Rachel Lamb
@rach-l.bsky.social
Comms manager for a refugee charity. Lover of cheese, second hand clothes shops and drinks with lots of lime in them (she/her)
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Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
November 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
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"I arrived here as a child refugee — now I’m a chef at Michelin-star restaurants"
Delighted to see our friend Nestor featured in today's Standard. What a superstar 🌟
www.standard.co.uk/news/nestor-...
Delighted to see our friend Nestor featured in today's Standard. What a superstar 🌟
www.standard.co.uk/news/nestor-...
‘I arrived here as a child refugee — now I’m a chef at Michelin-star restaurants’
As This Day donates £900K to our campaign taking the total raised to £1.4M, we reveal how the Scottish Refugee Council helped an unaccompanied child who came with nothing
www.standard.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"I arrived here as a child refugee — now I’m a chef at Michelin-star restaurants"
Delighted to see our friend Nestor featured in today's Standard. What a superstar 🌟
www.standard.co.uk/news/nestor-...
Delighted to see our friend Nestor featured in today's Standard. What a superstar 🌟
www.standard.co.uk/news/nestor-...
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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
What next for asylum seekers? Shaving their heads and taking out their gold fillings?
www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
What next for asylum seekers? Shaving their heads and taking out their gold fillings?
Once upon a time, the Labour Party used to understand that immigration wasn’t tearing the country apart. It understood immigration was what was…
www.thenational.scot
November 19, 2025 at 9:47 AM
What next for asylum seekers? Shaving their heads and taking out their gold fillings?
www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
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Why! Sorry, but why? Labour's anti-asylum, anti-immigration, policies are the antithesis of anything anyone who genuinely supports human rights should be defending. They're absolutely inhumane and condemnable. Anyone supporting them can't claim to be "progressive"
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
No 10 tells Labour MPs it expects support for tough new asylum policies
Some backbenchers already opposing planned immigration crackdown seen as ‘economically and culturally illiterate’
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Why! Sorry, but why? Labour's anti-asylum, anti-immigration, policies are the antithesis of anything anyone who genuinely supports human rights should be defending. They're absolutely inhumane and condemnable. Anyone supporting them can't claim to be "progressive"
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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*️⃣Are you a skilled communicator with a passion for social justice? Or passionate about driving change & influencing policy to create a fairer, more compassionate asylum system?
We’re recruiting a Communications Officer & a Policy and Public Affairs Manager.
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We’re recruiting a Communications Officer & a Policy and Public Affairs Manager.
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October 31, 2025 at 7:55 AM
*️⃣Are you a skilled communicator with a passion for social justice? Or passionate about driving change & influencing policy to create a fairer, more compassionate asylum system?
We’re recruiting a Communications Officer & a Policy and Public Affairs Manager.
More: scottishrefugeecounc...
We’re recruiting a Communications Officer & a Policy and Public Affairs Manager.
More: scottishrefugeecounc...
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3 things Starmer could do instead of camps in old barracks that would actually WORK👇
1. Create safe, regulated routes to apply for asylum in the UK
2. Let asylum seekers WORK & support themselves
3. Fast track status for people from obviously unsafe countries
metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...
1. Create safe, regulated routes to apply for asylum in the UK
2. Let asylum seekers WORK & support themselves
3. Fast track status for people from obviously unsafe countries
metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...
Keir Starmer tries to look tough - and exposes himself as a coward
The government's immigration policy is in desperate need of a bold change in direction.
metro.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 8:13 AM
3 things Starmer could do instead of camps in old barracks that would actually WORK👇
1. Create safe, regulated routes to apply for asylum in the UK
2. Let asylum seekers WORK & support themselves
3. Fast track status for people from obviously unsafe countries
metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...
1. Create safe, regulated routes to apply for asylum in the UK
2. Let asylum seekers WORK & support themselves
3. Fast track status for people from obviously unsafe countries
metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...
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Last year we helped more than 10,700 people rebuild their lives in safety. Thanks for helping us build a better future with refugees in Scotland.
This World #StatsDay, take a look at our year in numbers to see how we’re making a difference together scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk/impact/
This World #StatsDay, take a look at our year in numbers to see how we’re making a difference together scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk/impact/
October 20, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Last year we helped more than 10,700 people rebuild their lives in safety. Thanks for helping us build a better future with refugees in Scotland.
This World #StatsDay, take a look at our year in numbers to see how we’re making a difference together scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk/impact/
This World #StatsDay, take a look at our year in numbers to see how we’re making a difference together scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk/impact/
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ultra-screm kitty, channelling Bene Gesserit voice for sure
October 14, 2025 at 8:54 AM
ultra-screm kitty, channelling Bene Gesserit voice for sure
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If you’re an Islamophobe you don’t get to complain about antisemitism
And if you’re an antisemite you don’t get to complain about Islamophobia.
It’s really that simple.
(So many shameless hypocrites around.)
And if you’re an antisemite you don’t get to complain about Islamophobia.
It’s really that simple.
(So many shameless hypocrites around.)
October 4, 2025 at 2:45 AM
If you’re an Islamophobe you don’t get to complain about antisemitism
And if you’re an antisemite you don’t get to complain about Islamophobia.
It’s really that simple.
(So many shameless hypocrites around.)
And if you’re an antisemite you don’t get to complain about Islamophobia.
It’s really that simple.
(So many shameless hypocrites around.)
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This #InternationalTranslationDay, we’d like to thank all the interpreters and translators who help us share info and advice with people from more than 100 countries as they rebuild their lives in safety.
Whatever language you speak, our message is the same – refugees are welcome here in Scotland.
Whatever language you speak, our message is the same – refugees are welcome here in Scotland.
September 30, 2025 at 9:41 AM
This #InternationalTranslationDay, we’d like to thank all the interpreters and translators who help us share info and advice with people from more than 100 countries as they rebuild their lives in safety.
Whatever language you speak, our message is the same – refugees are welcome here in Scotland.
Whatever language you speak, our message is the same – refugees are welcome here in Scotland.
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Dunno, but a former UK prime minister declaring what will happen to Palestine is not something which went terribly well before.
September 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Dunno, but a former UK prime minister declaring what will happen to Palestine is not something which went terribly well before.
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I’m not
It isn’t.
It should be, but you’re working very hard to ensure it isn’t.
It isn’t.
It should be, but you’re working very hard to ensure it isn’t.
September 27, 2025 at 6:25 AM
I’m not
It isn’t.
It should be, but you’re working very hard to ensure it isn’t.
It isn’t.
It should be, but you’re working very hard to ensure it isn’t.
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Good morning, creatives! May this week meet all of your expectations! #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting
September 22, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Good morning, creatives! May this week meet all of your expectations! #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting
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No immigrant has ever sacked me, or cut my wages, or offshored my job, or closed my hospital, or stopped my mum's disability benefits, or crashed the economy.
Those things were all done by white English men who went to Oxford and wore a nice suit.
Those things were all done by white English men who went to Oxford and wore a nice suit.
September 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
No immigrant has ever sacked me, or cut my wages, or offshored my job, or closed my hospital, or stopped my mum's disability benefits, or crashed the economy.
Those things were all done by white English men who went to Oxford and wore a nice suit.
Those things were all done by white English men who went to Oxford and wore a nice suit.
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September 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Some politicians are using lies about asylum hotels to stir up fear and division in our communities.
The truth is, we all deserve to be safe and to feel like we belong.
#AyeWelcomeRefugees
The truth is, we all deserve to be safe and to feel like we belong.
#AyeWelcomeRefugees
September 2, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Some politicians are using lies about asylum hotels to stir up fear and division in our communities.
The truth is, we all deserve to be safe and to feel like we belong.
#AyeWelcomeRefugees
The truth is, we all deserve to be safe and to feel like we belong.
#AyeWelcomeRefugees
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I am so sick and tired of seeing MPs and the media shit themselves over refugees arriving in small boats over the channel.
If your initial reaction to seeing these boats is anything other than “those poor bastards, I hope they make it across” then you have failed as a human being.
If your initial reaction to seeing these boats is anything other than “those poor bastards, I hope they make it across” then you have failed as a human being.
August 8, 2025 at 6:22 AM
I am so sick and tired of seeing MPs and the media shit themselves over refugees arriving in small boats over the channel.
If your initial reaction to seeing these boats is anything other than “those poor bastards, I hope they make it across” then you have failed as a human being.
If your initial reaction to seeing these boats is anything other than “those poor bastards, I hope they make it across” then you have failed as a human being.
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New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation
August 5, 2025 at 6:27 AM
New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation