JonGlue
@jonglue.bsky.social
Community Worker, Tomato Grower, and Ageing Hippy/Biker. Works for Community Glue CIC (supporting local groups and individuals in #Oxford, UK) and part-time as an academic (social work, social care). Yesterday's centrist Dad, today's angry young man. 🌱
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New net migration figures at 930am.
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
November 27, 2025 at 7:54 AM
New net migration figures at 930am.
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
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We’ve seen claims online that asylum seekers are being given Freedom Passes for free London travel.
They may be eligible if they meet location, age or disability criteria which apply to all Londoners. There’s no special provision for asylum seekers.
They may be eligible if they meet location, age or disability criteria which apply to all Londoners. There’s no special provision for asylum seekers.
Are asylum seekers given Freedom Passes for free travel in London? – Full Fact
There is no specific provision for asylum seekers to get free travel in London but they may be eligible for Freedom Passes like any other Londoner.
fullfact.org
November 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
We’ve seen claims online that asylum seekers are being given Freedom Passes for free London travel.
They may be eligible if they meet location, age or disability criteria which apply to all Londoners. There’s no special provision for asylum seekers.
They may be eligible if they meet location, age or disability criteria which apply to all Londoners. There’s no special provision for asylum seekers.
My #Budget2025 shock headline! Basically middle-of-the-road bog standard Labour budget, slightly more tax to pay for slightly more welfare. Off to bed.
November 27, 2025 at 1:12 AM
My #Budget2025 shock headline! Basically middle-of-the-road bog standard Labour budget, slightly more tax to pay for slightly more welfare. Off to bed.
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So we are clear welfare spending in this country is NOT “out of control”. It’s risen very little in 10+ years. Small increase due to ageing & ill population. But benefits to working age families & children have been cut severely. Over 70% of children in poverty live in working families #Budget2025
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
www.independent.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 8:14 AM
So we are clear welfare spending in this country is NOT “out of control”. It’s risen very little in 10+ years. Small increase due to ageing & ill population. But benefits to working age families & children have been cut severely. Over 70% of children in poverty live in working families #Budget2025
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Reform is a party that says things that appeal to racists, fields racist candidates, fawns over racist world leaders, made a convicted racist guest of honour at their conference, and whose leader refuses to outright deny having racially abused people.
If only there were a word for such a party.
If only there were a word for such a party.
November 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Reform is a party that says things that appeal to racists, fields racist candidates, fawns over racist world leaders, made a convicted racist guest of honour at their conference, and whose leader refuses to outright deny having racially abused people.
If only there were a word for such a party.
If only there were a word for such a party.
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As more people require adult social care, & as needs become more complex, Directors are projecting an overspend of £623mn this year. This will affect how much care people can receive & how quickly they can access it.
Read the report: adass.org.uk/documents/ad...
Read the report: adass.org.uk/documents/ad...
November 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
As more people require adult social care, & as needs become more complex, Directors are projecting an overspend of £623mn this year. This will affect how much care people can receive & how quickly they can access it.
Read the report: adass.org.uk/documents/ad...
Read the report: adass.org.uk/documents/ad...
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Latin palaeography puzzle. Is this "secretaria"? Thanks in advance.
November 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Latin palaeography puzzle. Is this "secretaria"? Thanks in advance.
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Mahmood/government should say explain *objective* of increasing time to settlement for 15 years for care workers who arrived 2022-24
Is it
A) to get them to leave? Why?
B) to save money? Then why not just restrict benefits?
C) to "encourage integration"? How? Will do opposite.
Is it
A) to get them to leave? Why?
B) to save money? Then why not just restrict benefits?
C) to "encourage integration"? How? Will do opposite.
15 years for people in medium skilled jobs and care workers too. I believe this goes down to 10 years if they earn over £50,270. Someone in a high skilled job earning over that qualifies in 5 years.
November 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Mahmood/government should say explain *objective* of increasing time to settlement for 15 years for care workers who arrived 2022-24
Is it
A) to get them to leave? Why?
B) to save money? Then why not just restrict benefits?
C) to "encourage integration"? How? Will do opposite.
Is it
A) to get them to leave? Why?
B) to save money? Then why not just restrict benefits?
C) to "encourage integration"? How? Will do opposite.
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Britain has set a new wind generation record.
"At 7:30pm on 11 November wind turbines...provided enough clean electricity to power more than 22 million homes"
"Wind was delivering 43.6% of all power on the system which means three quarters of Britain’s homes were effectively running on wind alone"
"At 7:30pm on 11 November wind turbines...provided enough clean electricity to power more than 22 million homes"
"Wind was delivering 43.6% of all power on the system which means three quarters of Britain’s homes were effectively running on wind alone"
Windpower sets new record for baseload - Energy Live News
Wind supplied 43% of all power last week setting a new record of 22.7 GW
www.energylivenews.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Britain has set a new wind generation record.
"At 7:30pm on 11 November wind turbines...provided enough clean electricity to power more than 22 million homes"
"Wind was delivering 43.6% of all power on the system which means three quarters of Britain’s homes were effectively running on wind alone"
"At 7:30pm on 11 November wind turbines...provided enough clean electricity to power more than 22 million homes"
"Wind was delivering 43.6% of all power on the system which means three quarters of Britain’s homes were effectively running on wind alone"
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🔴Nathan Gill, Voloshyn and the Kremlin’s European Network
The sentencing of Reform UK’s former leader in Wales to ten and a half years in prison opens the door to a broader investigation into the pro-Kremlin network infiltrating European politics, reports Peter Jukes
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/21/n...
The sentencing of Reform UK’s former leader in Wales to ten and a half years in prison opens the door to a broader investigation into the pro-Kremlin network infiltrating European politics, reports Peter Jukes
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/21/n...
Nathan Gill, Voloshyn and the Kremlin’s European Network
The sentencing of Reform UK's former leader in Wales to ten and a half years in prison should open the door to a broader investigation into the pro-Kremlin network that infiltrated European politics, ...
bylinetimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
🔴Nathan Gill, Voloshyn and the Kremlin’s European Network
The sentencing of Reform UK’s former leader in Wales to ten and a half years in prison opens the door to a broader investigation into the pro-Kremlin network infiltrating European politics, reports Peter Jukes
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/21/n...
The sentencing of Reform UK’s former leader in Wales to ten and a half years in prison opens the door to a broader investigation into the pro-Kremlin network infiltrating European politics, reports Peter Jukes
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/21/n...
Just watched the Oroonies Doing 'The Woods are Alive With the Smell of His Coming' www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dl_... AI decided to advertise Fabrize. There is hope for the human (monkey) race.
The Oroonies - The Woods are Alive....
YouTube video by Nik Nimbus
www.youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Just watched the Oroonies Doing 'The Woods are Alive With the Smell of His Coming' www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dl_... AI decided to advertise Fabrize. There is hope for the human (monkey) race.
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨
The Green Party has now reached over 170,000 members!
Membership growth, polling surges, by-election wins and defections, the Green Party is making hope normal again.
Join today to be part of it ⤵️
The Green Party has now reached over 170,000 members!
Membership growth, polling surges, by-election wins and defections, the Green Party is making hope normal again.
Join today to be part of it ⤵️
November 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
The Green Party has now reached over 170,000 members!
Membership growth, polling surges, by-election wins and defections, the Green Party is making hope normal again.
Join today to be part of it ⤵️
The Green Party has now reached over 170,000 members!
Membership growth, polling surges, by-election wins and defections, the Green Party is making hope normal again.
Join today to be part of it ⤵️
Are there other members of the same party who were saying similar things at the same time? If so, perhaps they should be investigated?
BREAKING: Nathan Gill, the former leader of Reform UK in Wales, has been jailed or 10-and-a-half years for making pro-Russian statements in the European Parliament for cash
Story to follow
Story to follow
November 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Are there other members of the same party who were saying similar things at the same time? If so, perhaps they should be investigated?
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Can those in Commons and media holding govt to account please keep asking this Q until we get a clear answer?
'will you be deporting thousands of children to a place they've never been minister' is a big enough & obvious enough Q that govt has to know the answer to it before they unveil the whole package - it surely has a material effect on costs, numbers, political impact, maybe legality. So either..
November 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Can those in Commons and media holding govt to account please keep asking this Q until we get a clear answer?
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53 minutes and they're still ahead ...
This deserves a repost! Hurrah!
Scotland ahead in 3 minutes!
November 18, 2025 at 9:02 PM
53 minutes and they're still ahead ...
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Joanne Thomas, General Secretary of Usdaw and Chair of Labour Unions, has a message for co-operators at our Community Britain conference.
November 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Joanne Thomas, General Secretary of Usdaw and Chair of Labour Unions, has a message for co-operators at our Community Britain conference.
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Private finance diverts money away from patient care, and into the pockets of shareholders.
We're handing in this petition at the Department of Health and Social Care in 4 days. Make sure your name is on it 👇
vist.ly/4efxt
We're handing in this petition at the Department of Health and Social Care in 4 days. Make sure your name is on it 👇
vist.ly/4efxt
November 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Private finance diverts money away from patient care, and into the pockets of shareholders.
We're handing in this petition at the Department of Health and Social Care in 4 days. Make sure your name is on it 👇
vist.ly/4efxt
We're handing in this petition at the Department of Health and Social Care in 4 days. Make sure your name is on it 👇
vist.ly/4efxt
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November 14, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Over the next week, there will be a lot of people here critiquing the Labour govt.'s plans to get the economy back on an even keel. I will probably be one of them. Worth remembering then that 18 months ago we had a govt. that had no strategy, no credibility, and which was entirely self-serving.
November 11, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Over the next week, there will be a lot of people here critiquing the Labour govt.'s plans to get the economy back on an even keel. I will probably be one of them. Worth remembering then that 18 months ago we had a govt. that had no strategy, no credibility, and which was entirely self-serving.
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Headline from a serious and long working paper on the economic impact of Brexit. Possible that this has been feeding into OBR and HMT discussions?
November 10, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Headline from a serious and long working paper on the economic impact of Brexit. Possible that this has been feeding into OBR and HMT discussions?
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The righteous spirits of Kwame Nkrumah, Harriet Tubman, and Toussaint L'Ouverture surged through me as I sheepishly explained to the Italian border control bag search agents that it's a comb, for my hair <gestures hairwards>
November 8, 2025 at 8:45 AM
The righteous spirits of Kwame Nkrumah, Harriet Tubman, and Toussaint L'Ouverture surged through me as I sheepishly explained to the Italian border control bag search agents that it's a comb, for my hair <gestures hairwards>
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Do you own an allotment and have any surplus veg you would be willing to donate to us on a regular basis? Or could you subscribe to a weekly veg box for us? www.oddbox.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Do you own an allotment and have any surplus veg you would be willing to donate to us on a regular basis? Or could you subscribe to a weekly veg box for us? www.oddbox.co.uk
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Todd Blanche says they're trying to insource attorney discipline so their crimes don't get people disbarred.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 8, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Todd Blanche says they're trying to insource attorney discipline so their crimes don't get people disbarred.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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Human trafficking.
Rupert Lowe makes more money from using Elon Musk’s website than any other MP.
There is money to be made from mass deportations and talking about mass deportations.
Rupert Lowe makes more money from using Elon Musk’s website than any other MP.
There is money to be made from mass deportations and talking about mass deportations.
November 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Human trafficking.
Rupert Lowe makes more money from using Elon Musk’s website than any other MP.
There is money to be made from mass deportations and talking about mass deportations.
Rupert Lowe makes more money from using Elon Musk’s website than any other MP.
There is money to be made from mass deportations and talking about mass deportations.