Cameron

NHS could cease to function under Labour’s new visa rules, say nurses Exclusive: Royal College of Nursing says plan to tighten rules for foreign workers is ‘pandering’ to Reform UK

Health workers from overseas prop up an NHS deliberately starved of funds (so that private hands can extract profit).

Yet how does this Government repay them? A decade of destitution and uncertainty.

@praxisprojects.bsky.social @medact.bsky.social

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Health care is just one sector out of many that could face crisis because of this government's ludicrous proposals to make permanent settlement harder (for some impossible) to get in the UK.

Why would ppl want to build a life here to be treated like this?

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Starmer tells people protesting a genocide to ‘respect grief’.

Not only does he weaponise - literally - the perpetrators of said genocide, he’s weaponising a tragedy to suppress protest.

Dark.

Home secretary calls Gaza protests in wake of Manchester attack ‘un-British’ Shabana Mahmood urges demonstrators to ‘show some love’ and call off planned protests after deadly attack

If opposing a genocide is 'un-British', then the UK Government have achieved maximum British points.

Because they've spent the last two years supporting one.

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But Governments are far from the only problem. The silence from humanitarian orgs is deafening.

As @tammam.bsky.social says, many see the flotilla as 'activism, not humanitarianism'. In taking this lofty, sneering position, they become complicit. They perpetuate suffering.

They shame themselves.

BREAKING: Hundreds of health workers have written to The King’s Fund demanding they cut ties with Palantir, who are currently supplying the Israeli military with advanced AI warfare for use in Gaza. The King’s Fund are health washing one of the world’s most violent companies! 👇

📽️NEW VIDEO -- We asked Starmer's MPs about Gaza - they ran away

The Labour Party banned our journalists from its annual conference so we stood outside asking ministers and MPs why the government won't call Gaza a genocide.
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Baby formula, prosthetic limbs and nappies now sink beneath the waves.

Scores of people detained. Their crime? Intervening in one of the darkest chapters in human history.

Meanwhile, Governments stand idly by. Handwringing, never condemning.

Apparently Israel’s genocidal acts are just “daft”.

Towards abolishing borders and violence in healthcare - Medact An abolitionist approach to health offers a vision where care is accessible to all, and violence no longer defines the systems that affect our wellbeing.

Abolitionist approaches to health show us a different path: one where care is truly universal, not conditional (on one’s legal status). One where we dismantle violent systems and build alternatives rooted in justice, equity and solidarity.
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Hahaha! So true.

Absolutely, Jim. 💯

If you'll forgive the wartime pun, it's exactly why he's in no man's land.

Not union jack enough for the right, yet has alienated, attacked and lambasted the left.

No wonder Burnham sees a massive opportunity.

Labour Conference 2025? Or May 1945?

This jingoistic fervour is bizarre. Clearly a reaction to what some voters said they disliked about Corbyn post-2019 (unpatriotic etc).

But does Starmer not realise that people who think like that will just choose the real thing e.g. Reform?

So pleased we've signed this letter. ✍️

Division is a short-term distraction, not a long-term solution.

Instead of resorting to scapegoating, the new Home Secretary should focus on building healthy, united communities. Why? Because everyone benefits.

Mahmood demands migrants earn right to settlement in UK New tests will include learning English to a high standard, paying National Insurance and not claiming benefits.

So now we know that this government are actually totally fine with some people never being able to get ILR. Fine with people living years, decades even, in a state of total insecurity, paying thousands to the Home Office every few years, never able to belong here. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Two women die trying to cross Channel from France French authorities say about 100 people were attempting to reach the UK on a makeshift boat

Two more lives lost.
One child being treated in hospital for hypothermia.

This Government knows that ‘one-in, one-out’ won’t stop these tragedies.

And by refusing to scrap such gimmicks and provide safe routes, they pave the way for more to happen.

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Worrying comments from Refugee Council on ‘one-in, one-out’.

This policy is a regressive step, not a welcome one. Precisely because it is selective in who it provides welcome to.

RC’s time would be better spent calling this out, not celebrating the arrival of those deemed ‘deserving’.

Family of three are first arrivals in UK under ‘one in, one out’ immigration deal Small child part of first reciprocal intake after removal of four asylum seekers from Britain to France over past week

'Deserving versus underserving' is now a policy reality.

These three people deserve protection in the UK. But so too do the four people deported the other way.

Yet this Government chooses to condemn them to the same hardship they risked their lives fleeing.

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Since the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation started operating, at least 2,256 people have been killed whilst collecting food aid.

Yet they talk about transferring aid in a "peaceful and non-violent manner".

Symbolic gestures won’t wash away the blood spilt by the arms you continue to sell.

This attack is no different to those made by May, Rudd, Braverman, Cleverly et al.
How long until the Shabana Mahood and Keir Starmer (both lawyers) start attacking other lawyers and judges for doing their jobs and upholding the rule of law?

Exactly, rather than rubbishing the testimonies of people who have endured unthinkable horrors.

If everyone thought like Mahmood, there would be no international refugee protection.

Nothing to see here.

Just the Labour Home Secretary accusing people of 'deciding' they are victims of modern slavery to avoid deportation.

Some people facing removal were literally trafficked, sexually abused and tortured.

Yet rather than cutting all ties and seeking to isolate this genocidal entity, Starmer welcomes Herzog to no.10.

And when criticised, he doubled down, stating he practises ‘diplomacy’ rather than ‘student politics’.

Diplomacy with people who shoot toddlers in the head.

Solidarity to all those stopping these flights taking off. Serves Starmer right for concocting this horrendous plan.

But what are the Tories crowing about, exactly? It’s not like their Rwanda flights left the runway. Moral of the story:

Human rights ✅
Deportation flights ❌

Exactly, Cahir. It’s painful amounts of money. Yet all we hear is the ‘leech’ framing.

‘Contributing’ should never determine who is deserving. But exposing the injustice of these crippling costs is vital to countering harmful narratives.

AND are denied access to public funds!

So for all the rhetoric about being a financial drain, people who are migrants:

▪️ Pay the eye-watering Surcharge each year
▪️ Pay extortionate visa fees
▪️ Are locked out of a safety net
▪️ And on top of that, pay normal taxes

Some ‘burden’, eh?

Double charging, also must be paid up front, in advance, with each visa application.

And the anti immigration crowd try to claim that immigrants cost this and that.

One must also remember that immigrants also pay silly amounts per application (spouse visa £1035 per application, regardless of approval).

All of this is one top of normal tax, NI, VAT, etc that everyone pays.