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Rose Booker-Macedo @chantinggoblin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Sixty families were crammed into 11 rooms in a barracks building with no hot water, showers or clean clothes for nine days with one toilet for 81 people, and no soap or sanitiser available. Some used toothpaste to soothe bites and one used a croissant wrapper to dress wounds."

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33

Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top

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Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

AFAICT the oldest tradition of Anglo-Saxons as such (ie as a category for Angles, Saxons, Jutes, etc who came to England) is coming over in small boats, not being Christian or speaking the local language, & shaping the changing society as all people (migrant/not) have done in all societies always

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...

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Foxyfunderburd 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦🇺🇦 @foxyfunderburd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

DANNY TOMMO- GRIFTERS GONNY GRIFT 💰 GIMMIE THE MONEY!!!!! IT'S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY!! 👇👇👇💰👇👇👇 youtu.be/5gOcSSJt0tc?...

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DANNY TOMMO'S GRIFT EXPOSED

YouTube video by Ghost Speakers Corner

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Rose Booker-Macedo @chantinggoblin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hundreds of "fighting age" men, deliberately concealing their identities, many with violent and criminal pasts, turn up at our ports and try to take advantage of our generous human rights laws (to assemble and protest). And they're led by Danny Tommo.

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 07/09/2026

Astonishing to hear people say they'd rather asylum seekers drowned than be saved by the RNLI. Next comes letting people die in burning hostels rather than be saved by the fire brigade and letting people get kicked to death in the street rather than be saved by the Police. Don't platform this hate.

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Rose Booker-Macedo @chantinggoblin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Meanwhile, Labour continues to impose the most hostile anti-asylum measures for more than a generation, preventing Afghan women and children from reaching the UK, even when they have families here. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Rights and freedom

The Taliban have built a system for enslaving women in Afghanistan

Amanda Abou Abdallah

Five years on, the regime's chokehold has left Afghan women with almost nothing, but many are still bravely fighting for their freedom

Fri 21 Aug 2026 06.00 BST

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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

“And in the cruellest of ironies, on the day that she drowned last month, one of nearly 150 people who died in the illegal mass crossing into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, her mother was told that her daughter had just been granted a visa to go to Spain.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Drowned the day her visa came through: the tragedy of a Moroccan footballer trying to reach Ceuta

Struggling on her meagre pay, Faten Ben Omar El Azizi dreamed of reaching Europe. Then she joined thousands trying to reach a better life in Spain

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

“alleged asylum seekers”, fucking hell

Crowds also attempted to storm homes linked to alleged asylum seekers on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.
Police removed some people from inside a property on Thursday evening.
When responding to claims the evacuated homes were housing asylum seekers, Norfolk's chief constable Paul Sanford told the BBC: "On some of the occasions that absolutely was the case.
"We did have people protesting in the Thetford area who were targeting addresses they believed housed asylum seekers and on a couple of occasions that required us to escort the residents of those properties away for their safety."

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Another stupid Mahmood idea - getting “trained” members of the public to decide asylum cases - is ripped to shreds here by someone who knows what they’re talking about… Politicians have truly lost their minds on immigration. It’s making us a very wretched and angry place.

Asylum appeals
Sir, Muddled government thinking is contlating the law, resources and the judiciary ("Public to decide asylum appeals as Mahmood jettisons judges", Jun 29). Nothing except its own ambivalence prevents a government with a large majority from changing the law on immigration and human rights, and nothing except its own misplaced expenditure priorities prevent it from funding the courts and tribunals system to eliminate the backlogs.
The task of the immigration judiciary is to decide whether, on return to their home country, an asylum seeker faces a real risk of persecution. This can mean torture and death, so immigration judges exercise the nearest that the UK now has to a capital jurisdiction. That responsibility, which I exercised for 20 years, requires accumulated legal training, skill, experience and judgment. Replacing a body of people exercising those proven attributes with one that lacks all of them and will not be operational until the end of next year is nonsensical. It will imperil appellants and will undoubtedly increase the number of applications to the High Court for judicial review. We have only to imagine a proposed crash course for applicants from different backgrounds with no medical knowledge for surgical hospital positions.
Dr Jonathan Lewis
Designated immigration judge (ret'd), Pinner

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Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

It almost goes without saying that a government that is serious about improving integration outcomes is not a government that puts refugees into 1000s of pounds of debt, gives them shorter periods of leave that has to be renewed and makes them wait 2 decades before they can settle.

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Refugee Action @refugeeaction.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

No tragedy should be exploited to justify racist violence. Everyone deserves to feel safe in their home and neighbourhood. Our thoughts are with everyone affected by Monday's horrific stabbing, and with the migrant, refugee and minoritised communities targeted by the subsequent violence in Belfast.

The statement reads: The horrific stabbing in Belfast on Monday is being used as an excuse for racist violence. Migrants, refugees, people of colour and their neighbours were terrorised in their homes and communities last night. Homes were burned down. Leadership must step up now and defend the right to a safe home that we all need.

Many politicians and media outlets have learned nothing from the last two summers of violence. They shouldn’t be surprised that it is happening again. Calling such attacks "protests" legitimises those responsible and obscures the harm being done to entire communities.

This must stop now. We urgently need political and moral leadership that stands up for people seeking safety - and all migrant and minoritised communities – by rejecting the far-right politics of hate that exploits tragedies to demonise and attack communities.

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Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:

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Women for Refugee Women @4refugeewomen.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

When people are granted refugee status, they are given just 28 days to find somewhere new to live. ‼️This isn't enough time for anyone. Recently, the Government extended this period to 56 days as a trial. We need this to be permanent! 1/3

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martinbarrow.bsky.social @martinbarrow.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Children at care home 'physically abused' by agency staff as inspectors identify 'serious' concerns www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-n...

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Children at care home 'physically abused' by agency staff

A number of concerns have been raised by inspectors

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Ilona Pinter @ilonapin.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Amid all the asylum reform announcements, the HO finally slipped out its asylum support rates review last week. What does this mean for child poverty?🧵 www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Report on review of cash allowance paid to asylum seekers

Home Office reviews of the cash allowance paid to asylum seekers.

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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Going to leave you with a Home Office chart from their most recent asylum stats so you can decide whether the UK is a magnet for asylum seekers with a uniquely generous asylum system www.gov.uk/government/s...

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Remembering that hideous Daily Mail story about Jews hiding their gold and jewellery when arriving as refugees. Of course they did if they had any. Would Daily Mail journalists and editors do any differently if they were in a similar plight? Such a failure of emphethetic imagination and compassion.

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I’ve been frustrated to see so much of the ongoing story about asylum seekers and the protests against them covered without hearing from those seeking asylum and now being met with hostility and hatred I set out to speak to those directly affected to find out about the impact this is having 👇

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We escaped war and torture but now we feel unsafe in Britain

Special report: Amid protests and rising aggression towards asylum seekers across the country, we spoke to those being targeted

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

It’s genuinely hard to see how Labour’s response could be worse. The racists don’t just want hotels closed, they want refugees chased out of town. They need to be told *by the fucking government* that that is not legitimate. How are we to have a civilised country if the govt won’t defend refugees?

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Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

There is no way in which any such plan could be compatible with either the Refugee Convention or Customary International Law. Vile drivel and gimmicks as per usual from Starmer's "Labour" party. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Labour targets international students claiming asylum after election losses to Reform

Exclusive: Ministers understood to be drafting white paper this month in move to reduce legal migration

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

People on student visas claim asylum in two principal scenarios: 👉 The visa was a way to escape their country, for their own safety 👉 They arrived here not thinking of asylum, but something changed to mean they can’t return safely Neither of these phenomena is problematic or requires a crackdown.

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Lauren Starkey @laurenhstarkey.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

A terrifying thought. Kent County Council looks after more unaccompanied asylum seeking children than any other, and it is now led by Reform. We already know Reform don’t care about the safety and wellbeing of these children, and now they’ll be in charge of what happens to them.

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Julie Jenkins @juliejenkinsnp.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

This response from @sbearbergman.bsky.social to @hildur.bsky.social’s post has changed my week— it is so wholesome, and human, and so the energy we all need right now. And Kerstin Langenberger, the naturalist who posted “I am on my way with the necessary equipment”? This woman is the hero we need.

My feed today on BlueSky included a post from Icelandic writer Hildur Knútsdóttir, who saw the original exchange on a Reykjavik Facebook page - someone posted to say that it appeared a cygnet was frozen to the ice and dying. As people worried online about how or whether it would be possible to help, naturalist Kerstin Langerberger replied to the post, saying: “I am on my way with the necessary equipment.” Langenberger brought a friend, some thermoses of warm water, and a surfboard in case the ice failed - the necessary equipment - and thawed then freed the baby swan, which promptly flew off.

There are a number of things I appreciate about this story, but it’s Langenberger’s statement that resonates for me. That is what I aspire to, to see injury or difficulty or something gone to trouble and decide: I am on my way with the necessary equipment. But also, to hold on to the understanding that sometimes the necessary equipment is the resolve to try and a friend who will help, and that sometimes I *am* the necessary equipment - the friend who shows up to make myself useful under the direction of an expert.

There are a lot of moments these days that I find it very, very hard to do the next thing, or indeed to do anything. The world is so, so difficult. I often feel useless or overwhelmed or exhausted or just really fucking sad. But I am going to try starting the days by saying, with all the starch that I imagine a naturalist willing to chance the ice in darkness to save a baby bird might possess:

I am on my way with the necessary equipment.

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Syrians who have lived here, learned new languages, adapted & become part of new places, built lives, careers & homes with us here, are dreaming of walking down their own streets again 😭❤️ Let anyone who tells you refugees want anything other than to return home be SILENT now.

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Rose Booker-Macedo @chantinggoblin.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

The Council - "So you were a victim of torture at 16yo, trafficked for 18 months in Libya and then spent a year being street homeless and travelling trying to find somewhere safe? You must be able to cope with the streets now then!"

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Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

‘More than one in three children in poverty as UK deprivation hits record high’ I’ve long believed if we counted children in poverty, and had the same level of media scrutiny on this as we did quarterly Migration stats, our society would be very different www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

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More than one in three children in poverty as UK deprivation hits record high

Exclusive: Study finds almost quarter of UK population living in poverty, reaching the highest level this century

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