Nick Beales

Tories will not deport legally settled people, Badenoch clarifies Katie Lam spoke ‘imprecisely’ in stating large number of people would ‘need to go home’, says Conservative leader

It took 4 days for the Tories to confirm that, contrary to what their ‘rising star’ MP said, they’re not planning to unilaterally strip hundreds of thousands of families of their permanent immigration status and deport them.
Pathetic and shameful.
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Nobody had even heard of Katie Lam outside of Westminster until about two weeks ago.

Literally all it takes to be considered "brilliant" and a "rising star" on the right of British politics now is just a willingness to say something slightly more racist than all of your competitors

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.

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‘A government clearly spending more just in order to inflict greater misery on refugees is beyond contempt, and that contempt is showing up for Keir Starmer’s party in the polls.’
Spot on @zoejardiniere.bsky.social
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Less than 24hrs after a damning Home Affairs report condemned military sites for asylum housing, Labour announces two more.

Wethersfield must close. Napier must close. Cameron and Crowborough must not open.

People seeking safety belong in communities, not camps.

Teenager from Gaza ‘stuck in hell’ after being prevented from joining mother in UK Dania Alafranji, 16, still waiting on visa despite being offered school place in Berkshire 18 months ago

It is harrowing to see the Home Office once again preventing families from being safely reunited in the UK.
No child — from Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan or any other war zone should be left to face horrific violence alone because of a bureaucracy blind to their suffering
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Nigel Farage defends MP’s complaint about TV adverts as ‘ugly’ but not ‘deliberately’ racist Reform MP Sarah Pochin said seeing adverts of black or Asian people ‘drives me mad’

Seems ridiculous to have to say this but here goes: an MP who gets upset at adverts with black and Asian families is obviously racist. Farage refusing to admit that says all you need to know about him and his party.
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Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.

Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

Home Office squandered billions on ‘failed and chaotic’ asylum accommodation Commons committee describes successive governments’ failures to manage hotel use, contracts, spending and safeguarding

You should be angry that billions of £££ is wasted on appalling hotel accommodation.
You shouldn’t be angry at the poor souls forced to live in the hotels though.
You should be angry at your govt lining the pockets of private companies profiting off this misery.
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I did see Streeting’s comments, which are welcomed, but it doesn’t change the fact that Labour are completely in thrall to Reform and allowing them to set the agenda and terms of the debate on immigration. Far more is needed than calling out instances of obvious and overt racism.

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.

Reform MP says adverts with black and Asian people drive her mad. This is unashamed loud and proud racism.
Why are both Labour and the Tories so determined to mimic and copy this shite and dance to Reform’s tune at every turn?
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Like lethal injection before it, nitrogen suffocation is touted by supporters of the death penalty as a "humane" way to kill.

Last night in Alabama, Anthony Boyd gasped and shuddered desperately beneath the mask for *24 minutes*. Click through for full, very disturbing, minute-by-minute report.

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‘I waited months to reunite with my family – but I missed the chance by 13 minutes’ Refugees in the UK are unable to reunite with their loved ones after the Home Office paused a lifeline visa scheme in September

In the Indy today talking about Starmer’s cruel decision to suspend family reunion & how this nasty decision undermines the govt’s claims that they want to prevent dangerous journeys & ensure refugees establish themselves in their new homes.
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Why is a Labour Home Secretary perpetuating this myth in The Sun?

Asylum applications in the UK are significantly below the average for all European countries. The only person helped by spreading this falsehood is Nigel Farage

On this one, the only party I have seen come with a sensible set of proposals regarding the Home Office are the @greenparty.org.uk with @carladenyer.bsky.social's report, written by @zoejardiniere.bsky.social, on options for breaking the Home Office up.
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On Monday, Saudi Arabia executed Reprieve client and child defendant Abdullah Al-Derazi.

He was arrested in August 2014 when he was 18 years old.

The crimes he was charged with related to attending demonstrations calling for basic human rights - when he was still a child 🧵

The disdain with which the political establishment views lower income people is clear in this toxic debate about ILR.
If you earn less than £38k, Farage, Starmer, Badenoch think you’re not contributing.
They use this to attack migrants, but they don’t value or respect anyone earning these sums.

Kosovo offers to become first country to accept Britain’s refused asylum seekers However, Kosovo is an outlier in the region, whose other leaders say ‘looking for places to dump immigrants’ is evidence the UK is in ‘a very dark place’

These are human beings we’re talking about, yet British governments, be it Tory or Labour, are willing to trade them like chattel, effectively selling them to poorer countries.
It’s disgusting, dehumanising and utterly grotesque and all involved should be ashamed.
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Yesterday, with the Hong Kong Democracy Council, we hosted a parliamentary roundtable on the Government’s proposed settlement changes that risk trapping 1.7 million more people in a decade of fear and instability.

Thank you to all the MPs who attended, we really appreciate your support.

Asylum hotel myths debunked as cockroach-infested rooms branded 'disgrace' MPs have heard that a 'scandal of profiteering' means contractors and hotel firms are raking in millions while families are forced to live in mouldy and vermin-filled rooms as their asylum claims are ...

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Good to see some politicians finally speaking the truth about asylum hotels. They're vermin infested, disgusting places, with private companies profiting off this misery and suffering.
Any politician who says otherwise is lying to ferment division and violence.
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Insipid is way too generous.
Call it cruel, inhumane and racist. That shouldn’t be difficult.

Tory MP criticised after demanding legally settled families be deported Katie Lam said move would make UK ‘culturally coherent’ and that a large number of people ‘need to go home’

First Tory (I think) to proudly call for stripping people of their immigration status just because she doesn’t like them.
Zero chance Badenoch will condemn this, whilst Starmer will likely criticise the practicalities and ignore entirely the cruelty & inhumanity.
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Inside the UK’s asylum housing crisis built on profit, neglect Private firms in the UK are profiting from asylum housing contracts despite widespread reports of poor living conditions.

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"Refugees pay the price for a system that is meant to be humanitarian but has become a commercial model where revenues grow as suffering worsens".
Our Advocacy Officer, Layla, explained to @thenewarab.bsky.social how companies profit off misery in asylum hotels.
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How is it taking them this long to work this out?

When was the last time you heard a politician in the media asked anything like-

-How will you make sure asylum seekers can reach the UK safely & refugees are protected?

-How will you make sure people coming to this country to work or study are treated equally & with respect?

I cannot remember.

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Perhaps giving people something to hope for is better than trying to out Reform Reform…

Greens neck and neck with Labour, new poll shows Voters are continuing to turn to both Reform UK and the Green Party amid growing discontent with Sir Keir Starmer’s government

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Rather than posting pics of them eating sausages or lying (entirely unconvincingly) about the number of St George’s flags around their house, why don’t Labour politicians actually fight Reform & make the positive case for immigration?
Who knows, they may stop shedding votes to the Greens.

Border failings in Europe are eroding trust in nation states, warns Mahmood Home secretary to tell meeting of interior ministers that international cooperation is way to curb irregular migration

Trust has eroded because successive governments have failed on the cost of living, housing & child poverty crises - not because of our borders.

Politicians have failed to tell the truth about how reliant we are on migration - and how it benefits all of us.
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