Write to Stonewall.
• Tell them you supported them in the past.
• Tell them why you won’t be supporting transphobia.
Cut direct debts.
Don’t by the merch.
Tell your direct contacts.
Juuuust a coincidence
Stonewall is reduced to campaigning for things the government is already committed to (veterans compensation, aggravated hate crimes) so that it can then claim victory. Rather than pushing on the hard but necessary things that LGBT+ people actually care about, like gender recognition and healthcare.
It's true that Stonewall, attacked by the press, Charity Commission and the Right, came to the brink of collapse because it advocated for trans people. In the UK you can no longer do that work as a charity. But ceasing to be useful, genuflecting to hate, is not the answer. Better to cease to exist.
Hannah added: “I get offended when I hear the argument made that it is working class. Working-class people are fed up with gambling companies being able to wreak havoc in people’s lives.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
A reminder that trans people's 'demands' were 'can we have healthcare that doesn't take 20 years?' and 'can we change our documents easier!?'
That's it.
And we didn't even ask very loudly.
In response, the UK has decided to take all our rights away.
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
I just watched it go up from 99,999 to 100,000 👏
Just 83 signatures away from 100,000!
And, hopefully, we’ll get there today; one year after the hateful, illegal Supreme Court ruling, which Gender Criticals, the media, and the government have tried to use to strip trans people of their human rights.
Please sign, and repost!
Notinourname.org.uk
Read this instead of *that* Beeb article.
I can't sign this but encourage all those who can to do so. Would be amazing to get 100K before the SC judgment anniversary tomorrow.
Tonight MPs will vote on the govt's latest attempt to crack down on the right to protest - this time through restricting recurrent protests.
Myself and fellow Green MPs will be voting against these plans; peaceful protest is a cornerstone of our democracy and must be defended.
New depths of scumbaggery from Labour.
Spurious Home Office decisions rejecting student visas are threatening universities' ability to enrol young people from abroad, it is claimed. New rules come into effect in June that will punish universities if more than 4 per cent of study visas are rejected by the Home Office. However, the changes coincide with a marked increase in the numbers of visas being refused by the Home Office on spurious and inaccurate grounds, according to research by universities that has been shared with The Times. Neither students nor universities are able to challenge the decisions, which are often taken months after a university has accepted the applicant and in some cases just days before they are due to start studying.
UKVI carries out discretionary "credibility interviews" to ascertain that a student's intentions to study here are genuine. In another interview, when asked why they had chosen to apply to their chosen institution, the applicant said they had considered several factors, including the university's ranking, employability support, student satisfaction while also noting that it was an ancient institution and cited the year it was founded. The UKVI rejected the application, explaining that they were not satisfied the applicant was genuine given they had quoted the wrong founding year. The university subsequently confirmed that the applicant had provided the correct year and the UKVI caseworker was incorrect, but the decision could not be reconsidered.
In another case a foreign student was rejected from obtaining a visa to study at the University of East Anglia due to a dispute over whether the university was in Norfolk. The applicant asserted correctly that it was, but the UKVI caseworker appeared to confuse Norfolk with Norwich, which is the capital of the county, and rejected the application - believing the applicant was wrong.
In another credibility interview the applicant was asked to describe some of the taught modules they would be studying as part of their degree. The applicant explained that they had been offered a place to study a PhD in biomedical engineering which was fully research-based so did not have any taught modules. Despite this, the UKVI refusal letter stated that they were not satisfied on the basis that their answers were "vague and generic" and had failed to explain the taught modules they would be studying.
It is almost, almost, impressive just how Labour have taken the massively dysfunctional and incompetent Home Office and managed by dint of policies and rhetoric to make it even more dysfunctional and incompetent. It is a true testament to how hostile they are to migrants.
archive.today/07Hdr
My article in NW Bylines about the Starmer government’s deployment of the misleading term “gender questioning” for trans kids.
Trans kids need help resisting this loaded term. IMO it is being used to open the door to what I characterize as a government policy of “wraparound conversion therapy”
Absolutely nothing dodgy at all going on here. It's perfectly normal and not at all coordinated for six different papers to carry the exact same headline like this.
Funny, isn't it, how some red lines matter and some don't.
I guess you get paid for the important ones.
🚨🎉 The Green Party BEATS Reform!!!
😮 Greens came fourth here last year.
💚 Proving once again that Greens can win anywhere.
🙌🏽 Labour tanking and Greens beating Reform!
👉🏽 Join.greenparty.org.uk
People who initially wanted the uk to be dragged into an illegal war because they’re too chicken to stand up to Trump should prob sit down, right now.
For someone on the 5‑year route to settlement, this means:
💷 £6,697 in visa fees
💷 £5,175 in Immigration Health Surcharge
➡️ Nearly £12,000 before a family can settle permanently in the UK.
Couples and Families are being priced out of living together in the UK. #FamiliesBelongTogether
From today, for thousands of couples and families staying together in the UK just got even more expensive.
Visa fees are rising again — quietly wrecking lives.
We know that around 60–70% of many visa fees are profit
This is not cost recovery, it is excessive charging at the expense of families💔
A reminder King Charles is going to meet this man. The only thing more psychopathic than DT are the enablers. His peers who can't wait to shake his hand, the press obsessed with 'neutrality' more than honest reporting and the dumbassess that voted for him. Never forget the collective failure
This Government both want us to believe they've played a leadership role here - and that they don't know the terms of the agreement.
It's simply not plausible.
While European Allies banned US use of their airspace, we've let bombers launch from the UK.
He managed to post about Wireless Festival in that time - so it's a question of priorities....
Apparently nuclear threats and genocide aren't high up on the list.
Farage says he would let trump use UK bases. Polanski says hk must immediately withdraw all military support
The UK must immediately and unequivocally suspend support for the US military.
The Government have tried to appease him, then they tried to say they're standing up to him.
Words aren't enough - it's time for action.
It's now been 3 hours since our supposed "ally" Donald Trump threatened genocide on a country of 93 million people.
We've had absolutely nothing from the UK government.
This doesn't come in a vacuum either - every day the US & Israel have been murdering innocent people.
Will you join us in fighting to protect trans workers?
1. Write to your MP about the workplace regs: actionnetwork.org/letters/fix-...
2. Let us know if your employer has changed their approach to trans inclusion: form.typeform.com/to/uycRij58
also if your route to settlement is tied to 10, 15 years or more: ain't nobody guaranteeing you a job that long. in the current job market people are going to have to factor in at least one, maybe two layoffs and a new job scramble into their "how do i do this" plans. the government is a clown car
Again - Brits who are horrified by the actions of ICE in the US should pay attention to the cruelty and violence that their own government inflicts on immigrants here.
