we don’t need to talk about whether people are *really* or *inherently* racist, if they’re doing and saying racist things. I mean firstly: they clearly are! what you do is who you are! but also: it doesn’t really matter whether their hearts are racist if they’re happy to support racist politicians

Can we stop doing this? There is no sense in debating whether people are themselves racist, or sexist, or homophobic, if the context for this debate is how these people have done racist, sexist or homophobic things

Yet Labour's farting around with Digital ID & US Tech & arresting peaceful protesters as terrorists, yet not exposing dark money, shutting down bad actors (state, organisational or individual) nor undertaking sweeping democratic reforms to make it damn hard for a minority to gain absolute power!

BREAKING: Labour Party members have backed a motion urging Keir Starmer to call Israel’s military attack on Gaza a genocide An emergency motion had been submitted to today's conference in Liverpool

They're looking really hard to find the people responsible for this shocking state of affairs.

Mahmood: ... to those considering a perilous small boat journey, the risk is not worth it. And your only route into this country should be a safe and legal one. A safe and legal route we are not providing. #bbcpm

Eye-catching report on how migrants will be essential to plug widening green skills gaps in many of the world's cities. www.businessgreen.com/news/4519631...

Labour just doesn’t get it: workers feel poorer than ever. Is it any wonder Reform is rising? | Sharon Graham

Yvette Cooper, 12 May 2025: We are therefore ending overseas recruitment of care workers. I'm sure there will be frequent updates on the recruitment, training and retention of care workers from the existing population. #bbcpm

"It's genuinely hard to imagine today's Labour activists going to a northern fish and chip shop" is a really self-incriminating sentence. Yeah, when I sit down in The Scrap Box in York or, frankly, anywhere in Whitby, I think 'I can't imagine a middle class person eating here'.

Keir Starmer and Number 10 upended a previously low-profile digital ID policy last week, and made it the stuff of headlines – and mandatory. They have no idea of the size of the landmine they've stepped on by doing so. They've set up a new culture war. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...

She’s right that they won’t like it, but wrong that it will hold back the far right. Appeasement never works.

I was always a fan of Ed. Even with that bloody mug and the idiotic Ed Stone.

I can't speak for all immigrants, but I'm obliviously just here for the extremely lucrative £26.05 I receive each week in child benefit, which is less than I would receive in Ireland.

how long before organisations rely on the unpaid labour of people seeking indefinite leave to remain as their business model?

Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system! Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.

In addition to the normative points, I am once again tapping the sign marked 'net immigration to the UK in 2029 will still be, in relative terms, very high, and the government needs to have a position that allows it to defend what the Actually Existing UK looks like'.

Nandy praises protesters from the past who were up for the fight I've seen how this govt treats protesters peacefully holding placards that say "I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action". Praising protesters from yesteryear while criminalising protesters today as terrorists

Burnham’s diagnosis is that the policy agenda is missing because of “a climate of fear within our party and [because of] the way the party is being run” That message strikes a chord with Labour MPs and members alike My latest column for @theipaper.com #Lab25 inews.co.uk/opinion/andy...

... all we get are insults and hate because the major parties have decided their immigration policies are best shaped by extremists. This began with Brexit and now we are where we are with Reform as a result. I accept that the UK's media landscape does not help, but the problem is more fundamental.

... literally cleaning up British sh*t before I even lived here. Don't like that wording? Well, it is what care work often involves. And much of the care work in the UK relies on migrants - working and volunteering. And yet: none of this is ever enough. Year after year, Govt after Govt ...

When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵

EXCLUSIVE: Labour have been accused of creating a 'two-tier society' with its plans to make it harder for migrants to qualify for indefinite leave to remain

If scrapping indefinite leave to remain (ILR) entirely, as Reform would do, is racist, according to Labour, what is making ILR twice as difficult, expensive & humiliating to obtain, as Labour are doing?

My family came here 50 years ago. They've worked, paid taxes, raised families, been good citizens. My many colleagues and friends who were either born elsewhere, or their parents were, the same. It's so offensive to be told you're here on sufferance.

It astonished me how easy it was to put fully-fledged former Conservative politicians in charge of the nominally impartial BBC.

Great news that the government will ensure there's a library in every primary school. Any chance of there being a librarian to go with it? #r4today

High standard? B2? C1? And I expect that to be reciprocated in France, Spain, Italy for British emigrants. Imagine every retired Brit on the Costas having to have university-level Spanish or put on a plane? #r4today

So if the opinion polls showed the Green Party in the lead, the bbc et al would have to provide wall to wall coverage of @zackpolanski.bsky.social right? RIGHT?

The obvious answer to "who's rich?" is "people like you Nick". #r4today

Perhaps if Nick Robinson prefaced the question "who are the rich?" with the bombshell that he is paid £410k a year just from the BBC, then he might have got a different and short answer. #r4today

Blue Robbo never has inquiries into who are the poor. #r4today

Nick Robinson, who earns c.£400k/year, striding around Chester asking people who are much poorer than him who they think “the rich” are… I don’t know, I think that’s a bit dodgy, mate. #r4today

#R4Today - wall to wall Kirk killing for days MAGA driving into a church during service. Killing at least 2 & burning the Church down?…. Still waiting for in depth story,,, Almost as if the BBC isn’t balanced or independent 🤔

There was something surreal about Nick Robinson attending the Chester races asking who are the rich?.. as you earn between £410-£415,000 I’m guessing it’s you. #r4today

Remember the Russia Report, which Boris Johnson held back until he'd won his election? At the press announcement when it was finally published, we were told that British security services hadn't looked into Russian interference in the 2016 referendum because they hadn't been asked to. #r4today

Sadiq Khan has hit back at politicians "spreading misinformation" about safety in London as new data shows the number of violent crimes leading to injury has fallen in every borough over the past year news.sky.com/story/london...

The government clearly think we are all stupid. Chasing Reform is not the way to go. Refugees and immigrants are not the problem, our politically lazy self serving governments are. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Strong arguments from @liambyrnemp.bsky.social on how best to tackle the threat of Farage.. Do so where he’s weak: The economy⚠️he’d do a Truss++ Workers’ rights⚠️he’s against them Welfare⚠️he’d strip it away NHS⚠️he’d dismantle it. “Populists govern badly but campaign well” So blow up their campaign.

They’re all wrong’uns.

There’s no easy answers for Starmer’s government confronting Reform. But it should understand the opposition. Not ‘ordinary Britons with legitimate grievances’, but a trans-national, far right propaganda machine built patiently over decades with Russian & US funders among others.

Masked ICE agents slammed a 79-year-old U.S. citizen to the ground during a raid at his Van Nuys car wash. Now he’s suing DHS for $50 million.

Instead start explaining - with true stories - what it has done for ordinary citizens: and that the reactionary right’s hostility to it is not about immigration and deportation (to which it’s marginal at most) but about their aim of secretive, unaccountable and authoritarian government.

Great event and lots of good point. I spoke about the need to stop treating the ECHR and Human Rights Act as a difficulty.

Another nation fighting Russian tyranny, and winning. As Arthur says in that piece, the fight against Reform is also a fight against Russian tyranny. We should be a single-minded as Moldova is.

*Benny Hill theme plays*

Newcastle says no to fascism. The far right brought a hundred or so with them, bussed from far and wide. This city turned out 1000s, from local communities, estates and streets. Geordies of all backgrounds coming together and outnumbering the purveyors of hate by some distance. Newcastle united.

Some of you people thinking "British ID cards are fine" clearly have absolutely no Black friends, and it shows.

THE MEME IS REAL