Tom Rank

About 2% of UK population affected by settlement reforms: roughly 1 in 6 (15%) of those born abroad.

A fifth of Gorton and Denton population were born abroad. Up to 2,000 - 2,500 voters there may be directly affected. Many other people would know family members, colleagues, co-worshippers

These were the two petitions which were debated by MPs this month. Hundreds of those directly affected will be part of a parliamentary lobby on 11th March
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Turkey's #1 security concern right now.

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

I can’t recall another politician ever expressing this direct of a sentiment before. (depressing! it’s so simple!) it’s difficult to explain how it feels to wake up and find your country is bombing the place your family grew up. again

This is fundamentally my view, and it can be explained to a toddler. The object of immigration policy is simple: to get more British citizens, to make the country bigger and stronger.

I know I keep pointing this out but: if you want immigrants to contribute to British society, integrate across community lines, become engaged civic actors, you actually *want* them to get citizenship, and as soon as possible in fact!

Sky News hearing Labour canvassers found that doubling (and tripling) the route to settlement has caused significant concern with those directly affected (Commonwealth migrants who have arrived in last 3 years)

Sheer scale of changes not yet on the general media radar, though MPs hearing a lot

BREAKING — 51 Iranian children are dead after a strike hits Minab girls elementary school in Iran.

The timing of the initial strikes is unusual.

Often you see these types of operations launched in the pre-dawn hours at the target site partly to limit civilian casualties.

This operation began at the beginning of a work and school day, with millions of adult civilians and children in harms way.

Creating more refugee crises
More backlash, more fascistic responses. And the centrist response is basically supporting all of it. Just an endless loop of genocide, state collapses, fascism, centrist capitulation and agreement forever

When 232,000 people and 107,000 people signed two petitions about the settlement reforms - against principle of retrospective application- and over 150,000 people responded to the consultation, it came up on the Denton & Gorton doorstep because its obvs a big issue in a hundred constituencies

The Labour leadership still don’t understand that immigration *does* matter to people other than immigrants. Their viciousness matters to anyone who cares about humanity. *AND* lots of us have friends, family, colleagues etc who are immigrants.

This is partly the result of a media culture that has a) tended to treat migration policy as though there is one button marked ‘get tough’ and the only question is how hard a government will press it and b) failed to understand how far immigrants and Brits are not always discrete groups.

The ridiculous extension of the wait for settled status isn't about putting up barriers to arrival, it's about putting up barriers to integration for people who have already been here for years. It's agreeing with Farage that these people should be treated with suspicion - and leaving it at that.

This would be avoided in many cases with a 10 year cap on settlement

Refugees have routes to home fee status. The new 15+ year pathways for legal migrants and their families introduce this regressive consequence at scale

The Prime Minister & Home Secretary seem to be proposing that the 7 year old daughter in a of the clearer of the bank in Birmingham & London will now face international student fees to go to university at 18 while their classmate, son of the banker,might have become a citizen aged 10

Obscene.

I’m still reeling from the fact - seemingly forgotten or ignored by the media - that Trump incited public demonstrations against the regime, then did nothing further, allowing the massacres of demonstrators. Or did I misunderstand?

Plans to make refugee a status of perpetual limbo will do nothing to stop people who need help seeking it nor make it possible for them to rebuild their lives and contribute. I call for humane and effective asylum reforms because I am true Labour, not blue Labour. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

"The former British home secretary and Buddhist daughter of a Kenyan descendant of Goan Catholics, and a Mauritian Hindu descendent of Tamil, born in Harrow, studied in New York, married to a Jewish South African who lived In Israel says multiculturalism has failed."
via Daily Scar

Labour and other parties could learn from her voice & pitch. She brought a personal quality to how she voices her party case that has a refreshing less professional/always on message tone. Kim Leadbeater is one Labour MP who has that kind of voice. I'm sure there are several others across parties

It should not be verboten for Labour to say this as well. Why is it?

I live in Batley and Spen and a lot of the Muslims I’ve talked with politics here have very unhappy memories of his campaign for the seat (which was before I moved here). He was divisive and unpopular- including with people who went on to vote for Mohammed Iqbal on a pro-Gaza platform.

Revealed: how academy trust at centre of behaviour row spent £400,000 on legal fees.
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FOI response to my request shows Mossbourne Federation spent the cash in response to the statutory safeguarding review into practice at one of its schools.

Naz Shah MP on Gorton and Denton Claims: ‘How Do Supposedly “Sectarian Muslims” End Up Voting for a Radically Progressive Party with a Gay Jewish Leader?’ The Labour MP told Byline Times that, from her experience of 'clan-based politics', it was not present in the Manchester by-election as Reform UK claims

🔴 Naz Shah MP on Gorton & Denton Claims: 'How Do Supposedly Sectarian Muslims End Up Voting for a Radically Progressive Party with a Gay Jewish Leader?'

The MP for Bradford West told Byline Times: "I know what clan-based politics looks like, I have a history of fighting it, this isn't what this is"

That's how prohibition is. You say you'll stop the boats and you end up stopping the nurses.

I am blown away by the care and expertise shown to my mum, in a care home now, aged 89. Almost all are 'international recruits', some qualified nurses at home. The lack of respect, from the government, for the work they do is shocking.

Oh, I think it tells you a rolling electrification programme is needed.

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."