Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ
@baoigheallain.bsky.social
Not a cyclist, but gets around on a bike.
Now reluctantly involved in the Building Safety Crisis
Now reluctantly involved in the Building Safety Crisis
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Do they think that somehow they can rise above the appalling inefficiency of hydrogen?
November 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Do they think that somehow they can rise above the appalling inefficiency of hydrogen?
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There is no reason why this should have made me laugh so hard a bit of gas escaped.
November 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
There is no reason why this should have made me laugh so hard a bit of gas escaped.
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November 16, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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🌍 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
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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
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![Dear [my MP’s name],
As the Home Secretary prepares to announce sweeping changes to the UK’s asylum system, I see it as both my duty as a citizen and responsibility as a migration expert to do all I can to urge policymakers to oppose the proposals—not only for what they will do to refugees, though that is the first concern, but also for what they will mean for all of us and the future society we live in.
That is why I am writing to you as my MP. This letter explains why I consider the need to oppose the Home Secretary’s proposals urgent and, at the most fundamental level, in the national and your constituents’ interest.
I was born in Germany, a country whose history taught me how quickly societies can go down dark paths; how quickly our leaders can fail in the choices they make. But the history of the displacement of people that the Nazi regime was responsible for also shaped my understanding of why refugee movements occur—and why our response to any of them can never compromise what are, and must always be, universal human rights.
Which is why what is happening in the UK now is so deeply alarming.
A manufactured crisis
As of June 2025, there were 42.5 million refugees globally. Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries; most of them immediate neighbours. Overall, five countries—Colombia, Germany, Türkiye, Iran and Uganda—host a third of the total number of refugees; Germany is the main host in the EU, hosting 2.7 million.
The UK hosts 548,000 refugees; that is 0.78% of the UK population. About 110,000 people are in receipt of asylum support; that is 0.15% of the UK population.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bru4h6s37w4hfmwhetu7veye/bafkreidmewc5timbx7nh57qyq7lm7gmhvclzidmloqhwgckpnegnddoicq@jpeg)
November 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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The people who would have you rounded up in the middle of the the night, herded into empty sports stadiums, and dropped out of helicopters over open sea are arguing with one another.
November 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The people who would have you rounded up in the middle of the the night, herded into empty sports stadiums, and dropped out of helicopters over open sea are arguing with one another.
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And no one who still believes in all the things a Labour party is supposed to stand for should remain a member because you are now in a right wing, racist transphobic, anti-immigrant, party led by venal dullards only interested in power and serving capital
Hard to understand how the UK Labour party has even a single member left, seeing as it it has now become everything that you imagine someone once drawn to joining a Labour party is vehemently against. No one joins a Labour party hoping to punch down on the weakest and advance far right arguments
November 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
And no one who still believes in all the things a Labour party is supposed to stand for should remain a member because you are now in a right wing, racist transphobic, anti-immigrant, party led by venal dullards only interested in power and serving capital
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Someone in Labour needs to start telling the truth to the leadership. Soon. This can't go on - it's not just nasty, it's unsustainable.
November 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Someone in Labour needs to start telling the truth to the leadership. Soon. This can't go on - it's not just nasty, it's unsustainable.
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People who voted Reform in Cornwall, Kent and elsewhere must be feeling rather foolish…
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
When reality bites: the rapid rise and chaotic fall of Reform UK in Cornwall
Resignations, suspensions and infighting lead to party losing crown of highest number of seats in the county
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:53 PM
People who voted Reform in Cornwall, Kent and elsewhere must be feeling rather foolish…
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Imo at this point Labour’s only real option both for its own continued viability and for preventing a total collapse in favor of Farage-ism, is electoral reform. The only way to salvage the sinking ship is to implement PR before their five year term is up.
November 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Imo at this point Labour’s only real option both for its own continued viability and for preventing a total collapse in favor of Farage-ism, is electoral reform. The only way to salvage the sinking ship is to implement PR before their five year term is up.
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It's not just that work under these platforms is often done illegally (illegal vehicles; uninsured; breaking road traffic laws; modern slavery infiltrated labour).
But even if you solve those problems; the employment model is exploitative to try and hide the fact that these are, in fact, employees.
But even if you solve those problems; the employment model is exploitative to try and hide the fact that these are, in fact, employees.
We are living in a real-life episode of Black Mirror: an app dispatches workers, monitors their every move, while riders - some using rented identities - risk abuse, exhaustion and invisibility.
“We are a very modern kind of slave.”
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
“We are a very modern kind of slave.”
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Life as a food delivery worker: ‘Sometimes men open the door naked’
To earn a living as a delivery rider, some work 10-12 hour days, contending with low pay, exhaustion, accidents, injuries and harassment. Is this a new form of modern slavery?
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:33 PM
It's not just that work under these platforms is often done illegally (illegal vehicles; uninsured; breaking road traffic laws; modern slavery infiltrated labour).
But even if you solve those problems; the employment model is exploitative to try and hide the fact that these are, in fact, employees.
But even if you solve those problems; the employment model is exploitative to try and hide the fact that these are, in fact, employees.
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A Labour MP, there. Do you see why we said these clowns were disastrous and had to be sidelined as a matter of urgency?
November 16, 2025 at 12:47 PM
A Labour MP, there. Do you see why we said these clowns were disastrous and had to be sidelined as a matter of urgency?
If HMG ministers and Labour MPs got off Twitter today, there would be a measurable improvement tomorrow.
Governments and voters are both reacting to algorithm-shaped “public opinion,” not grounded priorities. Immigration feels urgent because platforms amplify fear, pulling parties into hollow performances of toughness. The far right reads that drift as confirmation it’s winning.
Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
November 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
If HMG ministers and Labour MPs got off Twitter today, there would be a measurable improvement tomorrow.
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Governments and voters are both reacting to algorithm-shaped “public opinion,” not grounded priorities. Immigration feels urgent because platforms amplify fear, pulling parties into hollow performances of toughness. The far right reads that drift as confirmation it’s winning.
Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
November 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Governments and voters are both reacting to algorithm-shaped “public opinion,” not grounded priorities. Immigration feels urgent because platforms amplify fear, pulling parties into hollow performances of toughness. The far right reads that drift as confirmation it’s winning.
"Thoughts and prayers".
So frustrating. We need more than prayers from our politicians, we need them to take action: stricter licensing, stricter speed limits, stricter enforcement.
Some motorists will squeal but so-what, better that than five families missing their young ones.
So frustrating. We need more than prayers from our politicians, we need them to take action: stricter licensing, stricter speed limits, stricter enforcement.
Some motorists will squeal but so-what, better that than five families missing their young ones.
Gardaí and political leaders have expressed shock and sadness following last night's crash in Co Louth, in which five young people were killed, with the Minister with Responsibility for Road Safety saying the incident has "numbed the nation"
'It has numbed nation' - Shock, sadness after Louth crash
Gardaí and political leaders have expressed shock and sadness following last night's crash in Co Louth, in which five young people were killed, with the Minister with Responsibility for Road Safety sa...
www.rte.ie
November 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
"Thoughts and prayers".
So frustrating. We need more than prayers from our politicians, we need them to take action: stricter licensing, stricter speed limits, stricter enforcement.
Some motorists will squeal but so-what, better that than five families missing their young ones.
So frustrating. We need more than prayers from our politicians, we need them to take action: stricter licensing, stricter speed limits, stricter enforcement.
Some motorists will squeal but so-what, better that than five families missing their young ones.
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Gardaí and political leaders have expressed shock and sadness following last night's crash in Co Louth, in which five young people were killed, with the Minister with Responsibility for Road Safety saying the incident has "numbed the nation"
'It has numbed nation' - Shock, sadness after Louth crash
Gardaí and political leaders have expressed shock and sadness following last night's crash in Co Louth, in which five young people were killed, with the Minister with Responsibility for Road Safety sa...
www.rte.ie
November 16, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Gardaí and political leaders have expressed shock and sadness following last night's crash in Co Louth, in which five young people were killed, with the Minister with Responsibility for Road Safety saying the incident has "numbed the nation"
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So to summarize, your image is packed with mistakes, uses an exploitative tech, fails to communicate a clear message, displays your ignorance, insults the people of that county, makes you look like environmental vandals and fails to describe your key demographic.
This is why you pay a designer. 7/7
This is why you pay a designer. 7/7
November 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
So to summarize, your image is packed with mistakes, uses an exploitative tech, fails to communicate a clear message, displays your ignorance, insults the people of that county, makes you look like environmental vandals and fails to describe your key demographic.
This is why you pay a designer. 7/7
This is why you pay a designer. 7/7
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A number of people have died and others have been injured in a road crash in Co Louth last night.
Number of people die in Co Louth road crash
A number of people have died and others have been injured in a road crash in Co Louth last night.
www.rte.ie
November 16, 2025 at 8:49 AM
A number of people have died and others have been injured in a road crash in Co Louth last night.
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Dear Mahmood/Labour,
Once the strutting fascist, Yaxley Lennon, is taking credit for your policies, you must know you’ve completely lost your way. You need to get your head out of your arse and your account off X.
Yours
The real silent (fair-minded and ignored) majority of the UK
Once the strutting fascist, Yaxley Lennon, is taking credit for your policies, you must know you’ve completely lost your way. You need to get your head out of your arse and your account off X.
Yours
The real silent (fair-minded and ignored) majority of the UK
Tommy Robinson is claiming credit for the language/policy being used by the Labour government (about deporting people found to be refugees once their home country is deemed safe)
November 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Dear Mahmood/Labour,
Once the strutting fascist, Yaxley Lennon, is taking credit for your policies, you must know you’ve completely lost your way. You need to get your head out of your arse and your account off X.
Yours
The real silent (fair-minded and ignored) majority of the UK
Once the strutting fascist, Yaxley Lennon, is taking credit for your policies, you must know you’ve completely lost your way. You need to get your head out of your arse and your account off X.
Yours
The real silent (fair-minded and ignored) majority of the UK
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WOW! Mahmood doing a perfect impersonation of Priti Patel this morning. So disturbing to see female MPs with virtually no sense of empathy in the mainstream Parties. We were told that more women in Parly would lead to greater empathy.
More Green MPs is what we need, any gender!
More Green MPs is what we need, any gender!
November 16, 2025 at 10:07 AM
WOW! Mahmood doing a perfect impersonation of Priti Patel this morning. So disturbing to see female MPs with virtually no sense of empathy in the mainstream Parties. We were told that more women in Parly would lead to greater empathy.
More Green MPs is what we need, any gender!
More Green MPs is what we need, any gender!
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Labour are making the far right happy. Just not anyone else.
We need an alternative.
join.greenparty.org.uk
We need an alternative.
join.greenparty.org.uk
November 16, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Labour are making the far right happy. Just not anyone else.
We need an alternative.
join.greenparty.org.uk
We need an alternative.
join.greenparty.org.uk
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I do hope those sensibles telling me that Labour's new policy was fair and sensible are enjoying Tommy Robinson's endorsement of it this morning.
That's who you've joined.
Tommy Robinson.
That's who you've joined.
Tommy Robinson.
November 16, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I do hope those sensibles telling me that Labour's new policy was fair and sensible are enjoying Tommy Robinson's endorsement of it this morning.
That's who you've joined.
Tommy Robinson.
That's who you've joined.
Tommy Robinson.
When you have pleased Yaxley two-names you know you are on the wrong side.
Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
November 16, 2025 at 11:15 AM
When you have pleased Yaxley two-names you know you are on the wrong side.
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This is the logical consequence of Labour’s appeasement of the far right - this is an arms race Labour should never seek to win
Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
November 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM
This is the logical consequence of Labour’s appeasement of the far right - this is an arms race Labour should never seek to win
Horrific. Yes a Land Cruiser is likely to kill the five occupants of a Golf.
Either we ban Land Cruisers and/or govern their speed.
All five victims under 25. This happens too frequently on Ireland's weekend roads.
Stricter licensing, stricter speed limits needed.
Either we ban Land Cruisers and/or govern their speed.
All five victims under 25. This happens too frequently on Ireland's weekend roads.
Stricter licensing, stricter speed limits needed.
#Breaking Five young people have died and three others have been injured in a road crash in Dundalk in Co Louth
Five young people dead, three injured in Dundalk crash
Five young people have died and three others have been injured in a road crash in Dundalk in Co Louth.
www.rte.ie
November 16, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Horrific. Yes a Land Cruiser is likely to kill the five occupants of a Golf.
Either we ban Land Cruisers and/or govern their speed.
All five victims under 25. This happens too frequently on Ireland's weekend roads.
Stricter licensing, stricter speed limits needed.
Either we ban Land Cruisers and/or govern their speed.
All five victims under 25. This happens too frequently on Ireland's weekend roads.
Stricter licensing, stricter speed limits needed.
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#Breaking Five young people have died and three others have been injured in a road crash in Dundalk in Co Louth
Five young people dead, three injured in Dundalk crash
Five young people have died and three others have been injured in a road crash in Dundalk in Co Louth.
www.rte.ie
November 16, 2025 at 10:37 AM
#Breaking Five young people have died and three others have been injured in a road crash in Dundalk in Co Louth