threat in some parts of the country to deny the Tories an election.

I wonder if Labour backing a second referendum might relieve a lot of the pressure here but it would also look so much like capitulation that it's the one thing he's least likely to do under the circumstances.

I can’t believe joan ryan was on today saying - with a straight face - she won’t fight a by-election because she wrote a letter during the 2017 GE arguing corbyn bad and that’s the reason she increased her majority by 10,000

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dz1gxq2X4AEKAjR.jpg

say what you like about Joan Ryan, she isn't remotely racist, doesn't soft-soap crims and is exceedingly talk to-able on the doorsteps of her concerned constituents. Just a damn good all-rounder really, big loss.

I suppose the good bit about not being part of an officially-registered political party is that the Israeli embassy can deposit the money directly into your bank account without having to go round the houses.

Joan Ryan has resigned from the Labour Party. pic.twitter.com/f4G9uXDAb6

— Nadeem Ahmed (@Muqadaam) February 19, 2019

Meanwhile May's racking up the airmiles again. There really is nothing, nothing new in here is there?

I'm sorry I just can't picture Anna Soubry in the same party as Mike Gapes.

― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Nor can I but if (like Boles and Wollaston) you have re-selection proceedings initiated she might go before she is pushed, and I can well believe the local Tory Party would be crazy enough to do it even now IG has been established.

more defections at 11 am according to nick watt

Damn it! I came here to post that!

Michael Gove sais yesterday that the government will impose tariffs on food imports to protect domestic farmers, which is effectively admitting what we will know - that the talk of the border being optional is and always has been a fantasy.

giddy up

Timing is nice for rebels though, puts May off her stride for pmqs.

Good day to bury bad news for Gove.

I'm guessing there are real trooper constituency MPs who could win a by-election an as independent but none of this lot strike me as being anywhere near that status. Chuka might be the closest but he's just as likely to split the vote and let the Tory candidate in.

People actually like Chuka Umunna?

The more defections there are the more refusing to stand down and fight by elections looks arrogant and undemocratic tbh. It's really going to boost their popularity with their constituents.

hard to see this as more than a long overdue blood-letting. be nice if the party could lock the door to these types ever coming back in.

Expel anyone publicly supporting them, imo.