Josephine Whitaker-Yilmaz
@josephinewy.bsky.social
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Farage and his band of millionaires want to legalise discrimination - proving yet again they side with the powerful over working people.
Scrapping the Equality Act is Reform's opening move before dismantling protections for everyone.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Scrapping the Equality Act is Reform's opening move before dismantling protections for everyone.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Reform accused of ‘pitching for votes of misogynists’ with plan to scrap Equality Act
Charities have warned that scrapping the Equality Act would be a ‘significant step backwards’ for discrimination protections in Britain
www.independent.co.uk
February 18, 2026 at 9:24 AM
Farage and his band of millionaires want to legalise discrimination - proving yet again they side with the powerful over working people.
Scrapping the Equality Act is Reform's opening move before dismantling protections for everyone.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Scrapping the Equality Act is Reform's opening move before dismantling protections for everyone.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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📢"Powerful men are quick to inflame division, but slow to accept accountability for the consequences.
Migration is not an aberration in our history – like colonialism was; it is a constant thread woven through it."
@minnierahman.bsky.social for @lbc.co.uk
www.lbc.co.uk/article/ratc...
Migration is not an aberration in our history – like colonialism was; it is a constant thread woven through it."
@minnierahman.bsky.social for @lbc.co.uk
www.lbc.co.uk/article/ratc...
Ratcliffe owes migrants more than a half-hearted apology but so does Starmer – his policies created this environment | LBC
Blaming migrants for today’s economic problems is a convenient way to dodge responsibility for that failure, writes Minnie Rahman
www.lbc.co.uk
February 12, 2026 at 3:33 PM
📢"Powerful men are quick to inflame division, but slow to accept accountability for the consequences.
Migration is not an aberration in our history – like colonialism was; it is a constant thread woven through it."
@minnierahman.bsky.social for @lbc.co.uk
www.lbc.co.uk/article/ratc...
Migration is not an aberration in our history – like colonialism was; it is a constant thread woven through it."
@minnierahman.bsky.social for @lbc.co.uk
www.lbc.co.uk/article/ratc...
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Deadline is today - Praxis's guide is excellent, so get your response in
🚨 Just THREE days left to tell the Government what you think of making refugees wait 20 years for safety 🚨
We cannot let these appalling plans go unchallenged.
Follow this guide from Praxis to make sure your voice is heard.
www.praxis.org.uk/consultation
We cannot let these appalling plans go unchallenged.
Follow this guide from Praxis to make sure your voice is heard.
www.praxis.org.uk/consultation
February 12, 2026 at 9:20 AM
Deadline is today - Praxis's guide is excellent, so get your response in
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Ratfcliffe is a billionaire Brexiteer. His a football club is full of migrant players. When he talks about “colonisation” he’s talking about all black and brown people in the UK. People who do more for their communities than a billionaire who steals from them and trashed the economy they live in.
February 12, 2026 at 7:49 AM
Ratfcliffe is a billionaire Brexiteer. His a football club is full of migrant players. When he talks about “colonisation” he’s talking about all black and brown people in the UK. People who do more for their communities than a billionaire who steals from them and trashed the economy they live in.
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Spain shows the case for migrant rights is not only a moral one but an economic one. Right now, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is going in the opposite direction and the truth is, we're all going to be worse off.
People need to be able to settle in our communities in a quick and affordable way.
People need to be able to settle in our communities in a quick and affordable way.
February 11, 2026 at 11:17 AM
Spain shows the case for migrant rights is not only a moral one but an economic one. Right now, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is going in the opposite direction and the truth is, we're all going to be worse off.
People need to be able to settle in our communities in a quick and affordable way.
People need to be able to settle in our communities in a quick and affordable way.
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⚠️Our survey reveals 3 in 5 fear family separation under new settlement plans.
@minnierahman.bsky.social: "We all know migrants bring vital skills and experience. The government needs to stop penalising migrant communities and start reflecting that reality.”
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
@minnierahman.bsky.social: "We all know migrants bring vital skills and experience. The government needs to stop penalising migrant communities and start reflecting that reality.”
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Nurses’ families fear being torn apart in UK immigration crackdown, survey says
Exclusive: Most people in charity’s study say they worry about being separated from relatives under Mahmood plans
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:29 AM
⚠️Our survey reveals 3 in 5 fear family separation under new settlement plans.
@minnierahman.bsky.social: "We all know migrants bring vital skills and experience. The government needs to stop penalising migrant communities and start reflecting that reality.”
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
@minnierahman.bsky.social: "We all know migrants bring vital skills and experience. The government needs to stop penalising migrant communities and start reflecting that reality.”
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
When you hear government ministers harping on about how their immigration policy reforms are all about promoting “integration”, remember this:
10 years is a *childhood*
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
10 years is a *childhood*
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
300,000 children face 10-year wait for settled status under UK plans, says IPPR
Thinktank analysis says proposed ‘earned settlement’ changes could trap families in prolonged insecurity
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:52 AM
When you hear government ministers harping on about how their immigration policy reforms are all about promoting “integration”, remember this:
10 years is a *childhood*
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
10 years is a *childhood*
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Well, that an the fact that in the last 10 years there have been:
– 36 fire incidents;
– 12 asbestos incidents; and
– 19 stonemasonry incidents
This gif has never felt more apt
– 36 fire incidents;
– 12 asbestos incidents; and
– 19 stonemasonry incidents
This gif has never felt more apt
a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine .
ALT: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine .
media.tenor.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Well, that an the fact that in the last 10 years there have been:
– 36 fire incidents;
– 12 asbestos incidents; and
– 19 stonemasonry incidents
This gif has never felt more apt
– 36 fire incidents;
– 12 asbestos incidents; and
– 19 stonemasonry incidents
This gif has never felt more apt
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To write this sentence about Nigel Farage in 2026 is amazing: “On occasion, he is quite unlike other politicians, with flashes of honesty you wouldn't hear from others”
I’m sorry for repeating the word gaslighting a lot, but this is that.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I’m sorry for repeating the word gaslighting a lot, but this is that.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Inside Reform: Laura Kuenssberg follows Farage's party as it experiences the glare of scrutiny
The BBC has spent time interviewing senior figures and witnessing Reform's work at the largest council it runs.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 5, 2026 at 2:59 PM
To write this sentence about Nigel Farage in 2026 is amazing: “On occasion, he is quite unlike other politicians, with flashes of honesty you wouldn't hear from others”
I’m sorry for repeating the word gaslighting a lot, but this is that.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I’m sorry for repeating the word gaslighting a lot, but this is that.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
You could almost hear the penny dropping this week, as Labour MPs grapple with what the Govt’s ludicrous changes to settlement pathways are going to mean for constituents, communities and the economy.
A shame they don’t actually get a say on the changes
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A shame they don’t actually get a say on the changes
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Shabana Mahmood defends immigration reforms amid Labour opposition
Around 40 Labour MPs have raised concerns about the impact of the government's proposals.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 5, 2026 at 11:18 AM
You could almost hear the penny dropping this week, as Labour MPs grapple with what the Govt’s ludicrous changes to settlement pathways are going to mean for constituents, communities and the economy.
A shame they don’t actually get a say on the changes
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A shame they don’t actually get a say on the changes
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We all know that these deaths were entirely avoidable - but it’s still jarring to see the litany of mistakes that led to these people losing their lives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Thirty deaths in small boat crossing avoidable, inquiry finds
Inquiry chair Sir Ross Cranston said
www.bbc.co.uk
February 5, 2026 at 11:10 AM
We all know that these deaths were entirely avoidable - but it’s still jarring to see the litany of mistakes that led to these people losing their lives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This runs entirely counter to the Government’s manifesto commitment to reduce poverty for all children
"Are you worried that there will be an impact on child poverty?"
Home Secretary "This is a system of economic migration ... they chose to bring their families with them" is the underlying principle.
Home Secretary "This is a system of economic migration ... they chose to bring their families with them" is the underlying principle.
February 5, 2026 at 10:33 AM
This runs entirely counter to the Government’s manifesto commitment to reduce poverty for all children
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The Home Secretary several times says she thinks 5 years is "quite short" and "quite quick".
Views differ - but the BSA finds that the general public tend to see 5 years as fair: over 80% of people tend to think 5 years is fair
natcen.ac.uk/publications...
Views differ - but the BSA finds that the general public tend to see 5 years as fair: over 80% of people tend to think 5 years is fair
natcen.ac.uk/publications...
February 5, 2026 at 9:34 AM
The Home Secretary several times says she thinks 5 years is "quite short" and "quite quick".
Views differ - but the BSA finds that the general public tend to see 5 years as fair: over 80% of people tend to think 5 years is fair
natcen.ac.uk/publications...
Views differ - but the BSA finds that the general public tend to see 5 years as fair: over 80% of people tend to think 5 years is fair
natcen.ac.uk/publications...
This is hilariously disingenuous: of COURSE they’re trying to prevent people from settling
Asked: is the aim to get people to leave, or to qualify more slowly?
She does not seem to answer that. "I am not trying to prevent anyone from gaining settlement" but also some "would not have a basis for remaining in the country"
She does not seem to answer that. "I am not trying to prevent anyone from gaining settlement" but also some "would not have a basis for remaining in the country"
February 5, 2026 at 10:31 AM
This is hilariously disingenuous: of COURSE they’re trying to prevent people from settling
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📢"Creating a poorer, more vulnerable migrant class of workers who have no long-term stake in our society worsens wages and conditions for everyone, and increases resentment towards migrants."
@zoejardiniere.bsky.social on what Labour can do to change direction.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
@zoejardiniere.bsky.social on what Labour can do to change direction.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Labour is creating a vulnerable migrant underclass
Chasing Reform on immigration will only entrench an unequal system and increase resentment
www.newstatesman.com
February 5, 2026 at 9:48 AM
📢"Creating a poorer, more vulnerable migrant class of workers who have no long-term stake in our society worsens wages and conditions for everyone, and increases resentment towards migrants."
@zoejardiniere.bsky.social on what Labour can do to change direction.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
@zoejardiniere.bsky.social on what Labour can do to change direction.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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Do they understand how mad they sound? As if anyone has ever decided to cross the Channel in a small boat because, if they make it, they might get to take a free taxi to a doctor's appointment?
"Pull factors" on steroids.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"Pull factors" on steroids.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
February 5, 2026 at 7:01 AM
Do they understand how mad they sound? As if anyone has ever decided to cross the Channel in a small boat because, if they make it, they might get to take a free taxi to a doctor's appointment?
"Pull factors" on steroids.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"Pull factors" on steroids.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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We face the same challenges Spain did: a stagnant economy & ageing population.
Treating undocumented workers & asylum seekers as people has resulted in higher GDP & record-low unemployment.
Spain proved the moral case for migration is also an economic one.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Treating undocumented workers & asylum seekers as people has resulted in higher GDP & record-low unemployment.
Spain proved the moral case for migration is also an economic one.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
‘It’s like a gift from God’: undocumented foreign workers welcome Spanish amnesty
Half a million migrants will be ‘regularised’ under plans to boost economic growth that have angered rightwing parties
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2026 at 9:48 AM
We face the same challenges Spain did: a stagnant economy & ageing population.
Treating undocumented workers & asylum seekers as people has resulted in higher GDP & record-low unemployment.
Spain proved the moral case for migration is also an economic one.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Treating undocumented workers & asylum seekers as people has resulted in higher GDP & record-low unemployment.
Spain proved the moral case for migration is also an economic one.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Hello, I have a new book out in the spring with Picador and I would love it if you could help me spread the word.
IF WE TOLERATE THIS draws on years of work, to help readers understand why British politics is hurtling rightwards and what to do about it.
Pre-orders: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...
IF WE TOLERATE THIS draws on years of work, to help readers understand why British politics is hurtling rightwards and what to do about it.
Pre-orders: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...
January 26, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Hello, I have a new book out in the spring with Picador and I would love it if you could help me spread the word.
IF WE TOLERATE THIS draws on years of work, to help readers understand why British politics is hurtling rightwards and what to do about it.
Pre-orders: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...
IF WE TOLERATE THIS draws on years of work, to help readers understand why British politics is hurtling rightwards and what to do about it.
Pre-orders: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...
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We may not have guns but we do have:
⚠️ICE-style raids invading homes and workplaces
⚠️Indefinite detention of women, children and men
⚠️Deportation footage bragged about on TikTok
⚠️Riot police used on peaceful protest
⚠️Politicians calling for mass deportations.
This isn’t “just America.”
⚠️ICE-style raids invading homes and workplaces
⚠️Indefinite detention of women, children and men
⚠️Deportation footage bragged about on TikTok
⚠️Riot police used on peaceful protest
⚠️Politicians calling for mass deportations.
This isn’t “just America.”
"The way we do immigration enforcement could not be more different."
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood reassures LBC listeners that American ICE-style tactics will not be coming to the UK.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood reassures LBC listeners that American ICE-style tactics will not be coming to the UK.
January 28, 2026 at 9:25 AM
We may not have guns but we do have:
⚠️ICE-style raids invading homes and workplaces
⚠️Indefinite detention of women, children and men
⚠️Deportation footage bragged about on TikTok
⚠️Riot police used on peaceful protest
⚠️Politicians calling for mass deportations.
This isn’t “just America.”
⚠️ICE-style raids invading homes and workplaces
⚠️Indefinite detention of women, children and men
⚠️Deportation footage bragged about on TikTok
⚠️Riot police used on peaceful protest
⚠️Politicians calling for mass deportations.
This isn’t “just America.”
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The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
January 26, 2026 at 1:22 PM
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
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The killings in Minneapolis didn’t come out of nowhere.
Funding, legal cover, weakened oversight, and dehumanising rhetoric ramping up over a year. This started on 20 Jan 2025 with Trump's executive orders on immigration.
I lay it out in my latest post.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-ice-st...
Funding, legal cover, weakened oversight, and dehumanising rhetoric ramping up over a year. This started on 20 Jan 2025 with Trump's executive orders on immigration.
I lay it out in my latest post.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-ice-st...
The ICE Storm: a year-long escalation
Funding, law, rhetoric, violence. How each has fed the other to lead here
christinapagel.substack.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:39 AM
The killings in Minneapolis didn’t come out of nowhere.
Funding, legal cover, weakened oversight, and dehumanising rhetoric ramping up over a year. This started on 20 Jan 2025 with Trump's executive orders on immigration.
I lay it out in my latest post.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-ice-st...
Funding, legal cover, weakened oversight, and dehumanising rhetoric ramping up over a year. This started on 20 Jan 2025 with Trump's executive orders on immigration.
I lay it out in my latest post.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-ice-st...
I don't know about you but I quite like human rights laws that prevent the police from shooting me dead in the street
Suella Braverman, "There is a very strong case to increase the powers of any immigration enforcement officers that we deploy"
"At the moment they're hamstrung by human rights laws, by health and safety laws, by all sorts of needless and obstructive bureaucracy"
"At the moment they're hamstrung by human rights laws, by health and safety laws, by all sorts of needless and obstructive bureaucracy"
January 27, 2026 at 10:23 AM
I don't know about you but I quite like human rights laws that prevent the police from shooting me dead in the street
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SPOILER ALERT: "Hamstrung by human rights laws" means "not allowed to murder you for no reason".
January 27, 2026 at 2:50 AM
SPOILER ALERT: "Hamstrung by human rights laws" means "not allowed to murder you for no reason".
The Government are *stil*l screwing up people’s lives after Windrush.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
‘I’m part of this country’: Windrush man left homeless by Home Office inaction
George Campbell, 69, slept in bus station as officials questioned his right to live in the UK after hospital stay
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:02 AM
The Government are *stil*l screwing up people’s lives after Windrush.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Ministers and PM are choosing to lie about this and adopting the conspiracy based language of far right and openly nazi web forums in doing so.
They're not just paving the way for a Reform win, they are rolling the pitch for mass deportations of ethnic minorities.
They're not just paving the way for a Reform win, they are rolling the pitch for mass deportations of ethnic minorities.
“Robert Jenrick is the man who as Immigration Minister oversaw the open borders experiment that led to the biggest increase in illegal immigration in our country”
Labour's Steve Reed reacts to Robert Jenrick's decision to defect from the Conservatives to Reform UK
Labour's Steve Reed reacts to Robert Jenrick's decision to defect from the Conservatives to Reform UK
January 16, 2026 at 9:50 AM
Ministers and PM are choosing to lie about this and adopting the conspiracy based language of far right and openly nazi web forums in doing so.
They're not just paving the way for a Reform win, they are rolling the pitch for mass deportations of ethnic minorities.
They're not just paving the way for a Reform win, they are rolling the pitch for mass deportations of ethnic minorities.