The question is not so much "How do we significantly reduce immigration?" but rather "What happens if we significantly reduce immigration?" @iandunt.bsky.social lays out the answer clearly.

A welcome - and long overdue - step. But while it’s necessary, it’s deeply insufficient - and must be accompanied by urgent action to help bring an end to the genocide in Gaza, including boycotts, sanctions and an end to all arms sales to Israel.

The UK has just formally announced recognition of the State of Palestine, shortly after Canada and Australia also have recognised Palestine as a sovereign state.

Can we also stop supplying weapon parts to Israel, suspend trade and impose a sports and cultural boycott to try and ensure there's a Palestine left to recognise?

This report is a disgrace & Reeta Chakrabarti should be ashamed to have her byline attached to it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore. So I wrote a blog about ten things you can do *right now* to help defeat Farage, Musk, and rightwing populism. From scrutinising Reform councillors to demanding the UK Govt leave X - get involved: guyshrubsole.substack.com/p/ten-things...

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE: He cannot designate an idea as a terrorist group. There is no org called ANTIFA. There is no leadership or funding path or no membership. Also there is no terrorism law in America. Ask Luigi. He wants to call anyone a terrorist. That’s Fascism. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

Anyone one else think this makes Reform's task a lot easier if they get elected.

Welcome to the UK, Donald...

By the time these devices are built, tested and operational, one of 2 things will have happened: either there will have been a nuclear accident (because the Yanks will insist on cutting regulations to the bone), or the planet will have heated to the point of no return. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Morally fucked up Britain 2025 in 2 images from this weekend: Statue in #Lincolnshire to mark Bomber Command's role in defeating Nazi #fascism against Jews. @metpoliceuk arresting 80 year old woman protesting against fascism by Jews.

Campaigning in Belper, Derbyshire today for the National Rejoin March - lots of people arguing that Farage Broke it, He Can't Fix it. Very few pro-Brexit people. Labour need to start going after Farage and to make him and the Tories OWN Brexit #RejoinEU

This is a huge story. Don't let him get away with it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

So what precisely do the right want to do about the white working classes? Certainly not go to university, as they want numbers down. Nor to have a unionised manufacturing job, as they don't want unions. No, they just want pawns as part of their culture wars. They don't give a toss.

Yet again @BBCNews & @BBCPolitics manage to report a story with major implications for our existence, never mind the #environment, without any reference to or comment from either @LibDems or @TheGreenParty. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Picture yourself in a boat on the Channel, With freezing cold water and gunmetal skies. Arriving in England, you're welcomed with venom By people with hate in their eyes...

Imagine, after the Dunkirk evacuation the government turned around and said "right, we're going to deport ALL refugees from occupied Europe AND WE'RE GOING TO PAY THE NAZIS TO TAKE THEM BACK"

Once hundreds of schools start closing across the country and the retirement age rises to 75, the current period of moral panic over immigration is going to look utterly ridiculous

It's a lovely sunny day in #Lincolnshire & our panels are going at it hard! Battery fully charged since 9am, house running on free energy & 11.3kwH exported already. To hell with Farage, #ReformUK & their luddism.

If you don't love Nigel Farage give this a Like. If you hate him, give it a RT.

I don’t want to be too shrill about this but I think the BBC, ITV and Sky have disgraced themselves in their coverage of the anti-refugee protests. A massive failure of judgement. But now we know the next time a progressive protest “isn’t news” that it’s nothing to do with numbers

Meanwhile as their media mates swarm around us and their police publicly open a meaningless investigation after Glastonbury on us (only to drop it silently)... They are complicit in war crimes.

The ace @zoejardiniere.bsky.social is doing gods' work on migration issues. Follow and support her if you can.

"Have we reached the stage in the immigration story where the behaviour of the press leads to societal breakdown?" "Up to a point, Lord Copper."

Now that the High Court has intervened in the #eppinghotel case, I'm wondering whether @RobertJenrick still thinks activist judges ought to be removed. #eppingforest

This is brutal. As are the replies.

that summit could've been an email

So nothing happened except #Putin got all the photos ops he wanted, #Ukraine suffers more casualties & damage & #Trump & the #bbcnews got played. And Trump is still in the #EpsteinFiles #TrumpPutinSummit

In the run-up to the election, Trump said... and he said it 53 times... that he’d end the Ukraine war within 24 hours. He's currently been in office for 4992 hours. No sign of peace yet. www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/p...

I think the lettuce thing broke Liz Truss's brain.

How BBC presents the anti-migrant hotel protests vs how we do at @bylinesnetwork.co.uk BBC lead with a Reform UK voter saying "We are not happy with these men in this hotel because we fear for our children” We tell of the refugee children inside the hotel terrified by chants of “send them out!”

How times change. In 1867, Russia sold Alaska to the United States for $7.2 million. 157 years later, Russia owns the White House, and they didn't fork out a single dime.

I regret to inform you that Starmer’s been tweeting dehumanising videos of migrants again. These videos have been shown to increase support for Reform, by increasing salience of migration. He has to go.

After announcing plans this week for an exhibition to promote the county of Lincolnshire, Mayor Andrea Jenkyns sees reactions to the idea from the people of Yorkshire...

It's only right & proper to make sure National Brotherhood Week is the Song of the Day. "Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics, And the Catholics hate the Protestants, And the Hindus hate the Moslems, And everybody hates the Jews." Chapeau for the last line.. #TomLehrer youtu.be/aIlJ8ZCs4jY?...

What are the chances the orange one will suggest annexing Scotland?

God, I’m so sorry Ireland, first the potato famine and now this. 😬

What’s next fgs?? Majorie Taylor Green climbing Mt Snowdon?!

Flags at the proms - because you know you want to #RejoinEU www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/euflags

Sitting in my garden in the city centre, eating avocado, sweet potato, sweetcorn, peppers, all the colours of the rainbows & listening to a Mozart opera someone's got playing on their radio. Bits of birdsong in the background & if it weren't for some traffic noise, I could be at Glyndebourne.

Doesn’t it prove exactly the opposite? That you’re better off and safer staying in the EU SM and CU, not torching your economy and isolating yourself, making you vulnerable to the mad whims of powerful nations happy to screw you over because you can’t stand up for yourself or retaliate. Thought so.

Good morning to headline writers everywhere *except BBC London

Happening right now, outside Lincoln Cathedral-the Heavy Beat Brass Band rocking Lincoln Jazz Festival

I watched Flow on MUBI last night. Absolutely beautiful. If you haven't seen it, it's to be recommended.

I just voted against proscribing Palestine Action, a civil disobedience group, as a terrorist organisation. But I'm furious that in doing so, the government forced me and others to vote against proscribing two other clearly terrorist groups. Cynical and dangerous from govt.

We've concluded negotiations on a long-term, predictable, and reciprocal trade relationship with Ukraine. Amid Russia's war of aggression, we're establishing a long-term framework with a view to 🇺🇦 accession process, while also safeguarding 🇪🇺 interests. More ↓ europa.eu/!7QkgJv #StandWithUkraine

My younger daughter & her boyfriend are off to Turkey on holiday tomorrow. Last time they were there, there was an attempted coup. Just saying...

Well done to Channel 4 for doing what the BBC should have done themselves www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

Lincolnshire voters kicked out the Tories, who had run the county for 20 years, because they were fed up with the decline of the county on their watch, & elected Reform to make a difference.