And the Green Party 😌

Migrants have long felt the impact of misleading media discourse teamed with racist government policies. The BBC investigation was silent on many of these injustices.

Holding them to account is vital in building safer communities.
Here's how to speak out ⬇️

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I’m not even close to 48k 😭😭😭

Makes sense that the average went up a lot.

I’m surprised the national average is that high tbh, given how low salaries can be outside of London (and in London!)

As a Skilled Worker with two masters degrees, for the record I don’t earn anywhere close to 66k 🥲🥲 Sigh…

52 main applicant work visas granted to Bangladeshis October to December 2025 (Skilled worker and health and care). 206 applications refused and 7 withdrawn.

Most commonly it is doctors but even then it’s 20 in the quarter. Chefs is second most common so that’s obviously pre-July applications.

That’s actually why it’s the last time I saw one, my previous firm focused on chefs. Now that I do more City/IT, that’s one nationality I’ve not seen cross my desk once since leaving the old firm.

I’ve not seen a Bangladeshi application since 2022!

True (ie in country), but I don’t trust them anyways so frankly want to get ahead of things anyways.

Not that it’s much help, the number of New Entrant apps we do these days that have no hope in two years. A different thing to the brake but it’s all under the same sad umbrella

Just awful. I will start talking to my clients, to make sure they start paying attention to any Pakistani Graduates they’ve got on payroll. Maybe we can get ahead of this. Thanks (as always) for sharing.

Feel like it should be bigger news that the Home Secretary is very publicly losing the plot

When Labour actively engages in spreading misinformation about immigration there is nothing "legitimate" about their policies. When they use rhetoric which mimics the far right, there is nothing legitimate about it. 3/

Mahmood told Forde’s Political Party podcast at the Duchess Theatre that claims she was chasing Reform votes were “just a way of delegitimising the point of view that I bring to the table”. “It’s also a way of delegitimising the perfectly valid, legitimate views of millions of people in this country, including ethnic minorities in this country. And it’s not acceptable, right? And also, you’re trying to put me in a box, which includes a lot of people who think I don’t even belong in my own country. “That’s why I said this individual can just fuck right off, because I know I belong in my own country. You’re not going to be able to do that to me,” she said. She said there was an aspect of racism to the claims. “I do think there is that element of it, which is: ‘How dare you, a brown woman, say a thing that we white liberals think you’re not allowed to say?’ Well I’m saying it.”

Can't think of anything funny to say about this. Mahmood's repeated weaponisation of racism to defend her racist policies might be the most immoral thing a minister has done since Osborne's Philpott comments

BBC reports "more than 600 people crossed the Channel on small boats on Saturday, making it second busiest day so far this year".

BBC reports "Over the past three years, crossings have increased" while omitting 33% year on year fall this year
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reform want to replace ILR with rolling 5 year visas or citizenship at 7 years. labour will make you wait decades to be eligible to settle, or potentially never let you settle. labour is significantly worse than reform in this example, so where did they get the inspiration from in this case?

This is simply not true. Labour didn’t have to go right. They *chose* to go right. The big majority was a chance to reset everything back to sanity. Starmer chose the mad, bigoted, ignorant and dishonest route instead.

We stand united against harmful BBC reporting that targets already marginalised communities - Rainbow Migration We are joined by over 100 organisations as signatories of this statement: recent BBC reporting risks causing real harm to communities that are already systemically marginalised.

Powerful joint statement from over 100 organisations regarding the BBC's atrocious and misleading asylum reporting this week.

www.rainbowmigration.org.uk/news/we-stan...

Conservative shadow home secretary Chris Philp said the asylum system "must be totally overhauled" so only those facing real personal persecution are granted asylum. Liberal Democrat immigration and asylum spokesman Will Forster said the BBC's findings were "abhorrent", adding: "We need an asylum system that is fair, controlled and efficient. Not the shambles the Conservatives left us with." Reform UK said that if the party wins power it would make facilitating a false asylum claim a "strict liability" criminal offence, meaning there would be no requirement to prove intent in prosecutions, which would be punishable by up to two years in jail. (Highlighted bit) However, the Green Party said the BBC's reporting "gives an entirely false impression of a system which is, in reality, stacked against people seeking asylum" and heightened "the hostile environment" facing this group.

Rarely prouder to be a Green

Broadcasters and press have a responsibility to our communities - and repeatedly centring exceptional negative cases while ignoring the overwhelming reality — people/families building lives, survivors seeking safety, communities contributing economically and socially — distorts public understanding.

Experts condemn 'appalling' BBC story that 'raises risk of far-right attacks' THE BBC has come under heavy fire after publishing a “misleading” report on asylum seekers which experts allege will put vulnerable people “at…

BBCs coverage isn't just misleading, it is inflammatory. It has predictably been latched onto by the far right and others, including this government, to call for even more restrictions on those seeking asylum. Along with others, I explain here how wrong it is 👇

www.thenational.scot/news/2602505...

The BBC’s anti-migrant news spree, dissected this is not the article I had planned to write today...

As Bluesky was down (for me at least), I did my rage posting in here instead: open.substack.com/pub/thoughts...

As a migrant whose been in an abusive relationship with an English man and will get nothing but trauma for it, fuck the BBC.

Migrants are making false domestic abuse allegations to stay in the UK, BBC investigation finds In the third part of an undercover investigation, the BBC reveals how rules aimed at protecting abuse victims are being exploited.

Not sure what quality assurance is being used by BBC in these pieces, but wording is v important. It is irresponsible to use "advisers" or "lawyers" without caveating that these are *fake* advisers, or people posing as legitimate advisers/lawyers. as’https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crl19dzdd38o

BBC News is going very hard on its investigation into advisers who help people ‘fake’ asylum claims, focusing especially on people who falsely claim to be gay. But it doesn’t say what percentage of claims are made on the basis of sexuality. As of 2023 — the last available figures — it was 3%.

The real issue this highlights is decades of cutting legal aid, and creating a complicated, unfair and impossible to manage system, make people very vulnerable to anyone who tells them they can help, and can I have all your money please?

Another way asylum seekers are exploited.

Do some people try and game the system, yes. Often because the system leaves them no choice when the Home Office routinely refuses valid asylum claims. Pretending to be LGBTQIA+ is not particularly common though, because the Home Office already discriminates against LGBTQIA asylum seekers. 2/

The fact that a report on what is supposed to be the world’s leading journalism is requiring charities and law firms to issue immediate statements to clarify the actual reality of the world is, uh, not great.

We have a national discourse premised on asylum seekers being undeserving or “bogus”, which allows people to evade the fact that restricting the right to asylum leads inexorably to death & torture.

Should the BBC give such prominence to stories which reinforce these attitudes? 5/

This is really important in the context of the Worcester LGBT story. What the BBC is calling an 'investigation' is basically an anecdote with a single verified example. From a standpoint of journalistic integrity, the piece is pathetic. But it is profoundly dangerous in promoting a hateful narrative

This BBC undercover 'sting' alleging a sophisticated conspiracy of fraudulent immigration claims is complete rubbish. Their main story isn't about a lawyer, just 1 unethical creepy woman who brought a stranger into her bedroom to fleece him for a fake claim that would likely have been refused anyway

Legal advisers help migrants pose as gay to get asylum, undercover BBC investigation finds The BBC exposes a shadow industry charging migrants thousands of pounds to help them cheat the asylum system.

Disgusting reporting by BBC using a tiny number of cases to suggest widespread abuse of a system which routinely denies LGBTQIA+ individuals asylum and forces them back into environments of persecution. This article massively distorts the reality of the situation. 1/
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