2 things, Home Sec.
1) If it looks & sounds like a Reform MP, it’s probably a Reform MP.
2) The voters you’re telling to fuck off are exactly the people who don’t doubt you belong.
The voters you desperately court are exactly the people who think you don’t belong.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Really pleased we secured this coverage about how this awful government’s cruel immigration plans will impact sick and elderly people.
Sad thing is we have far more examples than those used in this article, including people with terminal illnesses who won’t live 10 let alone 20 or 30 years.
The idea that being *a member of the House of Lords* in any way means you can be trusted with Top Secret/STRAP material without proper vetting is so beyond absurd that this must surely be a joke?
Who thinks he’ll answer my question?
I mean glass houses and all that.
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This week's BBC coverage about fraudulent 'immigration advisers' has sparked concern across the sector. Our full statement can be found on our website, but we've broken it down for you. 🧵
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5/ This is the immigration system our leaders have chosen though.
It’s rife for charlatans and fat cat private companies to profit off human suffering and misery, with a media class only too willing to condemn and punch down on these poor souls whose biggest crime is daring to want a better life.
4/ legal aid cuts amplified these problems. In years gone by, people would approach legal aid lawyers for representation, who’d never get away with this sort of conduct (nor would they want to).
Again, this benefits charlatans as there’s more people desperate for someone, anyone, to represent them.
3/ This encourages more charlatans to get into the industrial complex that is our immigration system. If you can pass an exam, set up a business and have no moral compass, you can then start taking money from desperate, confused people. The carousel guarantees this gravy train continues.
2/ Whilst these advisers existed before 2012, successive governments have deliberately made immigration rules more complex and punitive and settlement routes longer and more arduous. That creates a carousel for people in the system, with a near constant need for immigration advice.
1/ As someone who’s worked in the asylum sector for a decade+, I can also say without doubt that no adviser I’ve ever met would behave in this way.
Like me though, many if not all will have sat face-to-face with some desperate person who’s been fleeced and screwed over by a charlatan adviser.
It works I think.
If you wanted a wordier version: ‘ guess who wasted your licence fee trying to concoct a story about why you should just irrationally and unquestioningly hate migrants and LGBTQI+ people’
The star character, Tanisa, also isn’t an immigration adviser.
And the second so-called adviser, Abbasi, has been sacked and reported to the SRA.
So the headline really is: dodgy lawyer reported to the SRA for dodgy lawyering. Hardly a national scandal.
The BBC in their desperate attempt to mimic the Daily Mail no doubt forgot to reach out to an expert organisation for a reality check on how the UK asylum system treats people from the LGBTQI+ community.
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Hugely irresponsible from the BBC. This fans the flames of racism, jeopardises future claims from LGBTQ people & puts migrants & charities working with them at risk.
They also haven’t discovered large scale fraud. They’ve found 3-4 mostly non-lawyers profiting off & exploiting desperate people.
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I can’t imagine anything more doomed to fail in terms of its policy aims (whatever they are) and political aims than the ESM.
Yet someone is getting paid handsomely to tell Starmer & co, ‘see the hated Tory party on life support over there. What voters really want is for you to act like them.’
It's the classic Mel Gibson and Jesus meme where Mel is on set in normal clothes casually chatting to a very bloody Jesus (for those of you who don't know it).
Mel Gibson pictured with his doctor in 2004
So we now know Labour’s earned settlement model is economically illiterate, will ruin people’s lives, won’t win over Reform voters and alienates natural Labour voters.
Starmer and his team are smashing it. 👏 👏
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
The human arguments against Mahmood's earned settlement model are obvious. It will make families' lives far worse & hinder their ability to reach their potential in the UK.
But now the economic arguments are falling apart too.
The govt must scrap these plans now.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
More lives lost in the Channel today. So-called deterrence measures have been shown time and again to not only not work, but to cost lives.
Until western governments realise that safe and regulated routes are the answer, this cycle of tragedy will keep on repeating itself.
This was already in the consultation
Home Office robotically repeating its line-to-take "We must be honest about the impact" - while steadfastly refusing to be remotely honest about the impact on individuals/families, social care, or the economy and public finances.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
It’s good that backbench MPs are pushing the govt for concessions on their cruel and counter productive earned settlement model, but they can’t accept a watered down version. They must push for it to be abandoned completely.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Yeah 100%. And you end up with this cycle of governments unable to turn off the immigration tap as the country needs it but imposing ever more draconian rules that won’t do anything to drastically reduce numbers as that’s ‘what voters want’. Rinse and repeat.
The amount of times I’ve heard HO officials acknowledge their rules don’t work but shrug their shoulders & say ‘this is what people vote for’.
I think that just reflects a massive misunderstanding that permeates government: treating migrants here badly is not the same as reducing numbers.
2/ Every day, people suffer far more through this cruel system than us.
But I thought it worth showing the love and warmth that Starmer, Mahmood, Tapp & the rest of them either themselves instinctively hate or choose to deny because they think keeping families apart is what people want.
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1/ Last year, this weak & desperate govt refused my bro in law & his fam visas to come visit as part of a crackdown against Nigerians.
My 2 girls were gutted that they couldn’t show their little cousin around London, and my partner & I obviously angry & upset.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...