The Glass is Empty
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The Glass is Empty
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It’s ironic that a nation which for decades sanctimoniously trumpeted the superiority of it’s democratic ideals around the world, while simultaneously undermining and overthrowing democratically elected governments, now faces an existential threat to those “ideals”.
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The off the radar hate levels of the American right-wing. Not content with Islamophobia & smearing political opponents but demeaning the memory of those who died in the terror attacks of 9/11.
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Pretty shocking, this, from a barrister and former Lord Chancellor. Shabana Mahmood, disgracefully peddling misinformation about the Human Rights watchdog.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Hmmmm. "The Home Secretary has said it is unacceptable for a European human rights watchdog to “question the validity” of the Supreme Court ruling".

Except the Commissioner didn't question the "validity" of the Supreme Court ruling, he questioned its fairness.
Mahmood hits back at European watchdog over trans and protest rights concerns
The Supreme Court ruled in April that the words ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex.
www.independent.co.uk
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To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
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The whole interview is a microcosm of our political-media-entertainment machine: bullshitters dancing for the benefit of racists & reactionaries, while journalists either clap or scratch their heads, & no-one is any wiser or better informed. A kind of weird performance of journalism & democracy 6/6
Peston tells Lam that she said something that he "genuinely didn't understand". "But who are these people who came legally who should leave?"

This does not look like faux naivety.
He should know the answer!

She misleads in her answer to him.
So he gives a misleading summary of her policy on air.
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Peston doesn’t understand any of this, the explanation for which can only be that he hasn’t done the research, or the thinking, or spoken to anyone who has 5/
Peston tells Lam that she said something that he "genuinely didn't understand". "But who are these people who came legally who should leave?"

This does not look like faux naivety.
He should know the answer!

She misleads in her answer to him.
So he gives a misleading summary of her policy on air.
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The ideas of the far right would take us back to the era famously summed up by Max Frisch as “We wanted workers, but we got human beings”. Having an immigration system which respects people isn’t ultimately just about those directly affected, it’s about all of us: about our soul as a country 4/
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More fundamentally, ILR (removing conditions of stay) is about recognising that some people have been here long enough that they shouldn’t have to keep re-applying to stay and should be spared the anxiety of impermanent status. This has been unquestioned in this country for decades, until now 3/
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What Lam seems to mean is retrospectively changing people’s conditions of stay and then booting them out for missing the goalposts, whilst making a sad face 2/
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Also this is just the sheerest nonsense from Katie Lam, bc you won’t have accessed social security unless the conditions of your stay permitted it, & if you have indefinite leave to remain, you don’t have any conditions (as to time, work, benefits) - that’s literally part of the definition of ILR 1/
Here is the clip.

- The interviewer claims not to know the policy.
- The Tory frontbencher clearly misleads with "because those are not the conditions on which you came"
- The interviewer twice sums up the policy misleadingly, to say it is much narrower than it it

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“… need to go home…” says Katie Lam on #Peston @itvpeston.bsky.social coherently racist enough for Reform to take notes? Or recoil?

Which region of China will the Lam family go home to?
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I am old enough to remember people arguing that Starmer‘s speech at conference was the big turning point and that Labour would now stand up against far-right rhetoric. But spineless politicians rarely grow a spine over night…
Worth saying that despite asking for more than 12 hours we’ve had nothing back from Labour on this
A Conservative MP tipped as a future party leader has been condemned for saying large numbers of legally settled families must be deported, in order to ensure the UK is mostly “culturally coherent”.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Peston tells Lam that she said something that he "genuinely didn't understand". "But who are these people who came legally who should leave?"

This does not look like faux naivety.
He should know the answer!

She misleads in her answer to him.
So he gives a misleading summary of her policy on air.
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Just shocking incompetence/laziness from @peston.bsky.social @itvpeston.bsky.social here. No excuses.
Peston tells Lam that she said something that he "genuinely didn't understand". "But who are these people who came legally who should leave?"

This does not look like faux naivety.
He should know the answer!

She misleads in her answer to him.
So he gives a misleading summary of her policy on air.
Unfortunately it isn’t going to be front page news.
I think the trawl is for the nonces first. Then highlight the obvious MAGA ones. Not excusing the cunts.
Gonna be front page news! Ain’t it?
But immediately called out as the rancid dog whistle racism that it is by Labour? Surely?
And dressing up as frogs 🐸 for a day helped how?
Please enlighten me. The media/political swamp is obviously pro Israel. They seem to have fucked up here. Oops!
Let’s move on.
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option 4(!): the fans aren’t allowed to travel *by their own club because it admits they have an extreme racism problem* and Starmer looks like a colossal moron
there’s three outcomes here:
1. the fans aren’t allowed to travel and Starmer looks weak
2. the fans are allowed to travel and there’s no major trouble but the cost of the police Starmer insisted on is ridiculous
3. the fans are allowed to travel and there is major trouble and it’s Starmer’s fault
this particular rake wasn’t even in the path of the government until they decided to march straight towards it for some reason
A senior Tory MP advocating the deportation of legally qualified UK citizens simply because of their race would surely produce an avalanche of condemnation from a Labour government? Wouldn’t it?
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The child raped by Prince Andrew and subjected to sadomasochistic sex by Jeffrey Epstein thought she would "die a sex slave" to Epstein and his rich friends, the BBC reports. The memoir is heightening calls to release the Epstein Files, a move opposed by the GOP House. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Virginia Giuffre thought she might 'die a sex slave' at hands of Epstein and his circle, memoir reveals
The BBC obtained a copy of Virginia Giuffre's posthumous memoir ahead of its publication on Tuesday.
www.bbc.com
This is the depth that we have sunk in this country. And it isn’t stopping.
The literal inspiration for a far right mass murderer is positively quoting the words of a Labour government minister as an endorsement for her rancid pro Israel propaganda.
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The literal inspiration for a far right mass murderer is positively quoting the words of a Labour government minister as an endorsement for her rancid pro Israel propaganda.
The literal inspiration for a far right mass murderer is positively quoting the words of a Labour government minister as an endorsement for her rancid pro Israel propaganda.