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elia ayoub

@ayoub.bsky.social

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.

It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

The Legislation
Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will:
1) Leave the ECHR
2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights.
3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill:
This Bill will:
Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary
The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act."
The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years:
Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT)
Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order.
These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR.
Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints
This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds.
If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story
All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight.
Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence
Re-entry after deportation will be…

The Operational Plan
We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion
A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property.
Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000
Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes.
This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month.
Initial Voluntary Return Window
A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this.
The Deportation Flights
The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…

January 26, 2026 at 1:22 PM

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Arieh Kovler

@ariehkovler.com

So, the Homan faction previously lost control to the Noem/Bovino faction, and is now being re-empowered after two killings. But it means nothing to normal people. It's Kremlinology

Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 1d

Tacit acknowledgement they've lost control of the narrative plus saving face via lawfare

January 26, 2026 at 2:03 PM

Fly_Fifer

@flyfifer.bsky.social

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Read here: archive.today/2Bo07

Conservatives who once railed against federal agents now applaud them

Since Ruby Ridge and Waco, some right-wing populists had excoriated federal law enforcement. Now those agents are being deployed by their allies.

www.washingtonpost.com

January 26, 2026 at 1:58 PM

Fly_Fifer

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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#Minneapolis #Minnesota #Ice

We ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is exactly how they start | Claire Finkelstein

Developments in Minnesota closely mirror a scenario explored in a 2024 exercise conducted at the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, which I direct

www.theguardian.com

January 26, 2026 at 1:39 AM

Fly_Fifer

@flyfifer.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/m...

Read here: archive.today/lGSKL

#Minneapolis #Minnesota #Ice

Watching America Unravel in Minneapolis

www.nytimes.com

January 25, 2026 at 8:13 PM

Fly_Fifer

@flyfifer.bsky.social

www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

#minneapolis #minnesota #ice

Videos Contradict U.S. Account of Minneapolis Shooting by Federal Agents

See how immigration officers escalated a fatal confrontation on Saturday.

www.wsj.com

January 25, 2026 at 6:32 PM

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Carl Quintanilla

@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

CARNEY: “Canadians have made a choice — to focus on what we can control.” 🇨🇦

January 24, 2026 at 7:29 PM

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Jacqueline Sweet

@jsweetli.bsky.social

Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin.

Here is a photo he used for several accounts.

January 24, 2026 at 7:07 PM

Fly_Fifer

@flyfifer.bsky.social

#Minnesota #Minneapolis #ice

Pink Lady Video from the execution - via dropsite

January 24, 2026 at 7:00 PM

Fly_Fifer

@flyfifer.bsky.social

www.startribune.com/editorial-mi...

Editorial | Minnesota is under siege. This cannot stand.

"What we are witnessing is the storming of the state by the federal government," the Editorial Board writes.

www.startribune.com

January 16, 2026 at 12:23 AM

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No Dem Left Behind

@nodemleftbehind.bsky.social

Meet @katmabu.bsky.social, running for Congress in IL-09. She’s part of the next generation of leaders, ready to take on a political system that’s failed working people for far too long.

Support the Next-Gen: secure.actblue.com/donate/katvi...

January 14, 2026 at 8:10 PM

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Kat Abughazaleh

@katmabu.bsky.social

I’m a fuck no on this vote.

War funding, UN cuts, IRS gutting, and censorship dressed up as policy.

@danielbiss.bsky.social @laurafine4congress.bsky.social
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