Delighted to be supporting the launch of @togetheralliance.bsky.social Together we need to take on the far right. Togetheralliance.org.uk

We kept the receipts. These comments, taken together, paint a picture of the man he is today.

''Labour’s anti-migration policies are contributing to the UK’s sluggish economic growth, the world’s foremost economic forecaster has warned, in a fresh blow for chancellor Rachel Reeves. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Reform UK’s Leader of Staffordshire Council Ian Cooper - white supremacist. Reform UK’s leader of the council has earned his badge as a top fan of the Facebook page The European Race. Earned for regularly liking and commenting on pages’ content.

Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with

"We've seen a stealth tax come in, not a wealth tax." @frankadlingtons.bsky.social discusses the Budget on BBC Politics East Midlands.

I'm no fan of this government, but I wonder how much of the focus on this whole "Did Rachel lie?" thing has been bought by Reform Ltd. It seems very well timed to coincide with Nathan Gill's sentencing and resurfaced allegations of Farage's childhood racism 🤔

Today @migrantvoice.bsky.social has launched their winter fundraiser. At a time when misinformation is increasing division, and driving government policy, it is crucial it is countered and that the experiences and voices of migrants are heard. If you can donate please do. Please also share widely.

#EarnedSettlement #IndefiniteLeaveToRemain

This sounds like modern slavery to me. I've clients who've been recognised as victims with similar facts. People in authority shouldn't be afraid to make this connection and it will push back on the government's narrative that these people are somehow scamming the system.

“Buried in its settlement reforms, the Home Office is proposing to scrap the Long Residence route. This will be devastating news for many migrants.”

Congratulations on only being 30% transphobes and 70% people who will willingly work with transphobes, I guess?

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Human rights law exists to protect people when power fails them. Walking away from that protection would leave the most vulnerable exposed.

📢 The Justice and Home Affairs Committee has launched an inquiry into settlement, citizenship & integration. I encourage any migrants with experience of obtaining ILR/citizenship in the UK to submit evidence. The deadline is 23 January 2026 (earlier than the Home Office consultation).

The Home Office added the following clarifying text following pressure from persistent plain language and migrant rights advocates (like me hehe 🙃)

Some don’t understand that demonising refugees& asylum seekers is a red line for any healthy nation. As a group of people, like any other, they include the brilliant, good & bad, but labelling them as lesser humans undeserving of compassion, safety & equality is definitely bad for the whole country.

Email from @suewilson91.bsky.social and @bremaininspain.com. I agree with what is said.

Labour's reforms working EXACTLY as intended. Creating an underclass of impoverished, exhausted and exploited migrant workers. Like something out of Qatar, Azerbaijan or the UAE.

I must have missed the wall-to-wall coverage of demands for an investigation into Nigel Farage's lies about being a racist Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill Or about who bought his house in Frinton

labour have: - reintroduced section 28 - replaced our healthcare with conversion - stripped us of our civil rights and legal recognitions - stacked the equality commission with transphobes against parliamentary advice - are gearing up to introduce segregation laws

And now the Your Party conference has gone from farcically funny to depressingly dire. Personal opinion, but I don't trust any party which opens up the lives of trans and non-binary individuals to debate to defend the rights of trans and non-binary individuals, no matter the result of the debate.

I find Your Party's frequent use of AI very illuminating. Because when they talk about workers, they clearly do not include in that a large number of Arts sector and 'knowledge' workers. I suspect they regard them with contempt. Which is one of the many reasons they are not going to get far.

This annoys me, actually. Your Party is meant to stand up for workers, yet couldn't spend a bit of the £800K+ they raised on hiring a subtitler to QA their live subs, while we're among the worst-affected professions by the AI boom. Let alone the accessibility implications…

Net migration is plummeting. Why can’t Labour say so? | Heather Stewart

bcos the 'problem' of migration is manufactured by the ruling class as a distraction. they have to keep the myth that everything wrong in our lives is the fault of immigrants, trans ppl, and disabled ppl.

Worth keeping an eye on opinion polls in the coming days and weeks 📊 Fallout from Reform Russian influence scandal, Labour immigration announcements & budget and Your Party conference should make things interesting 👀 The Green Christmas fundraiser also seems to be cutting through. Hope is here 💚

Important reading for anyone in Wales.

If you need proof that when Reform UK politicians wave the 🇬🇧Union Flag🇬🇧, it's not patriotism, it's just manipulation. The Reform Party leader, waving the Union Jack in this photo was literally a Russian Spy.

Every day we have to be reminded that the UK has the most abjectly feudal, let-them-eat-cake-ass media on the planet.

A crushing disappointment. My heart is with my friends (queer and allies) back in Japan. They were hoping for better and deserve better 🌈

Delighted to be speaking at this charity concert at Wembley in March. Tickets on sale 10am Tuesday! Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️ www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

It's an interesting study, but flies in the face of "media effects are small" (the view more normally held by researchers). www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Despite being an important gig with lots of big names and at Wembley Arena, it’s almost certain that UK mainstream media will not whisper a syllable about this. So please share widely and keep sharing. www.transmissionlive.uk

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.

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

JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics

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This time last year, I was asked about the new Labour government while being interviewed by a Japanese magazine. How wrong I was! (Apart from the bit on the US) Cringing at how I parroted the Guardian's "grown-ups in charge" line, but laughing at how I didn't like Streeting even then.

Nigel Farage isn’t shy in his admiration of Enoch Powell. ❌

This is *exactly* the right level of cringe for cut through. Can you imagine any other party leader pulling this off?

As the partner of a skilled worker visa holder and a patient at the dental hospital, this one is doubly important to me!

They’ve got nothing else. A nothing burger of a budget, a row back on workers’ rights… u-turns everywhere, but you don’t worry!! They’re standing firm on making the uk a much worse place to be foreign or brown in 👍👍👍

"The shift in power to ordinary people which the HRA enabled […] is resented in the corridors of power. The families of Hillsborough used the Act to achieve justice. The victims of John Worboys also needed it as did those subject to police infiltration in the Spycops scandal."

How many more will we find 🤔

The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?

Labour immigration policy explained: ✅ Net immigration rising: CRACKDOWN REQUIRED ✅ Net immigration plummeting: CRACKDOWN REQUIRED

"We can judge Farage not just by the words he, allegedly, shouted as a child, but by the words and actions he has chosen as an adult." Zack Polanski on why Farage should be judged on his record as a politician which has seen him echo conspiracy and language of the far right.

Politician who fanned anti-LGBT sentiment stunned to find rising levels of anti-LGBT sentiment

- A 100,000 drop in net migration costs us £7bn - Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn What gets more attention? James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'.