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Praxis, for migrants and refugees @praxisprojects.bsky.social · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Over 800 NHS workers have signed our letter with Medact, saying the “already strained NHS would crumble under the pressure” of Reform’s proposal to scrap Indefinite Leave to Remain and Labour’s planned restrictions on migrant workers.

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NHS could cease to function under Labour’s new visa rules, say nurses

Exclusive: Royal College of Nursing says plan to tighten rules for foreign workers is ‘pandering’ to Reform UK

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 3d

British politics is basically a doom spiral of increasingly unhinged hostile policies.

Reform says something unhinged
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Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
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Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
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Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
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And repeat...🔁

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Josephine Whitaker-Yilmaz @josephinewy.bsky.social · 1d

This is exactly the point. Right now govt is trying to stop people who've been here for years from settling - moving the goal posts so people can't settle for much longer, or even at all.

Who's next? Naturalised citizens?

Praxis, for migrants and refugees @praxisprojects.bsky.social · 1d

Campaigner Olivia called for shorter routes to settlement & to scrap NRPF at the Green Party Conference.

📢"I believe we're all human beings. What is happening to migrants can happen to anyone. You don't plan it, but anytime, it can happen to you."
Thanks to @carladenyer.bsky.social for chairing.

Campaigner, Olivia, standing in front of a larger poster that reads: 'Green Party, Autumn Conference'

Four people sitting on a panel, all are smiling and clapping.

Josephine Whitaker-Yilmaz @josephinewy.bsky.social · 1d

Health care is just one sector out of many that could face crisis because of this government's ludicrous proposals to make permanent settlement harder (for some impossible) to get in the UK.

Why would ppl want to build a life here to be treated like this?

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Praxis, for migrants and refugees @praxisprojects.bsky.social · 7d

“This is my home. I'm raising my three-year-old, I'm looking for a school for her, and now I'm more worried because she's obviously my skin colour, and I'm worried about her safety. I'm worried about my safety." Nish, Youth Organiser at Praxis

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'I'm looking over shoulder for fear of racism after Farage's disturbing plan'

Two women who have lived in the UK for years are now looking over their shoulder for fear of racism amid Nigel Farage’s targeting of migrants

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Josephine Whitaker-Yilmaz @josephinewy.bsky.social · 7d

I would like a day off please www.bbc.com/news/article...

Starmer wants rethink on international law to tackle migration

The PM gives the clearest sign yet the government wants to reform how human rights laws are applied in immigration cases.

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Green Party Migration Policy Group @gpmigration.bsky.social · 8d

Getting excited about Autumn Conference in Bournemouth.. we have organised an important and timely fringe event on Saturday with @praxisprojects.bsky.social and @migrantvoice.bsky.social chaired by @carladenyer.bsky.social

Come and say hello 👋

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Autumn Conference 2025 - Green Party Asylum and Migration Policy Working Group

We are pleased to be running a fringe event at conference this Autumn on Saturday at 9am. After the success of our event last year focussing on migrant destitution, this...

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Praxis, for migrants and refugees @praxisprojects.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 The Government wants to crash the economy.

On the very same day the Prime Minister finally distanced himself from Reform UK’s policies, his own Home Secretary announced proposals that would create a two-tier society.

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Josephine Whitaker-Yilmaz @josephinewy.bsky.social · 8d

This is the soundtrack to Labour Party conference this year

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 8d

fuck off fuck off fuck off fuck OFF with this bullshit

chiller @thechiller.bsky.social · 8d

Krishnan Guru Murthy: "Isn't it a bit insulting to say to an Indian doctor who is working 60-70 hours a week that in order to get settled status he's got to volunteer?"

Rachel Reeves, "We want people to contribute if they come to our country." #Labour

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Chai Patel @chaipatel.net · 8d

The kinds of circs where you can get benefits (with difficulty) when on a visa with no recourse to public funds are eg. fleeing your home because of domestic abuse or your spouse dying.

So this means brutalising and trying to deport people who have already had the worst things happen to them.

Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 9d

i've seen so many articles on this today, and not a single one so far has pointed out that where "not taking any benefits payments" is concerned, you have no access to public funds on a visa. this has been the case for years. but nobody, from the BBC down, will challenge this or anything else

Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 9d

To say that you will ‘have to volunteer’ to be eligible for settled status even if working full time as a doctor or nurse for example is not really volunteering because it would not be voluntary. The govt should call it something else if they want to enforce it.
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Stop Trump Coalition @ukstoptrump.bsky.social · 8d

Our fringe event at the Labour Party conference, “Challenging Authoritarianism” is underway!

Follow along below for more ⬇️

People are sat in front of a panel of speakers.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 8d

If she does this, the gap between her policy and Farage's will narrow considerably. Retrospective legislation is the choice of tinpot dictators and intellectual vegetables. It means no-one could take Britain's word seriously.

The i Paper @theipaper.com · 8d

The Home Secretary is understood to be considering applying the policy to deal with concerns about the so-called ‘Boriswave'.

Read more: trib.al/WewVODg

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 9d

When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵

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Josephine Whitaker-Yilmaz @josephinewy.bsky.social · 8d

So now we know that this government are actually totally fine with some people never being able to get ILR. Fine with people living years, decades even, in a state of total insecurity, paying thousands to the Home Office every few years, never able to belong here. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Mahmood demands migrants earn right to settlement in UK

New tests will include learning English to a high standard, paying National Insurance and not claiming benefits.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Josephine Whitaker-Yilmaz @josephinewy.bsky.social · 10d

Convince me that this is any different from what Reform proposed on Monday. Okay so they’re not going to deport people but this will make it impossible for millions of people to ever become citizens of this country.

CJ McKinney @cjmckinney.bsky.social · 10d

“Ms Mahmood said she wants to tighten rules around claiming Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) in the UK.

Under her plan, migrants must show they are integrated and ‘contribute’ to the UK through things like volunteering for charities or local projects”

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Home Secretary to ‘reset’ laws so migrants must prove they ‘contribute’ to UK

SHABANA Mahmood today vows to “reset” laws so migrants must prove their social worth before being allowed to settle in Britain. In her first big interview since being made Home Secretary, she pledg…

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 10d

*wanking motion*

MIGRANTS will have to carry out community work or volunteering to qualify to permanently remain in the UK, according to the Home Secretary.

Shabana Mahmood has indicated that she is looking to toughen up the rules around claiming indefinite leave to remain (ILR) in Britain.

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Josephine Whitaker-Yilmaz @josephinewy.bsky.social · 11d

It’s a Jurassic Park and dinosaur top trumps kinda night in this house 🦕

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 11d

Starmer couldn't have made more of a hash of this if he'd tried. By pushing comms on id cards specifically as an anti-immigration policy he loses progressives who may support id cards in general, and by making them mandatory he loses those, like many on the right, who oppose wider state interference

Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 12d

One million people have already signed a petition against ID cards.

If we’re serious about rebuilding trust, this is the last place to start.

It's like deciding to become a pacifist and then walking into your roughest local pub and knocking everyone's pints out of their hands.

Screenshot of the gov.uk petition 'Do not introduce Digital ID cards' showing over 1 million signatories

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Josephine Whitaker-Yilmaz @josephinewy.bsky.social · 11d

If only they could come up with something that would actually make people’s lives better, instead of this. Then they might not be haemorrhaging votes all over the place.

Praxis, for migrants and refugees @praxisprojects.bsky.social · 12d

📢Watch @josephinewy.bsky.social our Head of Advocacy talking on @news.sky.com about why digital ID is a distraction from the real everyday issues people are facing in this country.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 12d

The scandal of using asylum seekers as cover to roll out digital IDs

This is yet another policy disaster from Keir Starmer and Labour, we can just sit back and watch it unravel itself over the upcoming months

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 12d

Ok. They’ve pissed me off.

I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:

1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

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Josephine Whitaker-Yilmaz @josephinewy.bsky.social · 12d

Not true, and once they’ve spaffed billions up the wall on rolling it out, everyone sees it’s made no difference and govt ineptitude in managing it has been fully revealed, it will be too late

Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 12d

I think of digital ID cards as akin to the voter ID laws passed by the Tories. It fuels a lie that there are a lot of illegal immigrants unfairly working or claiming benefits, and if only we had the instrument we could find them and stop them. Not true!

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 12d

Ask an immigrant with indefinite leave to remain how easy it is to sort out ID when getting a new job *right now*. This is a total disconnect from reality, racist, and stupid.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12d

Keir Starmer says digital ID cards are an ‘enormous opportunity’ and will make it tougher to work illegally - UK politics live

Prime minister says plans for a new digital ID held on people’s phones will become mandatory to prove the right to work Starmer’s plans envisage ID cards being stored on devices in the same way contactless payment cards or the NHS app are. The digital ID would be the authoritative proof of identity and residency status in the UK and include name, date of birth, and a photo as well as information on nationality and residency status, reports the PA news agency. I know working people are worried about the level of illegal migration into this country. A secure border and controlled migration are reasonable demands, and this government is listening and delivering. Digital ID is an enormous opportunity for the UK. It will make it tougher to work illegally in this country, making our borders more secure. Continue reading...

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 12d

Sure, let’s collate every member of the public’s personal and private information into one giant database right before handing whole swathes of the state over to multinational corporations using an emergent technology with numerous security issues

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 12d

If I was a Labour politician who wanted to design a better right to work scheme, I'd (a) start by cracking down on employers who transfer the risk to their workers, (b) work with the unions to design a scheme that puts workers' rights front and centre, and (c) phase roll-out, like digital switchover

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