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Labour are dancing to the tune of Reform's cruel agenda on asylum.
These proposals, including confiscating personal belongings, will punish people who have already endured unimaginable hardship and will create further divisions in our communities.
Plaid Cymru rejects such performative cruelty.
These proposals, including confiscating personal belongings, will punish people who have already endured unimaginable hardship and will create further divisions in our communities.
Plaid Cymru rejects such performative cruelty.
November 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Labour are dancing to the tune of Reform's cruel agenda on asylum.
These proposals, including confiscating personal belongings, will punish people who have already endured unimaginable hardship and will create further divisions in our communities.
Plaid Cymru rejects such performative cruelty.
These proposals, including confiscating personal belongings, will punish people who have already endured unimaginable hardship and will create further divisions in our communities.
Plaid Cymru rejects such performative cruelty.
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The most recent attack on the rights and dignity of those who have come to this country seeking asylum are not isolated. They form part of a wider, and dangerous, cycle of hostility and abuse against migrants. Read our response to these attacks here👇
www.migrantvoice.org/home/editori...
www.migrantvoice.org/home/editori...
November 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The most recent attack on the rights and dignity of those who have come to this country seeking asylum are not isolated. They form part of a wider, and dangerous, cycle of hostility and abuse against migrants. Read our response to these attacks here👇
www.migrantvoice.org/home/editori...
www.migrantvoice.org/home/editori...
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Everything is the fault of foreigners, everything can be fixed by penalising foreigners. To call them Little Englanders is generous and euphemistic.
Reform’s £25bn p/a savings plan. A theme emerges:
- ending foreign aid
- increase immigration health surcharge paid by foreigners
- deport foreign criminals
- end UC payments to foreign nationals
- ending foreign aid
- increase immigration health surcharge paid by foreigners
- deport foreign criminals
- end UC payments to foreign nationals
November 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Everything is the fault of foreigners, everything can be fixed by penalising foreigners. To call them Little Englanders is generous and euphemistic.
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How to lose friends and alienate people.
Lots of Labour MPs asking Mahmood tonight to rule out child detention. She won’t rule it out. That’s because forced removals of families will mean children in detention for periods.
Home Office ruling out deportation of lone minors but the changes will certainly mean more detention of children.
Home Office ruling out deportation of lone minors but the changes will certainly mean more detention of children.
November 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
How to lose friends and alienate people.
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Really not thrilled, frankly, as a leaseholder that I am set to exchange 'a really quite good Labour council' for 'some deeply weird no overall control configuration'.
One to bookmark for when Labour collapse in London next May
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November 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Really not thrilled, frankly, as a leaseholder that I am set to exchange 'a really quite good Labour council' for 'some deeply weird no overall control configuration'.
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Stella Creasy raises the threat of leaving people in limbo and the risks to children. The first MP to really discomfit Mahmood
November 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Stella Creasy raises the threat of leaving people in limbo and the risks to children. The first MP to really discomfit Mahmood
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Labour do know it. This is the issue - people know that they are being disingenuous by parroting the same old tired rhetoric. The country needs immigration and this dehumanisation will only hurt the people the country rely on. It’s shocking.
What the Labour Party used to understand was that it wasn’t that immigration was tearing the country apart, but that immigration was what was holding the country together. Immigration kept our NHS going, our transport system going, our education and much more.
It’s still true. They must know it.
It’s still true. They must know it.
November 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Labour do know it. This is the issue - people know that they are being disingenuous by parroting the same old tired rhetoric. The country needs immigration and this dehumanisation will only hurt the people the country rely on. It’s shocking.
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The misconceived notion that the way to deal with the backlog of asylum claims is to duplicate the system so as to have exit assessments too.
In essence: addressing the problem of a queue by forming another queue, just as long.
Daft, as well as cruelly unsettling.
In essence: addressing the problem of a queue by forming another queue, just as long.
Daft, as well as cruelly unsettling.
November 18, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The misconceived notion that the way to deal with the backlog of asylum claims is to duplicate the system so as to have exit assessments too.
In essence: addressing the problem of a queue by forming another queue, just as long.
Daft, as well as cruelly unsettling.
In essence: addressing the problem of a queue by forming another queue, just as long.
Daft, as well as cruelly unsettling.
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One to bookmark for when Labour collapse in London next May
November 18, 2025 at 11:36 AM
One to bookmark for when Labour collapse in London next May
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Not sure "can't tell you, its a hypothetical" is going to be much use to an MP with a pregnant refugee in their surgery, asking if they and their baby is going to be deported.
Listening to Steve Reed explain on the radio today that he can't say what Mahmood's plan means for kids of people who give birth after they've been granted asylum because that's a hypothetical Q govt can't be expected to answer right now made me think these reforms are going to unravel quite fast
November 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Not sure "can't tell you, its a hypothetical" is going to be much use to an MP with a pregnant refugee in their surgery, asking if they and their baby is going to be deported.
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Immigrants are an essential part of every sector of our economy, and this government’s ideological crusade will prove very expensive. It is demonstrably anti-growth and post Brexit we certainly don’t have the luxury to indulge this nonsense
November 18, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Immigrants are an essential part of every sector of our economy, and this government’s ideological crusade will prove very expensive. It is demonstrably anti-growth and post Brexit we certainly don’t have the luxury to indulge this nonsense
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Shabana Mahmood is wrong - Another cowardly attack on immigrants does not hide the incompetence of the Starmer government.
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Shabana Mahmood is wrong
Another cowardly attack on immigrants does not hide the incompetence of the Starmer government
www.newstatesman.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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-...
Me, for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
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Cruelty does nothing to secure our borders.
It's good that the Home Secretary has definitively ruled out confiscating jewellery from refugees - but our focus must now be on building a fair asylum system that prioritises safe and legal routes, not more Tory-style ineffective cruelty.
It's good that the Home Secretary has definitively ruled out confiscating jewellery from refugees - but our focus must now be on building a fair asylum system that prioritises safe and legal routes, not more Tory-style ineffective cruelty.
November 18, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Cruelty does nothing to secure our borders.
It's good that the Home Secretary has definitively ruled out confiscating jewellery from refugees - but our focus must now be on building a fair asylum system that prioritises safe and legal routes, not more Tory-style ineffective cruelty.
It's good that the Home Secretary has definitively ruled out confiscating jewellery from refugees - but our focus must now be on building a fair asylum system that prioritises safe and legal routes, not more Tory-style ineffective cruelty.
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Very good on the legal implications of today's proposals. There's still a lot of missing details.
New post
The legal and constitutional implications of the asylum white paper: Some initial thoughts
publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/11/17/t...
The legal and constitutional implications of the asylum white paper: Some initial thoughts
publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/11/17/t...
The legal and constitutional implications of the asylum white paper: Some initial thoughts
Proposals for radical reform of the UK’s asylum system raise a number of legal and constitutional issues, with respect both to the European Convention on Human Rights and the domestic principle of …
publiclawforeveryone.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Very good on the legal implications of today's proposals. There's still a lot of missing details.
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An absolutely shocking story in two parts and outstanding journalism to boot.
Part one
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
Part one
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived
Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 7:29 AM
An absolutely shocking story in two parts and outstanding journalism to boot.
Part one
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
Part one
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
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The mystery of whether this can be attributed to a No 10 chief of staff who is actually an electoral strategist will sadly never be solved
November 18, 2025 at 10:41 AM
The mystery of whether this can be attributed to a No 10 chief of staff who is actually an electoral strategist will sadly never be solved
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Their cognitive block on “the policies do actually have to work. You are the government and wil be judged on outcomes” is fascinating
November 18, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Their cognitive block on “the policies do actually have to work. You are the government and wil be judged on outcomes” is fascinating
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There is abundant evidence in the social science literature that (a) social norms matter (b) political elites play an important role in setting and reinforcing social norms (c) that 'unexpected' rhetoric behaviour (e.g. centre left sounding intolerant) has more powerful corrosive effect on norms.
November 18, 2025 at 10:28 AM
There is abundant evidence in the social science literature that (a) social norms matter (b) political elites play an important role in setting and reinforcing social norms (c) that 'unexpected' rhetoric behaviour (e.g. centre left sounding intolerant) has more powerful corrosive effect on norms.
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All that said, Stephen is entirely right when he says this: "this government’s biggest failing, which is that it is essentially incapable of saying that racism is wrong, full stop. That is a far bigger contributor to emboldened racism in the UK."
November 18, 2025 at 10:28 AM
All that said, Stephen is entirely right when he says this: "this government’s biggest failing, which is that it is essentially incapable of saying that racism is wrong, full stop. That is a far bigger contributor to emboldened racism in the UK."
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Mahmood may have used blunter language, but in both her language and her thinking she is the heir to both Jenkins and Thatcher, and indeed to every other Home Secretary arguing for control. The notion that race relations and immigration numbers are linked seems an article of Home Office faith. /ends
November 18, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Mahmood may have used blunter language, but in both her language and her thinking she is the heir to both Jenkins and Thatcher, and indeed to every other Home Secretary arguing for control. The notion that race relations and immigration numbers are linked seems an article of Home Office faith. /ends
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For example, Mrs Thatcher in her infamous Granada interview, where she said people were worried about being "swamped" by those with a different culture, said "if you want good race relations, you have got to allay peoples’ fears on numbers."
November 18, 2025 at 10:23 AM
For example, Mrs Thatcher in her infamous Granada interview, where she said people were worried about being "swamped" by those with a different culture, said "if you want good race relations, you have got to allay peoples’ fears on numbers."
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Selling this pairing resulted in this formula that tough immigration control was a necessary condition for promoting good race relations. Once developed, it was reiterated by those pushing for controls in every subsequent immigration debate.
November 18, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Selling this pairing resulted in this formula that tough immigration control was a necessary condition for promoting good race relations. Once developed, it was reiterated by those pushing for controls in every subsequent immigration debate.
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Anyway, back to Jenkins. Liberals like him in Labour were not at all happy at what was an obviously racist change in citizenship policy, which left tens of thousands of people stateless. So Wilson sought to buy them off with the first race relations legislation.
November 18, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Anyway, back to Jenkins. Liberals like him in Labour were not at all happy at what was an obviously racist change in citizenship policy, which left tens of thousands of people stateless. So Wilson sought to buy them off with the first race relations legislation.
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...otherwise the door would open to the far right (funny how history repeats). In this respect - combining stern sounding anti-racist rhetoric to mollify liberals with hardline immigration policies - Starmer really is the heir to Wilson, the PM he says he admires most.
November 18, 2025 at 10:23 AM
...otherwise the door would open to the far right (funny how history repeats). In this respect - combining stern sounding anti-racist rhetoric to mollify liberals with hardline immigration policies - Starmer really is the heir to Wilson, the PM he says he admires most.
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I think Stephen is right that no previous govt would put the link so bluntly - "we need immigration control to ensure safety of minorities" but the formula "strong immigration control is vital to good race relations" has in fact been a central plank of every govt's arg for imm controls since 1960s
November 18, 2025 at 10:23 AM
I think Stephen is right that no previous govt would put the link so bluntly - "we need immigration control to ensure safety of minorities" but the formula "strong immigration control is vital to good race relations" has in fact been a central plank of every govt's arg for imm controls since 1960s