When a Labour government sees the approval of Tommy Robinson as more important that the approval of the Labour Party membership, things are probably going wrong

It's hard to find words to capture quite how revolting, steeped in bigotry, irresponsible, morally unmoored, Labour has become. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I never had Labour pegged for this level of cruelty. Remember, we're talking about people who are forbidden from working here, often for years at a time, so they have nothing. Labour deserve to be swept from office like a snowplough clearing a blizzard of hatred. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

"This entire saga has a smell hanging over it. The people of Teesside, Hartlepool and Darlington are no fools. That smell will not go away until there is a full, transparent and independent inquiry."

Labour MP Brian Leishman: "The Government has surrendered to... the vile rhetoric of Reform. Does the Home Secretary not see that removing the legal obligation to support asylum seekers who will be otherwise destitute, is as far away from Labour Party principles and values as we can get?"

45% of British voters are strongly opposed to Reform, and 33% favourable to Reform. 71% of 2025 Labour voters are strongly opposed to Reform. And immigration has fallen 50% in a year. What possible reason is there for this mess?

“Portraying weakening the European Convention on Human Rights as the answer to the issues society faces is extremely dangerous. It opens the door to us leaving the ECHR altogether - just think about that”

Tesco is cancelling Christmas. But it ain't by not putting 'Christmas' on their products.

I hope every Labour MP considering whether to support Shabana Mahmood's asylum plans remembers Nigel Farage's assessment that the “Home Secretary sounds like a Reform supporter.” If they support them they will too.

The sad thing is, on reading this line, it will be fist bumps all around in Shabana Mahmood's office. Because becoming Reform is their plan to beat it.

Labour MP for Stroud, Simon Opher, says his party should "stop the scapegoating of immigrants because it's wrong and cruel". "We should push back on the racist agenda of Reform rather than echo it".

Six weeks since the PM said Britain faced a choice between decency or division and our bad, obviously, for not understanding that he was in fact Team Division

Yep that's right, you should be nowhere near children.

ICYMI: The Greens have responded to the Govt's plans for changes to the asylum system. Carla Denyer MP: “This is a new low...plumbing the depths of performative cruelty, in hopes that the public won’t notice they have no answers to the real issues facing communities across this country."

There are 3m people in the UK on Universal Credit looking for work. There are 720,000 jobs the lowest number ever. 150,000 are for the NHS who lists but doesn't hire. There aren't any jobs for people to work. But they will keep blaming you.

Absolutely shocking. This government won’t achieve ‘decency’ over ‘division’ by trying to be Reform Lite

Politico: "The vote for Brexit inflicted a GDP blow of between 6 percent and 8 percent in the decade following the referendum — even worse than predicted beforehand, according to U.S. think tank the National Bureau of Economic Research" Don't imagine this will end up on many Faragist front pages...

From the US, but it will happen in the UK too. Cost cutting, under staffed, under experienced, longer waiting times, more profits. More deaths.

Miss "Taco Belle" Is Chump's Spinmeister and Worst Press Secretary Ever......

Portraying weakening the European Convention on Human Rights as the answer to the issues society faces is extremely dangerous. It opens the door to us one day leaving the ECHR altogether

Michael Caine "I voted for Brexit... I'd rather be a poor master than a rich servant... You get lost, and then you find your way, and it will be alright." This Brexiteer lives in LA, has never been a poor anything, and there are zero consequences for his actions on him.

I would never have believed we would see a headline like this under a Labour government

The technical term for Trump’s cold-blooded, extrajudicial, extralegal military killing of boaters in international waters is "murder." As in "Donald Trump is a cold-blooded killer, and should be arrested, tried, and if found guilty, be punished with the full penalty of the law."

Putting the utter horror of taking things from people who have lost everything aside for a second, these people have sold everything to pay the boat gangs. If you want their valuables you should reopen all the old legal asylum routes and get in ahead of the other bastards.

Labour MPs slam government for ‘chasing Reform’ with ‘brutal’ asylum crackdown MPs have accused the home secretary for 'performative cruelty' www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/lab...

‘GDP reduced by 8%’ – Nine-year study reveals how Brexit decimated UK economy www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bre...

The government won’t achieve ‘decency’ over ‘division’ by trying to be Reform Lite and please remember this - the ECHR is much more than a treaty. It’s a quiet promise - a shield against abuse of power, a lifeline for the vulnerable, a declaration of who we are as a nation

"Thanks to first past the post nearly 60% of people who voted in the general election last year are not represented in Parliament by the candidate that they voted for. This is the most disproportionate election result that this country has ever seen." Sarah Olney MP

If you feel like you voted for Labour and got Reform, time to join @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the Green Party. Don’t be taken in by the right wing smears, today’s Green Party is passionate, intelligent, and honest. They have consistently impressed me.

"People who owe no tax are statistically the most likely to be fined." Nobody should face a late filing penalty when they don’t owe any tax. It really is impossible to resist this suggestion from @danneidle.bsky.social. www.politicshome.com/news/article...

‘Dark forces are stirring up anger in the U.K., so I’m going to push through an asylum policy they approve of. Because famously if you give people what they want when they have hissy fits they totally behave after that’.

Reform MP Danny Kruger tells Shabana Mahmood that "I welcome [her] rhetoric" on asylum seekers, before telling her to "put in her application to join Reform UK"

Asked how happy Keir Starmer is that Tommy Robinson is now backing his asylum plans, his spokesman replies that "the public can tell that the pace and scale of illegal immigration is out of control..." "We must restore order... or we will lose public consent for giving refuge at all".

They don’t care about ordinary folks. Just their corporate buddies.

This is not 'decent moderate politics' It is Far Right demonisation of immigrants which will make them second class 'citizens' (if they don't get deported for 20 years) It will not solve the problem it will increase racism and empower Reform all while driving voters from Labour

Zia Yusuf declares "That's irrelevant." When told his parents were economic migrants and asked why he wants it banned? But actually it's very relevant.

This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Your regular reminder that there is absolutely nothing "hard" or "tough" about targeting the poorest, most vulnerable, and least able to defend themselves groups of people on the entire planet

I really can't recommend 'Who Goes Nazi?' by Dorothy Thompson highly enough. Published in 1941 & as relevant now as it was then.

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

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"

With these measures Labour has joined the “dark forces … stirring up anger” over migration.

Shabana Mahmood tells MPs that "it is not the policy of this government to confiscate jewelry from those who are... accessing asylum accommodation." This is the opposite of what the Home Office minister Alex Norris said this morning

The Greens don’t believe providing safe refuge for endangered asylum seekers is an “out-of-control” policy. Nor do we believe making life more difficult for those in need is the way to unify British society. Refugees are welcome.

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

Shabana Mahmood asked by Labour MP John McDonnell to "give me the assurance that no child will be placed in detention as a result of this policy" Mahmood does not give him that assurance