Cllr Neil Nerva 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🌹
@redstarneil.bsky.social
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A mother with settled status whose child is disabled. The father is British by birth. They have received DLA for the child. A Tory government would deport her?
I'd really like any Conservative who has ever talked about the "party of the family" to explain why this is the right thing to do.
I'd really like any Conservative who has ever talked about the "party of the family" to explain why this is the right thing to do.
A policy this expansive would certainly mean mass stripping of permanent residence status from people with ILR (including pensioners and parents of British children) on a scale far beyond anything any democracy has ever done before. There is no public support for such an extreme policy.
Via @sundersays.bsky.social the Conservatives' draft legislation - absolutely clear that it applies to (and is intended to apply to) legal permanent residents claiming state pension (on the basis of their contributions) or child benefit for British kids.
publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...
publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...
October 22, 2025 at 7:50 AM
A mother with settled status whose child is disabled. The father is British by birth. They have received DLA for the child. A Tory government would deport her?
I'd really like any Conservative who has ever talked about the "party of the family" to explain why this is the right thing to do.
I'd really like any Conservative who has ever talked about the "party of the family" to explain why this is the right thing to do.
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The Conservatives are now a far-right party.
It will be tempting to engage with this policy on practicalities: Windrush times a hundred.
Don't. Engage on the reprehensible ethics of wanting to deport people who've lived lawful, blameless lives just because they're poor (and mostly not white).
It will be tempting to engage with this policy on practicalities: Windrush times a hundred.
Don't. Engage on the reprehensible ethics of wanting to deport people who've lived lawful, blameless lives just because they're poor (and mostly not white).
Via @sundersays.bsky.social the Conservatives' draft legislation - absolutely clear that it applies to (and is intended to apply to) legal permanent residents claiming state pension (on the basis of their contributions) or child benefit for British kids.
publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...
publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...
October 22, 2025 at 8:09 AM
The Conservatives are now a far-right party.
It will be tempting to engage with this policy on practicalities: Windrush times a hundred.
Don't. Engage on the reprehensible ethics of wanting to deport people who've lived lawful, blameless lives just because they're poor (and mostly not white).
It will be tempting to engage with this policy on practicalities: Windrush times a hundred.
Don't. Engage on the reprehensible ethics of wanting to deport people who've lived lawful, blameless lives just because they're poor (and mostly not white).
This is important news
#Labour delivering in power
Campaigning #BrentCouncil in action
Well done #HarlesdenLabour for your hard work
#Labour delivering in power
Campaigning #BrentCouncil in action
Well done #HarlesdenLabour for your hard work
September 25, 2025 at 11:19 AM
This is important news
#Labour delivering in power
Campaigning #BrentCouncil in action
Well done #HarlesdenLabour for your hard work
#Labour delivering in power
Campaigning #BrentCouncil in action
Well done #HarlesdenLabour for your hard work
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After years of making the running on immigration, Farage may this week have handed the initiative back to his opponents'. @robfordmancs.bsky.social for @ukandeu.bsky.social on the unpopularity of Reform's proposals on ILR ukandeu.ac.uk/reforms-radi...
September 25, 2025 at 8:44 AM
After years of making the running on immigration, Farage may this week have handed the initiative back to his opponents'. @robfordmancs.bsky.social for @ukandeu.bsky.social on the unpopularity of Reform's proposals on ILR ukandeu.ac.uk/reforms-radi...
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I'll have more to say on Reform's proposals to scrap ILR at some point but for now I'll just note this - anyone telling you this is a popular idea doesn't know the polling. Overwhelming majority of public back giving people who work and pay taxes most or all rights after 5 years or less
September 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
I'll have more to say on Reform's proposals to scrap ILR at some point but for now I'll just note this - anyone telling you this is a popular idea doesn't know the polling. Overwhelming majority of public back giving people who work and pay taxes most or all rights after 5 years or less
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Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain.
They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city.
Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.
They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city.
Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.
Farage vows to scrap indefinite leave to remain, placing thousands at risk of deportation
Reform UK plans to force non-citizens to apply for visas with high salary thresholds and no access to NHS services
www.theguardian.com
September 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain.
They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city.
Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.
They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city.
Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.
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Seriously. A one-hour Party Political Broadcast. Followed at the top of the next hour with top story billing and a highlights package.
Exactly how will this be "balanced" across their coverage?
Where is Ofcom? Where is Nandy?
Exactly how will this be "balanced" across their coverage?
Where is Ofcom? Where is Nandy?
For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.
This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
September 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Seriously. A one-hour Party Political Broadcast. Followed at the top of the next hour with top story billing and a highlights package.
Exactly how will this be "balanced" across their coverage?
Where is Ofcom? Where is Nandy?
Exactly how will this be "balanced" across their coverage?
Where is Ofcom? Where is Nandy?
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A lot of sensible people get squeamish at labelling Nigel Farage “far-right”, but his policy of cancelling the legal status of tens of thousands of settled immigrants can not be politically described as anything else.
Reform are campaigning on a policy of cruelty & xenophobia.
Reform are campaigning on a policy of cruelty & xenophobia.
September 22, 2025 at 10:25 AM
A lot of sensible people get squeamish at labelling Nigel Farage “far-right”, but his policy of cancelling the legal status of tens of thousands of settled immigrants can not be politically described as anything else.
Reform are campaigning on a policy of cruelty & xenophobia.
Reform are campaigning on a policy of cruelty & xenophobia.
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How can there be branches of a party that doesn’t exist?
Scottish branches of 'Your Party' write to Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana demanding some "transparency and respect" from their co-leaders.
"We must all deescalate, work together, and reject temptations to intensify hostility... [so] the worst caricatures of the left can be overcome"
"We must all deescalate, work together, and reject temptations to intensify hostility... [so] the worst caricatures of the left can be overcome"
September 20, 2025 at 8:13 AM
How can there be branches of a party that doesn’t exist?
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This is brilliant - and actually rather useful for anyone teaching methods (correlation isn't causation etc.) to undergraduates.
The "Waitrose & GAIL’s effect" vs the "ASDA reality" | Area360
How Waitrose, Gail’s and ASDA affect property prices in London. Data analysis reveals which shops signal pricey or affordable postcodes.
area360.uk
September 18, 2025 at 6:07 AM
This is brilliant - and actually rather useful for anyone teaching methods (correlation isn't causation etc.) to undergraduates.
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To anyone who doesn’t think that neighbourliness and community exists in London you missed a fantastic example at #QueensParkDay all put on by local residents. Great to meet many of them with @georgiagould.bsky.social and @redstarneil.bsky.social and a huge thank you to the QPARA volunteers.
September 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM
To anyone who doesn’t think that neighbourliness and community exists in London you missed a fantastic example at #QueensParkDay all put on by local residents. Great to meet many of them with @georgiagould.bsky.social and @redstarneil.bsky.social and a huge thank you to the QPARA volunteers.
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The DUP’s support for Brexit, then hard Brexit, then Johnson (who betrayed them as he betrays everyone), and now ECHR-exit is perhaps the most obviously self-harming run of decisions that any democratic political party has ever taken.
Brexit and the trajectory that followed it have been almost fatal to English Unionism on the right.
conservative and *unionist* party supporting offloading NI to the Republic to leave the ECHR is a certified bruh moment
September 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
The DUP’s support for Brexit, then hard Brexit, then Johnson (who betrayed them as he betrays everyone), and now ECHR-exit is perhaps the most obviously self-harming run of decisions that any democratic political party has ever taken.
The tracks are laid, the commuters are ready - all we need now is the green light. 🚦🚃
Here's why we're asking for a new Overground line for West London, from Hendon to Harlesden to Hounslow. 👇📰
www.facebook.com/share/p/16GT...
#WestLondonOrbital
Here's why we're asking for a new Overground line for West London, from Hendon to Harlesden to Hounslow. 👇📰
www.facebook.com/share/p/16GT...
#WestLondonOrbital
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September 9, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The tracks are laid, the commuters are ready - all we need now is the green light. 🚦🚃
Here's why we're asking for a new Overground line for West London, from Hendon to Harlesden to Hounslow. 👇📰
www.facebook.com/share/p/16GT...
#WestLondonOrbital
Here's why we're asking for a new Overground line for West London, from Hendon to Harlesden to Hounslow. 👇📰
www.facebook.com/share/p/16GT...
#WestLondonOrbital
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Teachers are so often a glue that holds society together.
September 3, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Teachers are so often a glue that holds society together.
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any US congressman who is fully across a row between the Nottingham Post and Nottinghamshire council is welcome to holiday in the Cotswolds AT ANY TIME, and we will not refuse to serve him in our farm shops
Democrat @raskin.house.gov excoriates Nigel Farage for banning journalists from Reform UK events:
"I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"
"I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"
September 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
any US congressman who is fully across a row between the Nottingham Post and Nottinghamshire council is welcome to holiday in the Cotswolds AT ANY TIME, and we will not refuse to serve him in our farm shops
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Democrat @raskin.house.gov excoriates Nigel Farage for banning journalists from Reform UK events:
"I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"
"I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"
September 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Democrat @raskin.house.gov excoriates Nigel Farage for banning journalists from Reform UK events:
"I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"
"I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"
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This is my flag.
August 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
This is my flag.
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Like all right-wing nationalists, Farage's will not give up power once he has it. For that reason, being wrong about everything does not worry him in the slightest. The same applies to Robert Jenrick. These people do not believe in or feel constrained by liberal democracy. They are Orbánists.
Just to repost my handy thread on why every single thing Farage promises will end up 180 degrees from what he says. Somewhere in his heart of hearts he must know this and worry about actually having a bit of power. (1/2)
Let me give you a list of Reform UK promises and the diametrically opposite reality they will lead to if implemented. (1/?)
August 24, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Like all right-wing nationalists, Farage's will not give up power once he has it. For that reason, being wrong about everything does not worry him in the slightest. The same applies to Robert Jenrick. These people do not believe in or feel constrained by liberal democracy. They are Orbánists.
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Academics are very concerned that the BBC is changing access to its archival material by releasing material in an orchestrated way rather than allowing researchers to ask their own queries. Very worrying development and a good overview by @vanessathorpe.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...
Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research
observer.co.uk
August 24, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Academics are very concerned that the BBC is changing access to its archival material by releasing material in an orchestrated way rather than allowing researchers to ask their own queries. Very worrying development and a good overview by @vanessathorpe.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Others have noted that this means foreign-born people are LESS likely than UK-born people to be in prison. What I want to note is that The Times is now referring to foreign-born UK citizens as ‘foreigners’. This includes Boris Johnson, Sir Mo Farah, Emma Watson, Rory Stewart and little old me.
August 1, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Others have noted that this means foreign-born people are LESS likely than UK-born people to be in prison. What I want to note is that The Times is now referring to foreign-born UK citizens as ‘foreigners’. This includes Boris Johnson, Sir Mo Farah, Emma Watson, Rory Stewart and little old me.
This afternoon joined colleagues for this vigil outside the Embassy of Israel in London
Some very good conversations with passing pedestrians
Stop Starving Gaza
Flood Gaza with Aid
Free the hostages
#Israel
#Gaza
#JewishEthics
Some very good conversations with passing pedestrians
Stop Starving Gaza
Flood Gaza with Aid
Free the hostages
#Israel
#Gaza
#JewishEthics
July 31, 2025 at 8:16 PM
This afternoon joined colleagues for this vigil outside the Embassy of Israel in London
Some very good conversations with passing pedestrians
Stop Starving Gaza
Flood Gaza with Aid
Free the hostages
#Israel
#Gaza
#JewishEthics
Some very good conversations with passing pedestrians
Stop Starving Gaza
Flood Gaza with Aid
Free the hostages
#Israel
#Gaza
#JewishEthics
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Amazing. It's going to be funny watching Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage going into the next election pledging to reverse this, or whatever their incoherent policy will be by then
Good news alert
In 2024, renewables supplied more than half of the UK's electricity for the first time over a year, reaching a record share of 50.4%
Renewables and nuclear combined hit a new high of 64.7%
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In 2024, renewables supplied more than half of the UK's electricity for the first time over a year, reaching a record share of 50.4%
Renewables and nuclear combined hit a new high of 64.7%
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6889ec...
July 31, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Amazing. It's going to be funny watching Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage going into the next election pledging to reverse this, or whatever their incoherent policy will be by then
July 29, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Great to be out on Saturday #PowerHour #labourdoorstep in #QueensPark speaking talking to local people about getting the Bakerloo Line upgraded. Good to see lots of friendly faces out in the sunshine
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social
June 15, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Great to be out on Saturday #PowerHour #labourdoorstep in #QueensPark speaking talking to local people about getting the Bakerloo Line upgraded. Good to see lots of friendly faces out in the sunshine
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social