#toryinhumanity — Public Fediverse posts

‘The “#inhumane” treatment of #migrants rounded up in a “futile” operation for the now scrapped #Rwanda scheme, has been laid bare in testimonies from #HomeOffice staff that reveal force was used against distressed detainees.'

'Home Office accounts show the department paid out £56.8m in compensation for more than 2,700 wrongful detentions in the five years before the Rwanda raids.'
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/14/revealed-inhumane-treatment-of-migrants-uk-failed-rwanda-plan-laid-bare
#ToryInhumanity #ToryWaste #ToryLegacy

''Worrying deterioration in #safety’ at #UKImmigration removal centres, warns #ChiefInspectorOfPrisons [for #England & # Wales Prisons in #Scotland are devolved, but IRCs are not...]'
All eight main detention centres in the UK have been found to have the most serious categories of failings'

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/04/worrying-deterioration-in-safety-at-uk-immigration-removal-centres-warns-chief-inspector-of-prisons
#ToryLegacy #ToryInhumanity #Immigration

'#Children missing from #HomeOffice hotels likely to have been #trafficked, report finds

Exclusive: Study sparks new calls for #PublicInquiry into ‘scandal’ of missing #migrant children in #UK
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/jul/17/children-missing-from-home-office-hotels-likely-to-have-been-trafficked-report-finds
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryInhumanity #ToryLegacy

Patients left in pain and to die alone amid #NHSEngland #nurse #shortages, survey finds

Only a third of shifts have enough nurses on duty, the #RoyalCollegeOfNursing says its analysis shows
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/01/patients-left-in-pain-and-to-die-alone-amid-nhs-nurse-shortages-survey-finds
#ToryPoliciesInAction #BreakThenPrivatise #ToryInhumanity #IdeologyBeforePeoole #GE2024

Next #UK government faces #payouts to dozens of #RwandaFlightDetainees

Legal actions seek compensation for #AsylumSeekers locked up for weeks without immediate plan for #deportation
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jun/13/next-uk-government-payouts-asylum-seekers-detained-rwanda-deportation
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryInhumanity #ToryWaste #GE2024

Vulnerable #children with complex needs are being locked away in unregulated placements and are being “gravely damaged by the state” while their parents are driven to despair, according to #England’s former top family judge. #SirJamesMunby terms the lack of provision of safe and therapeutic homes “a shocking moral failure”. https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/09/locking-vulnerable-children-up-moral-failure-says-england-top-family-judge-james-munby
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryInhumanity #GE2024

#SuicideRiskChildren refused places on #NHSEngland waiting lists as services overwhelmed

Teachers warn families hitting ‘brick wall’ when trying to get help for children
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/08/suicide-risk-children-refused-places-on-nhs-england-waiting-lists-as-services-overwhelmed
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryInhumanity #GE2024

'#InfanMortality is rising and births are plummeting. This is the legacy of 14 years of #ToryCruelty

Grim figures show that #children in #poverty are dying needlessly. We desperately need a government that puts them first'

'#NuffieldFoundation reported in 2021 that #Britain’s rate of infant deaths was 30% above the median across #EU countries.'
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/07/infant-mortality-births-children-tory-government
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryInhumanity #GE2024

Rise in #hospital ‘#CorridorCare’ is #NationalEmergency, union warns

#RoyalCollegeOfNursing says overcrowding is forcing practice that puts #patients at serious risk
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/03/nhs-patients-treatment-hospital-corridors-royal-college-of-nursing
#ToryPoliciesInAction #BreakThenPrivatise #ToryInhumanity #ProfitBeforePeople #NHSEngland #GE2024

#RishiSunak’s #Rwanda admission sparks legal action from detained #AsylumSeekers

'...as recently as Tuesday, the #HomeOffice’s lawyers were fighting legal challenges from detained asylum seekers on the basis that flights to Rwanda were “imminent” and “progressing”, despite the government legal department telling the #HighCourt on the same day that there would be no flights before the election.'
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/01/rishi-sunaks-rwanda-admission-sparks-legal-action-from-detained-asylum-seekers
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryLies #ToryInhumanity #GE2024

#JamesCleverly[sic] suggests #AsylumSeekers are lying about being #suicidal

#HumanRights #charities condemn #HomeSecretary’s comments about #MDPWethersfield and say the site is ‘acutely harmful’
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jun/01/james-cleverly-suggests-asylum-seekers-are-lying-about-being-suicidal
#ToryPoluciesInAction #refugees #ToryInhumanity #GE2024

'Ministers are clawing back more than £250m from #UnpaidCarers over #BenefitInfringements that occurred largely as a result of #GovernmentFailures'

'...a successions of ministers have failed to fix the problem, leaving tens of thousands of unpaid carers – who save the UK £160bn a year and help prop up #NHS and #SocialCare services – in financial hardship while they repay the debt'
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/18/ministers-clawing-back-251m-carers-dwp-allowance-failures
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryFailure #ToryInhumanity #Carers

#HomeOffice faces legal challenge over risk of #LoneChildren being sent to #Rwanda

Charity says children could be #deported as adults before age can be formally determined
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/12/home-office-legal-challenge-lone-children-rwanda
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryInhumanity #TheCrueltyIsThePoint

'‘Alarming’ number of #LoneChildren held in #UK-run facilities in #France

Charities say #FoI disclosure that 369 such children were held over 21-month period is ‘hugely concerning’
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/05/alarming-number-of-lone-children-held-in-uk-run-facilities-in-france
#ToryPoliciesInAction #Immigration #Asylum #ToryInhumanity

'‘They hear a #BangAtTheDoor and it’s the #HomeOffice’: threat of being ‘#disappeared’ haunts #AsylumSeekers amid #Rwanda crackdown

The Home Office last week launched a nationwide operation to round up asylum seekers, leaving many fearful and confused

#Immigration #asylum https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/04/lots-of-fear-how-the-rwanda-deportation-crackdown-led-to-panic-and-protests

#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryInhumanity

''Cuts will result in #PatientDeaths’: #hospitals shed medical staff after being told to balance the books

As more #NHS trusts in #England report budget deficits health leaders warn that #WaitingLists will rise
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/05/cuts-will-result-in-patient-deaths-hospitals-shed-medical-staff-after-being-told-to-balance-the-books
#ToryPoliciesInAction #NHSEngland #BreakThenPrivatise #ToryInhumanity #ProfitBeforePeople

Poorer people dying increasingly younger than richer people as 'dismal' #LifeExpectancy gap grows, report finds

"#Britain is a #poor, #sick country, getting sicker, with a few rich and healthy people," says a professor - as a study revealed that #inequality in life expectancy is growing across #England
https://news.sky.com/story/poorer-people-dying-increasingly-younger-than-richer-people-as-dismal-life-expectancy-gap-grows-report-finds-13126243
#ToryPoliciesInAction #PublicHealth #Austerity #ToryInhumanity

#VulnerableTeenagers ‘dumped and abandoned’ in hotels by #councils in #England

Campaigners say cash-strapped #LocalAuthorities are placing young people in budget accommodation, making them targets for #grooming by criminal gangs
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/28/vulnerable-teenagers-dumped-and-abandoned-in-hotels-by-councils-in-england
#ToryPoliciesInAction #UnderfundingPublicServices #UnderfundingLocalCouncils #ToryInhumanity

‘I would not be alive’: anger at #Sunak plan to strip #GPs of #sicknote powers

#Doctors’ ability to sign people off work is crucial, say readers, especially for those with #MentalHealth problems
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/26/anger-rishi-sunak-plan-strip-gp-doctors-sicknote-powers
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryInhumanity

Rude, patronising and out of his depth, Minister Mikey ticks all the boxes

#Michae Tomlinson’s efforts to defend #RwandaBill show how well suited he is to be part of the new #moronocracy
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/23/rude-patronising-and-out-of-his-depth-minister-michael-tomlinson-ticks-all-the-boxes
#ToryPoliciesInAction #Refugees #Asylum #ToryInhumanity

Stumbling blocks that could still impede #RwandaDeportations

Legal and logistic battles await the UK government’s untested #asylum plan now that is has reached the parliamentary finishing line
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/23/stumbling-blocks-that-could-still-impede-rwanda-deportations
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryInhumanity

#HumanitarianGroups demand #SafeRoutes to #UK after five deaths in #Channel

#UN and #CouncilForEurope add voices to outcry as more people drown within hours of ‘#cruel’ #RwandaBill being passed
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/23/humanitarian-groups-demand-safe-routes-to-uk-after-deaths-in-channel
#ToryPoliciesInAction #Refugees #Asylum #ToryInhumanity #TheCrueltyIsThePoint

#CouncilOfEurope #HumanRights watchdog condemns #UK’s #RwandaBill

Commissioner expresses grave concern after #RishiSunak’s #asylum policy passes parliamentary stages
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/23/council-of-europe-human-rights-watchdog-condemns-uk-rwanda-scheme
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryInhumanity

'#Afghanistan interpreter told his #BritishCitizenship bars family from #UK visa
Muhammad* cannot afford legal action or £20,000 fees, with #Rwanda deportation a threat if his wife and children join him'

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/21/afghanistan-interpreter-told-his-british-citizenship-bars-family-from-uk-visa
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryInhumanity
#TheCrueltyIsThePoint

Help for #disabled people in #England and #Wales to get jobs is axed amid #benefits crackdown

Closure of #WorkAndHealthProgramme comes hard on heels of #RishiSunak’s bid to end the UK’s supposed ‘#sicknote’ culture
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/21/help-disabled-people-england-wales-jobs-axed-benefits-crackdown
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryInhumanity

#UK #SmallBoats policymakers referred to ‘bloody #migrants’, says civil servant

Exclusive: Former head of policy at illegal #migration taskforce details ‘#InhumaneConversations’
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/20/uk-small-boats-policymakers-civil-servant-inhumane-conversations
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryInhumanity #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #GTTO
#Immigration #Asylum

Delays by #HomeOffice risk return of vulnerable #Afghan families to #Taliban

Families of those who helped #British forces could be deported from #Pakistan despite promise to #resettle them in #UK
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/14/home-office-delays-risk-return-of-vulnerable-afghan-families-to-taliban
#ToryPoliciesInAction #Asylum #Refugees #ToryInhumanity

#HomeOffice refusal of #Gaza #FamilyReunion requests ‘irrational’, judge rules

Families succeed in legal challenges after Home Office refused to decide on reunion applications without #BiometricData
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/08/home-office-refusal-of-gaza-family-reunion-requests-irrational-judge-rules
#ToryPoliciesInAction #Refugees #Asylum #ToryInhumanity #IsraelHamasWar #Palestine

#Sunak criticised for saying #BorderSecurity more important than staying in #EuropeanCourtOfHumanRights – #UKpolitics live
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/apr/04/sunak-border-security-echr-tories-rwanda-uk-politics-latest
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryInhumanity #RuleOfLaw

Former #RAF base to house #AsylumSeekers is #contaminated, government letters say

#RAFScampton in #Lincolnshire is one of #HomeOffice’s three main accommodation sites, with first arrivals due within weeks

UK military base due to accommodate up to 2,000 asylum seekers under controversial plans has been found to be contaminated with ground gases and unexploded ordnance, according to government documents.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/01/former-raf-base-to-house-asylum-seekers-is-contaminated-government-letters-say-scampton-lincolnshire
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryInhumanity

#Homelessness

Planned #cuts to #shelters in #England will cost #lives, say #HomelessPeople

#CouncilFundingCrisis threatens #hostels and support workers from next month
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/24/planned-cuts-to-shelters-in-england-will-cost-lives-say-homeless-people
#ToryPoliciesInAction #UnderfundingLocalCouncils #ToryInhumanity

#RNLI-#BorderForce row reveals ‘chaos’ in #MaritimeRescue before #Channel tragedy

Questions about #UKCoastguard’s reliance on charity after #lifeboat volunteers asked to cover for Border Force to aid stricken vessel
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/03/rnli-lifeboats-coastguard-border-force-channel-tragedy-migrants
#ToryPoliciesInAction #UnderfundingPublicServices
#HMCoastguard #ToryInhumanity

‘I wish I had never come to the #UK’: #Palestinian academic despairs of getting #visas for family stuck in #Gaza

A lecturer doing his PhD on a #BritishCouncil scholarship in #York is frightened for his wife and two small children who are under #Israeli bombardment
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/02/i-wish-i-had-never-come-to-the-uk-palestinian-academic-despairs-of-getting-visas-for-family-stuck-in-gaza
#IsraelHamasWar Palestine #Israel #ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryInhumanity #TheCrueltyIsThePoint

#Immigration and a#asylum

#Sunak’s #AsylumLaws trapping 55,000 people in ‘perma-backlog’, says #UK thinktank

#IPPR report says #IllegalMigrationAct risks #IndefiniteDetention at #TaxpayerExpense of people who cannot have their claims processed
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/28/sunaks-asylum-laws-trapping-55000-people-in-perma-backlog-says-uk-thinktank
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryIneptitude #ToryInhumanity #TheCrueltyIsThePoint

#Immigration and a#asylum

#Sunak’s #AsylumLaws trapping 55,000 people in ‘perma-backlog’, says #UK thinktank

#IPPR report says #IllegalMigrationAct risks #IndefiniteDetention at #TaxpayerExpense of people who cannot have their claims processed
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/28/sunaks-asylum-laws-trapping-55000-people-in-perma-backlog-says-uk-thinktank
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryIneptitude #ToryInhumanity #TheCrueltyIsThePoint

#HomeOffice warned of #violence and #arson risks at #Essex airbase holding #AsylumSeekers

Exclusive: #ImmigrationWatchdog says ‘#hopelessness caused by boredom’ at #Wethersfield site will inevitably lead to #harm
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/16/ministers-warned-over-risk-of-violence-and-arson-at-essex-wethersfield-airbase-holding-asylum-seekers
#ToryPoliciesInAction #Immigration #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #ToryInhumanity

#MartinRowson on what’s powering #RishiSunak – cartoon - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/jan/23/martin-rowson-rishi-sunak-understanding-power-cartoon
#ToryInhumanity

Exiled #Rwandan who survived murder attempt condemns #UK #deportation plan

Opposition politician #FrankNtwali says country is unsafe and #Sunak’s pursuance of policy ‘quite bizarre’
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/21/exiled-rwandan-survived-condemns-uk-deportation-plan-frank-ntwali
#ToryPoliciesInAction #Immigration #ToryInhumanity

#BorderForce #MentalHealth absences rose 45% as #ChannelDeaths increased

Exclusive: #FoI request reveals #HomeOffice paid £133,000 to charity for support for frontline staff amid surge in agency’s absences
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/19/border-force-staff-given-mental-health-support-as-channel-deaths-rose-home-office
#ToryPoliciesInAction #Immigration #ToryInhumanity #TheCrueltyIsThePoint

Settle #NHSEngland dispute or thousands with #cancer could die early, say health chiefs

Exclusive: Cancer leaders and #oncologists increasingly alarmed at impact of strikes on treatment
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/jan/06/settle-nhs-dispute-or-thousands-with-cancer-could-die-early-say-health-chiefs
#ToryPoliciesInAction #NHS #Health #BreakThenPrivatise #ToryInhumanity

#Patel and #Braverman accused of secret policy to deny #TraffickingVictims #LeaveToRemain

#HomeOffice unlawfully failed to issue permission to stay, court told, despite ruling that 1,600 were entitled to it
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/01/patel-and-braverman-accused-of-denying-trafficking-victims-leave-to-remain-in-uk
#ToryPoliciesInAction #HumanTrafficking #Unlawful #ToryInhumanity

#PatrickVallance contradicts #RishiSunak’s evidence to #CovidInquiry

PM would almost certainly have known concerns over ‘#EatOutToHelpOut’ scheme, says former chief scientific adviser

How Vallance’s diaries exposed chaos inside No 10
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/20/patrick-vallance-contradicts-rishi-sunak-evidence-to-covid-enquiry

#ToryPoliciesInAction #Covid19 #ToryInhumanity

And... "Pete Weatherby KC, counsel for #CovidBereavedFamiliesForJustice, is asking questions now.

He starts by asking Sir #PatrickVallance to confirm that the #EatOutToHelpOut scheme would have increased the number of #CovidDeaths

Vallance accepts that.

#ToryPoliciesInAction #Covid19 #CovidInquiry #LetTheBodiesPileHigh #MoneyBeforePeople #ToryInhumanity

'In remembrance of our #FallenHeroes, brave #SuellaBraverman goes over the top

As the #HomeSecretary lobs verbal grenades at #refugees, #homeless people and now #protesters, #Britain is left wondering why it’s still #LedByDonkeys'
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/10/remembrance-suella-braverman-home-secretary
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryInhumanity #Rememberence #ArmisticeDay

Revealed: #UK #coastguard downgraded #999calls from #refugees in days before mass drowning

Investigation finds evidence that many calls received prior to 2021 #Channel disaster were treated as less urgent
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/04/revealed-uk-coastguard-downgraded-999-calls-from-refugees-in-days-before-mass-drowning
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryInhumanity #TheCrueltyIsThePoint

"I warned ministers about our disgraceful #UK #DetentionCentres. Their solution? Stop the inspections

The report on #BrookHouse mirrors concerns I raised as chief inspector, but #SuellaBraverman’s #HomeOffice lacks the will to address them"

#DavidNeal is the independent chief inspector of #borders and #immigration
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/19/ministers-detention-centres-inspections-brook-house-suella-braverman-home-office
#ToryInhumanity

Physical and verbal #abuse found in #BrookHouse #immigration removal centre inquiry

Report identifies ‘toxic culture’ and breaches of #HumanRights laws relating to #torture and #inhuman treatment
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/19/toxic-culture-brook-house-immigration-removal-centre-inquiry
#ToryPoliciesInAction #Asylum #Refugees #ToryInhumanity #TheCrueltyIsThePoint

#Braverman’s plan to house #UK #AdylumSeekers on ‘#deathtrap’ barge faces legal hurdle

#FireBrigadesUnion outlines ‘serious fire and safety concerns’ over #BibbyStockholm
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/27/braverman-plan-to-house-uk-asylum-seekers-on-bibby-stockholm-barge-faces-legal-hurdle #FBU #ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryInhumanity #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #NastyParty

#UKaid budget cuts are ‘death sentence’ for world’s most vulnerable children

#SaveTheChildren and #Oxfam urge government to restore #AidBudget back to 0.7% of national income
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/02/uk-aid-budget-cuts-are-death-sentence-for-worlds-most-vulnerable-children #ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryInhumanity

Crisis in #NHSEngland #maternity units revealed as 21 rated ‘substandard’

#CareQualityCommission finds many services inadequate, needing improvement or shut over #safety concerns
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/09/nhs-maternity-units-crisis-care-quality-commission-substandard #ToryPoliciesInAction #BreakThenPrivatise #ToryInhumanity #NHS #Health #GTTO #LivesAtRisk