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MsTPole @mstpole.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the joy of visiting Poland

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Carla Francome @carlafrancome.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Angry people in local newspapers: Paddling Pool edition 🤬🤬🤬🤬 This is Priory Park paddling pool in Crouch End. It hasn’t been open at all this year, from what I understand. Everyone has been hopeful from May onwards. This is a class issue and I’m furious about it. Here’s why. … 1/4

Me looking cross at Priory Park paddling pool

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

NEW: EU nationals in the UK are increasingly alarmed at Reform UK’s plan to target their rights to accommodation and employment, saying this is a betrayal of promises made in the Brexit referendum 10 years ago. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Reform UK plan to target EU nationals based in Britain ‘absolutely outrageous’

Exclusive: Rights group says Nigel Farage’s party is reneging on promises made during the Brexit referendum campaign

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Laura Gordon @lauragordon.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

This headline is a travesty. It's not a protest and it's got nothing to do with Henry Nowak. It's a racist riot. Call it that.

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Police pelted with missiles at Henry Nowak protest

A large crowd gathered close to the family home of Henry Nowak's killer.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Interesting that the idea of another EU referendum is regularly discussed on broascast media as something that would cause division and thus a bad idea. But plans to deport literally millions of people are discussed as administrative questions.

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

May not keep this one up too long, but here is a temperature check of where we are at these days with formerly 'just a normal classical liberal' types

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MsTPole @mstpole.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

so tired of Reform’s racist drivel and cruelty. hth are they even serious contenders to power?

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

WHY ARE YOU ANNOYED THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO HAPPEN

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

One should be in no doubt that most of Britain's elites will simply make their peace with Farage and do a deal, so long as they get left alone or benefit. Tho there is resistance to Trump in the US, it's v much the exception.(1/2) www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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Cambridge University cosies up to Reform

The vice-chancellor expects Nigel Farage to model his policies on Trump and says other Russell Group members are meeting his allies

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Irish artist Mildred Anne Butler, Shades of Evening, 1904 #womensart #November

Painting of crows in a bare winter tree with a house below with smoke coming out of the chimney under an early evening sky

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Another missed opportunity to make a principled argument that people who have lived here a significant period of time during which they have contributed in various ways should have certain rights. In many cases these people will be in long-term relationships with UK nationals with dependent children

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

In September, Reform said they would make welfare limited to UK citizens only. Then told journalists that would not apply to EU nationals with settled status, protected by the UK-EU withdrawal treaty, then said they could "negotiate" on that with the EU. Now say they are reneging on the treaty

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

This is the fearless journalism Britannia deserves.

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Raluca Terry-Enescu @ralucahippie.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

The Tories want me deported for going on maternity.

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Danielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

This is all horrifyingly cruel but condition 3 is staggeringly awful: “if P OR dependents of P have been in receipt of social protection” So just if a *dependent* of someone with ILR gets any sort of welfare benefit whatsoever the original person can have their ILR revoked? This is insanely evil.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

The draft legislation is crackers. It would fail immediately if we stayed in the ECHR but it disappears the human rights act. if passed after that it would involve mandatory loss of ILR for up to 400,000 people + refusal of 2-3 million others, though without no credible means to identify or remove

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MsTPole @mstpole.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

So the main group they’re targeting for deportation appears to be mothers of children who are now presumably British.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Tory policy is to revoke permanent residence (ILR) for everybody who does not earn £38k - deporting most nurses who have ILR This is put in the video as "who is unlikely to contribute more than they cost" NB: video does not say EU settled status is exempt No govt since Idi Amin has done this

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Indeed. One of the consequences is that MPs and journalists who still consider themselves centre-right now discuss unilaterally revoking settlement rights and deporting people on a mass scale as if this a normal policy option like tax cuts or bus spending.

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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

“Mood music changing” captures this perfectly. And people might not realise quite how concerning this is for people living here with such immigration status. Suddenly it feels like things are up for discussion that weren’t, and mainstream politics is just going along with it

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Sunday Times interview Tory "rising star" Katie Lam She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people" (The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

This is why they want all human rights restraints removed. #ECHR

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

You’ve lived in Britain for decades, paying into NI and a state pension the whole time, then the govt says it’s seizing your pension and if you don’t like it, you can abandon your family and return to a country you haven’t lived in for 30 years

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NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I know people keep saying how far the next election is but I don’t see how anyone can look at this and not be terrified. Also showing their privilege. Easy to say if you and your loved ones are British citizens who aren’t facing deportation from the country they might have lived in for decades.

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NG @ng1978.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

The Opposition and the party that’s leading in the polls literally have policies more extreme than the BNP 20 years ago

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MsTPole @mstpole.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

and Ferrari just sits there and nods

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Reminder that the base Brexit was built on was incitement to hate Central and Eastern Europeans before broadening out. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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Farage falsely accuses eastern European migrants of eating swans from London parks

The Royal Parks charity quickly clarified that there was ‘no evidence’ of swans being killed and eaten

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Kuba @kayes67.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

This is so obviously correct and was the case in 2017 when settled status was something to apply for rather than register, a weird fact that signalled the direction of travel - people legally living in the UK had *to reapply*.

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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

It was obvious when EU citizens had the terms of their settlement here retrospectively revoked that a precedent was being set and that, in time, the argument would move on to other categories of migrant, always tending towards a purity test of who is ‘indigenous’. Unless resisted.

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Captain Bionic @captainbionic.eurosky.social · 22/09/2025

What, and I can't stress this enough, the fuck

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart. Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point. Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.

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MsTPole @mstpole.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Immigration lawyers must be grateful to Farage for showing his hands so early. Business will be booming for the foreseeable future.

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Tom Slatter @tomslatter.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

But of a test here for what remains of the British news media. These proposals are mad, racist and economic suicide. Will they be reported as such? Or will they be reported as a reasonable suggestion?

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Times says Reform policy to make all of those with settled status apply instead for a new temporary status In case of EU settled status, that is a massive breach of the spirit and letter of Farage's past pledges pre & after 2016. A rapid u-turn is necessary www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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Reform would scrap indefinite leave to remain for migrants

Hundreds of thousands will be eligible for permanent residence next year after arriving in what Nigel Farage calls the ‘Boriswave’

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 21/09/2025

erm hello pardon excuse me, what

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.

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MsTPole @mstpole.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

rozważam zagłosowanie w polskich wyborach po raz pierwszy od głosowania w referendum o wejściu do unii europejskiej

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MsTPole @mstpole.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

10 punktów dla Polski od UK public. Polonia nie zawiodła.

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MsTPole @mstpole.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Britain is back discussing why they’re too unique to have national ID cards.

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MsTPole @mstpole.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I hate how Trump is affecting my mental health.

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Sixteen Films @kenloach16films.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

ON FALLING the new film from the Ken Loach & Sixteen Films team Out in Cinemas March 7th (early tickets here: conic.film/films/onfalling) The film is about precarity, exploitation and loneliness in the modern world. Please share and help us get the word out.

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MsTPole @mstpole.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

for many people applying for citizenship is just too expensive; it’s not just the cost of application but also solicitors fees because people are too scared to do it themselves

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