Inspired in part by @rodger.bsky.social:
Cricket's halls of power full of awful people and systems that want to convince us that they are the only way forward, eager to shape the game for their own wealth/status/ideology. But they only win if we let them make us miserable.
*automatic, not autistic 🤐
"Relatives" - are students allowed to bring aunts and third cousins or something? The ambiguity in the article, and the wider media around this (+ phrases like autistic settlement!), feels a little disingenuous tbh
Its genuinely mad that we are, arguably, the most successful multicultural state on earth and instead of celebrating that we...
...keep trying to copy nations who have very evidently done worse at it than us
Much stronger case for Scandi countries to learn from Britain on integration - if judge by educational outcomes for children of migrants, inclusion as a norm in professional & public life, longterm more contact & reduction in prejudice (despite 2020s polarisation)
www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
Very clear that for Starmer, 'sectarian voting' is when British Muslims don't vote Labour, and for many others, it is just when British Muslims vote.
As I understand it, the answer is
Yes - because their parents are economic migrants,
So working-class children aged 7 should face hurdles & barriers to secure status, family security & educational opportunity that affluent classmates & those in private schools will not
you have to admit that, in getting rid of liz truss in 49 days, the british deep state is a lot more effective than the american one
The “Labour” Party finds itself arguing ordinary workers, carers and others are “takers”.
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
As a general rule, I will feel more sympathy for party leaders who say positive things about immigration than for those who say that my family is part of a "failed experiment" and a "squalid chapter". Crazy, I know!
since we're talking about The Other Place, one now pointless gripe I still have is that actually it could have remained a fair bit more pleasant and usable and useful if more people just used the non-algorithmic timeline and I'll never understand why they didn't just do it
feel like if you had a super long work day and you get home feeling exhausted but still make the healthy meal you had planned for dinner instead of just eating some slop then there should be a procession in your honour in your neighbourhood, and the mayor should give you the keys to the city
We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.
Points 1 and 4 were in Sunak's speech on 7th March 2023.
The combination of banning asylum claims + threat of rapid removal [with no real world way to do it] was 60,000 people put into asylum hotels
So if I’ve grasped the galaxy-brained strategy here, it’s:
✅ Day 1: reassure target voters that migrants are a problem & you’re ready to make them suffer
✅ Day 2: tell target voters their ideas are racist
✅ Day 3: reassure target voters that migrants are a problem & you’re ready to make them suffer
I just got indefinite leave to remain 2 years ago, so I'm reading this like, I don't even know what the fuck this means. We pay taxes, we pay TWICE for the NHS, we pay an exorbitant fee for visas to reach ILR, our income is constantly scrutinised. How the fuck more are people supposed to contribute?
The change in tone is so noticeable (which is good) and its a good reminder that in the end even a very bad labour leader is subject to the power of their average mps telling him to get it together, and those mps are rly sensitive to certain causes
I can't quite put my finger on which hypocrisy is greater here, but perhaps James would have had the opportunity to ask him about it had he not been banned from attending Reform's "free speech" conference.
Farage has gone to the US to tell them Britain is ”awful” - If you don’t like it over here Nigel maybe don’t catch a return flight?
any US congressman who is fully across a row between the Nottingham Post and Nottinghamshire council is welcome to holiday in the Cotswolds AT ANY TIME, and we will not refuse to serve him in our farm shops
Angie. Step up pal. You've got to get rid of him.
On behalf of every women and mother of daughters reading this and knowing that their PM is more interested in the support of male racists than the 50 per cent of the population that needs immediate action on sexual and verbal assault.
Bears repeating that Lowe's position on remigration is to the right of the BNP in the 2000s. And the Telegraph is giving him softball interviews.
Here's another question for the PM's spokesperson:
'Does the PM feel confident that he can win a sufficiently large number of Reform-curious voters to make up for those he's lost to Ed Davey?'
Asking for a friend. And another friend. And myself. And a whole bunch of other friends.
"Asylum seekers should not be allowed to work!"
"Asylum workers should not be subsidised at the public expense!"
- and loop.
Ignore the haters. London is the 🐐
refugees are being housed in hotel rooms that do not meet their basic needs: families are being housed in rooms with no cooking facilities, nowhere for children to play, frequent reports of mould, damp, vermin. if an MP can’t explain that to constituents what are we doing here.
I cannot emphasize enough that language like this is not only untrue and immoral, it is, from a purely amoral electoral perspective, provably a disaster that is increasing support for Reform even as Labour voters with values turn away from the party in disgust.
One of the most urgent crises in the criminal justice system is that allegations of rape and serious sexual offending take five years to reach trial.
Any politician who claims to care about sexual violence and is silent on this issue has another agenda.
