Alison Thewliss
@thewliss.bsky.social
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We must stop the hostility towards, and demonisation of, people just trying to seek safety. Our statement on just some of the Home Secretary's proposed changes to the asylum system
November 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
We must stop the hostility towards, and demonisation of, people just trying to seek safety. Our statement on just some of the Home Secretary's proposed changes to the asylum system
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Completely beyond why people try to defend Labour record on treatment of asylum seekers. They are awful.
They have done terrible things the Tories never even thought of, like denying any refugee who came here through irregular means from EVER becoming a citizen & ENDING FAMILY REUNIFICATION. demons.
They have done terrible things the Tories never even thought of, like denying any refugee who came here through irregular means from EVER becoming a citizen & ENDING FAMILY REUNIFICATION. demons.
November 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Completely beyond why people try to defend Labour record on treatment of asylum seekers. They are awful.
They have done terrible things the Tories never even thought of, like denying any refugee who came here through irregular means from EVER becoming a citizen & ENDING FAMILY REUNIFICATION. demons.
They have done terrible things the Tories never even thought of, like denying any refugee who came here through irregular means from EVER becoming a citizen & ENDING FAMILY REUNIFICATION. demons.
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It's not as if Labour even believes what it says... Starmer and his acolytes in Westminster, Holyrood and The Senedd just blow in the wind of political opportunism.
"... it goes after those of us who look like we could be immigrants. We have talked a lot about illegal immigration sitting at the heart of this debate, but what we are not talking about so much is race"
Shabana Mahmood condemning the hostile environment back in 2018
Shabana Mahmood condemning the hostile environment back in 2018
November 17, 2025 at 8:20 AM
It's not as if Labour even believes what it says... Starmer and his acolytes in Westminster, Holyrood and The Senedd just blow in the wind of political opportunism.
I had the highest immigration caseload in Scotland, and was proud to advocate on behalf of constituents. It's important work and makes a huge difference to people's lives.
I hear that some Labour MPs have reverted to pre-2015 behaviour of not supporting people with immigration casework. Shameful.
I hear that some Labour MPs have reverted to pre-2015 behaviour of not supporting people with immigration casework. Shameful.
New from Free Movement: What can MPs do to help their constituents in immigration and asylum cases? | Anonymous
What can MPs do to help their constituents in immigration and asylum cases? - Free Movement
I’ve worked in the busy constituency office of an MP for the last decade and I carry out the immigration and asylum casework for them. I thought it would be
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November 17, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I had the highest immigration caseload in Scotland, and was proud to advocate on behalf of constituents. It's important work and makes a huge difference to people's lives.
I hear that some Labour MPs have reverted to pre-2015 behaviour of not supporting people with immigration casework. Shameful.
I hear that some Labour MPs have reverted to pre-2015 behaviour of not supporting people with immigration casework. Shameful.
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ECHR has protected domestic-violence survivors, disabled people fighting cuts, bereaved families demanding inquests, racialized communities resisting police abuse & people in mental health settings facing neglect.
Don’t be distracted. This is a rights rollback for everyone. tinyurl.com/3namk9ss
Don’t be distracted. This is a rights rollback for everyone. tinyurl.com/3namk9ss
November 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
ECHR has protected domestic-violence survivors, disabled people fighting cuts, bereaved families demanding inquests, racialized communities resisting police abuse & people in mental health settings facing neglect.
Don’t be distracted. This is a rights rollback for everyone. tinyurl.com/3namk9ss
Don’t be distracted. This is a rights rollback for everyone. tinyurl.com/3namk9ss
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Govt pushing for “tough” asylum plans,but the real danger is the move to rewrite how UK courts apply the ECHR.This won’t stop at deportation cases
Undermine rights for migrants,&you weaken the tools every marginalised group relies on to hold the state to account
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Undermine rights for migrants,&you weaken the tools every marginalised group relies on to hold the state to account
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
No 10 tells Labour MPs it expects support for tough new asylum policies
Some backbenchers already opposing planned immigration crackdown seen as ‘economically and culturally illiterate’
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Govt pushing for “tough” asylum plans,but the real danger is the move to rewrite how UK courts apply the ECHR.This won’t stop at deportation cases
Undermine rights for migrants,&you weaken the tools every marginalised group relies on to hold the state to account
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Undermine rights for migrants,&you weaken the tools every marginalised group relies on to hold the state to account
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people.
How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people.
How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
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Imagine spending 20 years waiting to see if a reconsideration every few years would uproot you again. Never leaving the system. Constantly wondering whether you'd need to challenge a new decision made, thinking about evidence and getting legal help. Never feeling safe. It's inhumane.
November 17, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Imagine spending 20 years waiting to see if a reconsideration every few years would uproot you again. Never leaving the system. Constantly wondering whether you'd need to challenge a new decision made, thinking about evidence and getting legal help. Never feeling safe. It's inhumane.
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There’s just so much performative cruelty and stupidity in the asylum announcements that it’s hard to know where to start.
But one place to start is that if its aim is to reduce small boats crossings, it won’t work.
We’ve had 5 years of deterrent policies. They don’t work.
But one place to start is that if its aim is to reduce small boats crossings, it won’t work.
We’ve had 5 years of deterrent policies. They don’t work.
November 17, 2025 at 8:31 AM
There’s just so much performative cruelty and stupidity in the asylum announcements that it’s hard to know where to start.
But one place to start is that if its aim is to reduce small boats crossings, it won’t work.
We’ve had 5 years of deterrent policies. They don’t work.
But one place to start is that if its aim is to reduce small boats crossings, it won’t work.
We’ve had 5 years of deterrent policies. They don’t work.
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Imagine you find a place to make a new life for yourself after a traumatic event. You form a family, find work, make friends, learn a new way to live. Then 20 years later a government minister decides you haven’t ‘tried hard enough’ so sends you back to the place of your trauma. 1/3
November 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Imagine you find a place to make a new life for yourself after a traumatic event. You form a family, find work, make friends, learn a new way to live. Then 20 years later a government minister decides you haven’t ‘tried hard enough’ so sends you back to the place of your trauma. 1/3
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Jewellery, gold teeth and glasses frames, pens and watches and watch chains.
These things were taken from the desperate and dispossessed as they entered the camps.
If you are a Labour MP, it is time to act. Either you take back your party for humanity and solidarity now, or you leave.
These things were taken from the desperate and dispossessed as they entered the camps.
If you are a Labour MP, it is time to act. Either you take back your party for humanity and solidarity now, or you leave.
November 17, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Jewellery, gold teeth and glasses frames, pens and watches and watch chains.
These things were taken from the desperate and dispossessed as they entered the camps.
If you are a Labour MP, it is time to act. Either you take back your party for humanity and solidarity now, or you leave.
These things were taken from the desperate and dispossessed as they entered the camps.
If you are a Labour MP, it is time to act. Either you take back your party for humanity and solidarity now, or you leave.
Dehumanising language
Undermining human rights protections
Putting people in military camps
Seizing their jewellery
Shame on the Labour party
Undermining human rights protections
Putting people in military camps
Seizing their jewellery
Shame on the Labour party
Govt minister Alex Norris is asked if the govt will take jewellery from people [fleeing war and persecution]. Norris says the govt won't be taking peoples wedding rings but they will seize assets.
November 17, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Dehumanising language
Undermining human rights protections
Putting people in military camps
Seizing their jewellery
Shame on the Labour party
Undermining human rights protections
Putting people in military camps
Seizing their jewellery
Shame on the Labour party
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Since removing the two-child benefit cap is all over the news today I just wanna shout out my ex MP Alison Thewliss @thewliss.bsky.social who was absolutely Instrumental in keeping the issue in people's minds when it could easily have just faded away
November 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Since removing the two-child benefit cap is all over the news today I just wanna shout out my ex MP Alison Thewliss @thewliss.bsky.social who was absolutely Instrumental in keeping the issue in people's minds when it could easily have just faded away
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Buckhaven, Methil and Wemyss Villages (Fife) by-election, 1st prefs:
SNP: 1594 (42.6%, -4.9)
RUK: 1080 (28.9%, new)
Lab: 778 (20.8%, -19.5)
LD: 99 (2.6%, +0.4)
Alba: 83 (2.2%, +0.9)
Con: 64 (1.7%, -4.8)
Sovereignty: 45 (1.2%, new)
(Greens 2.2% in 2022)
SNP elected stage TBC (3rd time lucky!)
SNP: 1594 (42.6%, -4.9)
RUK: 1080 (28.9%, new)
Lab: 778 (20.8%, -19.5)
LD: 99 (2.6%, +0.4)
Alba: 83 (2.2%, +0.9)
Con: 64 (1.7%, -4.8)
Sovereignty: 45 (1.2%, new)
(Greens 2.2% in 2022)
SNP elected stage TBC (3rd time lucky!)
November 7, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Buckhaven, Methil and Wemyss Villages (Fife) by-election, 1st prefs:
SNP: 1594 (42.6%, -4.9)
RUK: 1080 (28.9%, new)
Lab: 778 (20.8%, -19.5)
LD: 99 (2.6%, +0.4)
Alba: 83 (2.2%, +0.9)
Con: 64 (1.7%, -4.8)
Sovereignty: 45 (1.2%, new)
(Greens 2.2% in 2022)
SNP elected stage TBC (3rd time lucky!)
SNP: 1594 (42.6%, -4.9)
RUK: 1080 (28.9%, new)
Lab: 778 (20.8%, -19.5)
LD: 99 (2.6%, +0.4)
Alba: 83 (2.2%, +0.9)
Con: 64 (1.7%, -4.8)
Sovereignty: 45 (1.2%, new)
(Greens 2.2% in 2022)
SNP elected stage TBC (3rd time lucky!)
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While Labour copies Farage’s policies, our NHS and care homes are finding it harder to recruit the staff they need.
We have a solution.👇
We have a solution.👇
October 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
While Labour copies Farage’s policies, our NHS and care homes are finding it harder to recruit the staff they need.
We have a solution.👇
We have a solution.👇
💛 Brilliant conversations last night at the inaugural meeting of the new Glasgow Central SNP - plans well underway for next year's Scottish Parliament elections.
www.snp.org/join/
www.snp.org/join/
October 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
💛 Brilliant conversations last night at the inaugural meeting of the new Glasgow Central SNP - plans well underway for next year's Scottish Parliament elections.
www.snp.org/join/
www.snp.org/join/
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Oh, there's even more. Even more unhinged. Posted on the other place. Now is the worst time to be posting misinformation about immigration and asylum
October 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Oh, there's even more. Even more unhinged. Posted on the other place. Now is the worst time to be posting misinformation about immigration and asylum
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Whatever you think of the SNP in Glasgow, some remarks from Scottish Labour MPs who should know better, have been embarrassing.
This today, incorrectly claiming SNP housing policies have any impact on asylum cases which is reserved to Westminster and dealt with by Home Office contractors, is mince.
This today, incorrectly claiming SNP housing policies have any impact on asylum cases which is reserved to Westminster and dealt with by Home Office contractors, is mince.
October 18, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Whatever you think of the SNP in Glasgow, some remarks from Scottish Labour MPs who should know better, have been embarrassing.
This today, incorrectly claiming SNP housing policies have any impact on asylum cases which is reserved to Westminster and dealt with by Home Office contractors, is mince.
This today, incorrectly claiming SNP housing policies have any impact on asylum cases which is reserved to Westminster and dealt with by Home Office contractors, is mince.
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Kemi Badenoch says her political strategy will "pay off eventually" for the Conservative party.
Here's how it's going so far
Here's how it's going so far
October 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Kemi Badenoch says her political strategy will "pay off eventually" for the Conservative party.
Here's how it's going so far
Here's how it's going so far
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"The Scottish parliament has voted overwhelmingly for “historic” long-term rent controls – a first across the UK ...
It sets deadlines for landlords to address issues ... hazardous to tenants’ health and stronger support for social tenants facing domestic abuse."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
It sets deadlines for landlords to address issues ... hazardous to tenants’ health and stronger support for social tenants facing domestic abuse."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Scottish parliament votes in favour of allowing councils to cap rent increases
Legislation hailed as ‘historic step for fixing rigged housing market’ but campaigners say bolder action needed
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:19 AM
"The Scottish parliament has voted overwhelmingly for “historic” long-term rent controls – a first across the UK ...
It sets deadlines for landlords to address issues ... hazardous to tenants’ health and stronger support for social tenants facing domestic abuse."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
It sets deadlines for landlords to address issues ... hazardous to tenants’ health and stronger support for social tenants facing domestic abuse."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Delighted that our Housing Bill was just passed by the Scottish Parliament.
It will deliver a fairer deal for tenants - more affordable rents, safer homes, stronger protections.
It will help prevent homelessness, and ultimately, change lives.
And it will bring new investment in housing.
It will deliver a fairer deal for tenants - more affordable rents, safer homes, stronger protections.
It will help prevent homelessness, and ultimately, change lives.
And it will bring new investment in housing.
September 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Delighted that our Housing Bill was just passed by the Scottish Parliament.
It will deliver a fairer deal for tenants - more affordable rents, safer homes, stronger protections.
It will help prevent homelessness, and ultimately, change lives.
And it will bring new investment in housing.
It will deliver a fairer deal for tenants - more affordable rents, safer homes, stronger protections.
It will help prevent homelessness, and ultimately, change lives.
And it will bring new investment in housing.
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Good BBC report on life in asylum hotels www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Behind the doors of asylum hotels - what I found when I went inside
A BBC reporter goes into four hotels and speaks to asylum seekers and staff about what daily life is like.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 23, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Good BBC report on life in asylum hotels www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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11 years ago, Scotland was inspired to think big. To imagine a better future, in our own hands.
Today, the case for independence is stronger than ever.
Independence is the fresh start Scotland needs - with lower bills, a fairer society, and our rightful place in Europe.
Today, the case for independence is stronger than ever.
Independence is the fresh start Scotland needs - with lower bills, a fairer society, and our rightful place in Europe.
September 18, 2025 at 7:41 AM
11 years ago, Scotland was inspired to think big. To imagine a better future, in our own hands.
Today, the case for independence is stronger than ever.
Independence is the fresh start Scotland needs - with lower bills, a fairer society, and our rightful place in Europe.
Today, the case for independence is stronger than ever.
Independence is the fresh start Scotland needs - with lower bills, a fairer society, and our rightful place in Europe.