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“We’re scapegoating asylum seekers for the failures & political divisions caused by successive governments in the last 15 years—the failures of successive governments to address wealth inequality, funding for education, the cost of living & primary healthcare and infrastructure.” Well said, bishop!

Leishman is correct.

Rain pouring on battered tents. Water rising everywhere. Mattresses, blankets, and clothes soaked through in minutes. This is the reality for over 900,000 Palestinians who the Israeli military’s genocidal campaign in Gaza has displaced from their homes.

How exactly does she think promoting racist policies will help? Surely her experience of racism should guide her towards policies that bring people together and undermine rather than endorse the racism in our society and in our politics? #JustSaying

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

Brilliant stuff. @lindaervine.bsky.social speaks out clearly in defence of a language that belongs to us all. If you're stuck for time listen from 26 minutes. It really does root us in the land. Get to a bunrang and find out for yourself! (Back next year Linda!)

Shabana Mahmood is just red Tory Priti Patel.

‘It is unconscionable that [refugees] can be both targeted with deliberate cruelty and weaponised to dismantle universal human rights protections. But that is what the Home Secretary’s proposals do, answering a manufactured crisis with a policy that will have much more fundamental consequences’.

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Flagshaggers are never going to vote Labour, no matter how many gold teeth they pull, the rest of the country is pretty sickened by the pandering to racists/failure to get a grip on the cost of living, everyone’s going Green/LibDem, so it seems that Labour are only appealing to themselves now.

If you are paying a sub as a member of a political party appeasing the populist right’s desire to foment division, you need to take some personal responsibility. If you carry a Labour Party card, you’re complicit. No more comforting stories about “Labour values”. This is who you are now.

Taking jewellery also has direct echoes of what the Nazis did. Direct. www.timesofisrael.com/jewelry-seiz...

You know who else took your valuables? The nazis Labour… what the fuck?

Chris says it all perfectly 👏🏻

🌍 42.5m refugees Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries. 🇬🇧 548k refugees = 0.78% of the UK population. It is not refugees who tear our country apart, it is the mainstreaming of far right policies. And that’s a risk to all of us. My letter to my MP. #asylum #Mahmood 🧵

So many of the post 1960s waves of racism and segregation against South Asian or Afro-Caribbean migrants in UK cities map on to many of the same neighbourhoods that experienced waves of pre-1960s racism and segregation against Irish and Jewish migrants.

It is now abundantly clear that the continued presence of Starmer and Sweeney is causing ever more damage to the labour party. If they actually cared about the party, or indeed the nation, they would step aside now. But self serving is as self serving does I guess.

Imagine you find a place to make a new life for yourself after a traumatic event. You form a family, find work, make friends, learn a new way to live. Then 20 years later a government minister decides you haven’t ‘tried hard enough’ so sends you back to the place of your trauma. 1/3

Deep breath, once more for those at the back, seeking asylum is not illegal. No matter route used, which considering Labour has closed pretty much all the last remaining alternatives means irregular ones. Anti-immigration sentiments are stoked by politicians like Mahmood, not people seeking safety.

Regardless of all else, why would you support a party that is chasing the racist vote? Seriously, chasing the racist vote, endorsing genocide and undermining human rights. Tell me what they've achieved that means they deserve my vote despite that. I fucking dare you.

Shameful that Mahmood, a child of immigrants is fronting some of the harshest refugee policies in years. And shameful that Starmer is using her to launder an agenda that panders to Britain’s ugliest instincts.

Anyone else see the irony of a UK govt lead by an ex-human rights barrister, now choosing a policy that would remove human rights from asylum seekers? Credibility 0 Empathy 0

Kuenssberg asks about a refugee who’s been here for 19 years, ie they’ve been granted asylum. Mahmood answers “we have to tackle illegal migration” This constant interchanging of immigration, asylum & illegal immigration is a huge part of the problem. Shame on Labour for perpetuating the confusion.

Right, we need to second guess what this might be. I'm going with Roman settlement in Galway.

Where Mahmoud says "My parents got me a golden ticket so I can dump on the rest of you"

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I just can't fathom those who have minority backgrounds pulling up the ladder behind them once they get power. Dumping on minorities and the desperate is not a good look.

It's not 'illegal migration' that is tearing this country apart. It's nasty, cruel, uncaring rhetoric, & policies like this that are doing all the damage. Labour might just as well walk out of No. 10 & hands the keys over to Farage. Reform must be rubbing their hands with glee.

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Since Trump’s ‘ceasefire’, Israel killed 900 Palestinians in Gaza. In the West Bank, 691 Palestinians were kidnapped during 1,503 invasions. If the victims had been Israelis, the Western media would have been (rightly) protesting these pogroms. Now? A guilty silence prevails (Yanis Varoufakis) #gaza

Never been a fan of carbon offsetting, which international carbon credits is pretty much built on. As time has gone on it’s lost credibility and it’s easy to see why. www.businessgreen.com/news/4521670...

No, I'd say it's racists and those pandering to them.

To suggest that having lived a life so grim that even an English tribunal will grant you asylum, and to have somehow managed to get here at great risk to life, is a "golden ticket" is absolutely fucking contemptible. Shame on this so-called Labour Party.

It's almost like poppy people have gone full circle from fighting fascism to embracing it....

There's something of Humphries about young Prendergast... #IREvAUS youtu.be/Q32PHkL1U-c?...

Seeing as we're doing a version of this again...

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Also, after a decade of Brexity "Europe get lost“-patriotism, it is bewildering to see people being so susceptible to what is blatant foreign Intervention. What ever happened to sovereignty?

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...

Aside from the cruelty of this, I’d just like to know why it’s ok to ignore and disappoint liberal/progressive voters. Why do governments chase Farage and his voters, thinking that will neutralise them. It’s NEVER worked. He’s leading in the polls and his ideas have ruined us. WTF are you doing?

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Do they simply not notice the xenophobia, or do they think it doesn’t matter?

Just leaving this here www.thenational.scot/news/2545164...

A Labour Party has jettisoned plans to increase taxes on unearned income - disproportionately enjoyed by the wealthy - and is increasing them instead on the earned income of normal people. What a shocking indictment.

smile benevolently, roll their eyes, and explain we have to play by the rules. These rules see women struggle to raise their children. These rules mean poverty, violence, and rape are normalised. Fuck this system. We're changing the rules.

A "sliding scale of rape." There are women who'll carry water for the patriarchy. The "Pick Me's" who think they're safe if they side with abusers. From "nice women" who say you're "too loud" or "too aggressive" or "too political" when you call out this system that supports abuse to "experts" who 1/