Mark Fraser
@mark37m.bsky.social
Building http://middleton.coop @MiddCooperating
Working with visionary people and organisations to transform our local community/economy in Middleton. Personal views here. Previously @MarkMark37m on the twitter.
Working with visionary people and organisations to transform our local community/economy in Middleton. Personal views here. Previously @MarkMark37m on the twitter.
Reposted by Mark Fraser
If this really is what is being proposed, I think adding the jewellery confiscation policy + the 20 year policy could kick off the kind of PLP revolt that (without rapid u-turn) could entirely destabilise a struggling government that risks falling over on every front
www.thesun.co.uk/news/3734007...
www.thesun.co.uk/news/3734007...
Small boat migrants to have jewellery & assets seized to pay for accommodation
ILLEGAL migrants’ valuables such as jewellery and watches will be seized and sold to pay towards their accommodation costs, The Sun can reveal today. Necklaces and chains — but not wedding rings — …
www.thesun.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM
If this really is what is being proposed, I think adding the jewellery confiscation policy + the 20 year policy could kick off the kind of PLP revolt that (without rapid u-turn) could entirely destabilise a struggling government that risks falling over on every front
www.thesun.co.uk/news/3734007...
www.thesun.co.uk/news/3734007...
Reposted by Mark Fraser
I want to use today's post to call for the government to abolish the two-child limit's sister policy, the benefit cap, which forces families to subsist far below the poverty line, often because of high housing costs a @nuffieldfoundation.org research has shown largerfamilies.study/publications...
Benefit changes and larger families
We are a group of university-based researchers investigating how families with more than two children are coping with the benefit cap or the two-child limit.
largerfamilies.study
November 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I want to use today's post to call for the government to abolish the two-child limit's sister policy, the benefit cap, which forces families to subsist far below the poverty line, often because of high housing costs a @nuffieldfoundation.org research has shown largerfamilies.study/publications...