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Luke loves a migrant

@lukelovesamigrant.bsky.social

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🌈 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!

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Luke loves a migrant @lukelovesamigrant.bsky.social · Jul 4

📌 A sharable list of reasons to sign my petition in support of internationally recruited teachers in the UK (beyond helping my fiancé and me stay here).

Please consider signing and sharing the petition if you haven't already 🙏

Petition: Make teachers exempt from changes introduced in the Home Office whitepaper

The UK suffers from a teacher shortage, especially in specialist fields like STEM. To help meet Labour's 6,500 new teacher pledge, we think the Government must acknowledge the social and economic cont...

petition.parliament.uk

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Luke loves a migrant @lukelovesamigrant.bsky.social · 7h

EHRC: Do segregation FASTER 😠

Equalities watchdog urges UK ministers to ‘act with speed’ on trans guidance

EHRC writes to Bridget Phillipson over implementation of code on single-sex public spaces after supreme court ruling

www.theguardian.com

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Praxis, for migrants and refugees @praxisprojects.bsky.social · 11h

The Government promised a consultation on their proposed major changes to settlement, but it’s been 6 months and we haven't heard anything. So we're taking things into our own hands and we want to hear your thoughts.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 15h

Labour is telling you VERY LOUDLY who to vote for if you value human rights. And it's definitely NOT LABOUR.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 1d

ANNOUNCEMENT
This evening, 14/10/25 the Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective and the Trans Exile Network have taken the next step in the struggle to restore the human rights, dignity & safety of UK trans people.

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Luke loves a migrant @lukelovesamigrant.bsky.social · 1d

Read this! 🧵

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 1d

Some changes to immigration rules today, not just increasing English language requirements, mean migrants looking to live and work in UK will have to meet far far higher standards than British nationals, while paying vast sums to be allowed to do so. That isn't a system based on "fairness". 1/

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Trans people at risk of exclusion from many UK public spaces, rights expert says

European Council commissioner voices concerns following April’s supreme court ruling on legal definition of a woman Transgender people risk being excluded from many public spaces as a result of the recent UK supreme court judgment and must be protected from discrimination, a human rights expert has said. Michael O’Flaherty, the European Council commissioner for human rights, said he had concerns about the climate for transgender people in the UK following April’s supreme court ruling that the legal definition of a woman in the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex. Continue reading...

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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 1d

Every interviewer should ask Farage about this. Every single one, every single time.

Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 1d

Nigel Farage never did answer why he met the Russian Ambassador.

All he did was call the interviewer a nutcase.

This interview is a real insight in to how little Nigel Farage likes being asked about his ties to Russia.

archive.ph/rTLvd

#ReformRussianBribes

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Quite a bodying, here, for the UK, from the Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe.

🏮 He points out the Supreme Court ignored human rights (which breaches its legal obligations)
🏮 He says, in effect agreeing with Lucy Powell, Parliament should be involved...

rm.coe.int/letter-to-pa...

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Luke loves a migrant @lukelovesamigrant.bsky.social · 1d

A plea: Last month, I was diagnosed with GOC & will likely require a lifetime of dental surgery—free on the NHS but unlikely to be covered for migrants abroad. My fiancé is caring for me but as Lab & Reform march towards remigration, we could be separated. 2 months left; sign and share if you can 🫶

Luke loves a migrant @lukelovesamigrant.bsky.social · Jul 4

Petition: Make teachers exempt from changes introduced in the Home Office whitepaper

petition.parliament.uk

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot

The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Luke loves a migrant @lukelovesamigrant.bsky.social · 2d

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Reform UK abandoning manifesto pledge of £90bn in tax cuts, deputy leader admits

Richard Tice says party will concentrate on cutting civil service and scrapping net zero once in government * UK politics live – latest updates Reform UK’s deputy leader has admitted the party cannot deliver the £90bn in tax cuts promised in its manifesto, saying it would concentrate on public spending cuts once in government. Richard Tice said key election pledges such as lifting the income tax threshold would be an “aspiration” and that once in government Reform would concentrate on cutting the civil service and scrapping net zero. Continue reading...

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Kent police apologise to protester threatened with arrest for holding Palestine flag

Force agrees to pay damages to Laura Murton, 43, who also had sign saying ‘Israel is committing genocide’ * UK politics live – latest updates * Gaza ceasefire – live updates A protester who was threatened with arrest under the Terrorism Act for holding a Palestine flag and signs saying “free Gaza” and “Israel is committing genocide” has received an apology from police, including for “unlawful false imprisonment”. Kent police have also agreed to pay damages and legal costs to Laura Murton, 43, in connection with the 14 July incident in Canterbury in which armed officers told her her demonstration expressed views supportive of Palestine Action, which had been banned earlier that month. Continue reading...

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Luke loves a migrant @lukelovesamigrant.bsky.social · 2d

This is what happens when you have a party on the left that actually stands for something and a leader that isn't afraid to tell it how it is 💚

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Luke loves a migrant @lukelovesamigrant.bsky.social · 2d

I can't help but wonder how many Tories have defected to Reform since, though... 🤔

Luke loves a migrant @lukelovesamigrant.bsky.social · 2d

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Every interaction I've had with the party since joining – whether with my local party @southglosgreens.bsky.social or watching the leadership hustings and conference speeches – has made it clearer this is my political home and a huge force for good in this country.

Want to be a part of it too?

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Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

"I'm not surprised the personal attacks have started. They've got loads of lines: about my teeth, about my history as an actor, about my name change... the right just don't actually have a line of attack against me that's political"

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe there's something in this Nigel Farage and Nathan Gill Russian bribes story....

Lots of stories about Nathan Gill and Russian bribes.

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Luke loves a migrant @lukelovesamigrant.bsky.social · 3d

On Russia Today, no less.

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D.Moore @d-moore.bsky.social · 5d

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 4d

Farage has given up the pretence that he barely knew Nathan Gill. He can't do otherwise, given the flood of evidence to the contrary.

Here is Gill saying he's just come from having lunch with Farage on the day that Farage resigned as UKIP leader 4 July 2016?

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d

Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 4d

Seems @ReformDurham and @darrengrimes_ owe their electorate an apology,

They sold Durham the unicorns of DOGE and no council tax increases.

DOGE has found nothing and now they may be raising council tax.

Never trust a Reformer.

#ReformLies

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 4d

marsha & sylvia stood behind a police barricade

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 5d

As Wes Streeting comments to condemn some vandalism by trans activists has he said anything about this?

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 5d

17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable, coroner rules https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/09/nhs-wait-times-trans-girl-suicide/?utm_content=1760127601&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable says coroner

A 17-year-old trans girl's death by suicide over NHS wait times could have been prevented with swift intervention, a coroner has ruled.

www.thepinknews.com

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 4d

Number of deportations the ECHR have actually blocked since 1980 - 13 (THIRTEEN).

Please remember this next time some grifting populist claims us leaving the ECHR (and sacrificing the rights it gives us in the process) will allow us to ‘control our borders’.

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