An entirely ficticious premise....

Refugees & asylum seekers are largely a vulnerable, traumatised & disadvantaged group of people so to keep demonising & scapegoating them for political gain is disgusting & despicable. The end doesn’t justify this punching down means & in any case the end here seems to be the propaganda itself.

This man was trafficked into Britain, in ways which the government would now use to make him subject to deportation. According to a leading political pundit, he brought with him ancestral violence, which means that he *and his British-born children* should be expelled. This man.

Here's a brief clip from the programme yesterday, about why Keir Starmer's Labour Party is tanking in the polls. www.youtube.com/shorts/jcUXX...

I think, as an American who studied the speech to assess whether it constituted unlawful incitement, the BBC edit was poor journalistic form, but it did not convey something substantively different than reality. My thing? The apology doesn’t convey to me that the BBC gets Trump isn’t a fair broker.

Yes, absolutely there is an impartiality crisis at the BBC. But it's not the one the billionaire media insists it is. novaramedia.com/2025/06/16/b...

👏 "There are over four million kids in child poverty in the UK and there are four and a half million people who can't get a dentist appointment." "We spend 90% of the political capital and discourse and media focus discussing 37,000 people."

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The first two reasons feel very reasonable to explore. The third less so but possible. A real pity that the way this was announced was another indication that the PM and his 'advisors' don't have much of a clue.

If you’re a woman in America, you should know this is what they’re talking about… youtu.be/3ujc2JfiMRs

🚨The IPP scandal is one of the most cruel, monumental and shocking injustices of the past half century. If you are not yet familiar with it watch this jaw dropping update. PM Keir Starmer now has an opportunity to take the politics out of it and end this injustice youtu.be/HVOWDnYBzDI?...

Tories misspell the country they wish to run.....

‘IPP sentences keep people inside based on what they might do in future, not what they have actually do - it's predictive sentencing’ Akiko Hart, Director of Liberty, speaking at the Labour Conference 2025 @libertyhq.bsky.social

Good, let's hope other countries do the same ( of course they won't)

🚨If you are not yet familiar with the shocking IPP scandal hold onto your seats and watch this jaw dropping update. On 29th & 30th September @ungripp.bsky.social have events at the Labour conference. Please ask your MP to attend youtu.be/HVOWDnYBzDI?...

Worth remembering this when you hear Reform talking about swans, autism and ‘science never being settled’.

Brilliant from @privateeyenews.bsky.social

THE SHOCKING IPP SCANDAL is one of the most cruel, inhumane and monumental injustices of the past half-century. So why has this government allowed it to continue? youtu.be/HVOWDnYBzDI?...

This is a huge story. Don't let him get away with it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Why won't people say this in the UK rather than just giving him an unchallenged platform?

Outstanding.

We are in almost exactly same place we were then. The same rhetoric, the same arguments, the same ideas - up to and including racist deportation programmes. Rivers of Blood is not some dark blood-dimmer artefact of a previous time. It is the template anti-immigrant politicians are using today.

Day in, day out, I speak to ordinary people who are organising to welcome the asylum seekers accommodated in their towns. They befriend, support them, reach out to them as fellow human beings. That's the Britain I know, the one I see around me & we never get told about on TV.

@leytonorientfc.bsky.social any idea what the rock music is interrupting the half time chat on the audio #lofc

How is this even possible? We have a desperate shortage of GPs, patients are waiting weeks for a GP appointment yet fully qualified GPs can’t get work. Surely this needs fixing urgently www.gponline.com/huge-rise-gp...

If you are not yet familiar with the shocking IPP scandal - one of the most cruel and monumental injustices of the past half century - watch this jaw dropping update youtu.be/GCj0El53pF4?...

Absolutely counter-productive. As well as being soulless, nasty, stupid. Reform UK continues to be the backseat driver of the UK.

What have we become? Where is compassion? These bigots do not represent the majority of UK people....but how do we counter their hateful attitudes?

Brilliant, absolutely brilliant #lofc

I'm starting my 3 day strike in solidarity with the People of Gaza, who are under brutal starvation by the Israeli regime 244,000 people in Gaza face catastrophical levels of starvation. Not in my name.

⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party. 🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.

"Sir John seems to feel this is an issue of public trust, whereas in reality, at the beating heart of this debacle is corporate greed, financial engineering.. the £84bn of our money water companies have made off with" On #BBCBreakfast, Feargal Sharkey on the Cunliffe review

Netanyahu said that an Iranian nuclear strike on Israel would be like “10,000 tons of TNT falling on a country the size of New Jersey (22,610 km2).” Israel has dropped ~80,000 tons of explosives on Gaza (365 km2) - the equivalent of 8 nukes on 1.6% the size of New Jersey. (Mohamad Safa)

If you are not yet familiar with the shocking IPP scandal - one of the most cruel, inhumane and monumental injustices of the past half-century - watch this jaw dropping update youtu.be/GCj0El53pF4?...

This principle should run through journalism like the words in a stick of rock. Yet somehow, day after day, it seems to evade the BBC's finest minds.

F*ck *ff, more and more of a circus every year www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Risk! It is a fact. I'm all for getting people into work, but reducing PIP will stop people working. Nonsensical

There is no moral case; there is no case, it is entirely the wrong thing to do

✍️ Meet the NEVLAs – (Never Voting Labour Again) It’s not Reform UK Ltd voters Starmer needs to entice back to the Labour fold, they were never in it. There’s another group he should be worrying about! By David Goff @tubbyewe.bsky.social cartoon by Stan @sdupp.bsky.social

If you are not concerned by the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation because you think it doesn’t impact you, you are wrong. This is an authoritarian abuse of power by the government & it curtails all of our civil liberties #r4today

Keir Starmer must end the injustice of indefinite sentences today There are thousands of people in prison in Britain with no release date, serving sentences that were abolished in 2012 www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...

She deserves praise no matter what happens. She "has provided a vision of what politics can be. The world is full of doom and chaos. The very worst people behaving in the very worst way and being rewarded for it." She "demonstrates the precise opposite: someone of decency acting in a decent way"

🚨NHS has put out an urgent call for 200,000 donors to come forward Just 2% of the population - under 800,000 people sustained the whole of England's blood supply over past 12 months Giving blood is one of the most rewarding things you can do. Book an appointment or register today ❤️🙏👇 blood.co.uk

This cruel and counterproductive policy is typical of a government approach to migration that prioritises looking tough at the expense of making the asylum & migration system work - for arrivals or for communities. I've got a report on this out this Weds www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reeves using the spending review to reannounce exactly what the government had already promised on migration: - Stop using hotels: Good. - Spend more on enforcement: Bad, useless, performative, Trumpian, stupid, harmful, a money pit that will never be filled or satisfied, dumb.

🚨Just 2% of the population - under 800,000 people sustained the whole of England's blood supply over the past 12 months The NHS has put out an urgent call for 200,000 donors to come forward Book an appointment or register today ❤️🙏👇 blood.co.uk

So nämlich! Und da können mir noch so viele Deppen, die glauben sich links zu verorten, vorwerfen antisemitisch zu sein. Ich weiß, dass ihr den Genozid und die faschistische Bestrebungen eines rechtsextremen Staatschefs verteidigt.

Someone please help me with the reasoning behind this, I just can't see how anyone can think this is the humane way to behave