Nicole Johnson

The PM was right to call Reform's plans to scrap Indefinite Leave to Remain racist.

But if we force migrants to meet standards far beyond those who were born here, that is discriminatory too.

Migrants shouldn't have to do a Duke of Edinburgh award to be able to stay in the UK.

If scrapping indefinite leave to remain (ILR) entirely, as Reform would do, is racist, according to Labour, what is making ILR twice as difficult, expensive & humiliating to obtain, as Labour are doing?

Power to Change - celebrating ten years backing community business YouTube video by Power to Change

📣 We know community business works to create thriving places. We have seen and evidenced it over the last decade. We also know there is so much more they can do. This year we are reflecting, celebrating, and looking to the future.

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Lowering UK’s income requirement for family visas ‘would increase net migration’ Migration advisory committee sets out options and suggests scrapping Tory plan to raise threshold to £38,700

It is not just the increase to the Minimum Income Requirement which needs scrapping, it is MIR in general. This is a policy which see families ripped apart, and people denied the ability to be with their loved ones, purely because of where one of them was born.

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Support For Reform Is Rising In Places With Most High Street Decline, Study Finds Support for Nigel Farage's Reform UK is particularly rising in areas that have seen the most acute high street decline in recent years, new researc...

Support for Reform UK is particularly rising in areas that have seen the most acute high street decline in recent years, new research suggests

@powertochange.org.uk said its findings show that the government "should be laser-focused on turning around declining high streets by the next election"

Starmer doesn't seem to realise that, if you consistently accept the way your opponents frame a question, you'll find it hard to reject the answers that they give.

If you keep telling voters that Farage is right in his analysis, it will be hard to persuade them that he's wrong in his prescriptions.

“Inspired by the @disappearedtracker.bsky.social this dashboard visualizes persons brought into ICE custody when the Trump Administration has demonstrated undeniable political motive/animus and/or the person has been denied appropriate due process”

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“We are currently clean on OPSEC” accidentally sent to a journalist is an all time classic.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

Gift link for the non-Atlantic subscribers about how... I mean, the headline pretty much says it all, Trump's national security team included the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic in a Signal chat about its plans for bombing Yemen.

"The language that is being used has a specific resonance, which, historically, has been used to change regime type. It is important that the rights of human beings were violated. It is important that the rule of law was ignored. It is important that the executive is trying to define reality."

You don’t know who we just disappeared to El Salvador. Think about that.

Why communities need the power to own environmental assets What’s of value to communities very often includes their local environment – access to nature, fresh air, clean rivers, abundant wildlife. The government shouldn’t be putting a lid on what communities say they value – instead, they ought to be unleashing the public’s imagination.

Imagine if as well as pubs & village halls, communities could dream big & purchase beloved rivers, woods & peat bogs. Labour’s forthcoming Community Right to Buy could enable this but rumours are circulating that it's at risk of being dropped. Read more from @guyshrubsole.bsky.social

Side note, but as an American in these uncertain times, really grateful to be at a workplace (and in a country) that supports women during this stage of their careers. It's nice to head off into a year in the newborn trenches knowing my job will be in safe hands ☺️

We're looking for an experienced comms wiz to help us deliver on a really exciting year @powertochange.org.uk when I head off on maternity leave this summer.

Great for folks w/
⭐️ Policy communications expertise
⭐️ A love of creatively engaging stakeholders
⭐️ A knack for PR

DMs open for questions!

Bit of perspective on today's immigration stats. An 18% increase in people seeking asylum still equates to roughly 0.1% of the population, not a lot, and a hell of a lot lower than quite a few countries. Also, small boats account for a third of those, so not a big issue either. 1/

The new regulations would now ban Paddington getting his British passport in the third film, if he had not already applied, though the Refugee Convention would be on the side of giving him the opportunity to be a British citizen, as Colin Yeo notes

An immigration lawyer reviews Paddington in Peru: A very British bear - Free Movement They grow up so fast. As we will see, Paddington himself has almost certainly reached the age of ursine majority, whatever that might be. When I took my

“It isn’t unusual for a former asylum seeker like Paddington to become British. In fact, 70% of all refugees granted asylum over ten years ago ultimately went on to naturalise as British. What are the requirements that Paddington must have fulfilled?” freemovement.org.uk/an-immigrati...

Community Business Market Report 2024 - Power to Change Our first bi-annual report on the community business market shows the positive impact they continue to have on local communities, other businesses, and thei ...

Despite ongoing economic challenges, our Community Business Market 2024 report reveals a stable and resilient sector that is empowering our communities. It shows community business continues to play a key role in supporting local growth, wellbeing and greater community cohesion.👏
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I spoke to former Treasury and OMB officials, and they said Elon Musk accessing government payment systems could give him the power to selectively turn off payments. They described what this really means in very clarifying terms. See below:

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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

A wild, must read. Resonated with me since our nearby Sam Smiths, The Abbey, has finally reopened. Darley Abbey's only pub, in a Grade II listed building, was left empty for 5 years, despite plenty of people asking to run it and the council trying to help. What a strange, sad way to run a business.

so proud of this report we launched today, by the brilliant @jesscraig.bsky.social. Chock full of inspiring stories of communities repurposing vacant department stores and revitalizing their high streets 👏

Next week we @powertochange.bsky.social launch a new report - Department Stories - and discuss its findings with:

@jesscraig.bsky.social
@grahamsoult.bsky.social
@katcj.bsky.social

Book your spot 👉 bit.ly/3V351ub

The Engagement Is Better on Bluesky - Bluesky Bluesky is the lobby to the open web. Find and build your community here.

We could go on about how we welcome publishers, we don't demote links, we encourage independent developers to build apps and extensions on top of Bluesky's network.... but instead, we'll show you.

All thanks to the incredible community here! 🦋

Major news outlets starter pack

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I've been followed by so many fab third sector folk lately thanks to being included in a starter pack and thought I'd share the love around.

So here's one of all the people out there shouting about social change - my fellow third sector comms people and campaigners

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Determined to spend a bit less time on Bluesky today! 😆

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Private space, public good: working together to deliver social infrastructure - Bennett Institute for Public Policy New report by the Bennett Institute and Power to Change examines the role of the private sector in providing social infrastructure – those vital spaces and places that bring people together and sustai...

Do follow my excellent @powertochange.bsky.social colleague @jesscraig.bsky.social (new to Bsky)

Author of important work on social infra (w/ @bennettinstitute.bsky.social - www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/publications...)

Comm biz finance (www.powertochange.org.uk/evidence-and...)

And much more..