Starmer seems intent on pissing off every type of potential Labour voter in the vain attempt to appeal to potential Reform voters who will now vote Reform as their concerns have been legitimated. What a great way to move up the polls 🙄

In what way are the government different to the human traffickers? The government should let people work, then they wouldn’t need to take personal items to give profits to private companies exploiting refugees and asylum seekers

Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

Labour continues to target asylum seekers & refugees. None of this should come as a surprise. The last Labour govt created the narrative of bogus asylum seekers stealing our benefits & swamping our schools & it introduced vouchers & opened Yarls Wood.

The call is coming from inside the house

“Education lead at tech giant” 🙄 If only THE could speak to educators who actually educate students. Students frequently want answers so they pass, because that’s what the education system has taught them.

An absolute 🤯 at every level

Someone should ask Starmer and Mahmood whether they think the Kindertransport, for example, should have been a return ticket. Whether Alf Dubs, rather than becoming a Labour MP and now Lord, ought to have been sent back with his family to Czechoslovakia once it was liberated from German rule.

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The worst pick me girl

It’s actually mad that me and the far-right have exactly the same take. No notes.

Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”

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For Shabana Mahmood to attack some of the most cruelly treated people in the world as having won a "golden ticket" because they manage to get to and claim asylum in Britain is unforgiveable. A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.

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No, I'd say it's racists and those pandering to them.

This rancid trash understands the significance of Labour's anti-refugee policies.

I’m not saying that the Labour government is enacting far-right policies, the far-right are

Absolutely. An iron law of whether a statement about immigrants is true is that it should also apply if you just use the word “people”. (A test that many claims on the liberal side also fail!)

“on article 8 of the ECHR in particular the right to family life ..we want to constrain in legislation the way that that is applied in immigration cases” Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood tells Sky’s Trevor Philips Who would have imagined we would ever hear this from a Labour government

Those seeking asylum are usually unaware of the welfare available to them in the UK. There is no evidence this is a ‘pull’ factor so Labour keeping using this far right narrative is morally repugnant

Behind the weasel words and prevaricating euphemisms, Britain's politics of immigration are rooted in an antipathy to the presence of negatively racialised people in this country *on any terms*. If we'd confronted that reality decades ago, and faced it down, we wouldn't be where we are now.

the video goes on and on about illegal immigration and yet the new proposal will target legal migration by confirmed refugees

It will also mean people's refugee status will be reviewed every 2 and half years. If this policy was in place now, that would mean the Home Office having at least another 67k decisions to process over the next year (the number of initial decision grants made between April 2023 and March 2024)

Pretty sure it’s racism which is tearing Britain apart

Using Golden Ticket to describe people who have fled war and destitution to legally seek asylum. An internationally recognized legal right that the UK is treaty bound to recognize is pure cruelty and evil. It is the language of Nazis, of deportations, of camps and life unworthy of life. Evil.

‘Government sources said rules that mean most asylum seekers are not allowed to have jobs will not change.’ It’s absurd that the govt chooses to continue with a rule that puts asylum seekers in a situation of dependency, then attacks then for needing ‘handouts’ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Still a long way to go in the game if incidents like this are happening. This certainly won’t help the recruitment and retention of women officials. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Appealing to Reform voters whilst also invoking people’s “openness, tolerance and generosity” seems to involve a degree of mixed messaging

To reiterate, this is about making life immeasurably more miserable and stressful for some of the most vulnerable people, in the almost certainly vain hope of winning over the votes of racists. Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.

These people don’t integrate despite us hating them, giving them a pittance, stopping them from working and then claiming this is a golden ticket and they should wait twenty years to get permanent residency

The normalisation, nay, emboldenment of the far right by the Labour government continues at pace

If you want people to believe a different story, you have to tell a different story. And more than tell it. People learn by example. They must be shown the truth that, for example, immigrants are awesome, respecting other races is rewarding, working people generate our wealth, and so on.

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath 50 reasons to want more walkable cities.

“If we wait to cross tipping points before we act, it will be too late. The only credible risk management strategy is to act in advance.” global-tipping-points.org/the-dartingt...

Why are young people interested in the Greens when they are losing jobs, high rents, & there’s little hope for the future; but sure, the political commentators will still say the young people are wrong🙄

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It's never illegal to claim asylum.

How long before Labour blame the refugees for ‘not integrating’?

Why! Sorry, but why? Labour's anti-asylum, anti-immigration, policies are the antithesis of anything anyone who genuinely supports human rights should be defending. They're absolutely inhumane and condemnable. Anyone supporting them can't claim to be "progressive" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975 “It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975

Farage stood on a cliff and pointed at some boats, Tories sloganised ‘stop the boats’, Labour want to make it harder for asylum seekers to seek asylum. Who is making policy?

Labour government will propose changes to the asylum system, on grounds it is 'excessively generous'. This government needs to get control in the Channel, clear hotels + secure public confidence. V little chance that these changes will deliver control or confidence news.sky.com/story/home-s...

Somehow UK governments seem to have decided that political leadership is best demonstrated by a series of leaks to newspapers which are then denied, and daily ministerial media rounds of denial in support of grid announcements nobody notices.

The Times Higher Education giving a platform to reactionary voices to complain about there being too much "terminology relating to EDI" or "progressive discourse" in research projects at a time when fascism is at the door... What is there left to say? www.timeshighereducation.com/news/rise-ed...

Not even Labour members know who he is, but Hannan’s got his finger on the pulse again. Must be those ancestral voices

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Even limiting global warming to between 1.6 - 1.8C would require far stronger policies to reduce fossil fuel emissions than those currently adopted by governments - which would allow the world to heat by at least 2.7°C, says PIK Director Johan Rockström at #COP30. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The fact that this person remains Health Secretary is objectively one of the most significant British political scandals of the post-Covid era. But because he's doing something the media barons like, everyone has decided it's fine.