Absolutely right
Again, as with Guardian article, Mahmood's reliance on false/deliberately misleading claims about her "earned settlement" proposals suggests that she knows she can't defend them on the merits, in principle or in practice.
Another day- another lie…
another great time to remind folks that we want to keep our data safe and keep palantir out of the nhs
Wise words as ever, not banging on about a dimension that divides your voters but instead about the one that unites them is weirdly the choice Labour don’t seem to have considered in all this. Despite the fact that it arguably won them the 2024 election.
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This! 👇🏻
This article was amended on 5 March 2026. An earlier version said low-skilled workers would “receive immediate access to welfare and social housing” if Labour did not make them wait longer to apply for settlement. In fact, settlement status only gives people the eligibility to apply for welfare and social housing, it does not give them instant or automatic access to such benefits. This has been clarified. From breaking news to huge investigative proje
Guardian has now [after my complaint] corrected Mahmood's deliberate & incendiary false claim settlement gives immigrants "immediate access to welfare and social housing".
Good for Gdn but embarrassing/shameful that Home Secretary deliberately misled the public for political gain like this.
My thoughts on the Home Sec's immigration speech @ippr.org
The Home Sec believes in control + compassion. It's the right ambition.
But her plans may struggle to tackle small boat crossings and risk making integration harder.
I make the case instead for a more focused approach to migration reform
Can be listed as ‘with [blessings from]” at the bottom of the front cover
I read this as Sobolewska, Ford, Christ 😂😭
This would be some reference to have in your paper!
There are some colleagues on here who published on these issues more and more recently. The best start is of course
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and her fairly recent review that gathers the research showing citizenship access is overwhelming positive for integration in most countries
8/
I show the public agreed. In UK and NL immigrants who voted were thought to be better integrated.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
7/
We have a lot of research on this ‘buy in’ and how citizenship and residency and asylum policies can help or hinder integration.
And yes, the vote is an important tool too.
If you vote, you’re thinking of yr country’s best interest. You’re investing in caring about it.
In my now ancient paper … 6/
You take many of these incentives away.
Why should refugee learn English if they’re going to be thrown out?
Why should someone volunteer in local shops if their neighbourhood is not their permanent home?
Why should they teach their kids UK is their new country if they can’t get them citizenship?
5/
Immigrants know that if the place they’ve come to is their new long term home, they’ll be more likely to want to learn the customs and language, work hard and pay taxes, build businesses and homes, have kids and teach them their new homes values and identity.
If you make them more temporary… 4/
In fact, if you’re going to be stringent, you’d want to be encouraging the best immigrants, so this is foolish on many levels.
But, let’s keep to integration.
Well integrated migrants are better for social cohesion, have more loyalty to your country and more buy-in into its good fortunes.
Why? 3/
You might want fewer and different kind of immigrants, but you almost certainly do not want to have less well integrated immigrants!
Sadly most current proposals forget that all these policies they’re ’toughening’ are tools of integration- not just tools of encouragement or discouragement 2/
If you are quite right wing on immigration and generally would like to control it and limit it, fair, but I’d like to persuade you that fiddling around with ever more stringent indefinite leave to remain, length of asylum or citizenship sits the way.
Why?
Bc knock on effects on integration 1/🧵
"would otherwise receive immediate access to welfare and social housing" is BS.
Correct: "after 5 years working in a care home, would be eligible to apply for welfare and social housing on the same basis as the rest of us."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Deliberately misleading/disingenous.
I note that the no10 petition about this is below 2000 signatures for example… is there any polling?
And arguably they (still?) outnumber the voters who might want such disenfranchisement
Personally, I'd have gone with the fact that "one in five (22%) also supported it for non-white citizens whose parents were born in the UK" for the headline. 😱
"Today’s OBR projections reveal two competing realities in government right now. The OBR and Treasury forecast an upturn in net migration, which makes their fiscal numbers add up – while the Home Office says it is determined to drive net migration down still further. They can’t have it both ways".
Diane Abbott who’s still on the other site said today “my party implementing policies that used to get you thrown out of the Tory party”
Utter heartbreak how far we’ve gone down the moral snakes and ladders
A case of you get what you asked for. Labour’s Home Secretary literally said Labour didn’t want these voters, so the voters go elsewhere.
I suspect if you want them back you’d need a different Home Secretary.
This week's column: the Green surge is in part because Labour consciously decided they didn't want the votes they got in 2024:
Sorry to disappoint 😂
I’m adding my husband who was told I had a stroke (I didn’t) and then was left waiting for hours with this info before he asked where I was and was told that they ‘lost’ me 🙈
Tbf they lost me (in the corridor) AFTER finding it was not a stroke.
Tho took them 2 days to actually diagnose meningitis
I actually think he got it wrong- charge them per use, I propose a starting price at £2 billion
Why don’t you tag me like a normal person, dear husband? 😂😂
