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GR
@garethrichards1.bsky.social
Project manager, Interest in social Justice, criminal Justice, rugby, sport and useless facts.EFC for my sins.
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Listening to Steve Reed explain on the radio today that he can't say what Mahmood's plan means for kids of people who give birth after they've been granted asylum because that's a hypothetical Q govt can't be expected to answer right now made me think these reforms are going to unravel quite fast
November 18, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Starmer says he will lead Labour into next election.

No chance.

Losses at the next council elections will seal his fate.

Poor policy choices - hurting the old, children and disabled put a negative sign. Bad tax promises, reneged on leadership pledges.

Many MPs with small majority worried.
Starmer says he will lead Labour into next election
Despite speculation about challenges to his leadership, the prime minister says he is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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If the objective is to stop the cross-Channel trade in people, the solution is to offer a safe route from France.

That is not the real objective. Governments just want to stop the people.

#R4Today
November 18, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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How to lose friends and alienate people.
Lots of Labour MPs asking Mahmood tonight to rule out child detention. She won’t rule it out. That’s because forced removals of families will mean children in detention for periods.

Home Office ruling out deportation of lone minors but the changes will certainly mean more detention of children.
November 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse have released a PSA urging Congress to make the records public, produced by World Without Exploitation.
November 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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It just moves the goalpost. Parties further to the right will just push for even more performative and cruel policies against minorities.
November 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Immigtantion/migration/asylum are all different, stop lumping them together.

1. Have proper application routes in other countries.
2. Review the international aid spending cuts and foriegn policy, stable countries reduce numbers who leave.

Public services issues becasue of cuts not (im)migrants
Remote jobs in Europe
them.as
November 17, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Why does it look as if Mahmood and the MPs briefing are so smug and pleased with themselves when dishing out these polices.?
November 17, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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As things stand I'll never vote Labour again.

Starmer's "red lines" combined with Mahmood's Priti Patel / Badenoch tribute act means I doubt I'll ever trust Labour enough to actually vote for them again.

Labour appear intent on being as repulsive as possible to pro-EU voters.
November 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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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...
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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The purpose of probation is to protect the public. It does so by managing the risk of offenders committing further offences.

But an unstable system with demoralised staff is undermining rehabilitation. J J Jackson reports
Probation: change, but not for the better?
A damning report from the Audit Office and a new Sentencing Bill signal more upheaval for the embattled service
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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The line “vote for us or you’ll get the far right” doesn’t really work when the policies you’re enacting are barely distinguishable from what the far right propose.
November 17, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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'It's just going to leave people in limbo'

Enver Solomon from the Refugee Council speaks to #BBCBreakfast about new measures on immigration which will include people granted asylum needing to wait 20 years before they can apply to settle permanently
November 17, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Labour in office " our greatest achievement is punching down on the vulnerable harder than Farage ". The UK home secretary, the racists' racist.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Shabana Mahmood warns Labour MPs ‘dark forces are stirring up anger’ over migration
There is understood to be growing unease in party over home secretary’s sweeping overhaul of refugee rights
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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On top of which it is er… challenging to look at this figure and believe that the UK has a larger asylum seeker challenge than its European peers.
UK government says claims rising here and falling across Europe. Technically true for Germany & France, not Italy or Spain
November 17, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Lets get Troy Parrott to Everton
November 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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For Shabana Mahmood to attack some of the most cruelly treated people in the world as having won a "golden ticket" because they manage to get to and claim asylum in Britain is unforgiveable.

A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.
November 16, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Everton women are shite. How’s Sorensen still in a job
November 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Labour policy is being celebrated by Tommy Robinson.

That's it.

That's all you ever need to say to explain who Labour are.
November 16, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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You must integrate!

And we can remove you at any moment!

And don't even think of getting an important job, or falling in love.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#BBCPM
November 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
As labour continues to creep to the right. Can see Mahmood as new leader.

When the leadedship contest occurs, it will be as muc if not more a battle for the partys future identity as it will be for the leader
November 15, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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The government just keeps doubling down on the strategy that’s taken it to genuinely historical unpopularity ever harder.

The horse will be flogged until it sprints.
the video goes on and on about illegal immigration and yet the new proposal will target legal migration by confirmed refugees
November 15, 2025 at 10:49 AM