Nick Beales
@nickbeales.bsky.social
Head of Campaigning at RAMFEL
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Good to see Starmer calling out Ratcliffe the tax exile’s obviously racist & divisive language.
Glass houses & all that though, considering Starmer’s own vicious rhetoric & the fact his govt is boasting about making the UK as unpleasant as possible for migrants.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Glass houses & all that though, considering Starmer’s own vicious rhetoric & the fact his govt is boasting about making the UK as unpleasant as possible for migrants.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Starmer tells Jim Ratcliffe to apologise for saying UK ‘colonised’ by immigrants
PM calls comments by Man United co-owner, who also hit out at people on benefits, ‘offensive and wrong’
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Good to see Starmer calling out Ratcliffe the tax exile’s obviously racist & divisive language.
Glass houses & all that though, considering Starmer’s own vicious rhetoric & the fact his govt is boasting about making the UK as unpleasant as possible for migrants.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Glass houses & all that though, considering Starmer’s own vicious rhetoric & the fact his govt is boasting about making the UK as unpleasant as possible for migrants.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Bro is busy colonising Monaco so don’t blame him for being ignorant about the UK.
February 11, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Bro is busy colonising Monaco so don’t blame him for being ignorant about the UK.
I assumed it’d be hard to find new reasons to hate on Man U, but having a tax-exiled owner who, with no sense or irony, still feels the need to shit on migrants in the UK will do it.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
UK being ‘colonised by immigrants’, says Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe
Britain’s seventh-richest man, who vocally backed Brexit then moved to tax-free Monaco, also hits out at people on benefits
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 6:29 PM
I assumed it’d be hard to find new reasons to hate on Man U, but having a tax-exiled owner who, with no sense or irony, still feels the need to shit on migrants in the UK will do it.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Still a long way to go, but this has to be a strong contender already for the most insincere and disingenuous political speech of the year award.
Still a long way to go, but this has to be a strong contender already for the most insincere and disingenuous political speech of the year award.
Starmer:
"The real fight is not in the Labour Party. It's with the right-wing politics that challenges that. The politics of Reform... Divide, divide, divide. Grievance, grievance, grievance. That will tear our country apart... I will be in that fight as long as I have breath in my body."
"The real fight is not in the Labour Party. It's with the right-wing politics that challenges that. The politics of Reform... Divide, divide, divide. Grievance, grievance, grievance. That will tear our country apart... I will be in that fight as long as I have breath in my body."
February 10, 2026 at 10:45 PM
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Still a long way to go, but this has to be a strong contender already for the most insincere and disingenuous political speech of the year award.
Still a long way to go, but this has to be a strong contender already for the most insincere and disingenuous political speech of the year award.
Meanwhile in mainland Europe, their wealthy and power hungry leaders think it’s OK to treat our fellow human beings like inconvenient chattel to be shunted around the globe.
Why did Farage want to leave that club again? It sounds right up his street.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Why did Farage want to leave that club again? It sounds right up his street.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
EU moves closer to creating offshore centres for migrants and asylum seekers
MEPs vote to allow people to be deported to places they have never been to, as NGOs express fears over new ‘safe third countries’ list
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Meanwhile in mainland Europe, their wealthy and power hungry leaders think it’s OK to treat our fellow human beings like inconvenient chattel to be shunted around the globe.
Why did Farage want to leave that club again? It sounds right up his street.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Why did Farage want to leave that club again? It sounds right up his street.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
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Humane and sensible approaches to asylum policy.
No doubt Starmer and Mahmood will be picking up the phone to @alfdubs.bsky.social to discuss any day now…
Humane and sensible approaches to asylum policy.
No doubt Starmer and Mahmood will be picking up the phone to @alfdubs.bsky.social to discuss any day now…
Children need their families. Refugee children are no different.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘Pulling up the drawbridge’: Alf Dubs criticises Shabana Mahmood’s plans for child refugees
Exclusive: Labour peer, who came to UK as a refugee, says some ministers try to show they won’t ‘just do things because of their background’
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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Humane and sensible approaches to asylum policy.
No doubt Starmer and Mahmood will be picking up the phone to @alfdubs.bsky.social to discuss any day now…
Humane and sensible approaches to asylum policy.
No doubt Starmer and Mahmood will be picking up the phone to @alfdubs.bsky.social to discuss any day now…
Labour in opposition - let refugee families reunite.
Labour in power - refugee families won’t reunite on our watch.
They’re just in power for power’s sake.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Labour in power - refugee families won’t reunite on our watch.
They’re just in power for power’s sake.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘Pulling up the drawbridge’: Alf Dubs criticises Shabana Mahmood’s plans for child refugees
Exclusive: Labour peer, who came to UK as a refugee, says some ministers try to show they won’t ‘just do things because of their background’
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Labour in opposition - let refugee families reunite.
Labour in power - refugee families won’t reunite on our watch.
They’re just in power for power’s sake.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Labour in power - refugee families won’t reunite on our watch.
They’re just in power for power’s sake.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tim Allen was on the Board of the Sex Matters hate group before becoming Number 10 Comms Director. Hopefully Labour is realizing that it has no future in pitch-rolling for Reform. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Keir Starmer’s director of communications Tim Allan steps down
Exclusive: Decision follows departure of chief of staff Morgan McSweeney over Peter Mandelson scandal
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Tim Allen was on the Board of the Sex Matters hate group before becoming Number 10 Comms Director. Hopefully Labour is realizing that it has no future in pitch-rolling for Reform. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Magnanimous and self aware to the end
February 8, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Magnanimous and self aware to the end
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Reform Vs Green.
Hate Vs Hope.
Hundreds and hundreds of people out on the streets today making sure hope wins.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Hate Vs Hope.
Hundreds and hundreds of people out on the streets today making sure hope wins.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Gorton and Denton by-election: Zack Polanski urges 'hope over hate'
Zack Polanski joined candidate Hannah Spencer, a councillor and plumber, on the campaign trail.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 7, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Reform Vs Green.
Hate Vs Hope.
Hundreds and hundreds of people out on the streets today making sure hope wins.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Hate Vs Hope.
Hundreds and hundreds of people out on the streets today making sure hope wins.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
If Labour lose this massive majority in Gorton & Denton they will attempt to blame the Greens.
Even though their only pitch to lefties is that voting Labour will keep Reform out, they will not ask themselves why left wing voters have deserted them and will simply double down on mimicking Reform.
Even though their only pitch to lefties is that voting Labour will keep Reform out, they will not ask themselves why left wing voters have deserted them and will simply double down on mimicking Reform.
Here's Labour Deputy Leader Lucy Powell giving it the Billy Big Boots & writing a letter to Zack Polanski (but of course she's turned off replies & quotes).
She says only Labour can win Gorton & Denton and accuses *Zack* of being misleading, despite the bookies placing the Greens ahead of Labour!
She says only Labour can win Gorton & Denton and accuses *Zack* of being misleading, despite the bookies placing the Greens ahead of Labour!
February 6, 2026 at 11:18 PM
If Labour lose this massive majority in Gorton & Denton they will attempt to blame the Greens.
Even though their only pitch to lefties is that voting Labour will keep Reform out, they will not ask themselves why left wing voters have deserted them and will simply double down on mimicking Reform.
Even though their only pitch to lefties is that voting Labour will keep Reform out, they will not ask themselves why left wing voters have deserted them and will simply double down on mimicking Reform.
Where’s this Peter mandelson when you need him?
February 6, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Where’s this Peter mandelson when you need him?
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Starmer's reported condition - incredibly unpopular, shorn of authority, probably un-reelectable and yet will stagger on for want of an alternative - is just the new normal of how Britain is governed. It was also true for two-thirds of May's premiership, half of Johnson's and all of Sunak's.
February 6, 2026 at 11:36 AM
Starmer's reported condition - incredibly unpopular, shorn of authority, probably un-reelectable and yet will stagger on for want of an alternative - is just the new normal of how Britain is governed. It was also true for two-thirds of May's premiership, half of Johnson's and all of Sunak's.
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“I was suspended from the whip for over a year for voting to scrap the two child limit but somebody like Peter Mandelson was able to hold the whip & remain a peer. Why was there one set of rules for him and another for people like myself?” Apsana Begum MP on #c4news
www.channel4.com/news/labour-...
www.channel4.com/news/labour-...
‘Labour party culture allowed Mandelson so much power’ – Labour MP
The Labour MP Apsana Begym who is a member of the socialist campaign group of left wing Labour MPs joins us from east London.
www.channel4.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:03 PM
“I was suspended from the whip for over a year for voting to scrap the two child limit but somebody like Peter Mandelson was able to hold the whip & remain a peer. Why was there one set of rules for him and another for people like myself?” Apsana Begum MP on #c4news
www.channel4.com/news/labour-...
www.channel4.com/news/labour-...
February 6, 2026 at 9:08 PM
I dont even think Labour are that competent.
If they wanted to do this, they’d fail to execute it. And if they didn’t want to do it, they’d unintentionally enable it.
If they wanted to do this, they’d fail to execute it. And if they didn’t want to do it, they’d unintentionally enable it.
February 6, 2026 at 4:18 PM
I dont even think Labour are that competent.
If they wanted to do this, they’d fail to execute it. And if they didn’t want to do it, they’d unintentionally enable it.
If they wanted to do this, they’d fail to execute it. And if they didn’t want to do it, they’d unintentionally enable it.
If Starmer genuinely thinks that his problem is left wing voters and not his total commitment to and faith in hated, stand for nothing, do nothing relics like McSweeney and Mandelson, then his political judgement is even worse than I thought.
Keir Starmer attacks the racism of Reform and Matt Goodwin but then adds that "Britain has also been let down by a mindset on the left of politics that is too slow to defend core British values"
February 6, 2026 at 4:03 PM
If Starmer genuinely thinks that his problem is left wing voters and not his total commitment to and faith in hated, stand for nothing, do nothing relics like McSweeney and Mandelson, then his political judgement is even worse than I thought.
If Reform win the next election, Labour have already put in place a solid framework for them to execute their most wild and dystopian fantasies about ICE-style enforcement, scrapping legal protections prohibiting torture and imposing indefinite detention without trial.
I hope those who condemn Reform for their comments about "mass deportations" but continue to support Labour's inhumane treatment of migrants are paying attention.
Labour's policies are all about deportation and framing migrants as criminals. It only leads one way
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Labour's policies are all about deportation and framing migrants as criminals. It only leads one way
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Home Office says nearly 60,000 people deported from UK or left voluntarily since 2024 election
Shabana Mahmood insists deportations will rise, as Labour government is accused of promoting ‘harmful stereotypes’ of migrants
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:58 PM
If Reform win the next election, Labour have already put in place a solid framework for them to execute their most wild and dystopian fantasies about ICE-style enforcement, scrapping legal protections prohibiting torture and imposing indefinite detention without trial.
They’re just awful morally but also strategically.
February 6, 2026 at 3:10 PM
They’re just awful morally but also strategically.
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Genius! Blackmail countries which have significant human rights concerns to take back people who often should not be being sent back and then celebrate it by threatening more countries with similar blackmail. Labour really is digging down with its xenophobic policies.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Three African countries agree to UK migrant returns after sanctions threat
The Democratic Republic of Congo, Namibia and Angola have said they will cooperate on migrant returns.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 6, 2026 at 6:49 AM
Genius! Blackmail countries which have significant human rights concerns to take back people who often should not be being sent back and then celebrate it by threatening more countries with similar blackmail. Labour really is digging down with its xenophobic policies.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Why Spain is breaking the mold in Europe -
choosing regularisation instead of MAGA mass deportations!!
Two reasons: morality & pragmatism.
🙏Spain showing us another, better way is possible www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...
choosing regularisation instead of MAGA mass deportations!!
Two reasons: morality & pragmatism.
🙏Spain showing us another, better way is possible www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...
Opinion | I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants.
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:24 AM
Why Spain is breaking the mold in Europe -
choosing regularisation instead of MAGA mass deportations!!
Two reasons: morality & pragmatism.
🙏Spain showing us another, better way is possible www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...
choosing regularisation instead of MAGA mass deportations!!
Two reasons: morality & pragmatism.
🙏Spain showing us another, better way is possible www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...
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This is bad in itself, but also so revealing of this brittle little faction that has ruthlessly taken control of the Labour party machine. They have no principles, no mission, no empathy. Their days are surely numbered.
BREAKING: McSweeney’s think tank paid PR firm to investigate journalists
Labour Together put private investigators onto journalists writing about its funding. Starmer's right-hand man knew.
democracyforsale.substack.com
February 6, 2026 at 8:30 AM
This is bad in itself, but also so revealing of this brittle little faction that has ruthlessly taken control of the Labour party machine. They have no principles, no mission, no empathy. Their days are surely numbered.
Expectations for Labour’s immigration policy was low but they’ve been way worse than I feared.
Shabana Mahmood’s rhetoric around migrants is so hateful & pernicious she makes Theresa May & Amber Rudd, creators of the hostile environment, look warm & cuddly in comparison
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Shabana Mahmood’s rhetoric around migrants is so hateful & pernicious she makes Theresa May & Amber Rudd, creators of the hostile environment, look warm & cuddly in comparison
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Three African countries agree to UK migrant returns after sanctions threat
The Democratic Republic of Congo, Namibia and Angola have said they will cooperate on migrant returns.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 6, 2026 at 12:53 PM
Expectations for Labour’s immigration policy was low but they’ve been way worse than I feared.
Shabana Mahmood’s rhetoric around migrants is so hateful & pernicious she makes Theresa May & Amber Rudd, creators of the hostile environment, look warm & cuddly in comparison
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Shabana Mahmood’s rhetoric around migrants is so hateful & pernicious she makes Theresa May & Amber Rudd, creators of the hostile environment, look warm & cuddly in comparison
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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This is a political choice. Our leaders scapegoat migrants to distract from their failure to raise living standards, improve public services and tackle inequality.
We can fix this though. Safe routes save lives. Read our recent report to learn more! www.ramfel.org.uk/family-reuni...
We can fix this though. Safe routes save lives. Read our recent report to learn more! www.ramfel.org.uk/family-reuni...
Safe Routes to Nowehere
Our report, Safe Routes to Nowhere: The UK’s Broken Promises on Family Reunion, is the result of nearly 2.5 years of work, drawing on RAMFEL’s casework experience and government data on family reunion...
www.ramfel.org.uk
February 5, 2026 at 5:27 PM
This is a political choice. Our leaders scapegoat migrants to distract from their failure to raise living standards, improve public services and tackle inequality.
We can fix this though. Safe routes save lives. Read our recent report to learn more! www.ramfel.org.uk/family-reuni...
We can fix this though. Safe routes save lives. Read our recent report to learn more! www.ramfel.org.uk/family-reuni...