Josephine Whitaker-Yilmaz
@josephinewy.bsky.social
It's great that (this week at least) govt seem to be saying they'll do this. But remember: even if the 2 child limit & the benefit cap are scrapped in full, this will do NOTHING for hundreds of thousands of migrant children living in poverty
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Over 100 groups call for Labour to fully scrap two child benefit cap
‘Abolishing the two-child limit in full will set millions of children’s lives on a path to a brighter future’, major organisations say
www.independent.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 8:59 AM
It's great that (this week at least) govt seem to be saying they'll do this. But remember: even if the 2 child limit & the benefit cap are scrapped in full, this will do NOTHING for hundreds of thousands of migrant children living in poverty
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Super useful thread for anyone interested in wealth taxes - and social justice.
🔔 UPDATE:
Reports that Reeves is considering following the example of 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 🇪🇸 🇮🇹 🇳🇴 🇯🇵 and introducing a settling up tax... 🥳
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
👇 See our thread from last week for why it’s long overdue.
Reports that Reeves is considering following the example of 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 🇪🇸 🇮🇹 🇳🇴 🇯🇵 and introducing a settling up tax... 🥳
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
👇 See our thread from last week for why it’s long overdue.
November 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Super useful thread for anyone interested in wealth taxes - and social justice.
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Adopting a Denmark-style immigration model is a dangerous new low from our Government. Pushing temporary status, harsher family reunion rules and “parallel society” labels throws basic rights under the bus in a bid to win cheap votes.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK to announce plans to emulate stringent Danish immigration system
Shabana Mahmood’s proposals draw scorn from some Labour MPs, while others want government to go further
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Adopting a Denmark-style immigration model is a dangerous new low from our Government. Pushing temporary status, harsher family reunion rules and “parallel society” labels throws basic rights under the bus in a bid to win cheap votes.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
We all know the criminal justice system is on its knees. If prisons are releasing people *by mistake*, then THIS is the problem.
Precisely where those people were born, what colour skin they have or their exact immigration status is not.
Precisely where those people were born, what colour skin they have or their exact immigration status is not.
November 5, 2025 at 1:13 PM
We all know the criminal justice system is on its knees. If prisons are releasing people *by mistake*, then THIS is the problem.
Precisely where those people were born, what colour skin they have or their exact immigration status is not.
Precisely where those people were born, what colour skin they have or their exact immigration status is not.
Gee Wes. If only you could do something about this.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
NHS staff bearing brunt as ‘ugly’ racism of 70s and 80s returns, says Streeting
Exclusive: Health secretary and NHS England chief warn of winter pressures and rising levels of abuse
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Gee Wes. If only you could do something about this.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
No it's fine I've just got something in my eye dw
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 AM
No it's fine I've just got something in my eye dw
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1/2 Also, notice how the discourse is shifting on how "illegal migrants" haven't integrated (largely related to narratives about them coming from predominantly Arab/Muslim countries) to people from the Caribbean not integrating
The Caribbean is overwhelmingly Christian, the idea that Caribbean...
The Caribbean is overwhelmingly Christian, the idea that Caribbean...
November 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
1/2 Also, notice how the discourse is shifting on how "illegal migrants" haven't integrated (largely related to narratives about them coming from predominantly Arab/Muslim countries) to people from the Caribbean not integrating
The Caribbean is overwhelmingly Christian, the idea that Caribbean...
The Caribbean is overwhelmingly Christian, the idea that Caribbean...
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There's not long to go now until our important event in London about the contribution migrants make to our NHS.
Hear exciting speakers like @zackpolanski.bsky.social
& @zarahsultana.bsky.social as well as NHS staff themselves.
Don't miss out - get your tickets here:
bit.ly/MigrantsNotT...
Hear exciting speakers like @zackpolanski.bsky.social
& @zarahsultana.bsky.social as well as NHS staff themselves.
Don't miss out - get your tickets here:
bit.ly/MigrantsNotT...
November 4, 2025 at 10:56 AM
There's not long to go now until our important event in London about the contribution migrants make to our NHS.
Hear exciting speakers like @zackpolanski.bsky.social
& @zarahsultana.bsky.social as well as NHS staff themselves.
Don't miss out - get your tickets here:
bit.ly/MigrantsNotT...
Hear exciting speakers like @zackpolanski.bsky.social
& @zarahsultana.bsky.social as well as NHS staff themselves.
Don't miss out - get your tickets here:
bit.ly/MigrantsNotT...
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The reality for children and families living in deep poverty while receiving Home Office Asylum Support gets little attention. My article for @cpaguk.bsky.social Poverty Journal - 'Learning is an essential need' - looks at what this means for children's education cpag.org.uk/news/learnin...
Learning is an essential need
Recent public narratives around asylum-seeking have focused on mostly men arriving by small boats and staying in Home Office commissioned hotels. However, what is the experience of the children and fa...
cpag.org.uk
October 20, 2025 at 10:24 AM
The reality for children and families living in deep poverty while receiving Home Office Asylum Support gets little attention. My article for @cpaguk.bsky.social Poverty Journal - 'Learning is an essential need' - looks at what this means for children's education cpag.org.uk/news/learnin...
"I think it's very important that whatever our policy on migration or illegal migration that children don't suffer as a result"
- Lord Hanson just now in House of Lords in answer to question from Baroness Lister of Burtersett about poverty amongst migrant children. parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...
- Lord Hanson just now in House of Lords in answer to question from Baroness Lister of Burtersett about poverty amongst migrant children. parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...
Parliamentlive.tv
House of Lords
parliamentlive.tv
October 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
"I think it's very important that whatever our policy on migration or illegal migration that children don't suffer as a result"
- Lord Hanson just now in House of Lords in answer to question from Baroness Lister of Burtersett about poverty amongst migrant children. parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...
- Lord Hanson just now in House of Lords in answer to question from Baroness Lister of Burtersett about poverty amongst migrant children. parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...
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Got a lot of “wow, this is nuts!“ from Tory MPs but also an engagingly snotty “why are you only writing about this now?” from a senior Conservative - a reasonable question from *Labour or the Lib Dems* but “why have you only just now noticed how nuts we are?”…what?
October 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Got a lot of “wow, this is nuts!“ from Tory MPs but also an engagingly snotty “why are you only writing about this now?” from a senior Conservative - a reasonable question from *Labour or the Lib Dems* but “why have you only just now noticed how nuts we are?”…what?
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Yeah. In some ways we’ve reverted back to an earlier period, in that we did a news story on it, which I read, but as I say in truth I just went “oh, that’s nuts”, and did not register that it was “literally do a partition sized population move” nuts.
October 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Yeah. In some ways we’ve reverted back to an earlier period, in that we did a news story on it, which I read, but as I say in truth I just went “oh, that’s nuts”, and did not register that it was “literally do a partition sized population move” nuts.
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Here this all is as a story. The Conservatives said they would provide clarity, but they have not as yet.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Deporting legally settled people is ‘broadly in line’ with Tory policy, says Badenoch’s office
Conservative leader’s spokesperson sets out plan to strip the right of indefinite leave to remain from people claiming benefits
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Here this all is as a story. The Conservatives said they would provide clarity, but they have not as yet.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Has anyone told them this is exactly what their white paper is going to do? Maybe not on a blanket basis, but to anyone who can’t meet their new criteria for “contribution” and cant face a life of indefinite precariousness in the UK.
Labour spokesman
“The Tories want to retrospectively change the rules to deport people who have been in this country and contributed to our society for decades. They would separate British children from their parents and expel doctors and nurses who have been serving patients in the NHS for years."
“The Tories want to retrospectively change the rules to deport people who have been in this country and contributed to our society for decades. They would separate British children from their parents and expel doctors and nurses who have been serving patients in the NHS for years."
Worth saying that despite asking for more than 12 hours we’ve had nothing back from Labour on this
October 21, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Has anyone told them this is exactly what their white paper is going to do? Maybe not on a blanket basis, but to anyone who can’t meet their new criteria for “contribution” and cant face a life of indefinite precariousness in the UK.
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For years, there's been a massive over-emphasis on food miles, and a massive under-emphasis on food type.
By far and away the best dietary decision you can make, for environmental, humanitarian and public health purposes, is to cut out animal products.
By far and away the best dietary decision you can make, for environmental, humanitarian and public health purposes, is to cut out animal products.
Remember this, whenever someone says "alternative proteins - yuck!"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Beef, pork, chicken: the world loves cheap meat. If people knew what really goes in it, that love affair would be over | Devi Sridhar
Antibiotic use in farming is now rampant. How meat is produced in China may mean the drugs you need here won’t work, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburg...
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
For years, there's been a massive over-emphasis on food miles, and a massive under-emphasis on food type.
By far and away the best dietary decision you can make, for environmental, humanitarian and public health purposes, is to cut out animal products.
By far and away the best dietary decision you can make, for environmental, humanitarian and public health purposes, is to cut out animal products.
“Culturally coherent” is not fooling anyone Katie. We all know you mean white.
Sunday Times interview Tory "rising star" Katie Lam
She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"
(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)
She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"
(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)
October 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
“Culturally coherent” is not fooling anyone Katie. We all know you mean white.
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"There is no universe in which Sam Ashworth-Hayes – or any of Britain’s array of overpaid columnists, commentators and ideological wonks – is more valuable to this country than a care worker"
I wrote for @samfr.bsky.social's Substack on benefits and "contribution" samf.substack.com/p/the-someth...
I wrote for @samfr.bsky.social's Substack on benefits and "contribution" samf.substack.com/p/the-someth...
The "something for nothing" myth
How should we value people's contribution to the country?
samf.substack.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:41 AM
"There is no universe in which Sam Ashworth-Hayes – or any of Britain’s array of overpaid columnists, commentators and ideological wonks – is more valuable to this country than a care worker"
I wrote for @samfr.bsky.social's Substack on benefits and "contribution" samf.substack.com/p/the-someth...
I wrote for @samfr.bsky.social's Substack on benefits and "contribution" samf.substack.com/p/the-someth...
⚠️ Big changes coming to settlement & citizenship rules
@praxisprojects.bsky.social are collecting views of people likely to be affected (because 6 months on, the promised govt consultation is nowhere to be seen).
It should only take 7 minutes. Take part now 👉 www.surveymonkey.com/r/VJ92XKF
@praxisprojects.bsky.social are collecting views of people likely to be affected (because 6 months on, the promised govt consultation is nowhere to be seen).
It should only take 7 minutes. Take part now 👉 www.surveymonkey.com/r/VJ92XKF
Survey: changes to settlement and citizenship in the UK
If you think you'll be affected by the changes proposed by the UK government to settlement and citizenship, please tell us what you think.
www.surveymonkey.com
October 15, 2025 at 11:33 AM
⚠️ Big changes coming to settlement & citizenship rules
@praxisprojects.bsky.social are collecting views of people likely to be affected (because 6 months on, the promised govt consultation is nowhere to be seen).
It should only take 7 minutes. Take part now 👉 www.surveymonkey.com/r/VJ92XKF
@praxisprojects.bsky.social are collecting views of people likely to be affected (because 6 months on, the promised govt consultation is nowhere to be seen).
It should only take 7 minutes. Take part now 👉 www.surveymonkey.com/r/VJ92XKF
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Labour's proposed changes to settlement pathways could trap another 1.7 million people in a decade of instability and fear.
Email your MP today to ask them to join our parliamentary event on the 20th October sharing the impact of these policies.
act.praxis.org.uk/email-your-m...
Email your MP today to ask them to join our parliamentary event on the 20th October sharing the impact of these policies.
act.praxis.org.uk/email-your-m...
Email your MP and ask them to join our parliamentary event about settlement pathways!
On the 20th October, we're co-hosting an event on how Labour’s proposed immigration changes could affect settlement and citizenship pathways for people across the country. Here at Praxis, we already s...
act.praxis.org.uk
October 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Labour's proposed changes to settlement pathways could trap another 1.7 million people in a decade of instability and fear.
Email your MP today to ask them to join our parliamentary event on the 20th October sharing the impact of these policies.
act.praxis.org.uk/email-your-m...
Email your MP today to ask them to join our parliamentary event on the 20th October sharing the impact of these policies.
act.praxis.org.uk/email-your-m...
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Edtech is canceral (prison) tech example 56489.
The only job this is preparing children for is a zero hours Amazon warehouse job where they will be timed and filmed at all times.
The only job this is preparing children for is a zero hours Amazon warehouse job where they will be timed and filmed at all times.
October 10, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Edtech is canceral (prison) tech example 56489.
The only job this is preparing children for is a zero hours Amazon warehouse job where they will be timed and filmed at all times.
The only job this is preparing children for is a zero hours Amazon warehouse job where they will be timed and filmed at all times.
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You can read Nadine's story here:
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Raf's story is here:
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
And Rosie's story is here:
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Raf's story is here:
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
And Rosie's story is here:
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Thousands of rogue bosses get away with not paying tribunal awards
The government scheme ‘enforcing’ money owed to workers has been unsuccessful in a staggering three-quarters of cases
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
October 9, 2025 at 7:30 AM
You can read Nadine's story here:
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Raf's story is here:
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
And Rosie's story is here:
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Raf's story is here:
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
And Rosie's story is here:
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
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I'm glad the government will not introduce employment tribunal fees, but it's not true that "everyone, no matter their income" can get "access to justice" under the current system.
The barriers are endless & if you overcome them & win, you still might not even get the money you are owed
The barriers are endless & if you overcome them & win, you still might not even get the money you are owed
October 9, 2025 at 7:25 AM
I'm glad the government will not introduce employment tribunal fees, but it's not true that "everyone, no matter their income" can get "access to justice" under the current system.
The barriers are endless & if you overcome them & win, you still might not even get the money you are owed
The barriers are endless & if you overcome them & win, you still might not even get the money you are owed
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EXCLUSIVE: Over 800 NHS workers have signed our letter with Medact, saying the “already strained NHS would crumble under the pressure” of Reform’s proposal to scrap Indefinite Leave to Remain and Labour’s planned restrictions on migrant workers.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
NHS could cease to function under Labour’s new visa rules, say nurses
Exclusive: Royal College of Nursing says plan to tighten rules for foreign workers is ‘pandering’ to Reform UK
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 9:23 AM
EXCLUSIVE: Over 800 NHS workers have signed our letter with Medact, saying the “already strained NHS would crumble under the pressure” of Reform’s proposal to scrap Indefinite Leave to Remain and Labour’s planned restrictions on migrant workers.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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British politics is basically a doom spiral of increasingly unhinged hostile policies.
Reform says something unhinged
⬇️
Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
⬇️
Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
⬇️
Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
⬇️
And repeat...🔁
Reform says something unhinged
⬇️
Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
⬇️
Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
⬇️
Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
⬇️
And repeat...🔁
October 5, 2025 at 8:08 AM
British politics is basically a doom spiral of increasingly unhinged hostile policies.
Reform says something unhinged
⬇️
Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
⬇️
Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
⬇️
Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
⬇️
And repeat...🔁
Reform says something unhinged
⬇️
Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
⬇️
Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
⬇️
Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
⬇️
And repeat...🔁
This is exactly the point. Right now govt is trying to stop people who've been here for years from settling - moving the goal posts so people can't settle for much longer, or even at all.
Who's next? Naturalised citizens?
Who's next? Naturalised citizens?
Campaigner Olivia called for shorter routes to settlement & to scrap NRPF at the Green Party Conference.
📢"I believe we're all human beings. What is happening to migrants can happen to anyone. You don't plan it, but anytime, it can happen to you."
Thanks to @carladenyer.bsky.social for chairing.
📢"I believe we're all human beings. What is happening to migrants can happen to anyone. You don't plan it, but anytime, it can happen to you."
Thanks to @carladenyer.bsky.social for chairing.
October 7, 2025 at 8:45 AM
This is exactly the point. Right now govt is trying to stop people who've been here for years from settling - moving the goal posts so people can't settle for much longer, or even at all.
Who's next? Naturalised citizens?
Who's next? Naturalised citizens?