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Left of centre Europhile and rejoiner. Jumped from Musk's hellsite. Music obsessive. NHS runs through me like a stick of rock. Humanist. Old school 🇪🇺#fbpe. 🇪🇺
Continuing my quest to read novels I should have read years ago and have hit Dickens' sprawling epic "Our Mutual Friend".
Absolutely blown away by this stunningly cynical takedown of shareholder capitalism which could have been written yesterday. Sublime.
Dear Mahmood/Labour,
Once the strutting fascist, Yaxley Lennon, is taking credit for your policies, you must know you’ve completely lost your way. You need to get your head out of your arse and your account off X.
Yours The real silent (fair-minded and ignored) majority of the UK
Tommy Robinson is claiming credit for the language/policy being used by the Labour government (about deporting people found to be refugees once their home country is deemed safe)
It's a degree of political ineptitude that is almost unfathomable.
Pursuing policies to chase voters who will never, in a million years vote for them whilst haemorrhaging the votes of millions of both their core and moderate floating voters. And a mere 18 months in.
It bemoans lack of integration whilst making integration far less likely.
It wants ASs to contribute, whilst forbidding most of them from doing so
It asserts that 'the rules' are too lenient whilst claiming that the problem is that people aren't 'playing by the rules'. 2/3
Everything about the current 'debate' around this is dismal, not just morally but because it is so stupid. For example:
It conflates asylum-seeking and illegal immigration (and sometimes with migration generally)
It shows no understanding of why there is AS
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... 1/3
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
And ofc, like almost everything Labour do at the moment, it's politically stupid: immediately & predictably denounced as 'not going far enough' by Tories and Reform, highly unlikely to gain Labour votes from those parties, and highly likely to lose them votes to other parties. 3/3
I once waited on Boris Johnson at a dinner in Bristol. I poured some of the drip tray into his pint. It's the closest I've come to national service. You're welcome.
And the man who brought you that is favourite to win the next election 🤯
Read 'em and weep. (www.nber.org/system/files...)
To suggest that having lived a life so grim that even an English tribunal will grant you asylum, and to have somehow managed to get here at great risk to life, is a "golden ticket" is absolutely fucking contemptible. Shame on this so-called Labour Party.
No, I'd say it's racists and those pandering to them.
Ahh, apologies, I'd forgotten about the special circumstances at the last election...yes, thats a harder grip to break...
