Alex Sciarra
@alexasciarra.bsky.social
Head of Policy, Comms & Public affairs at @stvincentdepaul.bsky.social | Work on asylum policy, social security reform and anti-poverty| Outreach with @streetskitchen.bsky.social | Opinions and views personal
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Ah so now UK's immigration policy is being run by a nightclub bouncer with a god complex. You're not on the list, you're not coming in? This is no way to treat people seeking sanctuary in the UK and what's more - it will not work.
Starmer takes on the charge that the “one-in-one-out” migrant deal is too lenient: “We accept genuine asylum seekers because it is right that we offer a haven to those in dire need”.
July 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Ah so now UK's immigration policy is being run by a nightclub bouncer with a god complex. You're not on the list, you're not coming in? This is no way to treat people seeking sanctuary in the UK and what's more - it will not work.
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The UK government's immigration white paper has now been published: www.gov.uk/government/p...
Restoring control over the immigration system: white paper
The white paper sets out the government's plans to create an immigration system which promotes growth but is controlled and managed.
www.gov.uk
May 12, 2025 at 8:56 AM
The UK government's immigration white paper has now been published: www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Today, a group of our passionate young Vincentians from
two of our schools in East London had the incredible opportunity to meet with Minister and MP for East Ham Stephen Timms to talk about our Lent campaign.. 1/3
two of our schools in East London had the incredible opportunity to meet with Minister and MP for East Ham Stephen Timms to talk about our Lent campaign.. 1/3
March 31, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Today, a group of our passionate young Vincentians from
two of our schools in East London had the incredible opportunity to meet with Minister and MP for East Ham Stephen Timms to talk about our Lent campaign.. 1/3
two of our schools in East London had the incredible opportunity to meet with Minister and MP for East Ham Stephen Timms to talk about our Lent campaign.. 1/3
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🚨The Government has scrapped its contract with a supplier providing hotels for people seeking asylum due to 'issues with its behaviour'.
No examples have been revealed by the Home Office.
Here's what we know about hotels from our research👇
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No examples have been revealed by the Home Office.
Here's what we know about hotels from our research👇
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Government to drop asylum hotel provider Stay Belvedere Hotels
Home Office audit finds
www.bbc.co.uk
March 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
🚨The Government has scrapped its contract with a supplier providing hotels for people seeking asylum due to 'issues with its behaviour'.
No examples have been revealed by the Home Office.
Here's what we know about hotels from our research👇
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No examples have been revealed by the Home Office.
Here's what we know about hotels from our research👇
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Fascinating interview, and Ash Sarkar is right on point.
"The Left are competing over who can be the victim. It's 𝘴𝘰 corrosive to solidarity: It stops people being able to work together."
Ash Sarkar on how identity politics has fractured the Left against its opponents.
Ash Sarkar on how identity politics has fractured the Left against its opponents.
Ash Sarkar: How the Left is DESTROYING ITSELF!
YouTube video by The News Agents
www.youtube.com
February 25, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Fascinating interview, and Ash Sarkar is right on point.
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Absolute respect for @stellacreasy.bsky.social for calling out this inhumane, and illegal, policy
This should be changed asap.
If we give someone refugee status, it can't be right to then refuse them route to become a British Citizen. To say they can have a home in our country, but never a place in our society and be forever second class. freemovement.org.uk/good-charact...
If we give someone refugee status, it can't be right to then refuse them route to become a British Citizen. To say they can have a home in our country, but never a place in our society and be forever second class. freemovement.org.uk/good-charact...
Good character guidance amended to block refugees from naturalisation - Free Movement
There have been some important additions to pages 50 and 51 of the Good Character guidance (a comparison of the new and old versions is here) that have the
freemovement.org.uk
February 12, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Absolute respect for @stellacreasy.bsky.social for calling out this inhumane, and illegal, policy
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The battle for Labour’s soul – my piece on how an insurgent Blue Labour is colliding with the Treasury and the progressive left. www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
The battle for Labour’s soul
An insurgent Blue Labour is colliding with the Treasury and the progressive left.
www.newstatesman.com
February 10, 2025 at 7:54 AM
The battle for Labour’s soul – my piece on how an insurgent Blue Labour is colliding with the Treasury and the progressive left. www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
The Government’s plan to broadcast videos of immigration raids and deportations is cruel and plays right into the hands of reform. This is what Trump did in his first week, are we really using the same scaremongering tactics as that guy?!
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Minister defends plan to broadcast footage of deportation of illegal workers – UK politics live
Angela Eagle defends government plan to broadcast deportations as Home Office launches new immigration raids
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2025 at 9:44 AM
The Government’s plan to broadcast videos of immigration raids and deportations is cruel and plays right into the hands of reform. This is what Trump did in his first week, are we really using the same scaremongering tactics as that guy?!
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Important coverage of the ongoing pause in the processing of Syrian asylum claims, as well as settlement applications, by @lizziedearden.bsky.social. People shouldn’t just be left in limbo because of an indefinite pause www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
Thousands of Syrians in limbo as UK Home Office freezes asylum claims
Two months after the fall of Assad’s regime, Whitehall’s decision to pause asylum applications from Syrians has left more than 6,600 cases stuck on hold in the UK
www.theguardian.com
February 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Important coverage of the ongoing pause in the processing of Syrian asylum claims, as well as settlement applications, by @lizziedearden.bsky.social. People shouldn’t just be left in limbo because of an indefinite pause www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
The Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill is out today. I hope it will be more positive than the last few migration bills we’ve seen..
January 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill is out today. I hope it will be more positive than the last few migration bills we’ve seen..
These “offshoring” #asylum schemes have never and will never work. Italy’s failed Albanian scheme is proof of that www.politico.eu/article/gior...
Meloni’s Albanian migrant detention centers are now ghost towns
The much-touted solution to Europe’s migration crisis houses only Italian police — who have taken to adopting stray dogs and sunbathing.
www.politico.eu
January 6, 2025 at 11:19 AM
These “offshoring” #asylum schemes have never and will never work. Italy’s failed Albanian scheme is proof of that www.politico.eu/article/gior...
This is the right person to chose for person of the year. Shame on Time magazine for choosing Trump.
On Thursday the 2024 issue of @theneweuropean.bsky.social comes out and they have given me the platform to explain why Gisèle Pelicot is my hero and how she radically changed the conversation about shame and sexual assault
It is my proudest writing.
app.theneweuropean.co.uk/2024/10/26/v...
It is my proudest writing.
app.theneweuropean.co.uk/2024/10/26/v...
December 13, 2024 at 8:34 AM
This is the right person to chose for person of the year. Shame on Time magazine for choosing Trump.
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Our Doors of Hope social justice report has officially launched today! 🚨
Sharing key insights from our centres, testimonies from our beneficiaries and our policy recommendations, our report explores the ways our centres keep the doors of hope open this winter.
svp.org.uk/news/our-lat...
Sharing key insights from our centres, testimonies from our beneficiaries and our policy recommendations, our report explores the ways our centres keep the doors of hope open this winter.
svp.org.uk/news/our-lat...
December 10, 2024 at 2:14 PM
Our Doors of Hope social justice report has officially launched today! 🚨
Sharing key insights from our centres, testimonies from our beneficiaries and our policy recommendations, our report explores the ways our centres keep the doors of hope open this winter.
svp.org.uk/news/our-lat...
Sharing key insights from our centres, testimonies from our beneficiaries and our policy recommendations, our report explores the ways our centres keep the doors of hope open this winter.
svp.org.uk/news/our-lat...
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"Jubilation and euphoria now. but what next? What about the hard yards of actually governing this country?"
Despite the liberation of Syria from the brutal Assad regime, its future remains uncertain
Despite the liberation of Syria from the brutal Assad regime, its future remains uncertain
Syria liberation: What comes next, and can Hayat Tahrir al-Sham rule?
The scenes from Syria are ones of jubilation as people celebrate the downfall of Bashar al-Assad, but what comes next for the country?
articles.globalplayer.com
December 9, 2024 at 11:59 AM
"Jubilation and euphoria now. but what next? What about the hard yards of actually governing this country?"
Despite the liberation of Syria from the brutal Assad regime, its future remains uncertain
Despite the liberation of Syria from the brutal Assad regime, its future remains uncertain
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Video shows thousands of cars jamming roads to Damascus as displaced people return to the capital after hearing the Assad regime had been overthrown by the opposition.
December 9, 2024 at 8:08 AM
Video shows thousands of cars jamming roads to Damascus as displaced people return to the capital after hearing the Assad regime had been overthrown by the opposition.
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Bluesky wants to be “part of the conversation” in Westminster, as more MPs flock to the app
Top Bluesky executive @rose.bsky.team told me about their plans for expansion and their “fundamentally different” approach to social media debate
Plus lots of nuggets on changes Bluesky might have in store
Top Bluesky executive @rose.bsky.team told me about their plans for expansion and their “fundamentally different” approach to social media debate
Plus lots of nuggets on changes Bluesky might have in store
Bluesky Wants To Be 'Part Of' Westminster Conversation
A senior executive of Bluesky has said that she wants the emerging social media platform to be “part of the conversation” in Westminster and expand...
www.politicshome.com
December 7, 2024 at 12:04 PM
Bluesky wants to be “part of the conversation” in Westminster, as more MPs flock to the app
Top Bluesky executive @rose.bsky.team told me about their plans for expansion and their “fundamentally different” approach to social media debate
Plus lots of nuggets on changes Bluesky might have in store
Top Bluesky executive @rose.bsky.team told me about their plans for expansion and their “fundamentally different” approach to social media debate
Plus lots of nuggets on changes Bluesky might have in store
Whoop whoop 🙌
A remarkable stat: Heidi Alexander’s appointment as Transport Secretary means the cabinet is now 100% state-educated for the first time in history.
November 29, 2024 at 5:42 PM
Whoop whoop 🙌
“Activist judges” have nothing to do with this debate. Using this discussion to make personal points about a completely different issue is not right
Shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick on the assisted dying bill:
“This Act, if passed, will be subject to activist judges in Strasbourg [the ECtHR] — they will change it fundamentally and we have to be prepared for that.”
“This Act, if passed, will be subject to activist judges in Strasbourg [the ECtHR] — they will change it fundamentally and we have to be prepared for that.”
November 29, 2024 at 4:23 PM
“Activist judges” have nothing to do with this debate. Using this discussion to make personal points about a completely different issue is not right
Very interesting graph on today’s assisted dying bill voting patterns by party
I've put together a (hopefully!) useful chart showing how MPs voted on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill👇
You can see this and all of our coverage on @politicshome.bsky.social
You can see this and all of our coverage on @politicshome.bsky.social
November 29, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Very interesting graph on today’s assisted dying bill voting patterns by party
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GOOD NEWS: For the first time in nearly 30 years, legal aid rates are set to increase.
With over 50% of people seeking asylum unable to get access to legal support, this investment is a desperately needed win.
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
With over 50% of people seeking asylum unable to get access to legal support, this investment is a desperately needed win.
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
Asylum legal aid rates set to increase for first time in almost 30 years
Legal aid rates, which fund solicitors to help asylum seekers through their cases, have not increased since 1996, a real-terms cut of 48%.
www.bigissue.com
November 29, 2024 at 3:02 PM
GOOD NEWS: For the first time in nearly 30 years, legal aid rates are set to increase.
With over 50% of people seeking asylum unable to get access to legal support, this investment is a desperately needed win.
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
With over 50% of people seeking asylum unable to get access to legal support, this investment is a desperately needed win.
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
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330 ayes
275 no.
The assisted dying bill has gone through.
275 no.
The assisted dying bill has gone through.
November 29, 2024 at 2:24 PM
330 ayes
275 no.
The assisted dying bill has gone through.
275 no.
The assisted dying bill has gone through.
Following the #AssistedDyingBill debate, and hearing all the stories of terminally ill people who had to die in agony is really shocking and incredibly sad
November 29, 2024 at 11:31 AM
Following the #AssistedDyingBill debate, and hearing all the stories of terminally ill people who had to die in agony is really shocking and incredibly sad
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November 29, 2024 at 11:13 AM
Proud second follower of the amazing @smkcampaigners.bsky.social! As an alumna of their great campaigners training it’s great to see SMK on BlueSky. Follow them today!
Exactly this. The scaremongering around the number of people coming on small boats is unnecessary and ridiculous.
Watching @edconway.bsky.social dissect the latest immigration figures and it’s remarkable what a tiny percentage of the number comes from people on small boat crossings
Completely disproportionate to the attention given to this by the media and many politicians
Completely disproportionate to the attention given to this by the media and many politicians
November 28, 2024 at 1:04 PM
Exactly this. The scaremongering around the number of people coming on small boats is unnecessary and ridiculous.
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The new asylum stats show the impact of the Labour government unblocking the asylum system. More initial interviews took place in both August & September than during the last government's backlog clearance. In June there were 1,157 interviews - August there were 10,327 and September 11,540.
November 28, 2024 at 9:38 AM
The new asylum stats show the impact of the Labour government unblocking the asylum system. More initial interviews took place in both August & September than during the last government's backlog clearance. In June there were 1,157 interviews - August there were 10,327 and September 11,540.