Dr. Sue Conlan
@sueconlan.bsky.social
Director of TACTIC Immigration and Asylum CIC. Immigration practitioner, trainer and consultant. https://tactic.org.uk/
Many people are refused asylum because the system fails them. To succeed, they often have to go back and undo what went wrong. Making a new claim can require lawyers prepared to unpack the case from its beginning but not many are able to do that and legal aid is not available in many cases
So many of the problems with the UK asylum system - culture of disbelief, poor or nonexistent advice, endless delays, cruel accommodation policies - rolled into one awful case.
@diane-writer10.bsky.social always gets the human stories others miss or don’t care about
@diane-writer10.bsky.social always gets the human stories others miss or don’t care about
The life and limbo of a UK asylum seeker: one man’s harrowing 17-year wait for leave to remain
Ussu fled imprisonment and torture, only to find himself treated like a liar and outcast in the UK. Here’s how he survived homelessness and horrific injury in almost two decades without a decision
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Many people are refused asylum because the system fails them. To succeed, they often have to go back and undo what went wrong. Making a new claim can require lawyers prepared to unpack the case from its beginning but not many are able to do that and legal aid is not available in many cases
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So many of the problems with the UK asylum system - culture of disbelief, poor or nonexistent advice, endless delays, cruel accommodation policies - rolled into one awful case.
@diane-writer10.bsky.social always gets the human stories others miss or don’t care about
@diane-writer10.bsky.social always gets the human stories others miss or don’t care about
The life and limbo of a UK asylum seeker: one man’s harrowing 17-year wait for leave to remain
Ussu fled imprisonment and torture, only to find himself treated like a liar and outcast in the UK. Here’s how he survived homelessness and horrific injury in almost two decades without a decision
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
So many of the problems with the UK asylum system - culture of disbelief, poor or nonexistent advice, endless delays, cruel accommodation policies - rolled into one awful case.
@diane-writer10.bsky.social always gets the human stories others miss or don’t care about
@diane-writer10.bsky.social always gets the human stories others miss or don’t care about
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Home Office: How dare people say we are acting like the far-right?
Also the Home Office: These far-right graphics look great, let's copy them.
Also the Home Office: These far-right graphics look great, let's copy them.
November 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Home Office: How dare people say we are acting like the far-right?
Also the Home Office: These far-right graphics look great, let's copy them.
Also the Home Office: These far-right graphics look great, let's copy them.
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Can you imagine how Reform UK would react if a Welsh leader of any other party had been sentenced for 10 years for taking bribes?
Nathan Gill once said he "would never apologise for being patriotic".
Tbf he never said to which country...
Nathan Gill once said he "would never apologise for being patriotic".
Tbf he never said to which country...
November 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Can you imagine how Reform UK would react if a Welsh leader of any other party had been sentenced for 10 years for taking bribes?
Nathan Gill once said he "would never apologise for being patriotic".
Tbf he never said to which country...
Nathan Gill once said he "would never apologise for being patriotic".
Tbf he never said to which country...
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Mahmood’s foreword to her consultation paper repeats the far right fantasy of an “open border experiment” & says the “cause of our division” is the “destabilising” “pace and scale of migration”, tropes also used by Starmer in his “island of strangers” speech
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November 20, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Mahmood’s foreword to her consultation paper repeats the far right fantasy of an “open border experiment” & says the “cause of our division” is the “destabilising” “pace and scale of migration”, tropes also used by Starmer in his “island of strangers” speech
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📢📢📢 Migrant Workers’ Rights – National Emergency Demonstration
📌Saturday 13 December, 12PM
📌Birmingham City Centre (Shabana Mahmood’s constituency)
Stand up for our neighbours - your salary DOES NOT define your contribution to the UK!!
@regulariseuk.bsky.social
📌Saturday 13 December, 12PM
📌Birmingham City Centre (Shabana Mahmood’s constituency)
Stand up for our neighbours - your salary DOES NOT define your contribution to the UK!!
@regulariseuk.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 10:26 AM
📢📢📢 Migrant Workers’ Rights – National Emergency Demonstration
📌Saturday 13 December, 12PM
📌Birmingham City Centre (Shabana Mahmood’s constituency)
Stand up for our neighbours - your salary DOES NOT define your contribution to the UK!!
@regulariseuk.bsky.social
📌Saturday 13 December, 12PM
📌Birmingham City Centre (Shabana Mahmood’s constituency)
Stand up for our neighbours - your salary DOES NOT define your contribution to the UK!!
@regulariseuk.bsky.social
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We see lots of people, rightly, condemn how ICE in America for waiting for people at immigration hearings to detain them, but we rarely hear about the fear so many people have of turning up to their reporting sessions in the UK with the Home Office and just being lifted then and there.
November 20, 2025 at 7:44 AM
We see lots of people, rightly, condemn how ICE in America for waiting for people at immigration hearings to detain them, but we rarely hear about the fear so many people have of turning up to their reporting sessions in the UK with the Home Office and just being lifted then and there.
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Six pro-Palestine prisoners are on hunger strike across UK prisons.
Their demands: the right to a fair trial, freedom from censorship, and the deproscription of Palestine Action.
They’re being punished for standing against genocide.
Their struggle is one of conscience — and solidarity. 🇵🇸
Their demands: the right to a fair trial, freedom from censorship, and the deproscription of Palestine Action.
They’re being punished for standing against genocide.
Their struggle is one of conscience — and solidarity. 🇵🇸
November 19, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Six pro-Palestine prisoners are on hunger strike across UK prisons.
Their demands: the right to a fair trial, freedom from censorship, and the deproscription of Palestine Action.
They’re being punished for standing against genocide.
Their struggle is one of conscience — and solidarity. 🇵🇸
Their demands: the right to a fair trial, freedom from censorship, and the deproscription of Palestine Action.
They’re being punished for standing against genocide.
Their struggle is one of conscience — and solidarity. 🇵🇸
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wonder if the Washington Post has any strong words about the President being buddy buddy with the man who ordered to have one of their reporters dismembered
November 19, 2025 at 4:02 AM
wonder if the Washington Post has any strong words about the President being buddy buddy with the man who ordered to have one of their reporters dismembered
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There is no good reason to host MBS- this is a man responsible for the bloody deaths of tens of thousands of people, from civilians in Yemen to his many domestic Saudi critics. Execution rates have surged in recent years with a new high of 345 in 2024. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | MBS comes to Washington. Regrettably.
The U.S. gains nothing by legitimizing the crown prince’s repressions.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:37 PM
There is no good reason to host MBS- this is a man responsible for the bloody deaths of tens of thousands of people, from civilians in Yemen to his many domestic Saudi critics. Execution rates have surged in recent years with a new high of 345 in 2024. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Asylum changes seek to use children as a weapon, says Labour peer
Asylum changes seek to use children as a weapon, says Labour peer
Alf Dubs criticises Shabana Mahmood’s ‘shabby’ proposals which he says will only increase community tensions
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The home secretary is seeking “to use children as a weapon” in her changes to the asylum system, a veteran Labour peer who came to Britain as a child refugee has warned.
Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK aged six in 1939 fleeing the persecution of Jews in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, described Shabana Mahmood’s proposals as “a shabby thing”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Asylum changes seek to use children as a weapon, says Labour peer
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Yesterday, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announced a new set of hostile policy changes that will undermine the security and wellbeing of people seeking safety in the UK.
🔗 We have published a blog explainer about the changes, what this means in practice, their impact, and what we think:
🔗 We have published a blog explainer about the changes, what this means in practice, their impact, and what we think:
Changes to the UK asylum system: What we know so far - GMIAU
The Home Secretary announced changes to the UK asylum system in a paper called "Restoring Order and Control".
gmiau.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Yesterday, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announced a new set of hostile policy changes that will undermine the security and wellbeing of people seeking safety in the UK.
🔗 We have published a blog explainer about the changes, what this means in practice, their impact, and what we think:
🔗 We have published a blog explainer about the changes, what this means in practice, their impact, and what we think:
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Our politicians are in thrall to Westminster, which is itself in thrall to the US, which is itself an empire run by corporations, especially the military-industrial complex, and is itself increasingly dominated by billionaires✍️Robat Idris wp.me/p8Mk4U-18ZL
November 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Our politicians are in thrall to Westminster, which is itself in thrall to the US, which is itself an empire run by corporations, especially the military-industrial complex, and is itself increasingly dominated by billionaires✍️Robat Idris wp.me/p8Mk4U-18ZL
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It's hard to find words to capture quite how revolting, steeped in bigotry, irresponsible, morally unmoored, Labour has become. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Anglican bishop shaken ‘to the core’ by home secretary’s asylum seeker comments
Bishop of Edmonton says people coming to UK are being ‘scapegoated’ for years of policy failures
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
It's hard to find words to capture quite how revolting, steeped in bigotry, irresponsible, morally unmoored, Labour has become. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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SO important.
Britain is even more obliged to support refugees due to the havoc it wreaked - and continues to wreak - through its imperial project.
This cannot be left out of the narrative.
(credit: @haringeywelcome.bsky.social)
Britain is even more obliged to support refugees due to the havoc it wreaked - and continues to wreak - through its imperial project.
This cannot be left out of the narrative.
(credit: @haringeywelcome.bsky.social)
November 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
SO important.
Britain is even more obliged to support refugees due to the havoc it wreaked - and continues to wreak - through its imperial project.
This cannot be left out of the narrative.
(credit: @haringeywelcome.bsky.social)
Britain is even more obliged to support refugees due to the havoc it wreaked - and continues to wreak - through its imperial project.
This cannot be left out of the narrative.
(credit: @haringeywelcome.bsky.social)
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I'm a bit of a broken record on this one, but there's a whole section in the asylum paper about replacing the appeals system. Yet the Government can't even publish data on how many appeals they're currently losing/withdrawing. Those stats haven't been published since March 2023.
November 18, 2025 at 9:33 AM
I'm a bit of a broken record on this one, but there's a whole section in the asylum paper about replacing the appeals system. Yet the Government can't even publish data on how many appeals they're currently losing/withdrawing. Those stats haven't been published since March 2023.
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“The Home Office is no good for humans. They have broken me. They have finished my life.”
‘No safe place to go’: people sent back to France under ‘one in, one out’ deal tell of desperation
In Paris, a group of those returned from UK as part of the immigration scheme say they feel frightened and hopeless
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
“The Home Office is no good for humans. They have broken me. They have finished my life.”
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The line “vote for us or you’ll get the far right” doesn’t really work when the policies you’re enacting are barely distinguishable from what the far right propose.
November 17, 2025 at 8:16 AM
The line “vote for us or you’ll get the far right” doesn’t really work when the policies you’re enacting are barely distinguishable from what the far right propose.
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Shabana Mahmood puts the signs up: Britain is full. No blacks, no dogs, no Irish
Shabana Mahmood puts the signs up: Britain is full. No blacks, no dogs, no Irish
We had always given sanctuary to those who needed it, she said, only now we would kick them out as soon as possible
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Shabana Mahmood puts the signs up: Britain is full. No blacks, no dogs, no Irish
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Illegal migration isn't tearing this country apart, but our obsession with it is. It's an obsession fuelled by our media and politicians. Both profit from blowing the problem out of all proportion. It's been happening for decades, but never more so than now
November 16, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Illegal migration isn't tearing this country apart, but our obsession with it is. It's an obsession fuelled by our media and politicians. Both profit from blowing the problem out of all proportion. It's been happening for decades, but never more so than now
On the UK Home Secretary’s proposal to limit refugee status to just two years in the alleged belief that it will reduce the numbers seeking asylum:
People fleeing persecution aren’t on line searching for the ‘best asylum deal’. It’s not a choice anyone would want to make
People fleeing persecution aren’t on line searching for the ‘best asylum deal’. It’s not a choice anyone would want to make
November 16, 2025 at 8:16 AM
On the UK Home Secretary’s proposal to limit refugee status to just two years in the alleged belief that it will reduce the numbers seeking asylum:
People fleeing persecution aren’t on line searching for the ‘best asylum deal’. It’s not a choice anyone would want to make
People fleeing persecution aren’t on line searching for the ‘best asylum deal’. It’s not a choice anyone would want to make
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Pretty sure it’s racism which is tearing Britain apart
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 15, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Pretty sure it’s racism which is tearing Britain apart
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November 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM