Reposted by @alj8.bsky.socialDismalChips DIED FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS VERY NIGHT @dismalchips.bsky.social · 14hHard to disagree with any of this but five years ago large chunks of it would have you marked as a crazed conspiracist: neallawson2u.substack.com/p/starmerism...neallawson2u.substack.comStarmerism: An Autopsy“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” Henry Ford 021
Reposted by @alj8.bsky.socialInfoMigrants @infomigrants.net · 18hGreece, Germany, Austria, Denmark and the Netherlands are moving forward with plans to establish deportation centers outside the EU. An African partner country has reportedly already been selected.infomigrants.netEU states plan first deportation center in Africa for 2027Greece, Germany, Austria, Denmark and the Netherlands are moving forward with plans to establish deportation centers outside the EU. An African partner country has reportedly already been selected. 013
Reposted by @alj8.bsky.socialTamar but spooky @heartinamber.bsky.social · 22hThe UK could have avoided shooting itself in the face in the first place, but people like Andy Burnham couldn't bring themselves to defend Eastern Europeans and so we are where we are 24210
alj8.bsky.social @alj8.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Grey crags, archtrees and everlasting dragons: yes 010
Reposted by @alj8.bsky.socialPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026🔴 We asked Tony Blair's think tank about charging businesses £500k for political access at party conferences and why one of its sponsor's logos disappeared after our reporting last week on TBI's alleged cash for access scheme This is what they said 73916339
Reposted by @alj8.bsky.socialBen Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Legitimate disgusting antisemitism (Goydani? The Antisemitism Hoax? VILE excerpts of the Talmud?) disguised as marxist-leninist (read: cosplay) critique of popular left-wing movements. 310113
Reposted by @alj8.bsky.socialFari Bradley @faribrad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Sanctions do nothing to the elite class. #iran #JusticeNotWarForIran 032
Reposted by @alj8.bsky.socialElizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Just no. Sorry but I’m actually rolling my eyes a bit at some of the gushing. We’re in an existential battles against the forces of bigotry and Burnham is failing. No amount of Labourite ‘charisma’ is going to dissuade me from viewing that as a core moral failure. 23810
Reposted by @alj8.bsky.socialChris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i just...i'd love to know which bit, which part, what chunk, she doesn't think was "earned" previously. was it the massive financial cost? the stress? the ludicrously complicated and unforgiving rules? the renewal dice roll? the tests for everything, in every direction? which bit, shabana? 1358
Reposted by @alj8.bsky.socialsolomonhughes.bsky.social @solomonhughes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026(1)Miliband at @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social fringe open that protesters changed Labour on Palestine and says as a general principle re his Govt "you need to support us and you need to pressure us " and so "the movement matters". He is asking for grassroots pressure as a counterbalance ..... 172
alj8.bsky.social @alj8.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This has provoked a lot of anger, rightfully, but while Thornberry is pulling her punches and should have challenged this much earlier, I do think her intervention is very much welcome, particularly as she hasn’t gone with the line that it’s too cruel to care workers but fine for everyone else 020
Reposted by @alj8.bsky.socialMichael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026once in a generation huge Labour majority with the most liberal voter coalition they’ve ever had and the prince across the water returned to lead them to glory, and we’re going to end up with a stupid compromise that pleases nobody because no one in labour realises *they can set the agenda now* 2377
Reposted by @alj8.bsky.socialAndrás Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026(sigh) IF IT'S CAPPED, THEN IT'S NOT A SAFE ROUTE 110427
alj8.bsky.social @alj8.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I do think the Guardian’s reporting that this just affects care workers is irresponsible and disgusting 171
Reposted by @alj8.bsky.socialThe Haunting of Moose Malloy @spooksmalloy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"You will never defeat us" is a very funny thing to say after you've just bailed everyone who was involved in whatever the fuck this was 1734696
Reposted by @alj8.bsky.socialDr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 28/09/2026Not that it counts for much now but Rafah had been inhabited for over 3000 years and appears in the book of Maccabees. Now it's just gone. 03621
Reposted by @alj8.bsky.socialMichael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026deeply shameful thing for any politician to say let alone a centre left one. they don’t even realise how abnormal this is 1315
Reposted by @alj8.bsky.socialZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This Labour government could have responded to the genocide in Gaza in so many ways, instead they cut aid. This is a dereliction of duty. 361141487
alj8.bsky.social @alj8.bsky.social · 28/09/2026…do people not realise how this makes them sound? 2122
Reposted by @alj8.bsky.socialRoger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026When Trump launched “the largest deportation operation in the history of our country” without ICE facilities to accommodate it, inhumane overcrowding was inevitable. Judge Kaplan’s 9/24 ruling shows the results. Diagrams simulating a NYC holding cell in Aug 2025 look like slave ships. 1/5 14471251
alj8.bsky.social @alj8.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I THOUGHT WE WEREN’T INVOLVED IN BOMBING IRAN?!?!?!? /s 020
alj8.bsky.social @alj8.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This is where anti-immigration and tiff on crime politics inevitably leads; I imagine we’ll be seeing something similar from Labour before too long 150
Reposted by @alj8.bsky.socialAshley Nova — Unfiltered, Unhinged, Uncaring @ashleynova.space · 27/09/2026Today's Labour party would have supported Mosley's fascist march through Jewish areas of London and condemned the anti-fascist coalition who stood in their way. 325968
Reposted by @alj8.bsky.socialJames Bowes @jamesbowes01.bsky.social · 27/09/2026If Labour do go ahead with mass deportations of hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants who’ve followed all the rules, then honestly at that stage you’ve got Reform anyway just in different colour badges. 042
alj8.bsky.social @alj8.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I’m getting deeply pissed off at the dismissal of casting my vote on what Labour has done to the right to protest, to trans people, to asylum seekers, a Labour Party that currently has a mass deportation policy on the books, as ‘expressive politics’, as if I’m somehow not using my brain 293
Reposted by @alj8.bsky.socialflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026You do have to wonder why the theoretically progressive left wing party is full of unpleasant reactionary cranks who openly despise everyone else in the movement 1122530
Reposted by @alj8.bsky.socialMairéad "Maisie" Ó Dorchaidhe @modorchaidhe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Yes, the UK has one of the worst and most punitive spouse visa policies on the planet. Even the US is substantially better and cheaper 171
Reposted by @alj8.bsky.socialSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 21/05/2026How long should settlement take? The voters of different parties have different instincts, with shorter timescales for progressive parties than right-of-centre ones 1114
Reposted by @alj8.bsky.socialDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Since coming to power, Labour has become the single worst government on human rights in many people's living memory. The changes they have already made to immigration/asylum, trans individuals and disabled people are already causing severe harm. Pushing further on this will only destroy more lives. 37321
Reposted by @alj8.bsky.socialSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Settlement reforms are not "visa reforms" - a crucial misunderstanding. The visa reforms already made the post-2026 rules much tighter (so the settlement reforms will have little impact on future work arrivals) Combining them = mass remigration 2027/30 of middle-income workers (maybe unwittingly) 2144
Reposted by @alj8.bsky.socialMicheál @nameless-weevil.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Just to say what complete scumbags the FAI and Micheál Martin are for putting Irish players in this position. 14236108
Reposted by @alj8.bsky.socialLuke Piper @lukepiper.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This exchange further confirms Earned Settlement is not about 'earning' the right stay but making it so hard for people that they leave. 1157
alj8.bsky.social @alj8.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Note how Mahmood uses the verb ‘to be fair to’ immigrants, but which she means, to force them out of the country 020
Reposted by @alj8.bsky.socialPolitics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"In Israel the concern was that not enough was done against Iran during the war.. And destroying critical infrastructure, bombing healthcare, bombing power plants, bombing railways, those are all proudly touted achievements that would bat no eyes inside of Israel." - @seamus-malekafzali.com 146
Reposted by @alj8.bsky.socialAlasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026You know that saying about how the way they treat asylum seekers is the way they’d treat everyone else if they thought they could get away with it? Well, 25378181
alj8.bsky.social @alj8.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Daniel saves his really bad takes for his X account so you can all keep reposting him on here 2111
alj8.bsky.social @alj8.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I mean we all make jokes about the Culture Secretary but the fact that she has got away with this for too long is a genuine scandal 030
Reposted by @alj8.bsky.socialEsheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“how can I believe what you say when, I see what you do?” - James Baldwin. 13342101
Reposted by @alj8.bsky.socialDavid Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"I don't care about unauthorised crossings of the border". Same here. The only thing wrong with small boat crossings to the UK is that desperate people were forced to resort to them. We should have welcomed them at the front door. We can still welcome them now. www.youtube.com/shorts/R3pMF...youtube.comi don't care #uspolitics #immigrationYouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie 0365
Reposted by @alj8.bsky.socialflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026As I said: the lads have had a blast fucking everything up for fun but now it’s time to be serious, put away childish things and force the public’s noses back into the two-party system, not giving the slightest fuck whether it offers anything anyone would like or want. 37620
