Alasdair Mackenzie
@alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social
Immigration and asylum law. All views my own but reposts not endorsement. Refugees welcome🧡. Green Party member💚. Trans 🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights. He/him.
"Lawyers have hitherto only interpreted the law. The point however is to change it."
"Lawyers have hitherto only interpreted the law. The point however is to change it."
FIRST CHRISTMAS TREE IN SAINSBURYS ALERT
November 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
FIRST CHRISTMAS TREE IN SAINSBURYS ALERT
Also, lol at “Why you can trust Sky News” in between a manufactured-panic caption and a piece saying it’s a manufactured panic
October 31, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Also, lol at “Why you can trust Sky News” in between a manufactured-panic caption and a piece saying it’s a manufactured panic
Things going well here for Angus, I see
October 29, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Things going well here for Angus, I see
Polly Toynbee is presumably paid handsomely for these weird fantasies about how it was only the tyranny of being popular which prevented Labour from giving full rein to its natural progressive instincts
October 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Polly Toynbee is presumably paid handsomely for these weird fantasies about how it was only the tyranny of being popular which prevented Labour from giving full rein to its natural progressive instincts
Lib Dem MP here expressing concerns that “migrants” (in fact asylum seekers, or “human beings”, as they’re also known) might be allowed to live next door to people, and near a high street
October 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Lib Dem MP here expressing concerns that “migrants” (in fact asylum seekers, or “human beings”, as they’re also known) might be allowed to live next door to people, and near a high street
Just an endless parade of viciousness for the benefit of the worst people in the country
October 28, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Just an endless parade of viciousness for the benefit of the worst people in the country
Inverness's Liberal Democrat MP Angus MacDonald could usefully remind himself that he is talking about human beings here
October 28, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Inverness's Liberal Democrat MP Angus MacDonald could usefully remind himself that he is talking about human beings here
Adverts should be representative of traditional British families
October 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Adverts should be representative of traditional British families
Reminder that “Brexit is bad because we can expel fewer asylum seekers“ is not an anti-racist position
October 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Reminder that “Brexit is bad because we can expel fewer asylum seekers“ is not an anti-racist position
No remotely credible enquiry into child sexual exploitation could focus exclusively on one aspect of the problem singled out on purely racial grounds, but those calling most loudly for an enquiry won’t accept the outcome unless it does, so it’s no surprise people aren’t exactly queuing up to lead it
October 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
No remotely credible enquiry into child sexual exploitation could focus exclusively on one aspect of the problem singled out on purely racial grounds, but those calling most loudly for an enquiry won’t accept the outcome unless it does, so it’s no surprise people aren’t exactly queuing up to lead it
Jenrick accusing Lammy of being thick, whilst apparently under the impression that immigration judges wear wigs
October 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Jenrick accusing Lammy of being thick, whilst apparently under the impression that immigration judges wear wigs
Is it OK for Tory MPs to disagree with leaving the ECHR?
Badenoch: No
Is it OK for Tory MPs to whang on about the decline of the “White British” population?
Badenoch: I’m not a micromanager
Badenoch: No
Is it OK for Tory MPs to whang on about the decline of the “White British” population?
Badenoch: I’m not a micromanager
October 6, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Is it OK for Tory MPs to disagree with leaving the ECHR?
Badenoch: No
Is it OK for Tory MPs to whang on about the decline of the “White British” population?
Badenoch: I’m not a micromanager
Badenoch: No
Is it OK for Tory MPs to whang on about the decline of the “White British” population?
Badenoch: I’m not a micromanager
We’re at a “fork in the road” with “a choice between decency or division”, we’re told Starmer is about to say today. Well, I wouldn’t disagree.
But…
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But…
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September 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
We’re at a “fork in the road” with “a choice between decency or division”, we’re told Starmer is about to say today. Well, I wouldn’t disagree.
But…
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But…
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All with the express intention of annoying its supporters and ingratiating itself with its enemies! Wild times!
September 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
All with the express intention of annoying its supporters and ingratiating itself with its enemies! Wild times!
Excited to hear what “legal constraints” on deporting lots of people Labour are about to abandon!
September 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Excited to hear what “legal constraints” on deporting lots of people Labour are about to abandon!
Oh and of course ID cards, a long-held obsession with the Labour right, but basically a solution in search of a problem, and hardly one likely to appeal to sceptics of government power either on the left or the right 5/
September 26, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Oh and of course ID cards, a long-held obsession with the Labour right, but basically a solution in search of a problem, and hardly one likely to appeal to sceptics of government power either on the left or the right 5/
The only positive policy proposal is this regeneration fund for depressed communities - which sounds like a good thing, right?! But why wait for the far right to surge before you think of it?! 4/
September 26, 2025 at 7:44 AM
The only positive policy proposal is this regeneration fund for depressed communities - which sounds like a good thing, right?! But why wait for the far right to surge before you think of it?! 4/
Right wing concerns about immigration are not just legitimate but reasonable, apparently! But there is not a word of reassurance for people anxious and angry about the wildly racist turn this country is taking under his leadership 3/
September 26, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Right wing concerns about immigration are not just legitimate but reasonable, apparently! But there is not a word of reassurance for people anxious and angry about the wildly racist turn this country is taking under his leadership 3/
The repetition of the inflammatory claim that immigration has been uncontrolled, which is a lie if it refers to non-EU migration and, if if refers to EU free movement, is something he built his political career on supporting 2/
September 26, 2025 at 7:42 AM
The repetition of the inflammatory claim that immigration has been uncontrolled, which is a lie if it refers to non-EU migration and, if if refers to EU free movement, is something he built his political career on supporting 2/
As so often my expectations of Starmer’s article were so low as to be basically subterranean and he still failed to live up to them.
Let’s start with the weaselly and inflammatory conflation of seeking asylum with “illegal immigration“ 1/
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Let’s start with the weaselly and inflammatory conflation of seeking asylum with “illegal immigration“ 1/
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September 26, 2025 at 7:41 AM
As so often my expectations of Starmer’s article were so low as to be basically subterranean and he still failed to live up to them.
Let’s start with the weaselly and inflammatory conflation of seeking asylum with “illegal immigration“ 1/
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Let’s start with the weaselly and inflammatory conflation of seeking asylum with “illegal immigration“ 1/
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Hearing that fighting the far right isn’t just about immigration, it’s also [checks notes] about flags and also about the contributory principle which is [frowns, adjusts glasses, holds notes at arms length] about immigration
September 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Hearing that fighting the far right isn’t just about immigration, it’s also [checks notes] about flags and also about the contributory principle which is [frowns, adjusts glasses, holds notes at arms length] about immigration
Five hours apart
September 25, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Five hours apart
Making the UK more like an authoritarian plutocracy based on fossil fuel wealth where women are second class citizens and foreigners have no rights is certainly pretty on brand for Reform
September 22, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Making the UK more like an authoritarian plutocracy based on fossil fuel wealth where women are second class citizens and foreigners have no rights is certainly pretty on brand for Reform
“It’s worrying that so many people attended the far right rally, which I attended”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
September 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
“It’s worrying that so many people attended the far right rally, which I attended”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I mean you say this but here’s what the Home Secretary is parping out *on Twitter* today, so
September 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I mean you say this but here’s what the Home Secretary is parping out *on Twitter* today, so