Episode 61: Labour, immigration raids, and far-right riots

In this episode, we speak with Dan Sohege, director of the human rights advocacy organisation Stand For All.   We've a new government here in the UK. So I thought it'd be a good idea to ask Dan to give us his analysis of the Labour's plans for asylum seekers.   Dan tells us how Labour's plans to increase immigration raids will only make things worse for victims of trafficking.    We also discuss the recent far-right riots happening across Britain and Northern Ireland, and how our media and politicians bear much of the blame for the violence.   ---Get in touch---   Twitter: @FleetCivil   Mastodon: @[email protected]   Bluesky: @thecivilfleet.bsky.social   Instagram: thecivilfleet   [email protected]   civilfleet.com   Support:   ko-fi.com/civilfleet   ---Show Notes---   Follow Dan Sohege on Twitter: @stand_for_all   For more on Stand for All, visit: standforall.co.uk   Ben mentions a website where you can see a decade's worth of headlines on immigration. You can see that here: stuartleech.com/canto/dehumanising-headlines    Check out episode 44 of The Civil Fleet Podcast with Reclaim the Sea for more on the Bibby Stockholm   Ben mentions episode 49 with Paul O'Connor from the Public and Commerical Services (PCS) union in this episode. Check that out.   For more episodes focused on the UK, see episodes 57, 49, 44, 42, 40, 39, 38, 32, 25, 21, 17 and 11.   Check out this story on the UK Border Force carrying out push back training: https://thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/2022/01/14/uk-border-force-may-have-begun-attempts-to-push-refugees-back-across-the-channel-already-evidence-suggests/   Read more about UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer's comments on Bangladeshi asylum seekers here: middleeasteye.net/news/uk-labours-keir-starmer-caused-diplomatic-row-over-bangladesh-comments    Corporate Watch have a story here on the state of the hotels housing asylum seekers in the UK: https://corporatewatch.org/refugees-are-being-housed-in-an-infested-hotel-while-the-home-offices-slum-landlords-are-raking-it-in/   For more on the Southport murders and the far-right conspiracies that set off the riots in Britain, see here: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/31/how-false-online-claims-about-southport-knife-attack-spread-so-rapidly    Dan mentions a far right protest outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Knowsley last year. Read about that here: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/refugee-hate-and-rabble-rousing-who-are-patriotic-alternative