Indicative of how unstable and messy UK politics is right now. Unknown whether Labour or Reform would win the Mayoralty or the by-election. Internal Labour in full conflict. No clear idea how independents will impact. Polanski unacknowledged in the background. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The first people have been moved into Crowborough training camp today. Around 500 people could be accommodated there - less than 2% of the number in hotels (while being about as expensive and harmful). It's not an effective or efficient way to end the use of hotels. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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It's hard to see how the Government expects to attract highly skilled workers while rewriting the rules to push out doctors, care workers, engineers - workers from ANY industry - already building lives here. If promises don’t hold, why would anyone trust them? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

In the Olden Ancient Times of maximum 10 years ago this might have resulted in an MP resigning. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Ministers and PM are choosing to lie about this and adopting the conspiracy based language of far right and openly nazi web forums in doing so. They're not just paving the way for a Reform win, they are rolling the pitch for mass deportations of ethnic minorities.

Keir Starmer could not be more detached from reality referring to the period when the Tories left the EU as an "open borders experiment." People have always come to the UK to work, study, and be with family. They pay taxes, exorbitant visa fees, tuition costs, and the NHS surcharge. (1/2)

The PM refers to an experiment in "open borders" by a Govt. that LEFT THE EU. It can only mean "there are still too many black and brown people in this country, we need to get rid of them". And the best person to do that is Nigel Farage. PM might as well run a "don't vote me" campaign.

This "open borders" line is *infuriating* - these people came here to study or work, because they had a uni place or a job to come to. They paid visa fees, student fees, NHS surcharge - and many of them are doing challenging and important work - staffing our care homes, for example, including Mum's.

Only seen the quote in the Guardian on the Labour-Reform defection from Farage- but the phrasing doesn't seem definite to me? Need to watch the clip to hear his tone but one of those things where I wouldn't read it as gospel. But also not unlikely.

Badenoch has played a blinder here. Her message on public feeling is correct but providing the drama for politicos. Farage is unflappable but association with Jenrick increasingly politically embarrassing. Shame the public will only engage with the outcome - another defection to Reform.

So the best way to make the British public feel the asylum system is under control is to overnight create a visible increase in homeless/rough sleeping asylum seekers. That will work really well politically I'm sure. And not dangerous given the rise in violent fascism. news.sky.com/story/asylum...

The Justice Select Committee has received a response to their letter on the reforms to the asylum appeals process (h/t @sonial77.bsky.social). No recognition that the Home Office is responsible for a lot of the pressure on the current system committees.parliament.uk/publications...

The u-turn on mandatory digital ID was incredibly predictable. I v much doubt scrapping jury trials will survive either. Less positively prob not votes at 16 either. If the far right oppose something, Starmer wont do it. Farage is already the Prime Minister rly #r4today

These raids only work to make black, brown, and people from migrant backgrounds feel unsafe at home and at work. They’re nowhere near worth it. Rogue employers need crackdowns not the people being exploited. news.sky.com/story/illega...

We've just shared a powerful new story on our website about the transformative impact of Community Sponsorship—both for the families being welcomed and the communities opening their doors. Check it out now! https://bit.ly/3NdzIvx

A few months ago Chris Philp called me “unhinged” in a Telegraph article about a video I made. In it I warned about the brutality of ICE, & argued those who appease Trump would open the door to Fascism here too. I was called ‘hysterical’. I have 0 regrets about that message.

AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

The death of a legal observer in Minnesota by ICE is a warning to the UK in so many ways. We’re tying ourselves to a violent, corrupt, racist nation which does not care about its citizens. Reform believes in its model, Labour is appeasing it. It is the public who will suffer.

So sad to hear about this. Richard was one of the first people I met and worked with on migration and he was such a lovely person. Donate to Hummingbird Project in his memory, they are a brilliant organisation.

This is quite simple strategy used in Russia too. When a capital feels unstable, the rest of the country feels unstable. Anyone defending that capital looks like out of touch/elite. Blame the foreigners. Divide and conquer through instability and fear.

My entire feed is people of all different types of political value system absolutely shitting on Keir Starmer and his decisions. Bodes well for the future of the UK that the Labour party is about to crumble as hard as the Tories have.

Mike Tapp says he’s “really happy” about US actions in Venezuela Vomit inducing before nonsense abt asylum even starts. Pressed again & again on how rights of vulnerable ppl will be protected under his latest plans (kudos for once to #r4today presenter for that) he had nothing.

Right. The direction of travel is the most insidious.

My hot take is that there is absolutely no point using the word "compassion" in campaigning for change. Compassion is a relative concept, so is morality, so is fairness. You are only speaking to the people who agree with your version and it isn't particularly motivating so what is the point.

And this is why Shabana Mahmood is making a huge mistake with her own horrendous immigration policies. She’s only creating space for people to say none of us belong.

I am horrified by the antisemitic mass shooting at Bondi Beach, targeting Jewish people as they came together for Hannukah. My thoughts and prayers are with those killed, injured, and Jewish communities around the world, who are grieving when they should have been celebrating.

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Daisy Cooper, "In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker that arrived on a boat" "Today we have 46,000 a year" "And do you know why?" "Brexit" "Pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage" *audience erupts in applause" #BBCQT

The People's Prince Polanski was the only one talking sense on immigration on last night's question time. Honest about the fact that we need immigration and that migrants are in no way responsible for the economic problems in the country. Well done @zackpolanski.bsky.social

logged on to see everyone talking about chess championships and reminded what a sad little country we live in, and how unbelievably out of touch every convo about Westminster is.

If you're trying to get your head round Mahmood's idiotic "earned settlement" proposals that aim to keep refugees in limbo 20 years, & offer a sliding scale of crulety to all immigrants based on their pay packet, this is a great, clear explainer by @praxisprojects.bsky.social & @gmiau.bsky.social

We've moved from vote Labour as the only way to stop Farage to vote Farage as the only way to stop Tommy Robinson (I presume?). While each of those parties tries to appease the other by doing what each other wants anyway. What a wreck.

Exactly right - a shame we don't listen to the actual experts who understand immigration and the economy.

We rely on migration for the economy and several industries, decrease that and the economy is worse. A worsening economy means worse conditions. Unhappy public looks for someone to blame. Politicians tell them it's migrants. And so we end up in a never ending loop while everything gets worse.

The government’s decision to halve the time limit for refugees to leave Home Office accommodation is driving people into homelessness and exploitation, according to migrant rights campaigners and homelessness charities By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/new-asylum...

The proposed settlement changes are really difficult to understand and very stressful if you or someone you know is a migrant. Read our explainer below so you can stay up to date with what's happening.

Shabana Mahmood will read this and think "great idea! we should do that!"

Sometimes wonder if what the UK needs is a thinktank that doesn't do any new research, it just repeats obviously true statements that people try to ignore because they're inconvenient. International students cross-subsidise home students. Your pension is paid for out of general taxation.

At least 160,000 people have been granted refugee status over the past five years. It now seems they are intended to be caught by the Government’s plans to make refugees wait up to 20 years for settlement - even for those just months away from ILR www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...

Remember a significant proportion of Labour's proposals on immigration (not asylum) was on migrants needing to learn English (as if they don't already). They highlighted migrants as a problem, now the far-right know where to target them. So racist, so stupid.

"Reform would be worse" is both entirely correct and entirely irrelevant until polling day 2029. What matters right now is that Labour's approach is morally repugnant on its own terms, *and is empowering Reform*. As things stand today, its not Labour or Reform. Its Labour *then* Reform.

While it feels like I'm repeatedly slamming my head against a brick wall repeating this massively simple concept. Saying "Reform would be worse" doesn't make what Labour is doing better. Labour is now the most anti-immigration, anti-any marginalised group, government we have seen in decades. 1/

Shabana Mahmood's Indefinite Leave To Remain Culture War 3 years - if you're earning £125k+ 15 years - if you're e.g. a nurse, or a teacher Labour's two tier system which rewards high earners and insults those who work just as hard but don't earn as much - really sad to see Labour fall

A new generation of fascists are fusing combat training with extremist ideology. HOPE not hate investigates the Midlands chapter of the secretive Active Club network, and exposes the figures driving its expansion. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/10/30/a...

Shabana Mahmood's proposal to stop being told to "go back home" is to send people "home". Her proposal to stop black and brown people from feeling like they don't belong, is to bake in to the immigration system that they will never belong.

You know what politicians simply must stop doing is saying things are "fairer" when they are actually cataclysmic to people AND to the ECONOMY.

VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it