Tom
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you can currently claim at least partial child benefits if you're earning up to 80k so that would be, in theory.......basically all parents on ILR and settled status? wtaf
Here Lam explicitly sets out her proposal - which is official Conservative Party policy - to deport long-standing legal permanent residents who have *ever* claimed any benefit, including the state pension or child benefit (even if the child is British), or who earn less than £39K.
October 22, 2025 at 8:06 AM
you can currently claim at least partial child benefits if you're earning up to 80k so that would be, in theory.......basically all parents on ILR and settled status? wtaf
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Hadn’t, in truth, really absorbed the scale of what the Conservatives are proposing on ILR and immigration more broadly until this week’s Sunday Times interviews. Some thoughts on that in today’s note:
Tory deportation plan would upend Britain
Proposing such a radical bill with little public support is a gift to Nigel Farage
www.ft.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Hadn’t, in truth, really absorbed the scale of what the Conservatives are proposing on ILR and immigration more broadly until this week’s Sunday Times interviews. Some thoughts on that in today’s note:
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this makes me so profoundly patriotic
October 23, 2025 at 8:58 AM
this makes me so profoundly patriotic
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It’s a little known clause of the Labour party rulebook (Ch.5,sect.xii). “When the party is in office, no clear statement can be made until half a dozen people on Bluesky have embarrassed themselves by claiming that the silence is actually part of a grand strategy“.
why did this take two fucking days though? did the Prime Minister have his notifications switched off? was he stuck in the bath? why, exactly, is this obviously true thing something that apparently needs running past the boss anyway? what is *wrong* with their comms operation?
NEW: Labour condemn Tory plan to strip people of indefinite leave to remain:
“It’s utterly grotesque that Tories want to deport people with the lawful right to be here to achieve ‘cultural coherence’.
“This policy would mean tearing families apart and ripping out our neighbours from communities."
“It’s utterly grotesque that Tories want to deport people with the lawful right to be here to achieve ‘cultural coherence’.
“This policy would mean tearing families apart and ripping out our neighbours from communities."
October 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
It’s a little known clause of the Labour party rulebook (Ch.5,sect.xii). “When the party is in office, no clear statement can be made until half a dozen people on Bluesky have embarrassed themselves by claiming that the silence is actually part of a grand strategy“.
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The actual regime that these people are hankering after is Dubai: a small elite of citizens, most immigrants to be transient, insecure and all immigrants to be second-class. In reality they would hate the world they would create and would find ever-more ridiculous scapegoats for their failure.
October 22, 2025 at 10:09 AM
The actual regime that these people are hankering after is Dubai: a small elite of citizens, most immigrants to be transient, insecure and all immigrants to be second-class. In reality they would hate the world they would create and would find ever-more ridiculous scapegoats for their failure.
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[Keir Starmer's Britain, 2027]
your alarm rings; you yawn and wake up, and slowly turn around
with horror, you realise that your spouse isn't in bed with you; instead, it's Louise Casey
you scream, get dressed, run out of the house and onto a bus
Louise Casey is driving it
your alarm rings; you yawn and wake up, and slowly turn around
with horror, you realise that your spouse isn't in bed with you; instead, it's Louise Casey
you scream, get dressed, run out of the house and onto a bus
Louise Casey is driving it
October 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
[Keir Starmer's Britain, 2027]
your alarm rings; you yawn and wake up, and slowly turn around
with horror, you realise that your spouse isn't in bed with you; instead, it's Louise Casey
you scream, get dressed, run out of the house and onto a bus
Louise Casey is driving it
your alarm rings; you yawn and wake up, and slowly turn around
with horror, you realise that your spouse isn't in bed with you; instead, it's Louise Casey
you scream, get dressed, run out of the house and onto a bus
Louise Casey is driving it
The thing I don’t understand about fining water companies for pumping shit into rivers is that their only source of revenue is us. So we have to put up with the shit and pay the fine for it?
October 22, 2025 at 7:29 AM
The thing I don’t understand about fining water companies for pumping shit into rivers is that their only source of revenue is us. So we have to put up with the shit and pay the fine for it?
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Here Lam explicitly sets out her proposal - which is official Conservative Party policy - to deport long-standing legal permanent residents who have *ever* claimed any benefit, including the state pension or child benefit (even if the child is British), or who earn less than £39K.
October 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Here Lam explicitly sets out her proposal - which is official Conservative Party policy - to deport long-standing legal permanent residents who have *ever* claimed any benefit, including the state pension or child benefit (even if the child is British), or who earn less than £39K.
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There’s no solidarity quite like that between client journalists, the government and their billionaire backers. It’s all one big club.
This so-called “journalist” called for me — a British MP — to be deported because I’m Muslim.
Yet somehow he’s the victim. Cry me a river.
This so-called “journalist” called for me — a British MP — to be deported because I’m Muslim.
Yet somehow he’s the victim. Cry me a river.
October 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
There’s no solidarity quite like that between client journalists, the government and their billionaire backers. It’s all one big club.
This so-called “journalist” called for me — a British MP — to be deported because I’m Muslim.
Yet somehow he’s the victim. Cry me a river.
This so-called “journalist” called for me — a British MP — to be deported because I’m Muslim.
Yet somehow he’s the victim. Cry me a river.
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I really think people are underestimating the degree to which 21st century politics are going to be apocalyptically bad; we are collectively sliding towards mass ethnic cleansing being the norm in the Western World, out of no reason but pure fucking spite and empty nostalgia.
Tory policy is to revoke permanent residence (ILR) for everybody who does not earn £38k - deporting most nurses who have ILR
This is put in the video as "who is unlikely to contribute more than they cost"
NB: video does not say EU settled status is exempt
No govt since Idi Amin has done this
This is put in the video as "who is unlikely to contribute more than they cost"
NB: video does not say EU settled status is exempt
No govt since Idi Amin has done this
October 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I really think people are underestimating the degree to which 21st century politics are going to be apocalyptically bad; we are collectively sliding towards mass ethnic cleansing being the norm in the Western World, out of no reason but pure fucking spite and empty nostalgia.
Idk how a gay person is looking at the current political environment in the UK and not, at the back of your mind, envisaging you might one day need to become a refugee.
To have absolutely no empathy with those who seek safety here now truly blows my mind.
To have absolutely no empathy with those who seek safety here now truly blows my mind.
August 28, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Idk how a gay person is looking at the current political environment in the UK and not, at the back of your mind, envisaging you might one day need to become a refugee.
To have absolutely no empathy with those who seek safety here now truly blows my mind.
To have absolutely no empathy with those who seek safety here now truly blows my mind.
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the reaction to Mamdani's campaign is clear proof that centrism is a reactionary ideology, and has nothing to do with a pragmatic desire to win.
A party that actually wanted to mobilize young and disillusioned voters would be studying Zohran Mamdani’s campaign like the Bible
June 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
the reaction to Mamdani's campaign is clear proof that centrism is a reactionary ideology, and has nothing to do with a pragmatic desire to win.
Holding a NATO conference in The Hague seems like a scheme he’d come up with
June 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Holding a NATO conference in The Hague seems like a scheme he’d come up with
Kemi Badenoch wants to reduce net immigration.
She also wants fewer people to leave the country and more to want to come here.
She also wants fewer people to leave the country and more to want to come here.
June 19, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Kemi Badenoch wants to reduce net immigration.
She also wants fewer people to leave the country and more to want to come here.
She also wants fewer people to leave the country and more to want to come here.
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Last week, we took a major step forward in establishing a public, independent inquiry into the UK's complicity in the Gaza genocide.
I have written to the Prime Minister to ask for assurance that this inquiry will be established.
I have written to the Prime Minister to ask for assurance that this inquiry will be established.
June 9, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Last week, we took a major step forward in establishing a public, independent inquiry into the UK's complicity in the Gaza genocide.
I have written to the Prime Minister to ask for assurance that this inquiry will be established.
I have written to the Prime Minister to ask for assurance that this inquiry will be established.
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I had to read this several times as “prioritise growth” and “hit universities over the head” are so mutually contradictory
'Universities will be lucky to avoid being “completely hit over the head” in the UK government’s upcoming spending review as ministers look set to prioritise plans for growth – which could eat into core research funding – and save higher education reform for a later date.' 1/3
Universities face ‘tough’ spending review after brutal few months
Potential reprioritisation of parts of research budget could heap pressure on institutions already counting cost of immigration and tax changes
www.timeshighereducation.com
May 30, 2025 at 7:01 AM
I had to read this several times as “prioritise growth” and “hit universities over the head” are so mutually contradictory
Bob taking “Shadow Justice” to its most vigilantism conclusion
May 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Bob taking “Shadow Justice” to its most vigilantism conclusion
Is that good?
Nato rearmament could increase emissions by 200m tonnes a year, study finds
Nato rearmament could increase emissions by 200m tonnes a year, study finds
Exclusive: researchers say defence spending boosts across world will worsen climate crisis which in turn will cause more conflict
A global military buildup poses an existential threat to climate goals, according to researchers who say the rearmament planned by Nato alone could increase greenhouse gas emissions by almost 200m tonnes a year.
With the world embroiled in the highest number of armed conflicts since the second world war, countries have embarked on military spending sprees, collectively totalling a record $2.46tn in 2023. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
May 29, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Is that good?
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the man contains multitudes
May 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
the man contains multitudes
Giving elected mayors the ability to set a tourist tax does really seem like a no-brainer. Seems common place in all of Europe now. Think is particularly warranted when our museums and galleries are rightly free that tourists make a small contribution through a tax.
May 25, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Giving elected mayors the ability to set a tourist tax does really seem like a no-brainer. Seems common place in all of Europe now. Think is particularly warranted when our museums and galleries are rightly free that tourists make a small contribution through a tax.