Kev Shaw
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Kev Shaw
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· Jul 13
If you do not use your vote to stop the right winning power at the next election, you are enabling it to happen. And it may well be the last meaningful vote you ever have. Your choice. Your responsibility.
This.
Sam Freedman, when commenting on the disability benefits fiasco, said that what should be happening in no. 10 *as a minimum* is asking "can one of our ministers defend this policy to reasonable people in an interview".
As with the changes to disability benefits, the answer is "no they can't".
As with the changes to disability benefits, the answer is "no they can't".
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 6:28 PM
Sam Freedman, when commenting on the disability benefits fiasco, said that what should be happening in no. 10 *as a minimum* is asking "can one of our ministers defend this policy to reasonable people in an interview".
As with the changes to disability benefits, the answer is "no they can't".
As with the changes to disability benefits, the answer is "no they can't".
Exactly this.
By mimicking Reform to win back support, the Labour government is making a serious mistake. This race to the bottom emboldens Farage, punishes vulnerable people, amplifies racism, and undermines those working to hold communities together.
November 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Exactly this.
Spot on.
It's Blue Labour and Reform that are tearing the country apart, by weaponizing the issue of asylum. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Illegal migration tearing UK apart, Mahmood says
The home secretary is set to announce major policy reforms, including a 20-year wait before people granted asylum can apply to settle permanently.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Spot on.
Reposted by Kev Shaw
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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I am frequently reminded, with some smugness, that Corbyn got more votes than Starmer. I am always unsure at the point being made.
To me, this makes Corbyn's failure to be elected, not less, but more annoying. Because it means that resources were poorly allocated and there was little strategy.
To me, this makes Corbyn's failure to be elected, not less, but more annoying. Because it means that resources were poorly allocated and there was little strategy.
November 16, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Spot on.
It's absolutely fucking mad.
It's absolutely fucking mad.
"You know that guy you hate? We are just like him" - a comms genius, apparently.
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/...
November 16, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Spot on.
It's absolutely fucking mad.
It's absolutely fucking mad.
I 100% agree with this.
Blue Labour - nativism, social conservatism and corporatism. It's never worked, never will work and needs to be driven out of Labour in just the same way as Militant and Corbyn were.
November 16, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I 100% agree with this.
This is bonkers.
The people making this journey have already paid criminals and already risked their lives.
Whether they were forced to leave their homes because of persecution, or chose to leave for economic reason, their choices now aren't going to made on a rational weighing of pros and cons.
The people making this journey have already paid criminals and already risked their lives.
Whether they were forced to leave their homes because of persecution, or chose to leave for economic reason, their choices now aren't going to made on a rational weighing of pros and cons.
“it’s important that we send a...clear signal to those people who are ...looking to get on a boat in the north of France: this is not a journey worth making.” They're risking their lives already. I struggle to see how these rules changes will alter that calculation www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Shabana Mahmood: ‘Illegal migration is tearing Britain apart’
The home secretary is planning to introduce a 20-year wait for permanent stay to end a ‘golden ticket’ for asylum seekers
www.thetimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:37 PM
This is bonkers.
The people making this journey have already paid criminals and already risked their lives.
Whether they were forced to leave their homes because of persecution, or chose to leave for economic reason, their choices now aren't going to made on a rational weighing of pros and cons.
The people making this journey have already paid criminals and already risked their lives.
Whether they were forced to leave their homes because of persecution, or chose to leave for economic reason, their choices now aren't going to made on a rational weighing of pros and cons.
Absolutely fucking nuts.
McSweeney and Blue Labour are destroying this government.
McSweeney and Blue Labour are destroying this government.
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 10:31 PM
Absolutely fucking nuts.
McSweeney and Blue Labour are destroying this government.
McSweeney and Blue Labour are destroying this government.
Exactly this.
David Cameron may have been good at politics but we are living in his UK. His referenda divided us and left us weaker; his failures to invest left us with creaking infrastructure; his austerity wrecked our public services and countless lives. It would have been better if he'd been bad at politics.
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Exactly this.
Exactly this.
Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.
November 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Exactly this.
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"Let's not forget, when we remember the service and the sacrifice with this poppy, that the people who bled and died for our democracy and our freedom, weren't just my grandfather who looked like me & worshipped the same God, but people across Empire & Commonwealth, who were Muslim, Sikh & Hindu'
October 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Reposted by Kev Shaw
Sadly, there's a lot to be said for Marina Hyde's analysis here. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
October 22, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Sadly, there's a lot to be said for Marina Hyde's analysis here. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reposted by Kev Shaw
The Tory Party is in a very, very bad place—and clearly doesn’t realise it
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 8:34 AM
The Tory Party is in a very, very bad place—and clearly doesn’t realise it
Reposted by Kev Shaw
Powerful, grubby men using their connections to cover their abuse of a trafficked teenage girl.
After all the revelations, it's never "not" shocking.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/royals/...
After all the revelations, it's never "not" shocking.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/royals/...
October 19, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Powerful, grubby men using their connections to cover their abuse of a trafficked teenage girl.
After all the revelations, it's never "not" shocking.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/royals/...
After all the revelations, it's never "not" shocking.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/royals/...
This.
It's not renewables that make electricity expensive, it's gas.
We need to change the incentives.
It's not renewables that make electricity expensive, it's gas.
We need to change the incentives.
@elpinchbeck.bsky.social: "Over 80% of the rise over the last 10 years in energy bills has been about the price of gas"
@drsimevans.carbonbrief.org interview here
www.carbonbrief.org/the-carbon-b...
@drsimevans.carbonbrief.org interview here
www.carbonbrief.org/the-carbon-b...
The Carbon Brief Interview: UK Climate Change Committee’s Emma Pinchbeck - Carbon Brief
Emma Pinchbeck has been the chief executive of the UK’s Climate Change Committee (CCC) since...
www.carbonbrief.org
October 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
This.
It's not renewables that make electricity expensive, it's gas.
We need to change the incentives.
It's not renewables that make electricity expensive, it's gas.
We need to change the incentives.
I suspect the government - as well as the police, CPS and courts system - is secretly quite happy to have lost the appeal against the decision to allow the judicial review of the proscription of Palestine Action - hopefully the judicial review will strike it down, and common sense can be restored.
October 17, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I suspect the government - as well as the police, CPS and courts system - is secretly quite happy to have lost the appeal against the decision to allow the judicial review of the proscription of Palestine Action - hopefully the judicial review will strike it down, and common sense can be restored.
I agree with this.
People don’t want Israel involved in sporting or singing events.
They should be banned from it all, like Russia.
What’s the difference?
They should be banned from it all, like Russia.
What’s the difference?
October 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I agree with this.
Reposted by Kev Shaw
It happened sooner than I thought!
Polling matters - even when it shouldn’t. It’s not hard to envisage a few Find Out Now polls in the near future showing Labour in fourth behind the Greens and the Tories, as well as Reform. The media storm that creates will be epic and perhaps terminal for Starmer.
Westminster Voting Intention:
RFM: 32% (-3)
LAB: 17% (-2)
CON: 17% (+3)
GRN: 15% (+4)
LDM: 12% (=)
SNP: 3% (=)
Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 8 Oct.
Changes w/ 1 Oct.
RFM: 32% (-3)
LAB: 17% (-2)
CON: 17% (+3)
GRN: 15% (+4)
LDM: 12% (=)
SNP: 3% (=)
Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 8 Oct.
Changes w/ 1 Oct.
October 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM
It happened sooner than I thought!
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Very strongly disagree with this. Even before 'for most of our political parties are rulemaking bodies', it's good for activists to meet in person. We are ultimately apes with big heads and very weak arms and it's good for us to gather together.
Conference season is such a waste of everyone's time - a month when our political system could be doing something useful spent coming up with daft announcements no one cares about.
October 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Exactly this.
Haha indeed. Some of these leaflet deliverers actually are interested in politics and would like to go to interesting events with like minded people!
October 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Exactly this.
The public are almost unbelievably ignorant about most aspects of migration policy, pt 45754.
Is there any greater subject that illustrates the complete abject failure of our mass audience media than migration?
Is there any greater subject that illustrates the complete abject failure of our mass audience media than migration?
All very amusing, but especially this:
"The most popular was an “Australian-style points-based immigration system,” with a net 46 percent support. The least popular was “Britain’s current immigration policy,” with -39 percent support."
www.politico.eu/article/labo...
"The most popular was an “Australian-style points-based immigration system,” with a net 46 percent support. The least popular was “Britain’s current immigration policy,” with -39 percent support."
www.politico.eu/article/labo...
Brits are pining for the pre-Brexit migration system
The idea was that leaving the bloc would give the U.K. back “control” of its borders and create a fairer system. But the widespread perception is it didn’t turn out that way.
www.politico.eu
October 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The public are almost unbelievably ignorant about most aspects of migration policy, pt 45754.
Is there any greater subject that illustrates the complete abject failure of our mass audience media than migration?
Is there any greater subject that illustrates the complete abject failure of our mass audience media than migration?
Exactly this.
"One reason the successive Tory administrations from 2016 to 2024 achieved so little beyond damage control is that they traded middle-aged voters who needed little from the state for older voters who require rather more"
So much good stuff by @stephenkb.bsky.social in his FT column today.
So much good stuff by @stephenkb.bsky.social in his FT column today.
How Brexit drained the Tories’ talent pool
The party can’t keep expecting successful people to pretend that leaving the EU was a good idea
www.ft.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Exactly this.
So if your paying for printers, ink, paper, and physical storage space for paperwork you've printed off, all to protect against you getting hacked and your cloud storage being accessed - why bother paying for cloud storage?
OCR scanners are now cheap and really good!
OCR scanners are now cheap and really good!
love that this "resilience engineering" is basically: write things on paper www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Have plans on paper in case of cyber-attack, firms told
Prepare to switch to offline systems in the event of a cyber-attack, firms are being advised.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
So if your paying for printers, ink, paper, and physical storage space for paperwork you've printed off, all to protect against you getting hacked and your cloud storage being accessed - why bother paying for cloud storage?
OCR scanners are now cheap and really good!
OCR scanners are now cheap and really good!
Spot on.
The Tories told us around 2018 that the Brexit they were heading for would cost us 4% of the economy. The OBR agreed, and hasn't changed its position.
We know that a majority now think Brexit was a bad mistake. What we need is some honesty about the complexity of rejoining.
#politicslve
We know that a majority now think Brexit was a bad mistake. What we need is some honesty about the complexity of rejoining.
#politicslve
October 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Spot on.