Remarkably simple solution. If you don't want the backing of the far-right for your immigration policy, or to have people point out that you have their backing, don't base your immigration policy on the far-right's rhetoric and ideology. www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/shab...

Mahmood’s foreword to her consultation paper repeats the far right fantasy of an “open border experiment” & says the “cause of our division” is the “destabilising” “pace and scale of migration”, tropes also used by Starmer in his “island of strangers” speech

Let's see where we are in the justice stakes, eh? - Johnson: big money ChatGPT articles for the Mail. - Cummings: consultancy, Substack prick - Hancock: consultancy, book, I'm a celebrity - Sunak: prime minister, big money advisor - Gove: editor at The Spectator - Mone: still has a yacht 🏆

I’m yet to digest the full detail of these proposals to make it harder for people to settle permanently, but they’re entirely an answer to a question dreamt up by the far right, as a proxy for objecting to all migration, and they should be approached in that spirit and no other

"I always believed in working with people to achieve the best for our city..." @russell-moyle.co.uk on the reason he decided to leave the Labour Party for the Green Party.

“Refugeehood is not supposed to be like this. The ideal envisaged by the Refugee Convention is that refugee status should be a kind of substitute citizenship for people whose bond of citizenship with their country of origin has been broken by the threat of persecution.“

🚨Making it harder for migrants to settle in the UK is yet another act of economic vandalism🚨 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

I would put it like this. Minority communities and the majority of the majority community have integrated v.well. However, a significant minority of the majority community and a significant majority of the political class are stubbornly refusing to integrate, and that is where the real problem lies.

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.

My thoughts are with all who lost loved ones or still struggle with effects of #Covid. Tho we knew it at the time, confirmation of the “toxic & chaotic culture” at heart of Govt; that they did “too little, too late” & that faster action could have saved over 20K lives is still horrifying

Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we remember the transgender lives lost to violence. The Green Party stands shoulder to shoulder with transgender people in the face of increasing transphobic rhetoric in our society and politics.

Incredible stats. The party of the future.

Mahmood: REFUGEES TO BE PROHIBITED FROM HAVING FUN FOR 20 YEARS

Mahmood: REFUGEES TO BE PROHIBITED FROM HAVING FUN FOR 20 YEARS

Incredible stats. The party of the future.

Fundamentally, the UK is a massive success story on integration and most of the anxiety around it from the right should be treated as in insincere concern trolling it actually is.

The UK isn’t a “soft touch” on asylum. UK asylum seeker benefits are similar to European neighbours No right to work before 12 months (it’s 6 months in France, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands) UK settlement after 5 years (it’s 3 or 4 in Germany) Let’s cut out the alarmist rhetoric.

This sort of trolling from Reform gives the lie to the idea that adopting far right policies is a way to weaken them. They haven’t been weakened, they’ve been encouraged. They’re rejoicing. They love it.

Very far from the first time. Multiple findings of breaches of Article 3 in immigration detention. See my comment on the post for links. Not to mention the cases the Home Office conceded & paid damages on, including where disclosure is prohibited by the terms of the settlement.

At the Budget, the Green Party's message is clear: Cut Bills. Tax Billionaires.

Amid all the asylum reform announcements, the HO finally slipped out its asylum support rates review last week. What does this mean for child poverty?🧵 www.gov.uk/government/p...

Here’s polling carried out over the period when Labour were trailing their surefire election-winning immigration strategy, and you’re not going to believe how excited the entire country is about it

We invented borders and invented immigration and then invented ways of making immigration illegal and we invented the relationship between crime and immigration. Immigration “enforcement” is literally an hysterical exercise in the pursuit of a fantasy, it is a mental disorder.

"Starmer, Mahmood, and McSweeney are testing to destruction the idea that stealing the far right's clothes will win them far right votes. They are about to be disappointed."

I guess you’d say she’s succeeding, though perhaps not in the exact way she intended

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.

Shabana Mahmood is wrong - Another cowardly attack on immigrants does not hide the incompetence of the Starmer government. Me, for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Here’s polling carried out over the period when Labour were trailing their surefire election-winning immigration strategy, and you’re not going to believe how excited the entire country is about it

Labour voters: is this what you wanted?

Lucky the government isn’t involved in this grotesque bidding war over who can treat migrants in the most outlandish way, or we’d really be in trouble

Today has been a massive victory for anti-migrant voices. Not only is Labour doing 90% of what they want, but they're also making it much easier for them to get the remaining 10% later

Net migration was 345,000 in 2024, the Office for National Statistics now estimates - 20% lower than its first estimate of 431,000: www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula.... The update includes much higher emigration of British citizens than previously thought.

This is the guy who thought making asylum seekers live in a barracks in Inverness was too good for them and that they were too close to the city centre

Lucky the government isn’t involved in this grotesque bidding war over who can treat migrants in the most outlandish way, or we’d really be in trouble

With @sbsisters.bsky.social, @evawuk.bsky.social and Hibiscus, we share this joint statement regarding the announced changes to the asylum system. Refugee and migrant women's rights are human rights. We stand united in condemning these reforms and call on the govt to change its course immediately.

The day after Home Sec announced a raft of punitive policies that deny refugees the safety & stability they need to rebuild their lives, @freedomfromtorture.bsky.social joins @helenbamber.bsky.social in challenging Govt’s failure to consult experts ahead of harmful changes to asylum housing policy

🚨 Today we’re in court challenging changes to the Home Office’s 'Allocation of Asylum Accommodation' policy which force more trafficking & torture survivors to share rooms with strangers. These were introduced with no consultation or warning. 🧵 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

“The Home Office is no good for humans. They have broken me. They have finished my life.”

The Labour Party will lose the next election and there's a good chance they'll literally never form a government in this country ever again, hope you're happy and proud to have played your part babes x

These are the voters that Labour strategists have made very clear over a long period of time that they don't want any more, and it's a message that has now been heard

We are in despair after the Home Secretary’s announcement yesterday. As an organisation helping couples and families survive the immigration system, we struggle to accept plans that make it easier to deport families and children. #FamiliesBelongTogether

Dismantle this party. Dig out the roots. Salt the earth. Erase it from the record. Forget it existed. It’s of no use any more.

This is a disgraceful response and just an outright lie considering all she is doing is pandering to what reform are saying.

The govt's proposed new asylum laws are impractical, ineffectual, and outright cruel. Aping the rhetoric of Reform won't fix the real issues in this country; it will only stir up more false divisions and endanger already vulnerable communities.

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"

Dismantle this party. Dig out the roots. Salt the earth. Erase it from the record. Forget it existed. It’s of no use any more.

V useful analysis of some of the significant human rights problems raised by Mahmood’s announcement

Starmer’s anti-asylum policies show how utterly clueless he is about the right-wing media’s role in politics. He’s trying to fix a “problem” contrived by Farage, GB News and The Telegraph. He’ll never win, because ultimately he’s fighting a ghost – he’s fighting something that doesn’t really exist

A dark, shameful day indeed. Absolutely unacceptable to treat people with such contempt and cruelty.

Today, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood prepares to announce the latest attack on refugee rights in the UK. A host of hostile policy changes have already been announced. We don’t yet have the full details, but we’ll keep you updated as more becomes clear. ⬇️Here’s what we know + think so far: