The government using the Skripal attack to justify not letting refugees in is one of the lowest and most disgusting things I’ve ever heard in the commons.
Quite apart from the fact that we haven’t blocked any Russians from entering the country and they could literally just fly in and do it again, it’s such a transparent and base attempt to whip up fear of immigrants as terrorists as was their MO with anyone fleeing from an Arabic country.
No surprise Priti Patel was not there to front up to her blatant lies in the house yesterday, her boy got absolutely eviscerated by Yvette Cooper - who is hardly a political heavyweight - and resorted to more lies he no doubt won’t have to face up to tomorrow.
Labour need to be more aggressive and break commons traditions when calling out these lies. Johnson’s government has made lying in the commons their go to tactic to dodge responsibility, knowing that calling them out is taboo - fuck tradition, call a lie a lie and stop letting them get off the hook by rotating ministers.