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Treblig 🇺🇦 @camtreblig.bsky.social · 10h

Me reading the “They refused a visa because the Home Office interviewer didn’t know that the University of East Anglia is in Norwich” bit:

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12h

The contrast between the utterly sycophantic coverage this week of Kemi Badenoch, whose party has a truly atrocious electoral record under her leadership, and the utterly dismissive coverage of the Greens, tells you everything you need to know about media bias in the UK

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Why the Holborn and St Pancras By-Election Was a Good Result for the Green Party

The dismissive coverage of Zack Polanski’s party obscures a far bigger truth about the rise of the left in British politics

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 12h

A thread - of racist attacks in Glasgow that received no media attention whatsoever

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 13h

It would seem the Home Office has now acquired the ability to impose, without visibility or accountability, shadow bans on students coming to British universities from particular countries. How? Because of the interaction between indiv visa decisions (made by HO alone) and visa rules for unis 1/?

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ew6389.bsky.social @ew6389.bsky.social · 12h

Cannot repeat enough how much my mental and physical health have suffered since May 2025. I have lived here for a decade, paid my tuition fees and taxes, been a member of many communities, yet I’ve been shoved into limbo yet again for being undesirable. But I’m a foreigner, so none of that matters.

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Sir Almaviva @ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 13h

I'd like the people who write tons or articles about Zack Polanski to take some time to report on the truly horrible immigration policies the government is pushing.

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 13h

What student wants to come to the UK and pay all of that money for the opportunity to what? Experience increased hostility from the government and its citizens while you live a life of precarity? How is that enticing?

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 13h

This powerful book by Amal Chatterjee identifies clearly and unequivocally the mechanisms enabling colonial economic extraction long after colonialism is supposed to have ended. Highly recommended: hurstpublishers.com/book/prisone...

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Sir Almaviva @ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 13h

Absolutely mad how the UK government has decided that xenophobia and racism are more important than a functioning economy, and more important than universities specifically.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Tens of thousands fewer students is hundreds of millions of pounds of lost export earnings, solely and wholly to appease racists.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

As someone who left Labour for the Greens in 2022, I can tell you I will not be going back whilst the Labour party supports genocide, is openly transphobic, terrorises disabled people, wants the planet to burn and keeps talking about the “legitimate concerns” of racist mobs. So never then?

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alexmorton.bsky.social @alexmorton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Former child refugee but her party stopped family reunion for recognised refugees contrary to the refugee convention 1952. Shameful but maybe “ the real deal” means she is prepared to support this?

theguardian.com

‘The real deal’: Sagal Abdi-Wali’s journey from child refugee to Labour MP in former PM’s seat

Decades of volunteering combined with years of active local party politics propels Abdi-Wali to victory over Green leader Zack Polanski

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Sir Almaviva @ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is very true. The last two years have been eye-opening, and not in a positive way. Too many people, even many of those who would think of themselves as progressive/centre left, are at best indifferent to what happens to immigrants, and unwilling to do anything to stand up for our rights.

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the3million @the3million.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Have you been denied boarding through no fault of your own, because your airline, train or ferry operator didn't follow the Home Office guidance to check your eVisa, or didn't check your share code? Let us know👇 the3million.org.uk/report-it

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Jason Reid @jasonreiduk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Under ZP, the Greens are far more influential than the Liberal Democrats under ED (who are nigh on invisible).

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Sir Almaviva @ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Is the government going to change its policy so that more refugees can follow in her path and thrive in our country, then? Because their current immigration and asylum policy runs counter to this goal, making integration and settlement much harder for refugees (and immigrants more generally)

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yet she stood for a party, one of whose flagship, headline policies is to stop other refugees like her from getting in, staying here safely and thriving.

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Sir Almaviva @ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Instead we've been kept in total uncertainty for months, because our concerns are not legitimate; after all we don't harass asylum seekers or march wearing balaclavas intimidating communities, so we are not worthy of being listened to.

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ew6389.bsky.social @ew6389.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Another day of waking up in Britain and realizing that nobody here gives one single toss about immigrants. It’s either hatred or apathy, no actual care or help. I knew Labour would win, I didn’t think it would be by that much. And that’s an area more likely to at least be allies than most other.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Meanwhile this week the homes of asylum seekers in Salford were attacked and South Asian taxi drivers were racially abused on the street. Burnham did not condemn this racism and said the violent racist thugs in Gosport were “intimidation” but didn’t say “racist”, he talked about their “concerns”

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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In other words, a 10 percent contraction in one of Britain’s most successful exports. If it were steel or fish or other infinitely less profitable sectors, people would be having a meltdown.

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Runnymede Trust @runnymedetrust.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Home Office figures released today show that hate crimes have reached a new record level. In the year ending March 2026, racially-motivated hate crime increased by 9% compared to last year, with a 13% increase in religiously motivated hate crime.

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Hate crime, England and Wales, year ending March 2026

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Trying to appease the racists over immigration for the last thirty years (I include Blair here) has led us up shit creek without even a stump of a paddle.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Immigration is the UK’s biggest problem. That is, our obsession and lying about immigration is our biggest problem. Immigration itself isn’t a problem in the Ul.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We going to have breaking news and endless headlines about this far right rhetoric at Tory conference? No?

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obseyxx.bsky.social @obseyxx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is the shit that makes you feel insane. By any measure Labour is a profoundly racist party and its racism has an enormous body count. But cos its racism primarily impacts non-white and non-British people, they get to do this asinine posturing and the press lap it up.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yes, dodgy immigration practitioners exist and some people do lie on asylum claims. Based on BBC reporting though, people"d think it was far more widespread than it is, and completely fail to grasp how hard it can be to get asylum based on being LGBTQIA+ alone. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Three arrested after raid on gang accused of helping migrants pretend to be gay to get asylum

Those targeted by Home Office immigration enforcement officers are accused of charging migrants up to £4,500 for fabricated evidence.

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I can’t really take a political mainstream that insists the Greens be shunned but Reform and the Tories be treated as legitimate seriously.

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Didn’t support the motion for various reasons, not least the obvious prospect of <gestures at everything simultaneously on fire, blown away by hurricane and engulfed by tsunami> but cmon folks, are we serious about anti racism, or

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Tells you all you need to know about UK politics that the question in this piece is whether the Greens should be shunned by Labour because of that wretched motion & not whether Labour should be shunned by the Greens for its support for genocide & embrace of far right stances on immigration

bbc.co.uk

Tensions exposed among Greens by 'Zionism is racism' conference vote

What may be troubling for the Greens institutionally is what this episode reveals about some of the dynamics in the party.

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Migrant Destitution Fund GM @migrantfundgm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

MDF grants programme has reopened. THANK YOU to everyone whose support has allowed us to open this lifeline again. As we will never tire of saying: The fund should not have to exist. But as long as destitution goes on being used as a weapon of immigration control, MDF's cash grants are essential.

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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You know, I am quite ambivalent about bsky because it's quite genteel and unbothered in the main. I have seen FAR MORE OUTRAGE about the Greens motion over the last two hours than posts about Palestine over the last two years.

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Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We NEED to get to 10k signatures on this petition and time is running out. Please take two mins out of your day to scrap plans that are detrimental to the economy and national identity, prioritise the wealthy over the working class and will push children into poverty. No brainer.

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Sir Almaviva @ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Mike Tapp was replaced by Jo White, but this remains true. She's one of the earned settlement supporters, and said we can't give ILR to care workers because they might then change jobs. Vile xenophobia and racism from senior Labour figures are the norm, but they shouldn't be normalised.

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I should also add something else that I'm feeling about all this - as a trans woman who has now left the Green Party, I am struggling slightly in the way that this (bad) motion, is getting wide condemnation (including from many mainstream people who are themselves racist) and there is no/

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you just substitute the words 'working age' for 'fighting age', suddenly the arrival of youngish men and women doesn't sound threatening. Rather, it sounds like exactly what we need for an ageing population.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Same has happened in Britain. Speed with which such extreme ideas have become mainstream is concerning.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When did it become so normalised to describe often far right thugs attacking people as "scuffles" but make out anyone just trying to seek safety is a threat to national security?

The Guardian

Anti-migrant protesters scuffle with police in Gosport after Channel rescue

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BBC

Protesters scuffle with police as migrants brought ashore on south coast

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Protesters Scuffle With Police as Migrants Brought Ashore

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Three arrested at Portsmouth anti-migrant protest as scuffles break out

3 weeks ago

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Praxis, for migrants and refugees @praxisprojects.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Labour says it wants to reduce child poverty. So why is it pursuing immigration reforms projected to leave 90,000 more children in poverty? No concessions can save these reforms. Tell Burnham to bin them. act.praxis.org.uk/andy-burnham...

act.praxis.org.uk

To Andy Burnham: Scrap the earned settlement proposals

Sign the petition and call on Prime Minister Andy Burnham to scrap the earned settlement plans. They are unpopular. They are divisive. And they will devastate our already struggling NHS and our social...

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The solution (allowing asylum seekers to work) is unworkable politically because we're simply too racist to allow that

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Sir Almaviva @ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Labour has embraced xenophobia and told us immigrants that we are bad and unwelcome. It's hard then to push back against Reform when you've conceded that they're basically right.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's so tedious having to listen to people say "if you don't Labour then our lives will be worse off" and then listing a handful of policies which make them feel better, while ignoring the far more substantial number of Labour policies which strip rights and make life worse for vulnerable groups. 4/

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Zack Polanski praises the RNLI volunteers 👏 "From The Green Party, we want to say to the RNLI, you are the very best of us, thank you"

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Gourdo! 🎃 @posting.fan · 02/10/2026

merrily fucking over the poor and disabled & making life increasingly miserable for immigrants and trans people but make a few vague gestures towards "Breturn" and a half arsed Social Care Service and he's a Socialist Hero True Progressive

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Sir Almaviva @ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

1 in 6 people living in the UK were born abroad. And yet the public discussion about immigration is so often about us, and very rarely with us. Almost no one in power has interest in talking to us, very few consider us people with agency, plans, desires, aspirations. Just numbers to bring down.

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Written entirely from a state security perspective, with no consideration of the migrants so used, nothing about their voices, and nothing about how Europe's hard borders and obsessional hostility to refugees turns the issue into an opportunity for hostile states (cf also Morocco, Turkey)

nytimes.com

A Front Line at the Border: How Russia Uses Migrants as Weapons Against Europe

The scheme is part of Russia’s larger strategy for sowing discord in the West, if more subtle than other recent operations blamed on the Kremlin.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hey Alex I have more in common personally with someone from Barbados than someone from Latvia. I mean Barbados speaks English, uses the British parliamentary system, and has close links to UK because colonialism. If people mean white people you should just say that!

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 01/10/2026

being an immigrant in the UK is an unending parade of being belittled and degraded and looked down upon and yet we are expected to pay through the nose for the privilege of it all

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Sir Almaviva @ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Immigration is mentioned 4 times in Burnham's conference speech. The first 3 repeat the idea that we "lost control" over immigration, or that control was "weakened", and the fourth says that we need to work with the EU on immigration. Nothing about the positives of immigration or immigrants' rights.

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