@tonydailide.bsky.social
Former social care Service Director. Chair of gyros.org.uk. Foodbank volunteer. Learning Tai Chi, classical guitar and pickleball.
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Where are the Brits getting this view of immigration?
Ben, considering all the breathless airtime & column-inches devoted to this, how is it that polls *still* show “the public has a very distorted perception” of immigration?
Ben Chu @benchu.bsky.social goes onto feed and clarify the “narrative” on hotels (@helenbamber.bsky.social), phones and iPads.
Ben Chu @benchu.bsky.social goes onto feed and clarify the “narrative” on hotels (@helenbamber.bsky.social), phones and iPads.
January 13, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Where are the Brits getting this view of immigration?
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The folks at More In Common found 2/3 of Brits are WRONG about immigration…
But are we really? Or do we just mean 2 different things when we talk about immigration?
But are we really? Or do we just mean 2 different things when we talk about immigration?
January 13, 2026 at 5:06 PM
The folks at More In Common found 2/3 of Brits are WRONG about immigration…
But are we really? Or do we just mean 2 different things when we talk about immigration?
But are we really? Or do we just mean 2 different things when we talk about immigration?
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Yesterday I posted my last ever Tweet and called on the Government to do the same.
Read more below on why I think it’s time to leave the cesspit formerly known as Twitter.
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
Read more below on why I think it’s time to leave the cesspit formerly known as Twitter.
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
It is time to leave the cesspit formerly known as Twitter
Grok is just one of many reasons why Westminster should finally get off the website.
www.politicshome.com
January 9, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Yesterday I posted my last ever Tweet and called on the Government to do the same.
Read more below on why I think it’s time to leave the cesspit formerly known as Twitter.
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
Read more below on why I think it’s time to leave the cesspit formerly known as Twitter.
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
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It costs:
💰 £144.98 a night to house someone seeking sanctuary in a run-down repurposed hotel
💰 £132 a night to ship them to an isolated, traumatising military camp
OR
💰 £23.25 a night to let them live in an ordinary, safe, community home
💰 £144.98 a night to house someone seeking sanctuary in a run-down repurposed hotel
💰 £132 a night to ship them to an isolated, traumatising military camp
OR
💰 £23.25 a night to let them live in an ordinary, safe, community home
January 3, 2026 at 2:02 PM
It costs:
💰 £144.98 a night to house someone seeking sanctuary in a run-down repurposed hotel
💰 £132 a night to ship them to an isolated, traumatising military camp
OR
💰 £23.25 a night to let them live in an ordinary, safe, community home
💰 £144.98 a night to house someone seeking sanctuary in a run-down repurposed hotel
💰 £132 a night to ship them to an isolated, traumatising military camp
OR
💰 £23.25 a night to let them live in an ordinary, safe, community home
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A lot to digest from today’s meeting with Westminster Council but the key takeaway is that they were supposed to clear the encampment on 1 January but instead turned up at midnight one day last week and evicted everyone 7 hours later with no warning it was coming. Community is now fractured.
Printing some photographs to take with me to the meeting with Westminster Council next week to discuss the Adelphi tent encampment. It’s easy to make decisions about people when you don’t know who they are & don’t see them as individuals. Not so easy when faced with the reality & the consequences.
December 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
A lot to digest from today’s meeting with Westminster Council but the key takeaway is that they were supposed to clear the encampment on 1 January but instead turned up at midnight one day last week and evicted everyone 7 hours later with no warning it was coming. Community is now fractured.
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Push a bit toward here if you can
🎺🎺The @CalaisAppeal fundraiser just hit £20,000!!!!!🥳🤩🤩
This is amazing! They’re so close to reaching their goal 😭🙏🥰
Thank you so much everyone, let’s make it happen for them!
www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...
This is amazing! They’re so close to reaching their goal 😭🙏🥰
Thank you so much everyone, let’s make it happen for them!
www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...
December 23, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Push a bit toward here if you can
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Channel 4 News has obtained a document that shows how, despite decades of denial, the Post Office and Fujitsu were able to centrally alter subpostmaster accounts, writes Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson.
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Post Office scandal: Secret Fujitsu contract revealed over Horizon system anomalies
Channel 4 News has obtained a document that shows how, despite decades of denial, the Post Office and Fujitsu were able to centrally alter subpostmaster accounts, writes Alex Thomson.
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December 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Channel 4 News has obtained a document that shows how, despite decades of denial, the Post Office and Fujitsu were able to centrally alter subpostmaster accounts, writes Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson.
📩 Read our latest newsletter:
channel4news.substack.com/p/post-offic...
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Greta Thunberg being arrested this morning for holding a sign which says "I support Palestine Action prisoners. I oppose genocide"
What happened to freedom of protest?
We declare anybody we don't like a 'terrorist'.
What happened to freedom of protest?
We declare anybody we don't like a 'terrorist'.
December 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Greta Thunberg being arrested this morning for holding a sign which says "I support Palestine Action prisoners. I oppose genocide"
What happened to freedom of protest?
We declare anybody we don't like a 'terrorist'.
What happened to freedom of protest?
We declare anybody we don't like a 'terrorist'.
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New from Free Movement: High Court finds safeguarding failures by Home Office at Brook House detention centre | Jamie Bell
High Court finds safeguarding failures by Home Office at Brook House detention centre - Free Movement
In a stinging judgment, the High Court has found that the Home Secretary failed to comply with an article 3 systems duty in the operation of the rule 35
freemovement.org.uk
December 23, 2025 at 8:35 AM
New from Free Movement: High Court finds safeguarding failures by Home Office at Brook House detention centre | Jamie Bell
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The immigration hostile environment encourages overzealous over enforcement because there is no penalty in that direction. But there are severe penalties for under enforcement.
Universities have an extreme fear of the Home Office and have created a nightmarish administrative apparatus to implement the government’s hostile environment.
The outcome is that overseas students futures can be crushed for the most trivial of administrative errors.
The outcome is that overseas students futures can be crushed for the most trivial of administrative errors.
New from Free Movement: Court declares University’s failure to rescind its withdrawal of sponsorship as unlawful | Ben Maitland freemovement.org.uk/court-declar...
December 22, 2025 at 8:57 AM
The immigration hostile environment encourages overzealous over enforcement because there is no penalty in that direction. But there are severe penalties for under enforcement.
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Comparing MPs pay with Doctors.
Isn't it amazing, austerity for everyone except Billionaires and MPs.
What a coincidence.
Isn't it amazing, austerity for everyone except Billionaires and MPs.
What a coincidence.
December 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Comparing MPs pay with Doctors.
Isn't it amazing, austerity for everyone except Billionaires and MPs.
What a coincidence.
Isn't it amazing, austerity for everyone except Billionaires and MPs.
What a coincidence.
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Oh come on UK do better!
Very nice Spain!
Very nice Spain!
December 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Oh come on UK do better!
Very nice Spain!
Very nice Spain!
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What do Britons know and think about #irregularmigration?
Read new @iclaimeu.bsky.social report out today
i-claim.eu/project/publ...
Read new @iclaimeu.bsky.social report out today
i-claim.eu/project/publ...
Public understanding and attitudes to irregular migration in the UK - I-CLAIM
This report summarises findings from the February 2025 I-CLAIM survey of 1,147 UK adults, exploring public knowledge of irregular migration, how people define it, and their attitudes toward irregular ...
i-claim.eu
December 11, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Read our report on inequalities in access to health services for people with a learning disability.
Preventing people with a learning disability from dying too young
Around 1.3 million people in England have a learning disability and may need more support to stay in good health. But are they able to get access to the services they are entitled to in order to preve...
www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk
December 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Read our report on inequalities in access to health services for people with a learning disability.