fairly sure that as part of the labour together vetting process you have to get the brain areas responisble for any kind of craic surgically lanced

she has to resign

this is not funny, *especially* if you are the fucking Home Secretary, with the actual fucking power to unilaterally deprive *anyone* of citizenship

Look the telling pro-immigration people to “fuck right off” is awful but kind of neither here nor there compared to this, Mahmood is entitled to her view on that after all. But a sitting Home Secretary threatening to deport or harm political opponents? That has to be the end of her career.

I think I would dislike her less if she at least gave the impression of having real convictions while doing something digusting and wrong, but no, it's just more lies and deflections because there is *nothing* this policy will gain and *so much* it will destroy and harm. And she only deflects.

But the protestor today only comparing her policies to reform, seemingly. She does not have data, polling, good sense, moral right, economic value, social value, or even a coherent political argument on her side with this policy, and now she's resorting to framing disagreement as personal attack.

The (unwise) hypocrisy of pointing out her parents did it the "right way" under substantially more lax rules invites that conversation but people definitely take it too far. I especially don't like the rhetoric around deporting her or stripping her citizenship, for example. It's genuinely racist.

Apologies in advance for overlong reply.

There is a notable problem with bringing Mahmood's (and Patel's) ethnicity, religion, etc into the discussion of her policy, although in Mahmood's case she opened that door by invoking her parents (who benefitted from CW FOM) in the presentation of ES.

*thereof, bollocks

It's also sort of baffling to me, as this particular bloke is only reported as saying "thank you for out-reforming reform", so bringing in his race, her race, her Englishness and perceptions there of just feels.. weird? Maybe there's context in the rest of the interview but the soundbite is bizarre.

I would have never, in a billion years, guessed that in 2026 I would be wondering if I should take a celebratory holiday when a Labour minister gets the sack (and hopefully soon).

Yet here I am.

If you created a politician in a lab, explicitly designed to make me hate them, you could not beat Shabana Mahmood. This woman has turned me into the Joker and I am not even directly affected (yet, I suppose). She has single-handedly radicalised me further left with just pure odiousness.

And that's before you get to "talking about voters you dislike by referring to their race, and incidentally those exact voters are also a core bloc of your struggling parliamentary party", which I can't see any advantage to.

(I do think people bring her ethnicity into the argument too often)

Screenshot of highlighted text from the guardian article. "“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."

I would as well, but assuming the Guardian didn't just invent this, it's an odd soundbite in comparison to what the bloke said.

going from "you're out reforming reform" to "you don't get to say I don't belong in my own country, and that's racist actually" is also an insane logical leap for her to make. To anyone who isn't closely following this issue she's going to sound even more unhinged and reactive than she was.

You can’t expect Keir Starmer to have known Mandelson was dodgy as fuck. Nobody told him.

Probably nobody told him Israel was committing war crimes either.
Or that the two-child benefit cap was starving kids.
Or that trans people are human beings.
Or that immigrants are a net benefit.

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Actual neo-nazis. Like not in an exaggeration sense, in a "we let people in who openly support Adolf Hitler" sense.

Makes me dramatically more likely to take updates knowing it won't devolve into a vibecoded mess

The only "automatic" settlement is arguably for EU settled status, where the government has tried to automatically grant it to pre-settled people based on government records. (Not arguing against this)

And these proposals will not change EUSS at all.

It is also a very misleading way of treating settlement as a monolith - different settlement routes have extremely different settlement requirements.

For ex SW settlement requires you still be needed by your sponsoring employer, family settlement needs MIR met again. Long residence app ++ simpler

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Absolutely giddy to see Viktor Orbán go. I no longer live in Budapest but am thrilled for all my friends there. Hopefully Tisza uses their supermajority well and Hungary can return to the free and fair democracy Hungarians deserve.

Her name is Shabana Mahmood

Absolute shite, although sometimes I want one regardless.

If she comes back in, there are browser extensions for most browsers that will add on search terms to remove the AI summary from google search automatically.

Even this misses the complexity of it being possible to never qualify, eg for dependents or non-economic routes

"You have to accept AI."

No. No I don't. What's more, I'm still here, still creating and loving what I do without AI.

And I think that burns you up, and you want to be accepted. But I don't have to do that, either.

Go ask your app for validation. I'm worshipping at the temple of humanity.