If Keir Starmer resigns and we end up with Wes Streeting I’m going to crawl into a printing press

It's certainly a bold approach to take to one of your party's core voting groups two weeks before elections.

Many former Labour voters will be taking the Home Secretary's advice and fucking off, though not all of us are white.

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"You have to be racist in order to beat the racists and if you're too anti-racist then you're the real racist"

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

Jonathan Keir
Harker Starmer
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Not having enough questions about
their good friend, the Prince of Darkness

“Oh they needed an operator!” They literally had someone already there who the White House asked to keep in post and they put their mate in there instead.

It gets worse: No 10 also tried to get Matthew Doyle - a close friend of Mandelson - a job working for him in DC.

Remember - Doyle was asked by PM to investigate Mandelson's responses about links to Jeffrey Epstein & concluded he was "satisfied".

A *clear* conflict of interests.

Did not love waking up to the news that it looks like Wandsworth is going Tory again, but also not finding myself bothered in the slightest at the thought of Labour losing. Have told both parties to fuck off at the doorstep recently. Still no idea who I should vote for tactically though!

A bloviating man with short hair and a furrowed brow in a tie speaks in front of a microphone while a bald bearded man in front of a wood-panelled wall behind him claps his hand over his face

Jenrick speaks on Mandelson's vetting to bring up small boats and

The one man who could keep Starmer in his job.

This thread.

Starmer has managed to turn tribal Labour voters like me away from the Party.

The policy on immigration for one makes Labour unelectable to any of us from an immigrant background.

Labour have badly misunderstood the electorate and their own supporters.

A TRIBUTE TO GILES PEAKER: “NEARLY LEGAL” – AN EXTRAORDINARY MAN WITH EXTRAORDINARY TALENTS I was distressed to read the news that the extraordinary talented Giles Peaker passed away last weekend. The news can be found on his blog “Nearly Legal”  which includes tribute from hi…

www.civillitigationbrief.com/2026/04/20/a...

Giles was so generous with his time and so helpful when it came to explaining to journalists very clearly and with quotable precision exactly how a wrong un landlord was being a wrong un. But mostly I just remember thinking he was a really, really kind human who cared about the state of others.

Devastated to learn that Giles died at the weekend. He leaves shoes impossible to fill. One of life’s warriors, dedicated to righting wrongs in an area of law so full of wrongs that his enormous brain and energy was constantly put to use. Thoughts with his family, loved ones and friends. xxx

Shocking and terrible news nearlylegal.co.uk/2026/04/gile...

Gutted to hear this @nearlylegal.co.uk was a brilliant and thoughtful housing law expert whose advice I greatly valued.

Much love to his family and friends.

This is very sad. I only knew him through twitter and here, but a really good lawyer trying to make the world better.

I am very much saddened to report that my friend, @nearlylegal.co.uk passed away this weekend.

nearlylegal.co.uk/2026/04/gile...

Migrant domestic workers know what works to address exploitation & enable access to workers rights. It’s time to listen to them & reinstate the rights on the ODW visa @voiceofdws.bsky.social @kalayaan.org.uk @focusonlabour.bsky.social

The Home Office has extended the deadline for responding to this call for evidence to 6th May, but hasn't yet updated the webpage or issued public comms. If you want to confirm this, just email IABcallforevidence@homeoffice.gov.uk & you'll get an automated message with the extension info.

NEW: Nigel Farage says X is now becoming “a very unpleasant place” due to a rise racist accounts and content Reform leader says that many of his ethnic minority candidates are experiencing huge levels of abuse

BRB, just telling my stockbroker to go big on Hot-Dog man memes

this doesn't feel ideal, as a development www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

More than 600 migrants cross English Channel in single day On Saturday, 602 people arrived on nine boats, marking the second busiest day so far this year.

Yesterday, the BBC covered 600 people crossing the channel in small boats on Saturday, noting it was the 2nd highest in a day so far this year. What they'd didn't add was that even including the 600 people, crossings are down 35% compared with the same time last year.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I hope @dpglaw.co.uk put up a non paywalled version on their website, as they usually do, as this is pretty important info to get circulated widely!

Advising in this situation is beyond fucking ridiculous

And I can pretty much guarantee that there will be no corrective letter if and when the changes are brought it

This sort of thing is very irritating. The Home Office are telling people that they WILL be able to apply for settlement after 10 years (this is from a grant under the current 10 year route). Totally irresponsible given the Earned Settlement proposal is a near certainty.

New university free speech complaints system to come into force this year Universities could face fines of £500,000 or 2% of their income if they are found to have failed to protect free speech.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Not a single Labour voter voted for this MAGA nonsense.