The government’s transphobic code of practice is now up and running. But we’re not going to stand still and take it, we're supporting a legal challenge led by a trans person and a trans inclusive organisation. But we can only do this together. Will you join us?👇 goodlaw.social/ldco

From @greenparty.org.uk

Missed this at the weekend. Welcome to the 19th century, Mr Burnham. A little bit more seriously, can we now have a moratorium on "but the UK already has a constitution". A🧵

Andy Burnham souhaite doter le Royaume-Uni d'une Constitution écrite

Une Constitution pour le Royaume-Uni ? L’une des plus anciennes démocraties du monde n’est pas dotée de texte fondateur, s’appuyant au contraire sur un ensemble de précédents, de jurisprudence et de…

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This thread from the Spanish Foreign Office is really useful for anyone faced with mis/disinformation about the situation in Ceuta. There is one hell of a lot of that about at the moment!! Please use it to counteract ignorant claims, wherever they're from. It's available in French and Spanish too.

Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, UE y Cooperación de España@exterioresgob.bsky.social · 2d ago

1/5 🧵 Entering Spain irregularly through Ceuta or Melilla does not grant any right to remain in the country, travel to mainland Spain, or move freely within Europe. It also poses a grave risk to life. No court ruling has changed this. 🔗 www.exteriores.gob.es/en/Comunicac...

If you, to take another entirely random example, describe recent immigration a "squalid chapter in our politics" a "failed experiment", and promise to "shut down the lab" you are contributing to the problem of norm erosion www.gov.uk/government/s...

PM remarks at Immigration White Paper press conference: 12 May 2025

Prime Minister Keir Starmer's remarks at a press conference on the Immigration White Paper.

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This is what happens when anti-racism norms erode, and elites bear a lot of the responsibility for norm erosion, as they have disproportionate power to set and enforce norms

Charles EP Murphy@cepmurphy.bsky.social · yesterday

news.sky.com/story/nhs-st... stereotypically this has been seen as Old People, but not only would the old people of now have often been born post-Windrush, lot of this will be younger people who've always lived in a diverse Britain. The guy with a pregnant wife likely millennial at oldest

Oh, look. After years of claiming people are right to have "legitimate concerns" about foreigners, there has been a noticeable rise in instances of overt racism, with medics being called monkeys, dirty foreigners and intimidated. Give yourselves a pat on the back, sovereign politicians.

NHS radiographers report rise in overt racist abuse by patients

Survey reveals medics were called ‘monkeys’ and ‘dirty foreigners’, and patients refused to be seen by black or Asian staff

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Appalling. I would like to say I can't believe this is happening, but Jenrick painted over Disney murals to make migrant centres less welcoming to children, so there is no too low.

Pascal Jacquemain@jacquep.bsky.social · last mo.

Reform UK has declared war against EU settled citizens Reform UK plan to target EU nationals based in Britain ‘absolutely outrageous’ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

That's exactly the problem with the current system. If you spend all your money on sex drugs and rock and roll the state will look after you. If you're careful, save, buy a house, try to provide an inheritance for your kids... you're fucked. I don't mind paying taxes. I do mind being robbed.

Calling it a bubble is to miss the point. Go to where a community suits you, and where you suit the community. Where you can get what you want. I don’t want fights any more. I want facts, freedom and fun - peppered with interesting information. Is that a bubble? Maybe, but a good one. 4/4

Many EU leaders are collapsing under a moment’s pressure on Ceuta but the hypocrisy of Meloni is particularly sickening. All those demands that Europe help Italy out on Lampedusa, and no-one asked for Italy to be excluded from Schengen. But as soon as a Social Democrat faces problems….

The truly mad bit of the plan needs pointing out: that British naval vessels entering French waters in those circumstances and landing on the French coast is not something that the French would agree to. And so what does that mean for the plan? Use force? What happens when shots are fired?

Interesting conversation with a couple of MS diplomats at the weekend. First point to note is that behind the scenes there is pressure building on particularly Poland to stop what is being characterised as "unfair competition" and to join the euro. 1

Of course Farage's 'policy' doesn’t work. It isn't intended to work. It's meant to cause a splash in the unthinking press (and GMB) and thereby get Doris at Number 33 Lambert Road, Peterborough to go 'Ooh at last someone is trying to do something about these awful boat crossings.' That's it.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d ago

Former navy officer criticises Reform plan to use military to stop small boats

The guy on the – ahem – far right....

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d ago

Nigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him

Cool! 😍🫡 🇪🇺 ✊ 🇨🇦

Monique Hawkins, acting chief executive of the3million, said the impact of the Home Office’s retrospective review was devastating for many. "People applied to the EU settlement scheme in good faith...by building their lives in the UK and putting down roots." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

EU citizens in UK get letters telling them post-Brexit residency rights were given ‘in error’

After years of building lives in UK, potentially hundreds of thousands of EU citizens are being told they have no right to remain

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It just keeps on coming… Farage struck deal to return as leader long before Sunak called surprise 2024 vote, so his claim that he wasn’t involved in politics when he got his £5million “gift” is, of course, another grubby lie. The man is garbage. Grifting, lying, cheating garbage. (Sunday Times)

UK media still reporting falsely that Italy has suspended free movement with Spain. They haven’t & can’t What they have done is introduce temporary ID checks at border posts under Schengen system. Schengen & Free movement are different parts of EU treaties. Poor from @theobserveruk.bsky.social

Says the man who has so far ignored trans people’s representations about a deeply transphobic policy he is implementing this week.

Remember that these scaremongering Reform folks are doubly untruthful: overlooking the huge numbers of immediate returns and falsely implying that the migrants can enter Schengen

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 5d ago

Braverman: "make no mistake, these men are on their way to the UK right now" Farage: "before long, many will be crossing the Channel" [Would see big spike in Moroccan boat arrivals + asylum claims in next 3 months if true. V unlikely to be true].

Oh look… Farage is in trouble… time to turn up the volume on anti-immigration howling and hatemongering… It’s so predictable, it’s pitiful. Both in terms of the party and its supporters. The racist get-out-of-jail-free card for the corrupt, the hard-of-thinking and the haters.

If you watch anything on #Moroccans coming to #Ceuta, make it this report. CBS News have interviewed some of them & they confirm that social media posts on Facebook & Instagram told them Spain had opened its borders. They're playing with people's hopes & lives. It's awful. We must combat fake news.

I was moved to compose an email to Dominic Grieve when he got deselected by his party in Beaconsfield in favour of the idiotic Brexit zealot Morrissey, in which I explained that due to my background I'd never vote Tory, but how I was sad about what happened to him and how I wanted him to carry on.

My own view is that Boris Johnson doomed the Tories when he purged them of all the even slightly talented MPs. Sorry, I mean disloyal MPs. 😉

He needs to sack Mahmood. Then start to pre-screen people in France and open safe routes so women and children don't have to die in the Channel to request asylum. Until then, every death in the Channel will be on his watch. Just as it has been for every PM since Brexit.

Trump didn’t want to admit that he personally hired an unqualified contractor who screwed up the Pool and cost taxpayers millions. So instead he had the hack Fox host who he installed as US attorney indict an innocent man so he could blame him and others for his own incompetence.

The Home Office is telling people who have built their lives here that their status under the EU Settlement Scheme was granted in error initially. This can upturn people's whole lives. We are compiling evidence to see how we can challenge this. the3million.org.uk/contact-us

Part of what’s so challenging from the trans community right now is not only are our rights being removed, our democratically ability to express ourselves and actually effectively campaign is completely strangled by gender critical lawfare

Count Binface was a surprise guest at Byline Times' event exploring parallels in US and UK politics with @lincolnproject.us and @quietriotpod.bsky.social in Leicester Square. His message to Clacton and beyond? Vote! And value a (flawed) democracy where he can take on – and laugh at – Nigel Farage.