The lads explain that as well as being viciously cruel, the new migrant crackdown plan is dumb, disastrous policy: socially calamitous and economically counterproductive. They could also - but don’t - explain that it won’t even achieve its actual declared aim: convincing Reform voters to vote Labour

In a couple of decades, when the Bulgarian economy soars past them, the English won’t be obsessed with immigration. They’ll be obsessed with emigration, and wondering why no one will have them. Maybe Rwanda will open her doors?

Very true - but also revealing in another way: There is a lot of trust within EU societies that EU institutions manage these relations well.

🚨 BREAKING: John Major says Brexit was an act of collective folly. It made 🇬🇧 poorer, weaker and cut off from 🌍 biggest market. He’s right and it’s exactly what the data, job losses, exodus of 🇬🇧 citizens, collapsing industries and EU’s new demands all show. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/former...

Bcs they are lying like Farage… just making up false claims

Such a clear straight line from the boy of 14 to the man we see now, who - from racism to Brexit to national betrayal - has never been held to account for any of his actions. www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... This is about as powerful as it gets. Brilliant 👏

“I was shocked by the dehumanization of Palestinians in this country.” Mahmoud Khalil speaks to @simonerzim.bsky.social about witnessing the Columbia University, Biden, and Trump administrations dehumanize Palestinian existence here in the US. Watch it here: zeteo.com/p/the-moment...

A performance for the Right, built on a “crisis” they manufactured! Just 39,000 people came to the UK this year seeking safety. Wembley holds 90,000. The government is directing national outrage at a group that wouldn’t even fill half a stadium — people who arrived with trauma, not power.

Patel, Braverman, Badenoch and Mahmood are all immigrants or descendants of. If we’d the draconian laws these hideous individuals are trying implement none of them would be here. Do they not get the irony? Can they be deported as unsavoury?

Why the heck have recent appointees to the post of UK Home Secretary, all brown offspring of immigrants (Patel, Braverman, Mahmood) been so rabidly right wing regardless of their so called Political affiliation. Mahmood might as well be a member of Reform!

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-...

This is exactly what a Reform Government would look like. Every single problem blamed upon and paid for by immigrants and their descendants

Everything is the fault of foreigners, everything can be fixed by penalising foreigners. To call them Little Englanders is generous and euphemistic.

Starmer's Labour funded by the super rich refusing to tax the super rich spreading migrant hate to deflect from the greed of the super rich

Net migration now estimated to have fallen from 944,000 to 345,000 in Dec ‘24. Some projections even suggest David Cameron’s old target of “tens of thousands” could be met. ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...

Net migration to the UK has fallen fast - down by more than 60% from the peak -and is set to fall further. "Good news" politically? Maybe. But likely bad news for the economy and public finances.. (1/3) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

ONS is so bad. (This is about specifically British nationals.) www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

He has a massive majority, whereas Reform has hardly any MPs, but he’s effectively giving us a Reform government anyway as he thinks that‘s what people want. Starmer and McSweeney have to be two of the most inept and stupidest people in politics. Unless this is who they are - fascist sympathisers.

This government's anti-asylum policies are inhumane, dehumanising and dangerous. Its announced proposals today put already vulnerable individuals at increased risk of mental and physical harm, along with exploitation. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

I feel physically sick. In one fell swoop, the Labour Government have legitimised the whole racist, right wing narrative. Bravo you bunch of clueless cowards👏

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...

Removing asylum support. Seizing belongings. Deporting entire families, including children. Labour are not just paving the path to a Reform government. Reform may as well already be in power. This government has no moral compass — and it should be ashamed of its inhumanity.

I don't know why immigrants don't just go on strike. See how long the racists can cope without GP surgeries, nursing, deliveries, food being picked, clothes being made, warehouses being staffed, software being maintained, houses being built...

Mahmood parrots much of the far right's lies (& I include the Tories in that group). International comparisons of which country takes the most refugees & the financial & other support offered should be common currency by now, but it's not because the right don't want the truth to be known. #bbcpm

Asked if Keir Starmer believes British people want to "see refugee children pulled out of school and deported after 10 years in this country”, his spokesman says that “what the British public wants and what this government was elected on a mandate to deliver was to secure our borders"

Not even Reform lite anymore but just full on raging dog whistle racists

Britain is a fucking island. "Our borders" are secure.

A few ways this could go: 1) They get it past parliament, it’s wildly successful and retired reactionaries go wild for red, white and blue Labour 2) They get it past parliament, retired reactionaries still hate them 3) It crashes in Parliament and they look like vicious clowns

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Excellent to read, poignant to the end.

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

A refugee.

After Tommy Robinson, even Farage is congratulating with the far-right Labour policy! What else could go wrong? They are now officially part of Reform!

This of course is extended to all the Tory or Farage or Brexit supporters.

Why is she saying asylum seekers are illegal. They are not.

Today is not the day to argue "oh so you want Reform to win then" as an argument for Labour's indefensible and inhumane anti-asylum policies. At least be honest and own that you're defending racist policies promoted with genuinely far right talking points. Don't try and pretend this is "progressive"

Facts matter

Utterly shameful.

The UK Government must come clean about why an employee at its embassy in Tel Aviv owns property in an illegal settlement in Palestine, MPs have said Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

The UK was a blueprint for the EU concept i.e. a customs union, single market & common travel area (Schengen). For consistency if you're in the ("sanctity of the nation state") "condemn & hate the EU" camp you should also be in the "condemn & hate the UK" ("better together") camp

Glad that every report mentions the high visa fees and IHS! A clear barrier to scientists’ mobility. Scientists should be welcomed and thus have the opportunity of a lower fee rate. I contribute to the UK S&T ecosystem a lot (in several roles) but cannot work. Thinking to get the GTV but it’s costly

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Illegal migration isn't tearing this country apart, but our obsession with it is. It's an obsession fuelled by our media and politicians. Both profit from blowing the problem out of all proportion. It's been happening for decades, but never more so than now

More like: "Brexit and racism are tearing Britain apart." I thought Starmer was positioning Labour on a manifesto of 'Change'. I'm fucking sure I see no diffetence. #Brexit #Labour

If the government really intends to seize jewellery and other valuables from refugees, either - it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents or - it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Will someone please tell them they don't use gold for fillings any more

It's not a 'small technical shift', it's a horrific and inhumane change of policy. And bluntly, we all know the Home Office's version of 'safe' is highly likely to be wrong.

Of course they know! They supply the weapons, training and intelligence

just stunning 😍