Josephine Whitaker-Yilmaz
@josephinewy.bsky.social
Great to hear Rachel Reeves acknowledge that "there are many reasons why people choose to have children then find themselves in difficult times. The death of a partner. Separation. Ill health. A lost job. I don’t believe that children should bear the brunt of that."
So why should migrant children?
So why should migrant children?
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Great to hear Rachel Reeves acknowledge that "there are many reasons why people choose to have children then find themselves in difficult times. The death of a partner. Separation. Ill health. A lost job. I don’t believe that children should bear the brunt of that."
So why should migrant children?
So why should migrant children?
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The OBR says the rise in claims was linked to the cost of living crisis
The way disabled people have been vilified over PIP, as if they were trying to play the system, was disgusting & shameful
Hacks & commentators that engaged in the grotesque demonisation of disabled people should be ashamed.
The way disabled people have been vilified over PIP, as if they were trying to play the system, was disgusting & shameful
Hacks & commentators that engaged in the grotesque demonisation of disabled people should be ashamed.
November 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The OBR says the rise in claims was linked to the cost of living crisis
The way disabled people have been vilified over PIP, as if they were trying to play the system, was disgusting & shameful
Hacks & commentators that engaged in the grotesque demonisation of disabled people should be ashamed.
The way disabled people have been vilified over PIP, as if they were trying to play the system, was disgusting & shameful
Hacks & commentators that engaged in the grotesque demonisation of disabled people should be ashamed.
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OBR says lower net migration will hurt overall productivity
November 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
OBR says lower net migration will hurt overall productivity
MIGRANTS ARE TAXPAYERS TOO GUYS.
Making settlement harder to get is not the public money saving flex the Chancellor seems to think it is.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Making settlement harder to get is not the public money saving flex the Chancellor seems to think it is.
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 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
MIGRANTS ARE TAXPAYERS TOO GUYS.
Making settlement harder to get is not the public money saving flex the Chancellor seems to think it is.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Making settlement harder to get is not the public money saving flex the Chancellor seems to think it is.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
After a year trying to persuade this government that migrant children also do not deserve to live in poverty, I can confirm that they know their policies cause poverty - especially for children - and they don’t care.
The government’s decision to halve the time limit for refugees to leave Home Office accommodation is driving people into homelessness and exploitation, according to migrant rights campaigners and homelessness charities
By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/new-asylum...
By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/new-asylum...
New asylum policies making homeless refugees “targets for the far right”
Labour’s abrupt return to the 28-day move-on period is pushing vulnerable people into rough sleeping and exposing them to fraud and abuse.
national.thelead.uk
November 26, 2025 at 8:38 AM
After a year trying to persuade this government that migrant children also do not deserve to live in poverty, I can confirm that they know their policies cause poverty - especially for children - and they don’t care.
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Why the two-child limit has to go, in a chart.
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Why the two-child limit has to go, in a chart.
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The Economist on the British government's proposal that the country with the comparatively best record on integration in one generation could emulate Denmark, which struggles in integration, and where the tough line on asylum presents further barriers
November 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The Economist on the British government's proposal that the country with the comparatively best record on integration in one generation could emulate Denmark, which struggles in integration, and where the tough line on asylum presents further barriers
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The whole problem with current Labour is encapsulated right here in this paragraph. One hand tries to ameliorate child poverty while the other hand makes it worse.
Some of us think immigrants and their children count. That they, too, are people. Some of us don’t.
Some of us think immigrants and their children count. That they, too, are people. Some of us don’t.
November 20, 2025 at 8:44 AM
The whole problem with current Labour is encapsulated right here in this paragraph. One hand tries to ameliorate child poverty while the other hand makes it worse.
Some of us think immigrants and their children count. That they, too, are people. Some of us don’t.
Some of us think immigrants and their children count. That they, too, are people. Some of us don’t.
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🚨Making it harder for migrants to settle in the UK is yet another act of economic vandalism🚨
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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 20, 2025 at 9:16 AM
🚨Making it harder for migrants to settle in the UK is yet another act of economic vandalism🚨
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Worth remembering given the proposed ILR changes are going to be announced today. A "consultation" by the Home Office is usually 'this is what we want to do, how can we implement it?' rather than 'these are the various options we are thinking about, which do you prefer and why?'.
November 20, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Worth remembering given the proposed ILR changes are going to be announced today. A "consultation" by the Home Office is usually 'this is what we want to do, how can we implement it?' rather than 'these are the various options we are thinking about, which do you prefer and why?'.
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Not many groups of migrants would be affected by a longer path to ILR if claiming benefits, since you normally can’t claim benefits unless you have ILR. Refugees and other humanitarian cases, primarily, assuming EU citizens covered by Brexit rules are exempt. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
November 20, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Not many groups of migrants would be affected by a longer path to ILR if claiming benefits, since you normally can’t claim benefits unless you have ILR. Refugees and other humanitarian cases, primarily, assuming EU citizens covered by Brexit rules are exempt. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
Today we’ll finally get some more detail about Govt plans to make it harder to settle in the UK (6 months after first announced)
What we know already:
- settlement will now take a decade to reach
- costs will double - c£20k per adult over the decade
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
What we know already:
- settlement will now take a decade to reach
- costs will double - c£20k per adult over the decade
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 20, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Today we’ll finally get some more detail about Govt plans to make it harder to settle in the UK (6 months after first announced)
What we know already:
- settlement will now take a decade to reach
- costs will double - c£20k per adult over the decade
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
What we know already:
- settlement will now take a decade to reach
- costs will double - c£20k per adult over the decade
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Here’s a few thing the Home Secretary could do if she *actually* wanted to put asylum seekers on the same playing field as British citizens:
✅ give them the right to work from day 1
✅ give them access to the social security system not below-poverty-level asylum support
www.bbc.com/news/article...
✅ give them the right to work from day 1
✅ give them access to the social security system not below-poverty-level asylum support
www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 20, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Here’s a few thing the Home Secretary could do if she *actually* wanted to put asylum seekers on the same playing field as British citizens:
✅ give them the right to work from day 1
✅ give them access to the social security system not below-poverty-level asylum support
www.bbc.com/news/article...
✅ give them the right to work from day 1
✅ give them access to the social security system not below-poverty-level asylum support
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Is there literally no-one else? Nothing against Burnham but there’s *hundreds* of Labour MPs in parliament…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Norwich MP Clive Lewis offers seat to Burnham for Starmer challenge
Clive Lewis says he would step down to allow Mayor Andy Burnham the chance to become Labour leader.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Is there literally no-one else? Nothing against Burnham but there’s *hundreds* of Labour MPs in parliament…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Brilliant thread here, pithily explaining how YET ANOTHER aspect of govt immigration policy is shafting families by pushing them into poverty and then keeping them there
Amid all the asylum reform announcements, the HO finally slipped out its asylum support rates review last week. What does this mean for child poverty?🧵 www.gov.uk/government/p...
Report on review of cash allowance paid to asylum seekers
Home Office reviews of the cash allowance paid to asylum seekers.
www.gov.uk
November 19, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Brilliant thread here, pithily explaining how YET ANOTHER aspect of govt immigration policy is shafting families by pushing them into poverty and then keeping them there
As with so many of this government's policies, they're going to make people's lives more miserable AND they're not going to achieve what the government says they're going to. Everyone loses.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
elmo says burn it all down in front of a fire
ALT: elmo says burn it all down in front of a fire
media.tenor.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
As with so many of this government's policies, they're going to make people's lives more miserable AND they're not going to achieve what the government says they're going to. Everyone loses.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
I think the answer is no?
And once again, I ask whether Ministers and No10 realise that the readership of one paper can in fact read the contents of another.
Dark forces are stirring up anger in the UK. My asylum reforms are our chance to stop them | Shabana Mahmood
I know some of these measures will face opposition. But a country without secure borders is less safe for those who look like me, says Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:49 AM
I think the answer is no?
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2015 Shabana Mahmood really needs to have a word with 2025 Shabana Mahmood
November 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
2015 Shabana Mahmood really needs to have a word with 2025 Shabana Mahmood
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How have Labour watched the Tories spend 2-3 years parroting Farage then lose an election badly and conclude a similar strategy is the best course of action?
I. Really. Genuinely. Do Not. Get. It.
I. Really. Genuinely. Do Not. Get. It.
Just another of those days when I hate this government
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:50 PM
How have Labour watched the Tories spend 2-3 years parroting Farage then lose an election badly and conclude a similar strategy is the best course of action?
I. Really. Genuinely. Do Not. Get. It.
I. Really. Genuinely. Do Not. Get. It.
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An absolute 🤯 at every level
November 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
An absolute 🤯 at every level
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Which then takes you back into the familiar territory of pleasing nobody - winding up the left for a policy that potentially doesn’t make that much difference in practice
November 16, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Which then takes you back into the familiar territory of pleasing nobody - winding up the left for a policy that potentially doesn’t make that much difference in practice
A masterclass in punching down.
Guess what. It’s not gonna stop the boats. And it’s not going to win them an election
But it is going to leave thousands of people unable to build their lives here, or feel like they belong.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...
Guess what. It’s not gonna stop the boats. And it’s not going to win them an election
But it is going to leave thousands of people unable to build their lives here, or feel like they belong.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...
Laura Kuenssberg: Refugees to face 20-year wait to settle permanently in asylum policy shake-up
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will be facing questions from Laura Kuenssberg this morning.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 8:21 AM
A masterclass in punching down.
Guess what. It’s not gonna stop the boats. And it’s not going to win them an election
But it is going to leave thousands of people unable to build their lives here, or feel like they belong.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...
Guess what. It’s not gonna stop the boats. And it’s not going to win them an election
But it is going to leave thousands of people unable to build their lives here, or feel like they belong.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...
With most voter intention polls showing Labour haemorrhaging most votes to Greens, Lib Dems, hard to see why they’d do this
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
No 10 tells Labour MPs it expects support for tough new asylum policies
Some backbenchers already opposing planned immigration crackdown seen as ‘economically and culturally illiterate’
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
With most voter intention polls showing Labour haemorrhaging most votes to Greens, Lib Dems, hard to see why they’d do this
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Labour's strategy of telling its supporters to back Reform-style policies, or get a Reform Government, is the politics of the protection racket.
Here's why it's not going to work
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...
Here's why it's not going to work
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...
Shabana Mahmood and the Politics of Extortion
Labour's strategy of telling its supporters to back Reform-style policies, or get a Reform Government, is the politics of the protection racket and it is not going to work
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Labour's strategy of telling its supporters to back Reform-style policies, or get a Reform Government, is the politics of the protection racket.
Here's why it's not going to work
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...
Here's why it's not going to work
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...
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Why! Sorry, but why? Labour's anti-asylum, anti-immigration, policies are the antithesis of anything anyone who genuinely supports human rights should be defending. They're absolutely inhumane and condemnable. Anyone supporting them can't claim to be "progressive"
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
No 10 tells Labour MPs it expects support for tough new asylum policies
Some backbenchers already opposing planned immigration crackdown seen as ‘economically and culturally illiterate’
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Why! Sorry, but why? Labour's anti-asylum, anti-immigration, policies are the antithesis of anything anyone who genuinely supports human rights should be defending. They're absolutely inhumane and condemnable. Anyone supporting them can't claim to be "progressive"
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...