Gill West
@gillwest.bsky.social
Poiché è difficile distinguere i profeti veri dai falsi, è bene avere in sospetto tutti i profeti...(Primo Levi)
Vile, rude, narcissistic & misogynistic, what a toxic mix. As Trump lies incessantly & only wants the press present to flatter his gargantuan ego, why don’t they boycott the ghastly tangerine toddler’s Oval Office spite-fests? There’s nothing to be gained + he posts everything on SM first anyway.
This almost makes Trumplethinskin look like he doesn’t understand how to speak to women with any real semblance of respect.
Montage of 19 clips of Trump insulting, berating, demeaning and attacking female reporters over the past few months. Part 1.
November 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Vile, rude, narcissistic & misogynistic, what a toxic mix. As Trump lies incessantly & only wants the press present to flatter his gargantuan ego, why don’t they boycott the ghastly tangerine toddler’s Oval Office spite-fests? There’s nothing to be gained + he posts everything on SM first anyway.
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This almost makes Trumplethinskin look like he doesn’t understand how to speak to women with any real semblance of respect.
Montage of 19 clips of Trump insulting, berating, demeaning and attacking female reporters over the past few months. Part 1.
November 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
This almost makes Trumplethinskin look like he doesn’t understand how to speak to women with any real semblance of respect.
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The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
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Well done Lord Dubs 4 sticking up 4 refugees! A truly fabulous person! He is so right when he says the current cruel policy that Shabana Mahmood is suggesting is not fit 4 purpose! I find it astonishing that the cruelest of people in parliament are the very people who come from immigrant families!
November 18, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Well done Lord Dubs 4 sticking up 4 refugees! A truly fabulous person! He is so right when he says the current cruel policy that Shabana Mahmood is suggesting is not fit 4 purpose! I find it astonishing that the cruelest of people in parliament are the very people who come from immigrant families!
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Some of the people in this article have shared their recollections with me before - but on condition of anonymity. Coming forward now is an act of patriotism. Farage’s claim that it never happened is the opposite.
(Note also the line about pronouncing his name.)
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
(Note also the line about pronouncing his name.)
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Some of the people in this article have shared their recollections with me before - but on condition of anonymity. Coming forward now is an act of patriotism. Farage’s claim that it never happened is the opposite.
(Note also the line about pronouncing his name.)
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
(Note also the line about pronouncing his name.)
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
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The misconceived notion that the way to deal with the backlog of asylum claims is to duplicate the system so as to have exit assessments too.
In essence: addressing the problem of a queue by forming another queue, just as long.
Daft, as well as cruelly unsettling.
In essence: addressing the problem of a queue by forming another queue, just as long.
Daft, as well as cruelly unsettling.
November 18, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The misconceived notion that the way to deal with the backlog of asylum claims is to duplicate the system so as to have exit assessments too.
In essence: addressing the problem of a queue by forming another queue, just as long.
Daft, as well as cruelly unsettling.
In essence: addressing the problem of a queue by forming another queue, just as long.
Daft, as well as cruelly unsettling.
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One of the most shameful incidents of WW2 was when the government and press scapegoated refugees, then decided to pack them off an a cramped ship, The HMT DUNERA and ship them to Australia.
As they boarded the boat they were stripped of the valuables and robbed by the guards.
Now government policy
As they boarded the boat they were stripped of the valuables and robbed by the guards.
Now government policy
November 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
One of the most shameful incidents of WW2 was when the government and press scapegoated refugees, then decided to pack them off an a cramped ship, The HMT DUNERA and ship them to Australia.
As they boarded the boat they were stripped of the valuables and robbed by the guards.
Now government policy
As they boarded the boat they were stripped of the valuables and robbed by the guards.
Now government policy
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When Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (aka. Tommy Robinson, aka. Tiny-Tommeh-Ten-Names) treats your policy announcement as a win, you must realise that things have gone sideways in a pretty significant way? Or is that just me?
A post on the Hostile Environment 2.0 asking:
Why is Labour doing this?
A post on the Hostile Environment 2.0 asking:
Why is Labour doing this?
The Hostile Environment 2.0 Patch Update
Labour’s asylum policy proves they fear the far-right more than they trust their own values.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 11:33 AM
When Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (aka. Tommy Robinson, aka. Tiny-Tommeh-Ten-Names) treats your policy announcement as a win, you must realise that things have gone sideways in a pretty significant way? Or is that just me?
A post on the Hostile Environment 2.0 asking:
Why is Labour doing this?
A post on the Hostile Environment 2.0 asking:
Why is Labour doing this?
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The basic problem with the temporary refugee status policy - especially one lasting up to 20 years - is it leads to very few removals (based on Denmark's experience) but does significantly worsen integration.
November 18, 2025 at 9:05 AM
The basic problem with the temporary refugee status policy - especially one lasting up to 20 years - is it leads to very few removals (based on Denmark's experience) but does significantly worsen integration.
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Have been thinking about “immigration has been tearing this country apart.” Surely I’m not the only person to think that it isn’t true, but inflamed rhetoric about immigration by politicians is what is tearing this country apart and so statements like that only makes it worse.
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Have been thinking about “immigration has been tearing this country apart.” Surely I’m not the only person to think that it isn’t true, but inflamed rhetoric about immigration by politicians is what is tearing this country apart and so statements like that only makes it worse.
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Good on them.
BREAKING: BBC 'determined to fight' any Trump legal action, chairman tells staff
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BBC 'determined to fight' any Trump legal action, chairman tells staff
BBC chair Samir Shah has said there is "no basis for a defamation case and we are determined to fight this" - after Donald Trump said he would sue the corporation for between $1bn and $5bn.
news.sky.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Good on them.
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BREAKING: BBC 'determined to fight' any Trump legal action, chairman tells staff
news.sky.com/story/bbc-de...
news.sky.com/story/bbc-de...
BBC 'determined to fight' any Trump legal action, chairman tells staff
BBC chair Samir Shah has said there is "no basis for a defamation case and we are determined to fight this" - after Donald Trump said he would sue the corporation for between $1bn and $5bn.
news.sky.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:34 PM
BREAKING: BBC 'determined to fight' any Trump legal action, chairman tells staff
news.sky.com/story/bbc-de...
news.sky.com/story/bbc-de...
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Plans to leave refugees in a state of perpetual uncertainty about where and if they can rebuild their lives are not just performative cruelty, they are counterproductive to integration and the economy. It doesn’t have to be like this - 1/2
November 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Plans to leave refugees in a state of perpetual uncertainty about where and if they can rebuild their lives are not just performative cruelty, they are counterproductive to integration and the economy. It doesn’t have to be like this - 1/2
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If someone has travelled thousands of miles, paying everything they own to an exploitative people smuggling gang, risking their life in a deadly channel crossing, I do not want to be the person who takes their last valuables – a mother’s necklace? A gift? – from them. And nor should the rest of us.
November 17, 2025 at 8:52 AM
If someone has travelled thousands of miles, paying everything they own to an exploitative people smuggling gang, risking their life in a deadly channel crossing, I do not want to be the person who takes their last valuables – a mother’s necklace? A gift? – from them. And nor should the rest of us.
Why is Labour pandering to the worst elements by proposing further punitive & immoral policies on refugees & asylum seekers? You can never appease bullies & haters, they’ll keep coming back for more, nothing will satisfy bar your total submission or annihilation. Stand up for decency & push back.
November 17, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Why is Labour pandering to the worst elements by proposing further punitive & immoral policies on refugees & asylum seekers? You can never appease bullies & haters, they’ll keep coming back for more, nothing will satisfy bar your total submission or annihilation. Stand up for decency & push back.
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We should stop the boats because it's dangerous, and we should stop the scapegoating of immigrants because it's wrong and cruel.
Controlled migration is good for the country, helps build our economy and diversity strengthens our communities. (1/6) 🧵
Controlled migration is good for the country, helps build our economy and diversity strengthens our communities. (1/6) 🧵
November 17, 2025 at 11:03 AM
We should stop the boats because it's dangerous, and we should stop the scapegoating of immigrants because it's wrong and cruel.
Controlled migration is good for the country, helps build our economy and diversity strengthens our communities. (1/6) 🧵
Controlled migration is good for the country, helps build our economy and diversity strengthens our communities. (1/6) 🧵
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Confiscating the valuables of refugees and migrants at checkpoints is the sort of thing that militias in civil wars and corrupt cops in dictatorships do.
Not everything done by the Danish is moral or smart.
Not everything done by the Danish is moral or smart.
Ministers now appear to be confirming in broadcast interviews that they would audit and could confiscate assets (including jewellery) excepting wedding rings from the jewellery that they could confiscate.
November 17, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Confiscating the valuables of refugees and migrants at checkpoints is the sort of thing that militias in civil wars and corrupt cops in dictatorships do.
Not everything done by the Danish is moral or smart.
Not everything done by the Danish is moral or smart.
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I look at the gov't right now and I keep thinking back to a piece by @iandunt.bsky.social years ago, about how he got lost in the jungle and - I paraphrase - was so scared of stopping, accepting he was lost, and recalibrating, that he kept walking, kept making decisions that got him more lost.
ICE-style raids on Britain's streets: that's all Labour's brutal asylum reforms will achieve: Stella Creasy
“That the number of people seeking refuge in the UK has increased in the past year reflects not a generosity of our system, but the chaos of our world”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“That the number of people seeking refuge in the UK has increased in the past year reflects not a generosity of our system, but the chaos of our world”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
ICE-style raids on Britain's streets: that's all Labour's brutal asylum reforms will achieve | Stella Creasy
If we want to ‘stop the boats’, we need to stop the BS when it comes to what creates refugees, and how to respond to them, says Labour MP Stella Creasy
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:22 AM
I look at the gov't right now and I keep thinking back to a piece by @iandunt.bsky.social years ago, about how he got lost in the jungle and - I paraphrase - was so scared of stopping, accepting he was lost, and recalibrating, that he kept walking, kept making decisions that got him more lost.
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Another Labour MP goes public with concerns.
A strong immigration system doesn't need to be a cruel one.
It shouldn't need saying - but refugees & asylum seekers are real people, fleeing war and persecution.
This daughter of an immigrant is proud of our British and Labour values of respect and not turning our backs on people in real need.
It shouldn't need saying - but refugees & asylum seekers are real people, fleeing war and persecution.
This daughter of an immigrant is proud of our British and Labour values of respect and not turning our backs on people in real need.
November 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Another Labour MP goes public with concerns.
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A strong immigration system doesn't need to be a cruel one.
It shouldn't need saying - but refugees & asylum seekers are real people, fleeing war and persecution.
This daughter of an immigrant is proud of our British and Labour values of respect and not turning our backs on people in real need.
It shouldn't need saying - but refugees & asylum seekers are real people, fleeing war and persecution.
This daughter of an immigrant is proud of our British and Labour values of respect and not turning our backs on people in real need.
November 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
A strong immigration system doesn't need to be a cruel one.
It shouldn't need saying - but refugees & asylum seekers are real people, fleeing war and persecution.
This daughter of an immigrant is proud of our British and Labour values of respect and not turning our backs on people in real need.
It shouldn't need saying - but refugees & asylum seekers are real people, fleeing war and persecution.
This daughter of an immigrant is proud of our British and Labour values of respect and not turning our backs on people in real need.
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Look, for fuck’s sake, humans have been migrating continuously for our entire existence.
Every single human in the world is the product of migration.
It’s what humans do. There is nothing *more* human.
That’s never going to change.
Just grow up, get the fuck over it and plan accordingly.
Every single human in the world is the product of migration.
It’s what humans do. There is nothing *more* human.
That’s never going to change.
Just grow up, get the fuck over it and plan accordingly.
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Look, for fuck’s sake, humans have been migrating continuously for our entire existence.
Every single human in the world is the product of migration.
It’s what humans do. There is nothing *more* human.
That’s never going to change.
Just grow up, get the fuck over it and plan accordingly.
Every single human in the world is the product of migration.
It’s what humans do. There is nothing *more* human.
That’s never going to change.
Just grow up, get the fuck over it and plan accordingly.
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At some point we have to stop pretending that Labour’s constant rightward drift is “grown-up politics” and call it out for what it is - governing by flinch.
And if pointing this out gets me into trouble - then trouble can pull up a chair.
And if pointing this out gets me into trouble - then trouble can pull up a chair.
An Island of Strangers, Led by a Party of Strangers
A Labour government with a historic majority has somehow decided the best way to beat the far right is to imitate its homework. Badly.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 9:45 AM
At some point we have to stop pretending that Labour’s constant rightward drift is “grown-up politics” and call it out for what it is - governing by flinch.
And if pointing this out gets me into trouble - then trouble can pull up a chair.
And if pointing this out gets me into trouble - then trouble can pull up a chair.
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Labour concocts more ugly measures to punish asylum seekers and the right immediately demands worse… howling to leave the ECHR.
This scapegoating of migrants must stop. It is failure - morally and practically.
“Either we all have human rights or none of us do.”
app.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.c...
This scapegoating of migrants must stop. It is failure - morally and practically.
“Either we all have human rights or none of us do.”
app.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.c...
November 17, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Labour concocts more ugly measures to punish asylum seekers and the right immediately demands worse… howling to leave the ECHR.
This scapegoating of migrants must stop. It is failure - morally and practically.
“Either we all have human rights or none of us do.”
app.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.c...
This scapegoating of migrants must stop. It is failure - morally and practically.
“Either we all have human rights or none of us do.”
app.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.c...
The feeling of relief at hearing MP Tony Vaughn speak eloquently and compassionately against Mahmood’s plans for asylum seekers & refugees on @radio4today quickly evaporated when they later moved to speak to Tim Stanley & David Goodheart!🤬 Why is Labour dancing to Reform’s tune?
November 17, 2025 at 9:03 AM
The feeling of relief at hearing MP Tony Vaughn speak eloquently and compassionately against Mahmood’s plans for asylum seekers & refugees on @radio4today quickly evaporated when they later moved to speak to Tim Stanley & David Goodheart!🤬 Why is Labour dancing to Reform’s tune?
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Family jewellery is one of the few things you can carry when fleeing war or persecution. The cruelty in this policy is worse than just the financial one. It’s ripping away the remains of family.
Hey Labour
Remember the majority of voters who believe in treating people decently and not stealing from those who've endured months and years of hardship fleeing war and persecution to seek a place of safety?
We're still over here 👋
Remember the majority of voters who believe in treating people decently and not stealing from those who've endured months and years of hardship fleeing war and persecution to seek a place of safety?
We're still over here 👋
November 17, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Family jewellery is one of the few things you can carry when fleeing war or persecution. The cruelty in this policy is worse than just the financial one. It’s ripping away the remains of family.