Twitter was David’s public platform and tools for practicing a new language – clear and understandable for everyone, it was a space where he made friends and enemies.

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Tue 14 Jul 2020 12:50

RT @joncstone: John Hutton – As welfare secretary introduced further cuts to benefits for single parents to encourage them back to work htt…

Tue 14 Jul 2020 12:50

RT @joncstone: Liam Byrne – Retrospectively changed immigration rules to deport skilled migrants who did not meet new conditions that didn’…

Tue 14 Jul 2020 12:50

RT @joncstone: James Purnell – While welfare secretary forced single mothers of children as young as one year and people registered unfit f…

Tue 14 Jul 2020 12:50

RT @joncstone: Tony Blair – Introduced powers for indiscriminate 9pm curfews on under-16s, as part of wider campaign against young people.…

Tue 14 Jul 2020 12:49

RT @joncstone: David Blunkett – As Home Secretary wanted to send all asylum seekers to offshore processing centres outside Europe https://…

Tue 14 Jul 2020 12:49

RT @joncstone: David Blunkett – As Home Secretary unveiled plans to force failed asylum to do unwaged work in exchange for “basic subsisten…

Tue 14 Jul 2020 12:49

RT @joncstone: David Blunkett – As Home Secretary banned asylum seekers from working while their claims were being assessed https://t.co/Ff…

Tue 14 Jul 2020 12:49

RT @joncstone: Introduced new police powers to stop and search people without suspicion, which were used on a vast scale against innocent M…

Tue 14 Jul 2020 12:49

RT @joncstone: David Blunkett – as Home Secretary told British Asians they should speak English in their own homes https://t.co/aKoWBlliQg

Tue 14 Jul 2020 12:49

RT @joncstone: Tony Blair – Set a target to cut the number of people applying for refugee status in Britain by 50% https://t.co/WuSXEN10B4

Tue 14 Jul 2020 12:49

RT @joncstone: Ruth Kelly – As Home Secretary told councils to stop translating things into other languages to make life more difficult for…

Tue 14 Jul 2020 12:48

RT @joncstone: Tony Blair – Backed a ban on hooded sweatshirts and baseball caps in shopping centres as part of a wider moral panic about y…

Tue 14 Jul 2020 12:48

RT @joncstone: Tony Blair – Blamed a spate of murders on ‘black’ culture that lacked ‘discipline’ and said people blaming poverty were bein…

Tue 14 Jul 2020 12:48

RT @joncstone: David Blunkett – Brought in bill to cut benefits for asylum seekers and then take their children away into care once they be…

Tue 14 Jul 2020 12:48

RT @joncstone: Tony Blair – Welcomed 11 private healthcare firms into the ‘NHS family’ and promised them a stronger foothold in the health…

Tue 14 Jul 2020 12:48

RT @joncstone: Tony Blair – Sacked Jack Straw as foreign secretary for saying he wouldn’t nuke Iran, after George Bush complained https://t…

Tue 14 Jul 2020 12:48

RT @joncstone: Jack Straw – As a member of the Cabinet told Muslim women to stop wearing veils https://t.co/CFIDeeFIV4

Tue 14 Jul 2020 12:48

RT @joncstone: Charles Clarke – As Education Secretary said the state should not fund subjects like history and that ‘universities exist to…

Tue 14 Jul 2020 12:47

RT @joncstone: Tony Blair – Wanted to sell off more social housing by extending Right To Buy to housing associations, with the explicit pol…

Tue 14 Jul 2020 12:47

RT @joncstone: Liam Byrne – As immigration minister made employers check job applicants’ passports to make it harder for undocumented migra…

Tue 14 Jul 2020 12:47

RT @joncstone: John Reid – As Home Secretary whipped up anger against ‘foreigners who come to this country illegitimately and steal our ben…

Tue 14 Jul 2020 12:47

RT @joncstone: Alan Milburn – as Health Secretary said the NHS should set up a for-profit ‘NHS Plus’ paid-for health insurance top-up syste…

Tue 14 Jul 2020 12:47

RT @joncstone: Hazel Blears – as Home Office minister said Muslims would have to accept the ‘reality’ that people ‘of Islamic appearance’ w…

Tue 14 Jul 2020 12:47

RT @joncstone: John Reid – As Health Secretary complained that there was a ‘culture of resistance’ in the NHS to privatising services after…

Tue 14 Jul 2020 12:47

RT @joncstone: Jacqui Smith – As Home Secretary banned unskilled immigrants from outside the EU, with a points-based Australian-style immig…

Tue 14 Jul 2020 12:46

RT @joncstone: Charles Clarke – As Home Secretary unveiled policy to ‘name and shame’ people given ASBOs, including children young as 10, t…

Tue 14 Jul 2020 12:46

RT @joncstone: David Blunkett – Introduced bill to ban asylum seekers’ children from attending state schools https://t.co/ltO8d1KjHO

Tue 14 Jul 2020 12:46

RT @joncstone: Tony Blair – Boasted that he would leave Britain with the most restrictive anti-trade union laws in the western world https:…

Tue 14 Jul 2020 12:46

RT @joncstone: Caroline Flint – While housing minister unveiled plan to strip unemployed council tenants of their homes https://t.co/XP46PR…

Tue 14 Jul 2020 12:46

RT @joncstone: Harriet Harman – Pushed through benefit cuts for single mothers in 1997 shortly after winning landslide, arguing they would…