Alasdair Mackenzie
@alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social
Immigration and asylum law. All views my own but reposts not endorsement. Refugees welcome🧡. Green Party member💚. Trans 🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights. He/him.
"Lawyers have hitherto only interpreted the law. The point however is to change it."
"Lawyers have hitherto only interpreted the law. The point however is to change it."
Pinned
Starmer says past governments have been "squeamish" talking about immigration. Bullshit.
Starmer isn't bravely breaking a taboo. He's blaming vulnerable people & deflecting attention from the super rich who hoard power & wealth.
Want something better? join.greenparty.org.uk
Starmer isn't bravely breaking a taboo. He's blaming vulnerable people & deflecting attention from the super rich who hoard power & wealth.
Want something better? join.greenparty.org.uk
As an immigration lawyer, it seems to me that the only thing we talk about more than immigration is how we don’t talk about immigration
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NEW: Nigel Farage is facing renewed calls to explain why he repeatedly aired tropes and conspiracy theories associated with antisemitism during interviews, after claims the Reform UK leader used racist language in his teens.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Farage urged to explain conspiracy theories linked to antisemitism he voiced in US media
Exclusive: The Reform UK leader discussed far-right talking points in web TV and radio appearances between 2009 and 2018
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:41 AM
NEW: Nigel Farage is facing renewed calls to explain why he repeatedly aired tropes and conspiracy theories associated with antisemitism during interviews, after claims the Reform UK leader used racist language in his teens.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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How is this not the top story on every news bulletin?
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
More then 2,000 trafficked children and lone child asylum seekers missing from UK councils’ care
Charities say vulnerable young people are being failed by local authorities, the police and central government
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:43 AM
How is this not the top story on every news bulletin?
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
A comprehensive evisceration of Mahmood and the politics that led to her rise, by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social
Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 AM
A comprehensive evisceration of Mahmood and the politics that led to her rise, by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social
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We should be encouraging foreign students to come here and spend their money in our university towns and cities, not penalising them for doing it.
November 23, 2025 at 10:57 PM
We should be encouraging foreign students to come here and spend their money in our university towns and cities, not penalising them for doing it.
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It would have been hard to believe, when I moved to the UK over 15 yrs ago to start my PhD at Edinburgh, that successive Conservative and Labour governments would actively undermine one of the UK's most successful and strategic sectors and run it to the ground. Unbelievable, really. And here we are
November 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
It would have been hard to believe, when I moved to the UK over 15 yrs ago to start my PhD at Edinburgh, that successive Conservative and Labour governments would actively undermine one of the UK's most successful and strategic sectors and run it to the ground. Unbelievable, really. And here we are
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Don’t tell her, she’ll think it’s proof she’s doing the right thing and double down
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has seen her favourability drop 32 points among Labour members since her plans for asylum policy reform were announced
Cabinet rankings: Mahmood sees sharp drop in approval among Labour members – LabourList
Shabana Mahmood’s approval among Labour members has plummeted since her announcement on reform of asylum policy, exclusive polling for LabourList has revealed. The poll, conducted…
labourlist.org
November 23, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Don’t tell her, she’ll think it’s proof she’s doing the right thing and double down
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Exactly the same as the Iraq Inquiry though: straight in the bin and never spoken of again, not least because none of it would’ve happened this way without the close, hand-in-glove cooperation of the British press. Don’t want to look to hard at that stuff.
November 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Exactly the same as the Iraq Inquiry though: straight in the bin and never spoken of again, not least because none of it would’ve happened this way without the close, hand-in-glove cooperation of the British press. Don’t want to look to hard at that stuff.
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If only there were some clue from his subsequent political career
Twenty people allege he has a racist past. He denies it. Who’s telling the truth about Farage’s schooldays?
Reform UK’s leader refuses to answer questions about his abusive behaviour, claiming there’s ‘no evidence’. We talk to victims and witnesses
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:55 AM
If only there were some clue from his subsequent political career
So about 10 minutes after the Home Secretary was spouting far right tropes about open borders experiments & migration being the cause of national division, I’m hearing racism is bad again
Starmer accuses ‘spineless’ Farage of failure to tackle racism in Reform party
PM says Reform UK leader also has ‘questions to answer’ about alleged racist comments and chants at school
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:02 PM
So about 10 minutes after the Home Secretary was spouting far right tropes about open borders experiments & migration being the cause of national division, I’m hearing racism is bad again
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I made this clip to illustrate my 10 year love-hate experience on Twitter and what made me finally walk away. 🤣😂
November 18, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I made this clip to illustrate my 10 year love-hate experience on Twitter and what made me finally walk away. 🤣😂
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i do love labour trying to draw the important distinction between setting the racism dial to 8 (Excellent) versus 9 (horrific)
November 23, 2025 at 9:57 AM
i do love labour trying to draw the important distinction between setting the racism dial to 8 (Excellent) versus 9 (horrific)
If only there were some clue from his subsequent political career
Twenty people allege he has a racist past. He denies it. Who’s telling the truth about Farage’s schooldays?
Reform UK’s leader refuses to answer questions about his abusive behaviour, claiming there’s ‘no evidence’. We talk to victims and witnesses
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:55 AM
If only there were some clue from his subsequent political career
Don’t tell her, she’ll think it’s proof she’s doing the right thing and double down
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has seen her favourability drop 32 points among Labour members since her plans for asylum policy reform were announced
Cabinet rankings: Mahmood sees sharp drop in approval among Labour members – LabourList
Shabana Mahmood’s approval among Labour members has plummeted since her announcement on reform of asylum policy, exclusive polling for LabourList has revealed. The poll, conducted…
labourlist.org
November 23, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Don’t tell her, she’ll think it’s proof she’s doing the right thing and double down
Delighted to see my former (and probably future) colleague Tony speaking out against his party’s poisonous rhetoric, but I can’t agree that more forced returns to France are the answer, and I can’t see the “Farage’s boats” talk, popular in some parts of the centre, landing with anyone
‘It’s wrong’: the Labour MP speaking out against the party’s asylum policy
As a well-informed MP on the frontline of the debate, Tony Vaughan’s views are particularly unwelcome to government
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Delighted to see my former (and probably future) colleague Tony speaking out against his party’s poisonous rhetoric, but I can’t agree that more forced returns to France are the answer, and I can’t see the “Farage’s boats” talk, popular in some parts of the centre, landing with anyone
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You heard the man
Judge me at next election, Keir Starmer tells doubters
The PM tells the BBC he has made
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
You heard the man
‘Triangulation is a fool’s errand because the right-wing press no longer respects the truth. Starmer in his sweet but suicidal naivety seems to think that he’ll be exalted by the Daily Mail if he fixes the asylum “problem”.‘
🔴 What Labour and the BBC have in common…
Their mutual naivety towards the feral right-wing media is causing them to make huge strategic mistakes.
📝 New post 👇🏻
Their mutual naivety towards the feral right-wing media is causing them to make huge strategic mistakes.
📝 New post 👇🏻
What Labour and the BBC have in common
They still don’t get it...
writesbright.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
‘Triangulation is a fool’s errand because the right-wing press no longer respects the truth. Starmer in his sweet but suicidal naivety seems to think that he’ll be exalted by the Daily Mail if he fixes the asylum “problem”.‘
You heard the man
Judge me at next election, Keir Starmer tells doubters
The PM tells the BBC he has made
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
You heard the man
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Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social
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Home Office: How dare people say we are acting like the far-right?
Also the Home Office: These far-right graphics look great, let's copy them.
Also the Home Office: These far-right graphics look great, let's copy them.
November 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Home Office: How dare people say we are acting like the far-right?
Also the Home Office: These far-right graphics look great, let's copy them.
Also the Home Office: These far-right graphics look great, let's copy them.
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Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.
November 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.
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These nurses have given years of service to the NHS; have worked tirelessly through nights, holidays, and crises; and have often put their own well-being aside to care for others.
Yet with draconian immigration rules they are told they no longer belong here ⬇️
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Yet with draconian immigration rules they are told they no longer belong here ⬇️
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Up to 50,000 nurses could quit UK over immigration plans, survey suggests
Exclusive: union leaders say proposed changes are immoral and could threaten patient safety if there is staff exodus
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:28 AM
These nurses have given years of service to the NHS; have worked tirelessly through nights, holidays, and crises; and have often put their own well-being aside to care for others.
Yet with draconian immigration rules they are told they no longer belong here ⬇️
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Yet with draconian immigration rules they are told they no longer belong here ⬇️
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Mahmood’s foreword to her consultation paper repeats the far right fantasy of an “open border experiment” & says the “cause of our division” is the “destabilising” “pace and scale of migration”, tropes also used by Starmer in his “island of strangers” speech
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November 20, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Mahmood’s foreword to her consultation paper repeats the far right fantasy of an “open border experiment” & says the “cause of our division” is the “destabilising” “pace and scale of migration”, tropes also used by Starmer in his “island of strangers” speech
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Remarkably simple solution. If you don't want the backing of the far-right for your immigration policy, or to have people point out that you have their backing, don't base your immigration policy on the far-right's rhetoric and ideology.
www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/shab...
www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/shab...
Shabana Mahmood hits out at Tommy Robinson’s backing of Labour’s migration policy
Shabana Mahmood has said she finds it “deeply offensive” when MPs quote Tommy Robinson at her in the Commons, after the far-right activist backed the government’s sweeping asylum reforms. Asked about ...
www.independent.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Remarkably simple solution. If you don't want the backing of the far-right for your immigration policy, or to have people point out that you have their backing, don't base your immigration policy on the far-right's rhetoric and ideology.
www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/shab...
www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/shab...