Hear, hear Carla Denyer!

Green MP Carla Denyer accuses Shabana Mahmood of trying to "out Reform Reform" and says "toxic racist narratives and the scapegoating of migrants" are to blame for "tearing our country apart" not migrants. Mahmood: "I couldn't care less what any other political party has to say about these matters"

I have nothing but respect for those Labour (and Co-op) MPs who have the courage to condemn their government’s cruel, draconian and counterproductive reforms to immigration and asylum. These reforms must be opposed! You don’t defeat the hard right by enacting hard right policies, it’s that simple!

A traitor writes.

It's becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference between Labour and Reform UK, especially on immigration and asylum. For the far-right to advance, cruelty and inhumanity need to become normalised. That is what Labour is doing with it's draconian immigration reforms. Shame on them! 🥀🥀🥀

Exactly. Why are Labour ministers enabling and legitimising these “dark forces”.

The government should be ashamed that its migration policies are being cheered on by Tommy Robinson and Reform. Instead of standing up to anti-migrant hate, this is laying the foundations for the far-right. I questioned the Home Secretary on how she can be proposing such obviously cruel policies.

Regardless of whether it’s Labour in the UK or the CDU in Germany, the more you move to the right on immigration, the more you legitimise the nationalist right and the stronger they get. The only way to defeat nationalists is to oppose their policies and to improve living standards across society!

So they should

🔴TUC Chief Warns Labour to Stop ‘Slippery Slope’ Towards Nigel Farage’s Anti-Migrant Politics Paul Nowak tells Byline Times that Keir Starmer’s Government must stop seeking to ‘out-Farage Farage’, as Shabana Mahmood faces backlash over her asylum plans bylinetimes.com/2025/11/17/t...

“We welcome migrants, we don’t scapegoat them". How Keir Starmer promised Labour MPs and members he would lead his party on immigration

My thoughts are with the NYPD officer who was shot this morning in Brownsville and I am praying for his recovery. I'm grateful to law enforcement for their quick response and I will continue to monitor the situation as it develops.

Absolutely disgraceful! Shame on Labour! 🥀🥀🥀

2/2 What does it say about Ministers as human beings that they would even consider inflicting such arbitrariness, such cruelty on people who have legitimate reasons to seek refuge? How is that compatible with Social Democracy, Socialism, or basic decency?

1/2 Imagine being granted asylum (after all the checks, all the interviewing, all the waiting) only to discover that for the rest of your life sudden deportation hangs over you. At any moment you could be uprooted & expelled. You can be nothing other than a faux citizen, your status a forbearance.

Shabana Mahmood is an absolute disgrace! Blue Labour are an abomination. Red Reform would be a better name for them. This approach will do little to stop the rise of the Reform party, while Labour will continue to lose votes to the Greens and the Lib Dems. 🥀🥀🥀

What is tearing the UK apart is politicians enthralled to divisive right-wing nationalist narratives and those spineless so-called “progressives” who are unwilling to denounce the xenophobia of the hard right! Shame on Labour! Shame on Shabana Mahmood! This government increasingly repulses me! 🥀🥀🥀

GB News investor and Spectator owner Paul Marshall is in the running to buy the Telegraph now that the RedBird takeover plan has collapsed, the Guardian reports. Hard to see this being anything other than a disaster for public discourse in Britain if that goes ahead.

This is f**king evil!!! Shame on Labour! This is sheer cruelty directed at some of the most vulnerable people imaginable. This will lead to less integration, more fear and more insecurity.

This version of the Labour government would try to deport my Polish great-grandfather to the Soviet Union. Cannot express how deeply I hold this government in contempt

Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds

Westminster Voting Intention: RFM: 32% (-3) CON: 19% (+1) LAB: 17% (-3) LDM: 15% (+1) GRN: 13% (+5) SNP: 3% (=) Via Freshwater Strategy, 7-9 Nov. Changes w/ 3-5 Oct.

Ken Clarke humiliates Danny Kruger's new party, Reform UK on #BBCQT "I live in a county with a Reform UK council" "Most of them had no idea what the country council did" "They fought on the promise of reducing waste and council tax" "And they just put up the council tax by the max"

My column in today’s FT: a government with no real vision is reverting to its comfort zone of launching campaigns and drawing dividing lines - against Wes Streeting, on tax. Meanwhile in the real world its position keeps getting worse:

Guy Verhofstadt, President of European Movement International: In this new Age of Empires, why UK must choose Europe over isolation www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

Most Reform UK supporters aren’t driven by hate. They're worried. Bills are up, wages flat, services collapsing. When life feels rigged, anger is easy to sell. Anger isn’t a fix, and immigration isn’t the cause. The real answer is a democracy that delivers. People need solutions, not scapegoats.

Poverty is a policy decision. Concentrated wealth is a policy decision. Inequality is a policy decision. Remember this.

This perfectly encapsulates why we need the BBC

Fantastic News!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

As it should!

Lib Dem Leader @eddavey.libdems.org.uk: "A great British institution is under attack from a foreign government. President Trump is trying to destroy our BBC... Trump has undermined press freedom in America. Now he's trying to do the same here, disgracefully egged on by the leader of Reform."

Congratulations to the geniuses in Number 10 for finally opening up a goal so large that even Kemi Badenoch couldn't avoid putting the ball into it

Do you think Keir Starmer should remain as leader of the Labour Party, or stand down and let someone else take over? Should remain: 27% Should stand down: 51% 2024 Labour voters Should remain: 46% Should stand down: 36% yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

Only half…

Northern Lights set to dazzle UK this week due to possible 'severe' geomagnetic storm. www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

ICE is a fundamentally racist and fascist organisation in my opinion. Shame on all those Tory and Reform politicians calling for a British version of ICE!

We celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day and uplift the contributions of people like Chief Standing Bear who advocated that everyone should be treated as a human being with dignity. #IndigenousPeoplesDay #civilrights #IndigenousHistory #freedom #liberty #unitedstates #unitedstatesofamerica #america

Congratulations to @Victoria-Collins.bsky.social - newly elected Vice President of the Liberal Democrats.

The Prime Minister talks the talk on supporting an independent BBC, but he refuses to walk the walk. Robbie Gibbs must go.

For decades, the European Union ran on an unspoken understanding: Germany handled the money, France handled the military. Now, the tables are turning. www.politico.eu/article/germ...

Ironically this deft touch does make him sound rather better suited to the role than Starmer is...

It’s going so badly that even I’m starting to sympathise with Wes Streeting! 🤣🤣🤣

Robbie Gibb should have been ruled out of the running for the BBC Board in 2021: it was clear he'd been closely involved in setting up GB News - an ideological project aiming to rival to the BBC, & therefore a clear conflict of interest. The fact he was still allowed to join always rang alarm bells.

I like the idea of a windfall tax on the big banks and the establishment of a new Energy Security Bank! 🔶🧡🏦💸♻️💡

Farage says he's "boycotting the BBC" all the time. Here he is last year. Normally lasts until the next invitation comes.

I have long supported FDR’s social liberal vision for a second Bill of Rights, one that would have enshrined essential social and economic rights for the people of America. In the UK, we should enact a Social Rights Act to protect essential social and economic rights here. 💛📜

Daisy Cooper, "If we're going to have an honest conversation about tax, let's also have an honest conversation about growth" "Brexit has been a disaster for this country" "Brexit has wrapped up small businesses in red tape" "For growth.. A UK-EU Customs Union"