Bob Mouncer
@bobmouncer.bsky.social
Socialist, gay, atheist, retired English teacher and proofreader, PhD in asylum policy.
Interests: Politics, religion, music -- mainly classical, and some pop music in both the UK and France.
Blogsite: bobmouncerblog.wordpress.com
Interests: Politics, religion, music -- mainly classical, and some pop music in both the UK and France.
Blogsite: bobmouncerblog.wordpress.com
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Starmer and Reeves’ approach is wrong – we can tackle inequality and poverty now!
By Vincent Conquest For all the recent talk of ‘patriotism’, has anyone talked about the fact that one of the biggest staples of living in Britain is just how much poverty there is all around us? The Child Poverty…
By Vincent Conquest For all the recent talk of ‘patriotism’, has anyone talked about the fact that one of the biggest staples of living in Britain is just how much poverty there is all around us? The Child Poverty…
Starmer and Reeves’ approach is wrong – we can tackle inequality and poverty now!
By Vincent Conquest For all the recent talk of ‘patriotism’, has anyone talked about the fact that one of the biggest staples of living in Britain is just how much poverty there is all around us? The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) estimates that 4.5 million children are currently growing up in poverty – equating to an average of nine children in a classroom of thirty.
labourhub.org.uk
September 24, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Starmer and Reeves’ approach is wrong – we can tackle inequality and poverty now!
By Vincent Conquest For all the recent talk of ‘patriotism’, has anyone talked about the fact that one of the biggest staples of living in Britain is just how much poverty there is all around us? The Child Poverty…
By Vincent Conquest For all the recent talk of ‘patriotism’, has anyone talked about the fact that one of the biggest staples of living in Britain is just how much poverty there is all around us? The Child Poverty…
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Join the @aslefunion.bsky.social #solidarity rally in Hull.
FT.
Mick Whelan
Charlotte Brumpton-Childs, @gmb.org.uk
Ian Murrary, @fbunational.bsky.social
Anna Scott, @neunion.bsky.social
@sarahwoolley1.bsky.social
Nigel Roebuck, ASLEF
📍Hull Paragon Station, 10.30am.
#StrikeMap
Join the @aslefunion.bsky.social #solidarity rally in Hull.
FT.
Mick Whelan
Charlotte Brumpton-Childs, @gmb.org.uk
Ian Murrary, @fbunational.bsky.social
Anna Scott, @neunion.bsky.social
@sarahwoolley1.bsky.social
Nigel Roebuck, ASLEF
📍Hull Paragon Station, 10.30am.
#StrikeMap
August 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM
2 days to go...
Join the @aslefunion.bsky.social #solidarity rally in Hull.
FT.
Mick Whelan
Charlotte Brumpton-Childs, @gmb.org.uk
Ian Murrary, @fbunational.bsky.social
Anna Scott, @neunion.bsky.social
@sarahwoolley1.bsky.social
Nigel Roebuck, ASLEF
📍Hull Paragon Station, 10.30am.
#StrikeMap
Join the @aslefunion.bsky.social #solidarity rally in Hull.
FT.
Mick Whelan
Charlotte Brumpton-Childs, @gmb.org.uk
Ian Murrary, @fbunational.bsky.social
Anna Scott, @neunion.bsky.social
@sarahwoolley1.bsky.social
Nigel Roebuck, ASLEF
📍Hull Paragon Station, 10.30am.
#StrikeMap
🚨 This morning we turned the street outside Labour Party Headquarters in London into Jabaliya camp in Gaza.
Listen to @ahmedmasoud02.bsky.social talking about what the Israeli army did to his neighourhood and family.
Listen to @ahmedmasoud02.bsky.social talking about what the Israeli army did to his neighourhood and family.
July 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
When Labour obeyed Enoch Powell and cancelled the Kenyan Asians' British passports, Eric Norris, the British High Commissioner in Nairobi, said:
“They all had a touching faith that we’d honour the passports that they’d got.”
#immigration
#racism
#homeoffice
bobmouncer.blog/2025/07/22/l...
“They all had a touching faith that we’d honour the passports that they’d got.”
#immigration
#racism
#homeoffice
bobmouncer.blog/2025/07/22/l...
Labour, immigration and Enoch Powell
Introduction In an earlier blog, we saw how working parties were set up after the Second World War whose task was to justify racist immigration controls.[1] They repeatedly failed to do so, but the…
bobmouncer.blog
July 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
When Labour obeyed Enoch Powell and cancelled the Kenyan Asians' British passports, Eric Norris, the British High Commissioner in Nairobi, said:
“They all had a touching faith that we’d honour the passports that they’d got.”
#immigration
#racism
#homeoffice
bobmouncer.blog/2025/07/22/l...
“They all had a touching faith that we’d honour the passports that they’d got.”
#immigration
#racism
#homeoffice
bobmouncer.blog/2025/07/22/l...
June 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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chng.it
June 7, 2025 at 8:10 AM
"Labour has pinched the Tories' white trousers"
#immigration
#racism
#antiracism
#hostileenvironment
#homeoffice
#windrushgeneration
#migration
#britishcommonwealth
bobmouncer.blog/2025/05/25/l...
#immigration
#racism
#antiracism
#hostileenvironment
#homeoffice
#windrushgeneration
#migration
#britishcommonwealth
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Labour and immigration: from Commonwealth ideal to racist controls
Readers of my previous blog on UK immigration policy will remember how, once the Second World War was over, the Labour Party, having won the general election, set out secretly, together with its Wh…
bobmouncer.blog
May 25, 2025 at 10:06 AM
"Labour has pinched the Tories' white trousers"
#immigration
#racism
#antiracism
#hostileenvironment
#homeoffice
#windrushgeneration
#migration
#britishcommonwealth
bobmouncer.blog/2025/05/25/l...
#immigration
#racism
#antiracism
#hostileenvironment
#homeoffice
#windrushgeneration
#migration
#britishcommonwealth
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Lord Salisbury: "... it is not merely a question of whether criminal negroes should be allowed in; it is a question of whether great quantities of negroes, criminal or not, should be allowed to come."
#hostileenvironment
#racism
#antiracism
#immigration
#homeoffice
Lord Salisbury: "... it is not merely a question of whether criminal negroes should be allowed in; it is a question of whether great quantities of negroes, criminal or not, should be allowed to come."
#hostileenvironment
#racism
#antiracism
#immigration
#homeoffice
By hook or by crook — determined to be hostile
Introduction In recent blogs, I examined the hostile environment policy introduced by UK Home Secretary Theresa May during the early 2010s and the political scandals and human tragedies that follow…
bobmouncer.blog
May 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Lord Salisbury: "... it is not merely a question of whether criminal negroes should be allowed in; it is a question of whether great quantities of negroes, criminal or not, should be allowed to come."
#hostileenvironment
#racism
#antiracism
#immigration
#homeoffice
Lord Salisbury: "... it is not merely a question of whether criminal negroes should be allowed in; it is a question of whether great quantities of negroes, criminal or not, should be allowed to come."
#hostileenvironment
#racism
#antiracism
#immigration
#homeoffice
This horror should never be forgotten. Nor should the the fact that the officer in charge, Cressida Dick, went on to be Metropolitan Chief Commissioner and a Dame of the British Empire.
Remember Jean Charles.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Remember Jean Charles.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes review – the horror is still breathtaking
This dreadfully suspenseful four-parter about the killing of the innocent Brazilian man reveals the staggering number of blunders that led up to it
www.theguardian.com
April 30, 2025 at 11:05 AM
This horror should never be forgotten. Nor should the the fact that the officer in charge, Cressida Dick, went on to be Metropolitan Chief Commissioner and a Dame of the British Empire.
Remember Jean Charles.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Remember Jean Charles.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
"... the most minimal resistance ..."
#hostileenvironment
#windrushscandal
#immigration
#homeoffice
#racism
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#hostileenvironment
#windrushscandal
#immigration
#homeoffice
#racism
bobmouncer.blog/2025/04/18/t...
The hostile environment: Labour’s response
In the first blog in this series ( I showed how the announcement of a “hostile environment” for migrants by UK Home Secretary Theresa May in 2012 led to suffering and trauma for thousands of p…
bobmouncer.blog
April 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
"... the most minimal resistance ..."
#hostileenvironment
#windrushscandal
#immigration
#homeoffice
#racism
bobmouncer.blog/2025/04/18/t...
#hostileenvironment
#windrushscandal
#immigration
#homeoffice
#racism
bobmouncer.blog/2025/04/18/t...
"... there was a view that the presence of rescue ships encouraged people to risk the crossing. That judgment now looks to have been wrong"
— Nick Clegg, UK Deputy Prime MInister, making excuses but not apologising
#hostileenvironment
#immigration
#asylum
#racism
bobmouncer.blog/2025/04/02/h...
— Nick Clegg, UK Deputy Prime MInister, making excuses but not apologising
#hostileenvironment
#immigration
#asylum
#racism
bobmouncer.blog/2025/04/02/h...
Hostile environment: the Mediterranean scandal
In the first blog in this series ( I showed how the announcement of a “hostile environment” for migrants by UK Home Secretary Theresa May in 2012 led to suffering and trauma for thousands of p…
bobmouncer.blog
April 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
"... there was a view that the presence of rescue ships encouraged people to risk the crossing. That judgment now looks to have been wrong"
— Nick Clegg, UK Deputy Prime MInister, making excuses but not apologising
#hostileenvironment
#immigration
#asylum
#racism
bobmouncer.blog/2025/04/02/h...
— Nick Clegg, UK Deputy Prime MInister, making excuses but not apologising
#hostileenvironment
#immigration
#asylum
#racism
bobmouncer.blog/2025/04/02/h...
The hostile environment, continued:
"The terminology is incorrect" -- Orwell? No, a British Home Secretary
bobmouncer.blog/2025/03/30/h...
#windrushscandal
#hostileenvironment
#migration
#racism
"The terminology is incorrect" -- Orwell? No, a British Home Secretary
bobmouncer.blog/2025/03/30/h...
#windrushscandal
#hostileenvironment
#migration
#racism
Hostile environment: the Windrush scandal III
The first blog in this series ( I showed how the announcement of a “hostile environment” for migrants by UK Home Secretary Theresa May in 2012 led to suffering and trauma for thousands of people, t…
bobmouncer.blog
March 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The hostile environment, continued:
"The terminology is incorrect" -- Orwell? No, a British Home Secretary
bobmouncer.blog/2025/03/30/h...
#windrushscandal
#hostileenvironment
#migration
#racism
"The terminology is incorrect" -- Orwell? No, a British Home Secretary
bobmouncer.blog/2025/03/30/h...
#windrushscandal
#hostileenvironment
#migration
#racism
“Basically they messed up my life” — Hubert Howard
#hostileenvironment
#windrushscandal
#racism
#migration
#immigration
bobmouncerblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/26/h...
#hostileenvironment
#windrushscandal
#racism
#migration
#immigration
bobmouncerblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/26/h...
Hostile environment: the Windrush scandal II
The first blog in this series[1] showed how the announcement of a “hostile environment” for migrants by UK Home Secretary Theresa May in 2012 led to suffering and trauma for thousands of people, th…
bobmouncerblog.wordpress.com
March 26, 2025 at 10:46 PM
“Basically they messed up my life” — Hubert Howard
#hostileenvironment
#windrushscandal
#racism
#migration
#immigration
bobmouncerblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/26/h...
#hostileenvironment
#windrushscandal
#racism
#migration
#immigration
bobmouncerblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/26/h...
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