Good piece, thank you Dan
The only progressive thing linked to this Labour party is the name, and you have to go a long way back to to find the last time Labour formed progressive government
It is quite impressive just how much he has cultivated the Dracula aesthetic
Starmer could learn a useful lesson from Tony Blair
When to resign?
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Indeed by the very definition of undocumented work, they cannot be taking jobs from others, but in quite a substantial number of cases they are doing jobs which allows others to do theirs, and without which others lose their jobs. 4/
Now, you could try and argue that the DHS, and Labour in the UK, are talking about undocumented migrants, and then you hit the sticking point that the same applies. Migrants' status doesn't change that they are not to blame for rents, housing crisis, high bills or lack of jobs. 3/
There aren't enough job - weellll the care and social sector has been running on about 100,000+ vacancies for years even with migrants working in, and migrants create jobs, you know by just living, so sweetie you're going to find a whole lot fewer jobs when you get rid of migrants. 2/
These are the same arguments Labour makes in UK, and they are utterly bs.
Rent is too high = failure of government policy to control it, build housing stock, or utilise existing housing stock
Groceries cost too much. Honey I have news for you about migrants and the agriculture sector. 1/
I wrote this before the news broke that this government is seriously considering handcuffing children to deport them, this comes after the Immigration Minster confirming UK born children could be deported. If I hadn't I would definitely have included the child protection laws Labour would breach.
Labour's asylum and immigration policies risk violating international law and are politically self-defeating, writes Daniel Sohege.
This is what happens when governments set up studies and reviews with a predetermined conclusion to deny support to marginalised groups. It's so important to defend trans and non-binary rights. That's why the work of groups like @goodlawproject.org, @transactualuk.bsky.social, et al is so important.
We’ve heard a lot of pious talk from the PM an senior colleagues about populists who offer false solutions and ignore real problems. Yet here we have the Home Secretary offering a false solution while she and her Treasury colleagues ignore real problems.
I however may apply 😁.
As very clearly stated in the article, the Home Office's "Family Returns: Reforming Asylum Support and Enforcing Family Returns" document
My latest piece for the @bigissue.com is out today, on how Labour's attacks on those seeking asylum are not only inhumane, potentially illegal, and seriously counterproductive, but also politically incoherent for a party which claims to be "progressive".
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Potentially, would also tie in with them saying they will deport UK born children of refugees
I worked for years on a campaign to end the handcuffing of children in the care system.
This is in breach of the UN convention of the rights of child, and is simply, truly evil, and I don’t use the word lightly.
This government is hideous. It doesn't need any analysis or deep dives to know that this is a fundamentally cruel and inhumane policy idea and no different to that pushed by the likes of Reform or Trump.
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Graphic showing how asylum policies have shifted from protection to deterrence since the 1980's
The latest announcement from the Home Secretary follows a path of previous governments in creating ever harsher and more hostile asylum policies. What were once designed to provide protection and now created to prevent people getting it. There needs to be a change, with a focus back on protection.
Wtaf!
I am so happy to hear this. Thank you
At least Reform and Conservative supporters don't pretend that their hostility towards people seeking safety, along with other migrants, and pretty much every marginalised group i.e. trans and non-binary/disabled etc, to be honest, is "progressive" or anything but right wing.
You want to defend Labour, okay, but at least don't be such a hypocrite to complain about Reform's or Conservative's discriminatory and racist policies while doing so. These are populist, not popular, policies aimed at cruelty over anything else.
It is one thing to claim these hideously hostile policies are "necessary", they aren't. It is something else to try and claim they are "progressive", "liberal etc. These aren't just some of the most right wing anti-asylum policies in decades, they are some of the most hostile across Europe.
There will be Starmer supporters screaming "but Rwanda policy"* until the heat death of universe as they attempt to defend/deflect how on every practical measure Labour has just announced anti-asylum policies which go further than the previous government.
*Not to diminish cruelty of that policy
Apparently, and please no-one tell me this is an urban legend because I love this story so much, let me live in blissful ignorance, they had to drag Bogart back from the bar for the shoot and prop him up, so all he could manage was a nod. Still a great scene.
It remains one of my favourite films. It is so good. I love the story, I don't know how true it is, that in the scene where Rick gives the nod for the band to play La Marseillaise Bogart was meant to say something, but he had thought they were finished filming for the day so went out drinking.....
Let's just be really clear here, this is far from an isolated case. The Home Office routinely makes vulnerable people homeless, and yesterday's announcement by the Home Secretary on increasing the removal of support from some asylum seekers will make it worse.
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Meet the new boss same as the old boss. Firing Noem doesn't change a thing when you appoint someone who supports ICE executing innocent people and the detention and deportation of little children.
What are Shabana Mahmood’s changes to the asylum system?
🚨Inhumane, definitely
🚨Illegal, quite possibly
🚨Ignorant, absolutely
🚨Counterproductive, unarguably
🚨Inconsistent with Labour's claims to be "progress, most certainly
🚨Costly, without a doubt
🚨Risking lives, one hundred percent
That should answer it.
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