Dear
John,
EU citizens will no longer be locked up for failing to produce the
right paperwork
After launching our
open letter to the Home Secretary last week, Best for Britain
welcomes the news that the Home Office would no longer be detaining
Europeans who did not have the correct paperwork for weeks in removal
centres.
This is good news, and we will continue to fight for full
transparency from the Home Office on this matter, and
compensation for those detained. But many refugees and
migrants still
face dangerous and inhumane conditions in UK detention
centres, and the Government continues to push through
draconian changes to the asylum seeking rules.
As always, it is the most vulnerable in our society who are
hit first and worst by government oppression.
However, we are all set be impacted by the
Government’s attack on our civil liberties – the
Policing Bill, voter ID, dismantling of checks and balances.
It’s an entire anti-democratic, anti-liberal agenda. And
it’s up to all of us to fight.
Send a message to your MP, and call for the protection of
the rights of all people on our shores. We must stand up for
each other, and most importantly, for our right to hold our leaders to
account. Send a message to your MP today.
Requiring voter ID is perhaps the most troubling of
the Government’s raft of anti-democratic measures announced
at last week’s Queen’s Speech.
The change in the law would affect all of the tens
of millions of registered voters in Great Britain, but might
only be effective in stopping a dozen complaints of
fraud.
ID isn’t free. So, this would effectively
act as a tax
on voting, and would disproportionately impact the less
affluent.
We need more proportional, fairer voting systems,
but the Government wants to reverse what little progress we’ve made in
mayoral elections. As Parliament reopens, we must stop the
Government rapidly passing legislation to make voting more
difficult and less equal. We must make as much noise as
possible.
High-profile Conservative figures like David
Davis and Ruth
Davidson have already harshly criticised the policy, so
we can dial up the pressure on the Government. Whether your MP is a
Conservative or in Opposition, let them know you won’t accept
limitations on your democratic freedoms.
The Government is systematically dismantling our hard-won
freedoms, attacking our right to vote, our right to
protest and our right to hold our leaders to
account.
Don’t let them get what they want: a scared,
inward-looking society, free of accountability and
scrutiny.
Best wishes,
Cary Mitchell,
Director of Operations, Best for
Britain
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