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Shabana Mahmood vows to stick with hardline migration policies after byelection defeat Home secretary will defy ‘plain wrong’ calls from unions and leftwing MPs that she is alienating Muslim voters

“Mahmood will argue next week that migration policies – including forcing people to wait 20 years before being able to claim leave to remain – were entirely consistent with Labour values”

I just despair

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Quite literally Mette in Denmark has a policy called the Ghetto Law that allows them to bulldoze and sell off social housing if it is too “non-western” and western doesn’t even mean all of Europe just the rich countries.

Mette losing hard in her elections will finally free us from this stupid argument of “social democracy but if really racist”

This is a really good point about authenticity by Sadiq Khan

Net migration in 2025 was about 160,000.

That headline 2025 net migration figure will come out in May: it will clearly be significantly below the 205k for the year to June 2025 (est range: 130-180k) as 2025 visa data is now published.

But the 2026 figure is likely to show negative net migration.

The country that should look at what has happened and get nukes the fastest is actually Egypt, but it won't

The skeptics were right about this

That + 6 accounts on polymarket made around $1 million in profit by betting on the US to strike Iran by Feb. 28. Accounts were all freshly created in Feb and had only ever placed bets on this

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Belgian forces backed by France have boarded a Russian shadow fleet oil tanker and are escorting it to Zeebrugge for arrest. The vessel is suspected of sailing under a false flag with false documents to evade sanctions on Russian oil. #Russia

Definitely a caste vs class dynamic. Just UK elites use class when they mean caste.

My faux wood flooring the landlord put in and big TV I bought for 50% off has made me an aristocrat.

If you ever find yourself wondering how things like the Epstein story happened, consider the mid-level newspaper editor who admitted in a public judicial inquiry that he destroyed a woman’s life and drove her to suicide to try and impress Piers Morgan.

What the Donald Trump of 2016 would think of the Donald Trump of 2026 will never be known. But they are starkly different figures when it comes to overseas intervention. A

It’s the same guy you dumb shit

I hope you aren’t drunk and took your staff’s advice, Rashida and I don’t know this man and feel confident he didn’t care about us. Please restrain from drinking too much as you have been warned from your staff and stay off social media when you are drunk. I pray in his holy month you find peace and respect for your self,

uhhh oh my god

This looks like the front page of the Der Stürmer ("The Striker) or Il Popolo d'Italia ("The People of Italy").

Österreich ist das Land, wo man während der westkirchlichen Fastenzeit XXL-Schnitzerl vom Schwein bewirbt, sich im selben Atemzug über das Ramadan-Menü der Nordsee empört und trotz steigender Konfessionslosigkeit irgendwas von christlichem Abendland faselt

Remember Mark Carney’s country is under constant threat of annexation by Trump and he is full heartedly backing a Trump regime change war.

I wonder if the tune will be the same when he is kidnapped from Canada? I wonder if he thinks people should write similar letters of support for Trump.

Shabana Mahmood’s double down on immigration ‘disappointing’, says Alf Dubs Labour peer, who was a child refugee, criticises home secretary’s response to Gorton and Denton byelection defeat

Shabana Mahmood’s double down on immigration ‘disappointing’, says Alf Dubs.

Labour chasing Reform voters, losing progressive vote.

Hospitals struggling to recruit doctors and nurses.

With an ageing society economy can't function without immigration. Need sensible debate.

Mine is also nicer than Hannah’s because rugs and tchotchkes. No wall rugs…yet.

It also speaks to the general British detachment of class in the economic and marxian sense vs social class in the British political sense.

That you are born into a social class and it is near inescapable, instead of it being the result of material conditions.

Labour isn’t the party of Labour, or the Workers or the Working Class for Mahmood and Starmer, it is merely the Party of the Fetishized Worker who is just like them: cruel, male, straight, and petty.

This is basically how you get “your front room is too middle class” level analysis from Labour apparatchiks. When in reality they are basing their entire class analysis on vibes and aesthetic fetishism of their imagined perfect English White Working Class.

Or consider that minorities and migrants can be working class too, Labour’s fear of Marxist analysis is why their can’t understand that unless you literally control capital you are not in the Bourgeois. The proletariat has always been broad and diverse, social nationalism is anathema solidarity.

We're not far off the 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote.

I'm betting that a good third of the people who voted it through are now dead. Adults aged 27 and under today were too young to vote back then.

We need referendum to rejoin. Share if you agree!

Remembering that time they toppled Saddam Hussein and then everything in Iraq was suddenly chill and peace reigned supreme with blessedly little political fallout

(The destabilisation of Iraq led to refugee migration in the millions, millions dead, spawned new even more evil terrorist groups)

Why has the world's first hydrogen double-decker fleet failed? The multi-million pound project in Aberdeen was meant to be the future of clean public transportation.

Turns out that funnelling public funds into a PR whitewashing mission for big oil was a bad call, who knew?

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Post See new posts Conversation Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h From US admin official background briefing recording listening to, seriously question if US negotiators understood what Iranians were proposing. One official keeps saying acronym for “IAEA” wrong. They seem astonished Iran would not agree to the US supplying them nuclear fuel Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h They took as suspicious proposals that Iran saw as concessionary. Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h Explains why Oman FM tried to come to DC to explain what US negotiators may not have fully understood Laura Rozen @lrozen Am not saying what Iran proposed would have been enough, I dont know, but it seems US negotiators did not have the expert guidance to understand it correctly

On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.

You don’t see many celebrities like her and Sheen willing to get arrested or hated endless times. They will say certain things. But putting yourself out there or your career like that is a whole other level.

Just naked racism from Farage and the Mail.

Only British and commonwealth citizens are allowed to vote. It's not 'stealing' to legally take part in your own country's elections

Excerpt from The Guardian story, featuring midterm candidates looking to change the Democratic party. Copy on excerpt reads: THE GUARDIAN: US NEWS HEADLINE: "'Are you willing to fight back?: Democrats ready to take on party's old guard ahead of midterms" Photo of Kat showcased holding a stack of yard signs. Copy below reads: "Another test case is Illinois' deep blue 9th District, where Kat Abughazaleh, 26, a progressive Palestinian American, is taking on a Democratic establishment she accuses of complacency and cowardice."

Excerpt from The Guardian story, featuring midterm candidates looking to change the Democratic party. Copy on excerpt reads: "Abughazaleh believes that Democrats have long failed to meet the moment of taking on the far right. For her and many progressive challengers across the country, countering the Trump administration is inextricably linked to combating the influence of groups such as Aipac and challenging the corporate status quo. Abughazaleh said: "I even see it in my own campaign where there are local leaders and elected officials that call me before endorsing one of my opponents, apologetically saying, I love what you're doing but I'm feeling a lot of pressure to endorse this way or the other. They feel that pressure in the first place instead of being able to stick to their values and it's a shame that we have a party that makes people feel like that." "I don't know how many times we have to keep doing the same thing over and over and over again of insisting that we have to be more moderate, that we have to move to the right," Abughazaleh added, arguing that policies ensuring affordable housing, groceries and healthcare should represent the political centre."

You don’t beat the far right with moderation. You have to confront it.

Career politicians are unequipped to handle this moment. It’s time for them to step aside.