Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Someone sent me an excerpt from Clarkson’s column in The S*N today in which he took issue with my gender and my ‘left wing hair’. Never more proud. Imagine having Right Wing Hair? He’s paid to write this shit… 😂😂😂 4357
Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Right wing media going for Right to Remain, ‘revealing an exclusive investigation’ about their toolkit that helps people navigate the asylum system. The toolkits online, promoted & used by everyone around the migration system to plug vital gaps left by collapsed legal reps. 185
Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 17/06/2026They’ve cancelled family reunion visas, they’ve cut refugee resettlement, built fences, deployed riot police all leading to more refugees being killed. Now water cannons. Obsessed with anti migrant ideology to the point of designing a system to kill. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comFrench police in £660m deal with UK authorised to use water cannon on asylum seekersRefugee charity says decision to let officers request the devices as part of public order powers is ‘sickening’ 3133
Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Government are consulting on the physical restraint of children, including handcuffing children who don’t want to let go of their parent’s hands. Follow the link below to read more on this asylummatters.org/2026/05/08/u...asylummatters.orgUse Of Force Against Children: A principle we cannot accept - Asylum MattersGovernment family returns consultation asks how best to handcuff and physically handle children in immigration removal. The answer is: do not. 0105
Reposted by Lou CalveyAsylum Matters @asylummatters.bsky.social · 08/05/2026We need to be honest. Today is a worrying day for all who believe in sanctuary and our country's diversity. The results so far aren't today’s only story, nor only a story of today, but the fear many of us are feeling must be acknowledged. We also need to talk about hope and how we keep fighting. 🧵 12112
Reposted by Lou CalveyAsylum Matters @asylummatters.bsky.social · 27/02/2026For years, politicians have insisted that scapegoating people seeking sanctuary & throwing migrant communities under the bus is the only way to win election. Yesterday proved what we already knew to be true: people are far kinder and wiser. Our communities stand together. Politicians: take note. 14317
Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 16/12/2025Take a moment to support & share this petition against government proposals to ambush Refugees & lock them out of settlement. It’s written by refugees, who’ve asked for your support to make this country their home. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...you.38degrees.org.ukDon’t leave refugees in limbo: Scrap the 20-year waitImagine living in limbo for 20 years, not knowing if you’ll be allowed to stay in the only home your children have ever known. That is the reality facing refugees under new government proposals. A gr... 0149
Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 30/09/2025‘The actual story is people crossing a stretch of deadly sea, in unfit boats, who can’t swim, who’ve never driven a boat before, with life jackets that don’t pass muster’ If we were any sort of civilised country we’d be doing everything we could to save their lives. 18130
Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Any idea of scrapping of tuition fees is for the birds while government continues an ongoing vendetta against migrants. Universities will struggle to survive the lost revenue from International Students. And that’s parking the fiscal catastrophe fewer Migrant workers pose. 2100
Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 11/09/2025A hotel in Southampton being used to accommodate people seeking asylum has been subjected to an arson attack. Pure racist violence. www.itv.com/news/meridia...itv.com 25130
Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 10/09/2025More lives lost including 1 woman & 2 children. Government have just closed refugee family reunion (RFR) safe route. 56% of grants for RFR were children & 37% were women. So the number of women & children crossing, and dying, is going to soar. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... 67645
Reposted by Lou CalveyPhil Davis @gravitasanomaly.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Come and work with me! www.Hope-projects.org.uk are looking for an immigration advisor Post closes 5th Oct Pls repost www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs-in-birm...charityjob.co.ukJobs in birmingham | CharityJobExplore Birmingham's wide range of charity work vacancies. Conveniently view all charity jobs in Birmingham in one place, and apply through CharityJob today. 012
Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 09/09/2025These wonderful Queens reclaiming their flag for @rainbowmigration.bsky.social Uplift your Tuesday! 132
Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 08/09/2025‘We won’t let your rich people come here if you don’t take back your poor & persecuted people’. More from the UKs Pick’N’Mix Human Rights. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukUK could suspend visas for countries with no returns dealNew Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood made the comments at a security summit in London. 0104
Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 07/09/2025It’s being reported that Government are about to announce the furthering the use of Barracks to warehouse Refugees. Ignoring the findings of the National Audit Office report that these are significantly more expensive than hotels. But that’s just the financial cost www.nao.org.uk/reports/inve... 710269
Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 04/09/2025In the last week government have announced: -They’re halving the ‘move on period’ for some Refugees, giving them just 28 days to find a home & a job bound to drive a homeless crisis -Slashing refugee family reunion cancelling all applications, driving more into danger 22815
Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 03/09/2025‘Starmer plans electronic ID cards for all to help stop UK boat migrants’ I can’t believe this nonsense is back again. A Trojan Horse policy that hoodwinks all of us into accepting deeply problematic ID cards that won’t remotely impact asylum numbers. inews.co.uk/news/politic...inews.co.ukStarmer plans electronic ID cards for all to help stop UK boat migrantsPrime Minister chairs emergency meeting with ministers to discuss use of digital ID cards 810645
Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 30/08/2025£9.95 a week, that’s how much people in hotels are paid in lieu of working rights. Pathetic posturing. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... 812060
Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 30/08/2025How was this allowed to happen? Not only is he an actual Councillor for Reform but he posted a series of anti Refugee, racist dog whistles on to his socials. Each and every asylum decision he made must be reviewed. What a shambles! www.theguardian.com/politics/202... 37638
Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Government plans to halve the ‘move on period’ for Refugees, reducing it to 28 days. 28 days to find a job, get a deposit, and find somewhere to live. Thousands of street homeless refugees by the time winter hits. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...theguardian.comCharities warn of rise in rough sleeping among refugees this winter in UKMinisters urged to rethink plan to halve period asylum seekers given to find housing after decision on their case 55939
Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Show your local Refugee charity some support if you can ✊ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...theguardian.comRefugee charities install safe rooms and relocate amid rise in far-right threatsExclusive: One NGO placed on an online hitlist had to temporarily close its office owing to harassing phone calls 25332
Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 13/08/2025‘We are not even beginning to understand what it means to have a serious asylum problem’. She’s 100% correct. We have a very serious asylum policy problem, so let’s talk about that instead of demonising the people enduring it. 107630
Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 02/08/2025Whenever you hear ‘Undocumented illegal men’ always know there’s an extremist agenda at play: - 40% of asylum applicants are women & children -100% of asylum applicants undergo biometric screening & checked on international databases -100% of asylum applicants are lawful 18343
Reposted by Lou CalveyPraṇay Manocha @pranman.com · 29/07/2025As an immigrant, disinfo like this pisses me off. We don't move here penniless. We can't. EVERY international student brings £150K for tuition fees & living expenses. Then we work hard to make that money back and pay taxes. Moving countries & careers is VERY HARD and we do it and we succeed. 19388102
Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 27/07/2025Skegness, one of your absolute finest people right here. Buy her a drink whenever you see her. 237124392875
Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 12/07/2025Many of us would much rather share our country with people that risked their life to be here, than those who are born here but spend all of their time & energy on resentment, hatred, and conspiring to harm. 412220
Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 12/07/2025The two year anniversary of Wethersfield Asylum Camp. The Labour Party pledged to close it, but current occupancy is higher than it ever, with no signs of the promised closure. #WethersfieldMustClose #CommunitiesNotCamps 055
Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Burning effigies of refugees. The impact of the hysterical media obsession with migration and their constant dehumanisation of people displaced. 1710235
Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 11/07/2025🚨We need your help People trapped in the Syrian asylum freeze are going to Parliament on Monday. They need your support. There’s a template letter in the tweet below. Just takes a few clicks to send it to your MP & ask them to attend to support Syrians frozen out of asylum. 055
Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 10/07/2025The Refugee Convention enshrines you may travel by irregular means to seek protection. Put people in a boat by denying them all other means, then punish the survivors by forcing them back. More lives lost, more damage, more legal challenges, still no courage in leadership. 14918
Reposted by Lou CalveyAsylum Matters @asylummatters.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Tomorrow, this thread will be illegal. Defending non-violent activists, who sprayed red paint in an effort to STOP mass death, will be a crime equivalent to supporting neo-Nazi terror groups. That's terrifying. And anyone who cares about asylum rights should be very worried 🧵 1108
Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Taxi boats' pick up migrants in waist-deep water as Channel smugglers switch tactics’ Our policy of border violence is making the journeys so much more dangerous for people. More deaths will come & we’ll still not have any conversations on safe routes. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comSmugglers deploy 'taxi boats' to collect migrants off the French coastThey are being launched from new sites and in new ways - out of reach of French police. 3156
Reposted by Lou CalveyAsylum Matters @asylummatters.bsky.social · 12/06/2025The racist violence in Ballymena is devastating. What makes it worse is that we've seen this before. To keep our communities safe, we need politicians to stop the relentless scapegoating of newcomers and show that we are a community of solidarity, not strangers. 03824
Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 24/05/2025A former British soldier trafficking people into the U.K. for them to be swallowed up by organised crime is unhappy about his conviction because so many others are still doing it. A nauseating read. But it does capture a some truths… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukYachts an easy way to bring migrants to UK, says ex-smugglerFormer British soldier describes smuggling dozens of Vietnamese into marinas in English seaside towns. 173
Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 19/05/2025One person dies, 62 rescued in Channel - InfoMigrants Another life lost that won’t make front page news. The 62 survivors include a mum & child with hypothermia. Huge thanks to the RNLI team who helped survivors & took care of the person who was killed. www.infomigrants.net/en/post/6464...infomigrants.netOne migrant dies, 62 rescued in ChannelOn Sunday night and the early hours of Monday morning, French authorities said they rescued 62 people from three different small boats that had gotten into difficulty in the Channel, off the French co... 25616
Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 13/05/2025‘Asylum hotel companies vow to hand back some profits’ Return ALL the profits. No profiteering from Asylum. No profiteering from homes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukAsylum hotel firms vow to hand back some profitsThree companies have made combined profits of £383m since 2019, according to the National Audit Office. 23811
Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 13/05/2025New report on the conditions in Wethersfield Asylum camp from @dotwuk.bsky.social The government claiming we were becoming an ‘Island of Strangers’ continue to segregate people, warehouse them without inadequate support & safeguarding measures. reliefweb.int/report/unite... 12715
Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Kenmure Street, Glasgow. Four years ago. Ordinary people stopped what they were doing to protect their neighbours. No strangers. Happy Kenmure Street Day ✊ 6308127
Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 12/05/2025‘France has now agreed that they will intervene in French waters in order to prevent small boats’. ‘Intervene’ how? This sounds an awful lot like we’re sanctioning push backs now. 5144
Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 12/05/2025"People who should have found sanctuary in this country have died by suicide, died from preventable diseases, died because of our hostile border policies. Each one of these deaths is an appalling tragedy that must be acknowledged, mourned, and learned from.’ www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...mirror.co.ukMajor law change demanded to shed light on Channel and asylum deathsMPs have called for the Home Office to have a legal duty to announce the number of deaths in the asylum system and in the Channel during small boat crossings 07834
Reposted by Lou CalveyPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Still the overriding question remains unanswered. *Why* do we want to reduce net immigration? 49710139
Reposted by Lou CalveySteve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Also mathematically a silly argument on its own terms - weak economic growth rates could have been weaker still, or even negative, without immigration 1423051
Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Cutting visa access will simply drive more people into dangerous irregular migration. Irregular Migration is a symptom of a restrictive border regime. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction… Will we ever step back & make migration work for everyone? 54811
Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 11/05/2025‘Britains asylum hotel King Billionaire’. Making Big Money from Misery. Interestingly this piece explores the number of people crossing to claim asylum. Even the number of visa applications. And not once does it mention the Tory asylum ban. archive.ph/OIYeP 1115
