From Alistair Carmichael’s speech to Conference:
“The United Kingdom has a long and proud history of helping people fleeing for their lives and they are on the wrong side of it.
They refuse to provide safe and legal routes for refugees to come here while introducing a Nationality and Borders Bill that denies asylum to those who do not come here legally.
Orwell himself could not improve on that.
Stopping those dangerous Channel crossings requires practical alternatives. Resettlement programmes, family reunion routes and a new idea whose time has surely come: Humanitarian Visas that people can apply for abroad before coming to the UK safely to apply for refugee status.
Instead, Priti Patel presides over a Home Office that brainstorms ideas about fantasy islands to process the claims of refugees and asylum seekers, building floating walls in the sea or giant wave machines to blow refugees away from our coast.”
Read more here about Humanitarian Visas, a policy proposed by LD4SOS and adopted by the Party.