Luke loves a migrant
@lukelovesamigrant.bsky.social
🌈 Queer Welsh/Canadian couple fighting to hold onto the life we've built on the so-called "island of strangers".
💚 Respect and dignity for ALL asylum seekers, refugees and migrants.
🏳️⚧️ Trans rights are non-negotiable. Draw the line.
⭐ Rejoin.
🗳️ PR now!
💚 Respect and dignity for ALL asylum seekers, refugees and migrants.
🏳️⚧️ Trans rights are non-negotiable. Draw the line.
⭐ Rejoin.
🗳️ PR now!
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Earned settlement
The government is consulting on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented.
www.gov.uk
📌 Any migrants or others affected by Labour's immigration proposals, please take a few minutes to respond to the Home Office consultation with your honest thoughts. I will provide some pointers on how to interpret deceptively worded questions in this thread soon 🧵
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"Why do we put hurdles in the way of the people that are actually going to drive our economy? It makes zero sense."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Top UK scientist says research visa restrictions endanger economy
Prof Sir Paul Nurse says the UK is
www.bbc.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 8:12 AM
"Why do we put hurdles in the way of the people that are actually going to drive our economy? It makes zero sense."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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There is much to say on this, but the very first point that must be made as a matter of urgency to the NEC is that excluding trans women is not a "compromise position", it is a segregation position, a biased position, a transphobic position and a morally repugnant position.
EXCLUSIVE: Labour's NEC finds compromise position that enables women's conference to return in 2026. And Labour will campaign on NHS, Families and Pride in Place in May.
EXCLUSIVE: Labour women’s conference plan and locals campaign priorities revealed – LabourList
The Labour party women’s conference will be revived next year with only biological women allowed to vote, but a fringe programme and reception will be…
labourlist.org
December 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
There is much to say on this, but the very first point that must be made as a matter of urgency to the NEC is that excluding trans women is not a "compromise position", it is a segregation position, a biased position, a transphobic position and a morally repugnant position.
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HOT OFF THE PRESS: Time for Change is here!
Sick of the constant demonisation of migrants?
Want to see an alternative plan?
Our new report by @zoejardiniere.bsky.social outlines 9 steps to a system that delivers dignity for all.
Read it here: www.anothereurope.org/time-for-cha...
Sick of the constant demonisation of migrants?
Want to see an alternative plan?
Our new report by @zoejardiniere.bsky.social outlines 9 steps to a system that delivers dignity for all.
Read it here: www.anothereurope.org/time-for-cha...
Time For Change: The evidence-based policies that can actually fix the immigration system
A new report from prominent migration expert Zoe Gardner has been enthusiastically welcomed by senior Labour backbenchers.
www.anothereurope.org
December 5, 2025 at 11:01 AM
HOT OFF THE PRESS: Time for Change is here!
Sick of the constant demonisation of migrants?
Want to see an alternative plan?
Our new report by @zoejardiniere.bsky.social outlines 9 steps to a system that delivers dignity for all.
Read it here: www.anothereurope.org/time-for-cha...
Sick of the constant demonisation of migrants?
Want to see an alternative plan?
Our new report by @zoejardiniere.bsky.social outlines 9 steps to a system that delivers dignity for all.
Read it here: www.anothereurope.org/time-for-cha...
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labour are so continually bigoted and they dress it up in that air of 'we are being very sensible and grown up about this'.
it's enraging.
it's enraging.
December 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
labour are so continually bigoted and they dress it up in that air of 'we are being very sensible and grown up about this'.
it's enraging.
it's enraging.
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People unwilling to face the truth about Labour's reluctance to tackle Brexit often hide behind "the RW press will crucify them".
News flash: that's already happening!
Right now, there are 51 negative stories about Labour on the front pages of the Daily Mail, Express, Times and Telegraph websites.
News flash: that's already happening!
Right now, there are 51 negative stories about Labour on the front pages of the Daily Mail, Express, Times and Telegraph websites.
December 5, 2025 at 9:39 AM
People unwilling to face the truth about Labour's reluctance to tackle Brexit often hide behind "the RW press will crucify them".
News flash: that's already happening!
Right now, there are 51 negative stories about Labour on the front pages of the Daily Mail, Express, Times and Telegraph websites.
News flash: that's already happening!
Right now, there are 51 negative stories about Labour on the front pages of the Daily Mail, Express, Times and Telegraph websites.
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I mean, I'm old enough to remember 2 years ago when starmer alleged he'd effectively abolish the HoL but that sweet sweet lobby money must weigh more than Starmer's ever unravelling morals.
Yesterday @pippacrerar.bsky.social reported in @theguardian.com that Keir Starmer is about to appoint another set of peers, including 25 Labour.
Later Aubrey Allegretti in @thetimes.com suggested there would be 33 new peers in total.
Three problems with this 🧵⤵️
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Later Aubrey Allegretti in @thetimes.com suggested there would be 33 new peers in total.
Three problems with this 🧵⤵️
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Keir Starmer expected to award 25 new Labour peerages
Exclusive: Former union bosses and Labour staffers on list as prime minister aims to balance chamber
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I mean, I'm old enough to remember 2 years ago when starmer alleged he'd effectively abolish the HoL but that sweet sweet lobby money must weigh more than Starmer's ever unravelling morals.
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Shabana Mahmood urged not to help those ‘seeking to build division’
Shabana Mahmood urged not to help those ‘seeking to build division’
Exclusive: In open letter, 225 groups describe home secretary’s plan to overhaul asylum system as ‘cruel and ‘ruthless’
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UK politics live – latest updates
The home secretary has been urged not to “play into the hands of those seeking to build division” by more than 200 community groups across the UK who have described Shabana Mahmood’s plans to overhaul the asylum system as “cruel” and “ruthless”.
Last month Mahmood unveiled policies that she hopes will tackle bogus asylum claims and reduce the numbers of people trying to cross the Channel in small boats, including the end of permanent protection for refugees, the escalated removal of families with children whose claims have been refused, and scrapping the legal requirement to support destitute asylum seekers. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Shabana Mahmood urged not to help those ‘seeking to build division’
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An independent taskforce *just* did a huge review of ADHD in England, and the conclusion was that it's "under-recognised, under-diagnosed and under-treated."
www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/re...
www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/re...
NHS England » Report of the independent ADHD Taskforce: Part 1
April 2025
www.england.nhs.uk
December 4, 2025 at 12:48 AM
An independent taskforce *just* did a huge review of ADHD in England, and the conclusion was that it's "under-recognised, under-diagnosed and under-treated."
www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/re...
www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/re...
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still baffled by the media feigning shock at this.
the man is a racist adult. it’s of no surprise to anyone that he was a racist teen.
this is more about the media determining what is, and isn’t, acceptable language in rhetoric.
adult farage speaks in their racist code, teenage farage did not.
the man is a racist adult. it’s of no surprise to anyone that he was a racist teen.
this is more about the media determining what is, and isn’t, acceptable language in rhetoric.
adult farage speaks in their racist code, teenage farage did not.
Farage turns on broadcasters over racism allegations as number of claims hits 28
Farage turns on broadcasters over racism allegations as number of claims hits 28
Reform leader suggests he would boycott BBC, saying he has had letter from Dulwich pupils defending him
Nigel Farage has turned on broadcasters for questioning him about his alleged teenage racism and antisemitism as the number of school contemporaries who recalled such behaviour to the Guardian reached 28.
In an angry performance at a press conference in London, the Reform leader suggested he would boycott the BBC and said ITV had their own case to answer, as he repeatedly shouted “Bernard Manning”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
still baffled by the media feigning shock at this.
the man is a racist adult. it’s of no surprise to anyone that he was a racist teen.
this is more about the media determining what is, and isn’t, acceptable language in rhetoric.
adult farage speaks in their racist code, teenage farage did not.
the man is a racist adult. it’s of no surprise to anyone that he was a racist teen.
this is more about the media determining what is, and isn’t, acceptable language in rhetoric.
adult farage speaks in their racist code, teenage farage did not.
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Ireland calling the UK out for being stupid enough to fall for this 'gender critical' bollocks.
December 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Ireland calling the UK out for being stupid enough to fall for this 'gender critical' bollocks.
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imagine, right, you're applying for a UK visa. our wages suck, bills are high, layoffs are ten a penny, & you find out you're down up to £20k minimum right from the off, alongside thousands and thousands in visa fees. who would find that remotely appealing? this is how you collapse entire industries
a family of four on a five year visa route needs to pay close to twenty grand in surcharges, in addition to visa fees, upfront at time of application. the new Labour ILR rules means that family will pay close to *forty grand* in health surcharges, on top of visa fees. just incredibly stupid stuff
December 5, 2025 at 9:19 AM
imagine, right, you're applying for a UK visa. our wages suck, bills are high, layoffs are ten a penny, & you find out you're down up to £20k minimum right from the off, alongside thousands and thousands in visa fees. who would find that remotely appealing? this is how you collapse entire industries
I've got 2 immigration petitions stuck in review limbo while later submissions are being published, and others are reporting the same.
This response shows the best way we (migrants, employers, union reps, partners) can make our voices heard is via the consultation.
Link & tips on my pinned post 📌
This response shows the best way we (migrants, employers, union reps, partners) can make our voices heard is via the consultation.
Link & tips on my pinned post 📌
Government has responded to the petition "Protect Legal Migrants: do not implement the 10-Year ILR proposal"
#PetitionGovResponse
#PetitionGovResponse
Government response: Protect Legal Migrants: do not implement the 10-Year ILR proposal
The earned settlement consultation is seeking views on whether the increase in settlement qualifying period will apply to people already in the UK. No decision has been taken on this point.
petition.parliament.uk
December 5, 2025 at 9:39 AM
I've got 2 immigration petitions stuck in review limbo while later submissions are being published, and others are reporting the same.
This response shows the best way we (migrants, employers, union reps, partners) can make our voices heard is via the consultation.
Link & tips on my pinned post 📌
This response shows the best way we (migrants, employers, union reps, partners) can make our voices heard is via the consultation.
Link & tips on my pinned post 📌
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😂😂😂 ‘IF Reform UK takes power’
Starmer has already made sure it won’t be a tolerant, diverse country BEFORE Reform UK take power.
Starmer has already made sure it won’t be a tolerant, diverse country BEFORE Reform UK take power.
Starmer says Britain may not survive as 'tolerant, diverse country' if Reform UK takes power - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Keir Starmer says deportation policies touted by Reform UK ‘would tear our country apart’ – UK politics live
Prime minister says Britain may not survive as ‘tolerant, diverse country’ if Nigel Farage takes power
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
😂😂😂 ‘IF Reform UK takes power’
Starmer has already made sure it won’t be a tolerant, diverse country BEFORE Reform UK take power.
Starmer has already made sure it won’t be a tolerant, diverse country BEFORE Reform UK take power.
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Another year, and once again the government has missed its own recruitment target for secondary trainee teachers – this time by 12 per cent, even after slashing the target by a fifth.
December 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Another year, and once again the government has missed its own recruitment target for secondary trainee teachers – this time by 12 per cent, even after slashing the target by a fifth.
Billionaires shouldn't be able to buy a bigger voice in politics. Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social's call to put a cap on how much they can donate in the #ElectionsBill
Sign now to demand an end to big money in politics
It takes 30 seconds
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December 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Billionaires shouldn't be able to buy a bigger voice in politics. Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social's call to put a cap on how much they can donate in the #ElectionsBill
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Reform council leader under investigation over 'bigoted' social media posts
www.lbc.co.uk/article/refo...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/refo...
Reform council leader under investigation over 'bigoted' social media posts | LBC
Reform UK has launched an investigation into ‘bigoted’ posts on the council leader’s social media accounts
www.lbc.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Reform council leader under investigation over 'bigoted' social media posts
www.lbc.co.uk/article/refo...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/refo...
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This record-breaking donation shows how dependent our parties have become on a super-rich few. It reinforces the belief that money talks loudest in the corridors of power.
The Government promised to protect democracy. It's time to introduce a cap on political donations.
www.ft.com/content/db73...
The Government promised to protect democracy. It's time to introduce a cap on political donations.
www.ft.com/content/db73...
Reform UK gets record £9mn donation from Christopher Harborne
Nigel Farage’s party attracts far more funding than both Labour and the Conservatives
www.ft.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:46 AM
This record-breaking donation shows how dependent our parties have become on a super-rich few. It reinforces the belief that money talks loudest in the corridors of power.
The Government promised to protect democracy. It's time to introduce a cap on political donations.
www.ft.com/content/db73...
The Government promised to protect democracy. It's time to introduce a cap on political donations.
www.ft.com/content/db73...
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Just today, Reform UK were given £9,000,000, their largest single donation ever, and the largest donation ever from a living donor. In recent years, donations of over a million pounds have become common place across the political spectrum - it's time for a cap on donations buff.ly/OrXZVw9
We need a donation cap, but how much should it be?
In the UK today, there is still no legal limit on how much a single donor can give to a political party each year. That simple fact shapes our politics in profound ways. When unlimited m
electoral-reform.org.uk
December 4, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Just today, Reform UK were given £9,000,000, their largest single donation ever, and the largest donation ever from a living donor. In recent years, donations of over a million pounds have become common place across the political spectrum - it's time for a cap on donations buff.ly/OrXZVw9
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It's almost like every single reputable expert who has been saying this exact thing for years was right.
Home Office recognised this fact 15 years ago. Successive governments, globally, continue to ignore it, and continue to push harmful "tougher" policies. 1/
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Home Office recognised this fact 15 years ago. Successive governments, globally, continue to ignore it, and continue to push harmful "tougher" policies. 1/
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Hardline migration policies are fuelling people smuggling, report finds
As leaders try to break smugglers’ business model, research suggests strategy so far has had opposite effect
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:16 AM
It's almost like every single reputable expert who has been saying this exact thing for years was right.
Home Office recognised this fact 15 years ago. Successive governments, globally, continue to ignore it, and continue to push harmful "tougher" policies. 1/
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Home Office recognised this fact 15 years ago. Successive governments, globally, continue to ignore it, and continue to push harmful "tougher" policies. 1/
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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The Cass Review is the worst kind of pseudoscience & has at least 13 peer-reviewed critiques of it (all ignored by mainstream media).
Streeting now wants a Cass Review for Autism, ADHD, etc.
I have characterised these as “contrived authority” strategies (referring to the work of Max Weber)
1/2
Streeting now wants a Cass Review for Autism, ADHD, etc.
I have characterised these as “contrived authority” strategies (referring to the work of Max Weber)
1/2
Considering Streeting's well stated belief autism, ADHD etc, along with mental health issues, are "overdiagnosed", I won't hold my breath for this doing anything other than being used to cut support, along with opportunities for diagnosis, for people who need it. #r4today
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Streeting orders review into mental health and ADHD diagnosis
The health secretary said the aim was to tackle a rising demand for services and the increased pressure on the NHS.
www.bbc.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:55 AM
The Cass Review is the worst kind of pseudoscience & has at least 13 peer-reviewed critiques of it (all ignored by mainstream media).
Streeting now wants a Cass Review for Autism, ADHD, etc.
I have characterised these as “contrived authority” strategies (referring to the work of Max Weber)
1/2
Streeting now wants a Cass Review for Autism, ADHD, etc.
I have characterised these as “contrived authority” strategies (referring to the work of Max Weber)
1/2
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When will those Labour MPs who don't support the exclusion of trans people from society get together and tell the Cabinet 'Not In Our Name'?
Because, with respect, it is well past time for them to do som
Because, with respect, it is well past time for them to do som
December 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
When will those Labour MPs who don't support the exclusion of trans people from society get together and tell the Cabinet 'Not In Our Name'?
Because, with respect, it is well past time for them to do som
Because, with respect, it is well past time for them to do som
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Groups, who want to include trans people, being told who they can and cannot associate with undermines all of our human rights.
This is a failure of this Government to act decisively and provide clarity on how to remain inclusive.
Who does this protect?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
This is a failure of this Government to act decisively and provide clarity on how to remain inclusive.
Who does this protect?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Groups, who want to include trans people, being told who they can and cannot associate with undermines all of our human rights.
This is a failure of this Government to act decisively and provide clarity on how to remain inclusive.
Who does this protect?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
This is a failure of this Government to act decisively and provide clarity on how to remain inclusive.
Who does this protect?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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All of the UK is pretending that the UK secretly passed the equality act in 2010 that required a national bathroom ban along with a full ban of trans people from society and it was only discovered fifteen years later. It's obscene.
December 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
All of the UK is pretending that the UK secretly passed the equality act in 2010 that required a national bathroom ban along with a full ban of trans people from society and it was only discovered fifteen years later. It's obscene.
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We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
December 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
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To those who can vote, I don’t really have a say (even though I’m a tax-paying immigrant) but I’ll give my two cents anyway: it’s essential to vote for @greenparty.org.uk in May to pull the Overton window to the left and scare Labour into stopping their pandering to Reform for the next three years.
December 3, 2025 at 11:42 AM
To those who can vote, I don’t really have a say (even though I’m a tax-paying immigrant) but I’ll give my two cents anyway: it’s essential to vote for @greenparty.org.uk in May to pull the Overton window to the left and scare Labour into stopping their pandering to Reform for the next three years.