Far from the main point here, but the prescriptive, finger wagging tone of the 'meal plan' is infuriating. Everything has to be 'low-fat'. or 'semi-skimmed' or 'sugar-free' or unsalted, just in case anyone might experience a fleeting sense of pleasure.
Amid all the asylum reform announcements, the HO finally slipped out its asylum support rates review last week. What does this mean for child poverty?🧵 www.gov.uk/government/p...
Report on review of cash allowance paid to asylum seekers
Home Office reviews of the cash allowance paid to asylum seekers.
www.gov.uk
November 19, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Far from the main point here, but the prescriptive, finger wagging tone of the 'meal plan' is infuriating. Everything has to be 'low-fat'. or 'semi-skimmed' or 'sugar-free' or unsalted, just in case anyone might experience a fleeting sense of pleasure.
The *front page story* of a leading British tabloid newspaper today is that some young men enjoyed each other's company.
That's it. That is the entirety of the story.
That's it. That is the entirety of the story.
November 19, 2025 at 9:50 AM
The *front page story* of a leading British tabloid newspaper today is that some young men enjoyed each other's company.
That's it. That is the entirety of the story.
That's it. That is the entirety of the story.
'Perverse incentives'?
Imagine believing that this should be the policy of a Labour government
The Labour government does not want to rule out deporting somebody once here as a refugee 16-19 years with a British-born 15 year old child
November 19, 2025 at 7:27 AM
'Perverse incentives'?
Bits of Brum- where Mahmood is an MP- were literally waist high in water last week because of austerity and a failure to address climate change.
How is that not a 'crisis'?
How is that not a 'crisis'?
What does it mean, if public opinion is only ever cited to justify the crackdowns and cruelty that our ruling class wants to shove through, and almost never to address public concerns about e.g. the crumbling public realm, the shit in the rivers or our government’s complicity in genocide
November 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Bits of Brum- where Mahmood is an MP- were literally waist high in water last week because of austerity and a failure to address climate change.
How is that not a 'crisis'?
How is that not a 'crisis'?
Defeating the far right by doing things they're very happy about.
Paul Brand: "There is criticism from the left wing of the Labour Party but also actually quite a lot of support from right wing newspapers this morning"
Says it all #GMB
Says it all #GMB
November 18, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Defeating the far right by doing things they're very happy about.
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Birmingham council tried to slash workers wages & when the workers responded by taking industrial action the council decided to bring in scab labour to try & break the strike. Those agency workers are now going on strike too.
Solidarity with the @unitetheunion.bsky.social bin workers
Solidarity with the @unitetheunion.bsky.social bin workers
November 18, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Birmingham council tried to slash workers wages & when the workers responded by taking industrial action the council decided to bring in scab labour to try & break the strike. Those agency workers are now going on strike too.
Solidarity with the @unitetheunion.bsky.social bin workers
Solidarity with the @unitetheunion.bsky.social bin workers
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The Labour government wants to deport more children.
November 18, 2025 at 6:32 AM
The Labour government wants to deport more children.
So, now she gets to tell other people to fuck off back home.
Take *that*, racists!
Take *that*, racists!
And to think, I accused these people of cynically deploying an utterly disingenuous, vexatious, deeply harmful “anti-racism” to fool stupid libs, for entirely self-interested political goals. I now acknowledge they would never do anything so reckless and despicable. Wow, do I feel like a fool.
November 17, 2025 at 9:03 PM
So, now she gets to tell other people to fuck off back home.
Take *that*, racists!
Take *that*, racists!
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Labour MPs who don't leave now, who choose to remain one minute longer in a party where the likes of this man represent the dominant line, will themselves be unelectable even after they inevitably defect later on.
Labour MP Luke Akehurst says he "wholeheartedly welcomes" Mahmood's plans "which I believe will tackle a failure by the previous government to maintain one of the most basic fundamental functions of government, which is control of our borders."
November 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Labour MPs who don't leave now, who choose to remain one minute longer in a party where the likes of this man represent the dominant line, will themselves be unelectable even after they inevitably defect later on.
'And the world has changed. It is more volatile and insecure, with increased conflict leading to a significant increase in the movement of people across the globe. Our asylum system was not designed to cope with this.'
Isn't that pretty much exactly what it was designed for?
Isn't that pretty much exactly what it was designed for?
Even though the current asylum support system already places thousands of children in deep poverty each year, sometimes for many years, the gov now plans to go further in its restrictions to already limited provision likely to increase destitution & homeless among families as well as detention 🧵
Policy paper now published: www.gov.uk/government/p...
November 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
'And the world has changed. It is more volatile and insecure, with increased conflict leading to a significant increase in the movement of people across the globe. Our asylum system was not designed to cope with this.'
Isn't that pretty much exactly what it was designed for?
Isn't that pretty much exactly what it was designed for?
Why *are* journalists parroting this nonsense? I've threatened legal challenge after the Home Office tried to make a family homeless on the basis that the dad had a house in Kabul- the house they'd left- as if he could approach a lettings agency and live off the rent.
“Introduced in 2005 under EU law, the legal duty to provide asylum-seeker support has meant guaranteed, unconditional financial assistance for anyone who claims asylum and would otherwise be destitute."
This is not true - it's highly conditional.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
This is not true - it's highly conditional.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK government set to make support for asylum seekers ‘discretionary’
Home secretary expected to change system to deny help to those who can work or who have assets
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Why *are* journalists parroting this nonsense? I've threatened legal challenge after the Home Office tried to make a family homeless on the basis that the dad had a house in Kabul- the house they'd left- as if he could approach a lettings agency and live off the rent.
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Okay, let's heal the rift with some gentle humour:
How many Labour MPs does it take to change a light bulb?
Two. One to change the lightbulb, the other to ask Nigel Farage if he needs anything else doing around Number 10 before he moves in.
How many Labour MPs does it take to change a light bulb?
Two. One to change the lightbulb, the other to ask Nigel Farage if he needs anything else doing around Number 10 before he moves in.
November 17, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Okay, let's heal the rift with some gentle humour:
How many Labour MPs does it take to change a light bulb?
Two. One to change the lightbulb, the other to ask Nigel Farage if he needs anything else doing around Number 10 before he moves in.
How many Labour MPs does it take to change a light bulb?
Two. One to change the lightbulb, the other to ask Nigel Farage if he needs anything else doing around Number 10 before he moves in.
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"Vote for us or the far right will get in. Also, we find the far right inspirational"
🤡🤡
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Somebody is briefing the Times that the Home Secretary finds inspiration in Kristi Noem's leading the Trump mass deportation effort - which has gone much too far for Americans
What a kamikaze piece of political madness that is on the eve of their asylum package
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
What a kamikaze piece of political madness that is on the eve of their asylum package
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Shabana Mahmood threatens Trump-style visa ban on three countries
Angola, Namibia and the Democratic Republic of Congo will face Trump-style sanctions if they do not start taking back more illegal migrants and criminals
www.thetimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:50 PM
"Vote for us or the far right will get in. Also, we find the far right inspirational"
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There must be a special place in hell for people who, with intent, dump vulnerable, poor people in deprived areas, actively preside over the further deterioration of those areas, and then blame the vulnerable, poor people they dumped there for the consequences.
Putting humans in two decades-long limbo is the sign of a government that has completely lost its moral compass, but how many other Labour MPs will have the courage to say “not in my name”?
The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
There must be a special place in hell for people who, with intent, dump vulnerable, poor people in deprived areas, actively preside over the further deterioration of those areas, and then blame the vulnerable, poor people they dumped there for the consequences.
What even is this 'golden ticket' horseshit?
Govt minister Alex Norris is asked if the govt will take jewellery from people [fleeing war and persecution]. Norris says the govt won't be taking peoples wedding rings but they will seize assets.
November 17, 2025 at 7:50 AM
What even is this 'golden ticket' horseshit?
This prick needs knocking out.
November 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This prick needs knocking out.
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You cant parachute asylum seekers into deprived areas, in completely inappropriate housing, then say those migrants are 'dividing our country'. You divided the country because you can't organise a basic service and process claims in a timely way
November 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
You cant parachute asylum seekers into deprived areas, in completely inappropriate housing, then say those migrants are 'dividing our country'. You divided the country because you can't organise a basic service and process claims in a timely way
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This won’t even work as intended. The people objecting to refugees aren’t asking for people to have to stay longer and jump through more hoops before they’re naturalised. They point blank want anyone not exactly like them kicked out.
November 16, 2025 at 11:13 AM
This won’t even work as intended. The people objecting to refugees aren’t asking for people to have to stay longer and jump through more hoops before they’re naturalised. They point blank want anyone not exactly like them kicked out.
Posts you can smell.
On Monday, the Home Secretary will outline the biggest set of changes to the asylum system in modern times.
These changes will restore order to our asylum system. There is nothing ‘left wing’, ‘socialist’ or ‘progressive’ about insecure borders.
These changes will restore order to our asylum system. There is nothing ‘left wing’, ‘socialist’ or ‘progressive’ about insecure borders.
November 16, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Taking away all the noise here, asylum support - 'handouts', ad Mahmoud charmlessly puts it- has effectively *always* been 'discretionary'. Home Office staff will find any dumb reason they can to deny claims.
Support for people seeking asylum is already highly restricted. What Mahmood is effectively talking about is putting people in more precarious positions and forcing them to sell whatever they may have managed to save when fleeing for their lives.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK government set to make support for asylum seekers ‘discretionary’
Home secretary expected to change system to deny help to those who can work or who have assets
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Taking away all the noise here, asylum support - 'handouts', ad Mahmoud charmlessly puts it- has effectively *always* been 'discretionary'. Home Office staff will find any dumb reason they can to deny claims.
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When Tommy Robinson is celebrating your policies it is time to take a long hard look in the mirror and then quit politics forever.
Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
November 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM
When Tommy Robinson is celebrating your policies it is time to take a long hard look in the mirror and then quit politics forever.
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To explain briefly: at the moment people successful in their asylum claims get permission to stay in the UK for 5 years, then have to apply for permanent residency. At that point a review of their status is done, but it’s rare not to succeed at that point unless they‘ve committed an offence 1/
To reiterate, this is about making life immeasurably more miserable and stressful for some of the most vulnerable people, in the almost certainly vain hope of winning over the votes of racists.
Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.
Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.
Asylum in UK to be made temporary under Home Secretary’s plans
Shabana Mahmood will lay out reforms modelled on the Danish system on Monday.
www.independent.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
To explain briefly: at the moment people successful in their asylum claims get permission to stay in the UK for 5 years, then have to apply for permanent residency. At that point a review of their status is done, but it’s rare not to succeed at that point unless they‘ve committed an offence 1/
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This contribution to the volume of human misery is yet another policy from Labour based on a false premise, in this case that refugees are overly attracted to Britain. It will increase bureaucratic limbo, thus making worse the problem of "cohesion" it purports to solve.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 8:47 AM
This contribution to the volume of human misery is yet another policy from Labour based on a false premise, in this case that refugees are overly attracted to Britain. It will increase bureaucratic limbo, thus making worse the problem of "cohesion" it purports to solve.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Fuck me. That fascists sex doll business was *rental*?!
Raise the Love
Not The Flags
donmcgowan333.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Fuck me. That fascists sex doll business was *rental*?!