There’s no two ways about it: people who are kicked out of hotels DO end up on the streets. Any homelessness charity will tell you that. The Home Office, as ever, working at cross-purposes with the rest of government including Burnham's pledge to end rough sleeping. share.google/FKI5MxyRARSc...
Mahmood infuriates fellow ministers by failing to reveal impact of UK migration shake-up
Home secretary’s colleagues fear homelessness will rise as a result of changes to the asylum system
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It’s going to be HORRENDOUS for business. The system is already very hostile for British businesses to sponsor foreign workers and getting worse, Earned Settlement will increase it so much by forcing employers to pay double the already insane government fees
Thérèse@tiggertherese.bsky.social · 7h agoNot just homelessness either. It will be bad for businesses, the NHS and many other things.
As Home Secretary, Mahmood is imposing such massively inhumane policies they go further than Braverman/Patel. That these are pushed by a Labour government doesn't make them better than the hideous policies of the last government. Labour is now the most anti-immigration government in living memory.
As with Dolly Parton's passing in August, so with Patrick Stewart we see the true measure of a life in the impact that they had.
I think I have pretty legitimate concerns about the far right and all the politicians and media who have radicalised them.
Media Diversified@writersofcolour.bsky.social · yesterdayMark Neville, 65, has been convicted of a petrol bomb attack on an asylum seeker hotel in Islington. Police said Neville was "motivated by hate" and the attack was "designed to terrify residents and the local community."
With his "Mamdanio" typo, Chris has accidentally created a terrifying can't-lose Muslim-Italian hybrid of Zohran Mamdani who would govern New York City for endless generations like Leto II Atreides
Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 24h agoMamdani has largely stayed clear of stumping for 2026 candidates running outside NYC. As we reported earlier this month, El-Sayed was an exception, as Mamdanio showed up to a fundraiser for him in Manhattan hosted by supporters of the mayor: www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
It's only been like ten minutes since I found out, just before it hit the press, so I'm staggered and doing my best to process everything, while my phone is blowing up.
I wish I really were a Traveler of all of space and time.
It’s only been like ten minutes since I found out, just before it hit the press, so I’m staggered and doing my best to process everything, while my phone is blowing up. There will be wonderful obituaries and reflections from so many people who knew him. I’m going to do...
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Patrick Stewart died, y’all. Feel like nobody has seen this yet but I am now Very Sad
What precisely does the PM mean by "harder to control immigration"? Dog-whistle alert. The govt. is in massive control of immigration. If the PM is saying that he doesn't want non-EU migration, he should say with his chest why not.
Peter Walker@peterwalker99.bsky.social · 2d agoOh, hello. Burnham tells today's cabinet:"The Brexit deal left by the last government had been bad for the UK and had led to a harder Brexit than had been promised at the referendum. The Prime Minister said the deal had led to low growth and also made it harder to control immigration."
Not a single news outlet has reviewed its coverage of Jason Arday, for accuracy or proportionality. Zero attempt to conduct any inquiry into the media’s role in his death. Instead, the industry has moved into self-congratulatory mode. This isn’t just tone deaf, it betrays a systemic failure
Last week I called on the UK Government to mark Black History Month by acknowledging the inhumane crimes that Britain inflicted on African people for centuries, the ongoing impact of those crimes on the Global South, and the need for slavery reparations.
It's technically true in the same way that it's technically true that the whole of the UK population could move to London or Manchester or Birmingham or wherever you want.
Depressed by the xenophobia around us? 🧚 Escape to the 17th century where theories compete to answer the question HOW TO ATTRACT IMMIGRANTS ? - my new article in International #Migration & Integration (2026). doi.org/10.1007/s121...
How to Attract Immigrants? Pull Factors in Past Theories - Journal of International Migration and Integration
The push-pull theory is regarded as a modern framework in migration studies. This article challenges this view by tracing debates on attracting and retaining foreigners back to the seventeenth century. It compares four major economic theories and their policy prescriptions concerning immigration. Mercantilism held that to be wealthy, a sovereign state should possess gold and a large population. The article explores three other theories: cameralism, physiocracy, and classical economics. While cameralists held similar views to mercantilists, physiocrats and classical economists fundamentally disagreed. But did their theoretical disputes translate into divergent immigration prescriptions? This article shows that despite disagreements on wealth, money, and population, the four theories converged on an “overlapping consensus” regarding migration. After reviewing the major authors of each school, I reconstruct their arguments around three dilemmas. First, should migrants receive equal rights with natives or be privileged over them? Second, what is the nature of pull factors: are they political (rights, tolerance, freedom, participation), economic (fiscal relief, subventions), or social (cultural ethos, language, respect), geographical (climate, distance, mobility infrastructures)? Thirdly, what are the limits of attracting immigrants: are there numerical limits or socio-professional requirements, like skills selection? Although answers were similar across theories, these debates remain understudied in contemporary migration theory.
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There are very few, arguably no, genuine "legitimate concerns" around immigration. When they're broken down they inevitably are concerns about other areas, housing cost of living etc. Where you can't claim you're anything but far right is when you're pushing "remigration" www.itv.com/news/2026-10...
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This drives me bonkers cause UK Citizenship isn’t easy, or free, or automatic. It is a process, an expensive one, and many people who are eligible for years still don’t get it. Burnham and his gang are lying in a way no different to Farage on EU migration. A lie to achieve xenophobic policy.
Sir Almaviva@ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 4d agoIsn't it amazing how the government can keep repeating the false claim (one could say the lie) that settlement is automatic, and no one in the media will ever challenge it?
since when did settlement get granted automatically because I’m pretty sure I had to pay £4k and also fill out a pretty long application and provide about a dozen pieces of paper evidence and also live here for a fucking decade and pay visa fees and health surcharges the whole fucking time
Sir Almaviva@ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 4d ago"The home secretary is right, in my view, to bring forward changes that are based on the principle that settlement is a right to be earned, not just something that is granted automatically," he said. "And she'll set out the final conclusion soon."
apparently it does not help. @andyburnham.bsky.social is now openly pushing one of his government's most blatant lies and nobody at @reuters.com or anywhere else is interested in challenging it. it takes ten seconds to find out this isn't a thing, @samtbrt.bsky.social
Sir Almaviva@ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 4d ago"The home secretary is right, in my view, to bring forward changes that are based on the principle that settlement is a right to be earned, not just something that is granted automatically," he said. "And she'll set out the final conclusion soon."
We need to abandon the fiction that Labour do their horrible anti-immigrant reforms to win over Reform switchers: they do them because they're a xenophobic party led by xenophobes.
UK's Burnham says he agrees with principle of migration reform
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Monday he stood by the principles of reform to the immigration system set out by his interior minister, following speculation that a political backlash ...
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For those who keep track, the government (this time the Prime Minister himself) is lying again about settlement being granted automatically @paperghost.bsky.social
Sir Almaviva@ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 4d ago"The home secretary is right, in my view, to bring forward changes that are based on the principle that settlement is a right to be earned, not just something that is granted automatically," he said. "And she'll set out the final conclusion soon."
It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.
What is it about English speaking, mainly christian or atheist, people from say, the Caribbean who lived under British rule until about 60 years ago that is more culturally distant than say someone from Latvia. If you mean the immigrants you like are white, just say that!
The same party claiming the Greens are dangerously racist, meanwhile the Greens are the only party in England that doesn’t hate immigrants
Scuzzy Mortspider 🕷️ 🎃@jussienorthside.bsky.social · 5d agoIt’s this bit - by “different” he means “white”.
And one of the reasons I didn’t support the motion was it was obvious that it would enable some of the worst people in politics to cosplay as anti racists, and here we are
Once again, nobody seems to be asking if the Greens should demand that local Labour parties distance themselves from racist immigration policies or support for genocide
Green councillors face Labour deadline to disown Zionism policy
Green leaders have been given until Sunday to disown their party's "Zionism is racism" conference vote.
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Mahmood’s immigration minister, Jo White: “I don’t want us to get into that spiral where people move out of the care sector because they’ve got leave to remain.” In other words, keep them on insecure visas as bonded labourers. I think she just doesn't like them.
Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · 7d ago"The Home Office has identified a new problem with migrant care workers. The people presented as a burden on Britain because they earn too little have become so indispensable that they must be prevented from finding a better or higher-paid job." ukandeu.ac.uk/unaffordable...
"The Home Office has identified a new problem with migrant care workers. The people presented as a burden on Britain because they earn too little have become so indispensable that they must be prevented from finding a better or higher-paid job." ukandeu.ac.uk/unaffordable...
Unaffordable? No, indispensable. The government tries to move the goalposts for care workers - UK in a changing Europe
Jonathan Portes argues that the government has flipped from treating migrant care workers as a problem to presenting them as a necessity,...
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First she seemed to oppose the reforms, now she fully supports them, she mentions citizenship when the reforms are about indefinite leave to remain, she appears to suggest that currently people do not contribute (when they have to pay a lot of money on visas, IHS and ILR application fees). Awful.
Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · last wk.Miatta can clearly see right from wrong but she's rowed into line twice with a Labour government siding with Shell and Donald Trump on climate vandalism, and into line now on cruel immigration reforms. What is the point of Labour if they can't even do the basics to protect people and the planet?
Was she feeling too uncomfortable having to face one of the many people whose lives she wants to ruin?
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last wk.No 10 quote is from this report: Unison and the Home Secretary clashing in media over a cancelled meeting to which Unison General Secretary (who wants retrospective application dropped) wanted to bring a care worker affected, while Home Sec wanted a one on one meeting inews.co.uk/news/politic...
It's important to be able to separate legitimate concerns about genuine problems that people (often incorrectly) associate with immigration from pure gutter racism like this, which we should call out instead of lionising as vox populi.
On Legitimate Concerns
Problems, Policies and How To Parse Them
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Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · last wk.Enoch Powell level bile and lies from the Times www.thetimes.com/comment/the-...
