Cathy
@cathymf.bsky.social
I am a pacifist. I love literature, art, food, wine, trees and animals. I hate Brexit, racism, xenophobia, and scapegoating of immigrants and refugees. We are all one human family.
@okwonga.bsky.social Excellent arrival in @theguardian.com today.
November 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
@okwonga.bsky.social Excellent arrival in @theguardian.com today.
Reposted by Cathy
Cruel. Callous. Cowardly.
The public are seeing this Labour government for exactly who they are.
We all have a responsibility to make them pay at the ballot box.
Reject the hate. Reject them.
This is not who we are. Let's make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
The public are seeing this Labour government for exactly who they are.
We all have a responsibility to make them pay at the ballot box.
Reject the hate. Reject them.
This is not who we are. Let's make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Cruel. Callous. Cowardly.
The public are seeing this Labour government for exactly who they are.
We all have a responsibility to make them pay at the ballot box.
Reject the hate. Reject them.
This is not who we are. Let's make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
The public are seeing this Labour government for exactly who they are.
We all have a responsibility to make them pay at the ballot box.
Reject the hate. Reject them.
This is not who we are. Let's make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Reposted by Cathy
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood’s comments on asylum seekers have “shaken me to the core” says Bishop of Edmonton Rt Rev Dr Anderson Jeremiah, adding people coming to the UK are being “scapegoated” for years of policy failure.
Anglican bishop shaken ‘to the core’ by home secretary’s asylum seeker comments
Bishop of Edmonton says people coming to UK are being ‘scapegoated’ for years of policy failures
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood’s comments on asylum seekers have “shaken me to the core” says Bishop of Edmonton Rt Rev Dr Anderson Jeremiah, adding people coming to the UK are being “scapegoated” for years of policy failure.
Reposted by Cathy
The Greens don’t believe providing safe refuge for endangered asylum seekers is an “out-of-control” policy.
Nor do we believe making life more difficult for those in need is the way to unify British society.
Refugees are welcome.
Nor do we believe making life more difficult for those in need is the way to unify British society.
Refugees are welcome.
November 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The Greens don’t believe providing safe refuge for endangered asylum seekers is an “out-of-control” policy.
Nor do we believe making life more difficult for those in need is the way to unify British society.
Refugees are welcome.
Nor do we believe making life more difficult for those in need is the way to unify British society.
Refugees are welcome.
Reposted by Cathy
WARNING: Shabana Mahmood's new asylum plans will punish people who’ve already lost everything.
Instead of offering safety, political parties are locked in a race to the bottom – trying to outdo one another in cruelty towards refugees.
We can & must do better.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Instead of offering safety, political parties are locked in a race to the bottom – trying to outdo one another in cruelty towards refugees.
We can & must do better.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Labour to ramp up deportations by overriding ECHR
Home secretary will attempt to change way ECHR is interpreted by UK judges – as critics hit out over proposals
www.independent.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM
WARNING: Shabana Mahmood's new asylum plans will punish people who’ve already lost everything.
Instead of offering safety, political parties are locked in a race to the bottom – trying to outdo one another in cruelty towards refugees.
We can & must do better.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Instead of offering safety, political parties are locked in a race to the bottom – trying to outdo one another in cruelty towards refugees.
We can & must do better.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Reposted by Cathy
spread Samir Zitouni’s name far and wide
November 4, 2025 at 11:24 AM
spread Samir Zitouni’s name far and wide
@bcfinucane.bsky.social Excellent interview on @channel4news.bsky.social yesterday. Many thanks.
October 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
@bcfinucane.bsky.social Excellent interview on @channel4news.bsky.social yesterday. Many thanks.
Reposted by Cathy
Given the party's refusal to act on Pochin's brazen racism, it should be as socially unacceptable to vote for Reform as it was in the early 2000s to vote for the BNP.
And we should be prepared to say this to people's faces.
And we should be prepared to say this to people's faces.
October 28, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Given the party's refusal to act on Pochin's brazen racism, it should be as socially unacceptable to vote for Reform as it was in the early 2000s to vote for the BNP.
And we should be prepared to say this to people's faces.
And we should be prepared to say this to people's faces.
@jaseokundaye.bsky.social Excellent article in @theguardian.com today.
October 27, 2025 at 11:48 AM
@jaseokundaye.bsky.social Excellent article in @theguardian.com today.
@richove.bsky.social I very much enjoyed your talk in Berwick this afternoon. It was chilling to hear about the destruction of books across the centuries, but also immensely encouraging to know that people have always tried to preserve them, often at great risk to themselves.
October 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
@richove.bsky.social I very much enjoyed your talk in Berwick this afternoon. It was chilling to hear about the destruction of books across the centuries, but also immensely encouraging to know that people have always tried to preserve them, often at great risk to themselves.
If #Starmer thinks Reform's policies are racist and immoral, why have he and his party been aping them ever since they got into power? Too little, too late.
September 28, 2025 at 10:14 AM
If #Starmer thinks Reform's policies are racist and immoral, why have he and his party been aping them ever since they got into power? Too little, too late.
Reposted by Cathy
'Rather than addressing the fundamental problems with existing verification systems, the Britcard threatens to digitise and amplify the very hostile environment policies that created these problems in the first place'
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
The Britcard – progressive or concerning? | British Politics and Policy at LSE
The Government is considering Labour Together's proposal to introduce mandatory digital ID cards in an effort to tackle irregular migration. There are problems with that.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
September 28, 2025 at 10:03 AM
'Rather than addressing the fundamental problems with existing verification systems, the Britcard threatens to digitise and amplify the very hostile environment policies that created these problems in the first place'
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
@jeremycorbyn.bsky.social @zarahsultana.bsky.social this internal squabbling has ruined any chances for the new party, at a time when it is desperately needed. So disappointed.
September 20, 2025 at 9:45 AM
@jeremycorbyn.bsky.social @zarahsultana.bsky.social this internal squabbling has ruined any chances for the new party, at a time when it is desperately needed. So disappointed.
Shame on those taking part in the #Fascist march in #London. We are all one human family. #RefugeesWelcome #SayNoToRacism.
September 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Shame on those taking part in the #Fascist march in #London. We are all one human family. #RefugeesWelcome #SayNoToRacism.
@jonathanliew.bsky.social Excellent article in today's @theguardian.com.
September 10, 2025 at 9:57 AM
@jonathanliew.bsky.social Excellent article in today's @theguardian.com.
Reposted by Cathy
I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees.
No refugee underfunded a school.
No refugee closed a hospital.
No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled.
We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!
No refugee underfunded a school.
No refugee closed a hospital.
No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled.
We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!
August 27, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees.
No refugee underfunded a school.
No refugee closed a hospital.
No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled.
We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!
No refugee underfunded a school.
No refugee closed a hospital.
No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled.
We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!
Depressing to start the day by seeing #Farage and his thugs spewing out their #racism. Of course one cannot expect those who support #Reform to feel compassion, but they would be wise to consider that the last time the Far Right got a stranglehold across Europe it didn't turn out well for anyone.
August 26, 2025 at 10:57 AM
@phillipinman.bsky.social 'jetting off on several holidays a year': You cannot be serious????
August 21, 2025 at 10:14 AM
@phillipinman.bsky.social 'jetting off on several holidays a year': You cannot be serious????
@phillipinman.bsky.social Your article on so-called baby boomers follows the insidious recent tradition of pitting the young against the old, and paints a massively inaccurate picture of how most old people live. Many of us are sick with worry as to how to make ends meet. #ageism
August 21, 2025 at 10:05 AM
@phillipinman.bsky.social Your article on so-called baby boomers follows the insidious recent tradition of pitting the young against the old, and paints a massively inaccurate picture of how most old people live. Many of us are sick with worry as to how to make ends meet. #ageism
Reposted by Cathy
80 years ago, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
We remember the thousands who were killed in a crime against humanity, as well as the survivors who carried the pain of the past.
Today, let us honour them by vowing to rid our world of nuclear weapons once and for all.
We remember the thousands who were killed in a crime against humanity, as well as the survivors who carried the pain of the past.
Today, let us honour them by vowing to rid our world of nuclear weapons once and for all.
August 6, 2025 at 9:30 AM
80 years ago, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
We remember the thousands who were killed in a crime against humanity, as well as the survivors who carried the pain of the past.
Today, let us honour them by vowing to rid our world of nuclear weapons once and for all.
We remember the thousands who were killed in a crime against humanity, as well as the survivors who carried the pain of the past.
Today, let us honour them by vowing to rid our world of nuclear weapons once and for all.
July 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Reposted by Cathy
If as PM says it’s a “moral argument” surely it would make more sense to ask someone who can afford to spend $50 million on a wedding to contribute more instead of forcing future disability claimants, many of whom will already be living in poverty into deeper hardship & despair?
June 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
If as PM says it’s a “moral argument” surely it would make more sense to ask someone who can afford to spend $50 million on a wedding to contribute more instead of forcing future disability claimants, many of whom will already be living in poverty into deeper hardship & despair?
Reposted by Cathy
Today’s stories in numbers
£60,000,000 - basic cost of one F35A jet to carry USA nukes
£60,000,000 - annual cost of 15,614 people on lower rate PIP
£60,000,000 - basic cost of one F35A jet to carry USA nukes
£60,000,000 - annual cost of 15,614 people on lower rate PIP
June 25, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Today’s stories in numbers
£60,000,000 - basic cost of one F35A jet to carry USA nukes
£60,000,000 - annual cost of 15,614 people on lower rate PIP
£60,000,000 - basic cost of one F35A jet to carry USA nukes
£60,000,000 - annual cost of 15,614 people on lower rate PIP
