Raj Gill
@superbrownybear.bsky.social
Now I understand why it's on hiatus
December 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Now I understand why it's on hiatus
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Welcome Shabana Mahmood to your next four years of headlines!!!
Foreign doctors trained by the NHS face deportation under visa rules
Foreign doctors trained by the NHS face deportation under visa rules
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Welcome Shabana Mahmood to your next four years of headlines!!!
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November 19, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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"a fall in net migration of 300,000 a year would increase the deficit by about £20 billion. The government are already having to make unpopular tax rises and spending cuts in the upcoming budget, but would have to make more if the deficit increases."
The coming collapse in immigration to the United Kingdom - UK in a changing Europe
James Bowes analyses the fall in net migration to the UK as a result of government policies and explores some of the political and economic consequences.
ukandeu.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
"a fall in net migration of 300,000 a year would increase the deficit by about £20 billion. The government are already having to make unpopular tax rises and spending cuts in the upcoming budget, but would have to make more if the deficit increases."
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I'm pretty old (71), so I remember clearly the National Front in the 1970s. They were pariahs that the main political parties wouldn't touch with a 10ft pole. What is shocking is that the LABOUR party is now coming out with the same policies. What on earth would the likes of Benn, Foot etc. think?
November 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I'm pretty old (71), so I remember clearly the National Front in the 1970s. They were pariahs that the main political parties wouldn't touch with a 10ft pole. What is shocking is that the LABOUR party is now coming out with the same policies. What on earth would the likes of Benn, Foot etc. think?
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Again, it would be hugely useful if the lobby hacks could get visibly tattooed with the sigils of their patrons like the familiars in Blade, so we can easily tell who owns which ones,
November 16, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Again, it would be hugely useful if the lobby hacks could get visibly tattooed with the sigils of their patrons like the familiars in Blade, so we can easily tell who owns which ones,
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Appeasing the far-right gives the broader public the impression that their narrative is true. There is no way to stem support for Reform by endorsing their policies. Either you are fighting against them or you are, regardless of how you see yourself, fighting for them.
November 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Appeasing the far-right gives the broader public the impression that their narrative is true. There is no way to stem support for Reform by endorsing their policies. Either you are fighting against them or you are, regardless of how you see yourself, fighting for them.
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it's basically impossible to argue with this, they have won significant policy concessions, and there's no reason to think they'll stop pushing now that Labour have opened the door for them
They must be proud with this endorsement, they worked hard for it.
November 16, 2025 at 10:13 AM
it's basically impossible to argue with this, they have won significant policy concessions, and there's no reason to think they'll stop pushing now that Labour have opened the door for them
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How exactly is claiming that illegal immigration is "tearing our country apart", as Mahmood does, any different from Powell's rivers of blood?
(Powell was a Tory shadow minister. He got swiftly sacked for it. Mahmood is a Labour Secretary of State. This is Labour policy)
(Powell was a Tory shadow minister. He got swiftly sacked for it. Mahmood is a Labour Secretary of State. This is Labour policy)
November 16, 2025 at 10:21 AM
How exactly is claiming that illegal immigration is "tearing our country apart", as Mahmood does, any different from Powell's rivers of blood?
(Powell was a Tory shadow minister. He got swiftly sacked for it. Mahmood is a Labour Secretary of State. This is Labour policy)
(Powell was a Tory shadow minister. He got swiftly sacked for it. Mahmood is a Labour Secretary of State. This is Labour policy)
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Labour is a “godsend” for Farage says the far-right.
November 16, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Labour is a “godsend” for Farage says the far-right.
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Labour are making the far right happy. Just not anyone else.
We need an alternative.
join.greenparty.org.uk
We need an alternative.
join.greenparty.org.uk
November 16, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Labour are making the far right happy. Just not anyone else.
We need an alternative.
join.greenparty.org.uk
We need an alternative.
join.greenparty.org.uk
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To reiterate, this is about making life immeasurably more miserable and stressful for some of the most vulnerable people, in the almost certainly vain hope of winning over the votes of racists.
Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.
Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.
Asylum in UK to be made temporary under Home Secretary’s plans
Shabana Mahmood will lay out reforms modelled on the Danish system on Monday.
www.independent.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM
To reiterate, this is about making life immeasurably more miserable and stressful for some of the most vulnerable people, in the almost certainly vain hope of winning over the votes of racists.
Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.
Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.
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Thinking about my own father, who arrived in 1946 with the Free Polish Army - when would Labour have sent him back to communist Poland? How could he have done anything to build a life and have children in the UK if he had had to beg to stay every two years? Disgusting. www.bbc.com/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Thinking about my own father, who arrived in 1946 with the Free Polish Army - when would Labour have sent him back to communist Poland? How could he have done anything to build a life and have children in the UK if he had had to beg to stay every two years? Disgusting. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Once again, "Freak = Bad" is EXACTLY how the Nazis thought.
JFC...people obsessed with Hitler's genitalia are SO FUCKING WEIRD.
It's also just ...not super helpful. Because hidden JUST below the surface in all these things is an attempt to...explain Hitler.
Or, rather, to explain him in some unique way instead of just seeing him as a normal, awful human.
It's also just ...not super helpful. Because hidden JUST below the surface in all these things is an attempt to...explain Hitler.
Or, rather, to explain him in some unique way instead of just seeing him as a normal, awful human.
Did Hitler really have a ‘micropenis’? The dubious documentary analysing the dictator’s DNA
November 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Once again, "Freak = Bad" is EXACTLY how the Nazis thought.
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Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?
Reform’s Sarah Pochin forced to apologise after claiming adverts 'full of black people' drive her 'mad’ | LBC
The Runcorn and Helsby MP was responding to a viewer live on air who complained about the demographics of advertising.
www.lbc.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?
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The largest number of perpetrators of sexual violence in the UK are white men. Any attempt to place blame squarely on racialised groups is not only racist, but it also obscures the systemic problem of men’s violence against women (within homes, which is the most dangerous place for women).
“The majority of child sexual abuse gangs are made up of white men under the age of 30 … there was not enough evidence to conclude that child sexual abuse gangs were disproportionately made up of Asian offenders.”
Sexual violence isn’t a “migration issue” — it’s a systemic issue across communities.
Sexual violence isn’t a “migration issue” — it’s a systemic issue across communities.
Most child sexual abuse gangs made up of white men, Home Office report says
Study of England, Scotland and Wales dispels myth of ‘Asian grooming gangs’ popularised by far right
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2025 at 10:35 AM
The largest number of perpetrators of sexual violence in the UK are white men. Any attempt to place blame squarely on racialised groups is not only racist, but it also obscures the systemic problem of men’s violence against women (within homes, which is the most dangerous place for women).
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"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral."
I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.
I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.
It’s racist, it’s extremist and it’s immoral
The right is still calling for deportations, and the government is still being cowardly about it. Also: London’s first green belt; some notes on a shark; and some news, on my next book.
jonn.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:22 PM
"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral."
I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.
I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.
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It's a very, very large number of people who've just been told to "go home" by HM's opposition. Add their friends, relatives and supporters and you have an enormous chunk of the voting population. Without those people's votes, the Labour Party is finished. It needs to be made to understand that.
Senior Labour figures have expressed dismay at the Party's "cowardly" and "incompetent" response to Tory shadow minister Katie Lam calling for legal migrants to "go home".
"What’s the point of us saying we’re anti-racist when we fail to call out racism," said one MP.
"What’s the point of us saying we’re anti-racist when we fail to call out racism," said one MP.
Exclusive: Labour Anger Erupts Over Party's Response To Katie Lam Immigration Row
"What’s the point of us saying we’re anti-racist when we fail to call out racism," said one MP.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 9:23 AM
It's a very, very large number of people who've just been told to "go home" by HM's opposition. Add their friends, relatives and supporters and you have an enormous chunk of the voting population. Without those people's votes, the Labour Party is finished. It needs to be made to understand that.
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This seems shambolic interviewing from Peston. He should know what the policy is.
Lam does not set out her policy honestly. (Her second example is highly evasive & sets out a principle - you've broken the conditions you came on - that she breaches when stripping ILR)
bsky.app/profile/raks...
Lam does not set out her policy honestly. (Her second example is highly evasive & sets out a principle - you've broken the conditions you came on - that she breaches when stripping ILR)
bsky.app/profile/raks...
“… need to go home…” says Katie Lam on #Peston @itvpeston.bsky.social coherently racist enough for Reform to take notes? Or recoil?
Which region of China will the Lam family go home to?
Which region of China will the Lam family go home to?
October 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
This seems shambolic interviewing from Peston. He should know what the policy is.
Lam does not set out her policy honestly. (Her second example is highly evasive & sets out a principle - you've broken the conditions you came on - that she breaches when stripping ILR)
bsky.app/profile/raks...
Lam does not set out her policy honestly. (Her second example is highly evasive & sets out a principle - you've broken the conditions you came on - that she breaches when stripping ILR)
bsky.app/profile/raks...
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October 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
My least favourite thing about social media is when a dipshit says something patently untrue or offensive and instead of ignoring it everyone engages with it with counterpoints which gives the dipshit a significant amount more exposure than otherwise.
October 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
My least favourite thing about social media is when a dipshit says something patently untrue or offensive and instead of ignoring it everyone engages with it with counterpoints which gives the dipshit a significant amount more exposure than otherwise.
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I know there’s a cultural tendency online for people to tack towards disagreement with those who they find distasteful - a kind of vanity of small differences thing - but I really think that with stuff like this it’s worth everyone trying to get over themselves and call it what it is.
October 5, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I know there’s a cultural tendency online for people to tack towards disagreement with those who they find distasteful - a kind of vanity of small differences thing - but I really think that with stuff like this it’s worth everyone trying to get over themselves and call it what it is.
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Whatever your view on anything, if you don’t realise that initiatives like this spring from an impulse to authoritarianism, you’re deluding yourself I think.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office
Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday
www.theguardian.com
October 5, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Whatever your view on anything, if you don’t realise that initiatives like this spring from an impulse to authoritarianism, you’re deluding yourself I think.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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2/4 It is wrong to say every pro-Palestine protester is antisemitic, in fact it's a malicious lie
It's also a malicious lie to say there are no antisemitic elements at these protests - I've seen them week after week after week
I was president of the CUSU BME campaign at university...
It's also a malicious lie to say there are no antisemitic elements at these protests - I've seen them week after week after week
I was president of the CUSU BME campaign at university...
October 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
2/4 It is wrong to say every pro-Palestine protester is antisemitic, in fact it's a malicious lie
It's also a malicious lie to say there are no antisemitic elements at these protests - I've seen them week after week after week
I was president of the CUSU BME campaign at university...
It's also a malicious lie to say there are no antisemitic elements at these protests - I've seen them week after week after week
I was president of the CUSU BME campaign at university...