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Pete Husky
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IMO the rise of the greens is good news for the Lib dems. Zac can be a vocal outrider to help correct the right ward drift of the Overton window and move the agenda. The Lib dems come in with more nuanced practical policy positions to advance the cause that otherwise struggle to get a hearing.
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I’ve been in meetings and a quantum physics lecture all day so I emerged to this and thought surely it’s no longer true. But there is nothing on the BBC website. Imagine Enoch Powell gave his rivers of blood speech and everyone just ignored it.
her policy has still been ignored by the FT, the BBC, The Times and oddly also those newspapers further to the Right that presumably welcome it. Other than the Guardian, only Sam Leith in the Spectator has felt the official turn of the Tory Party towards ethnic cleansing to be worthy of note
Dan has got it.
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New from me: Just eight of the Government's 17 Roads of National Significance have already seen costs blow out by $5.1 billion - before any shovels are even in the ground.

The full programme would cost $44-$54 billion on the latest numbers.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/23/5...
$5b-plus blowout for eight Roads of National Significance
The Government's 17 Roads of National Significance will cost it at least $44 billion – enough to rebuild Dunedin Hospital 23 times over. Marc Daalder reports.
newsroom.co.nz
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Chilling in the extreme - under a new national security memorandum, ordinary American individuals can be designated as domestic terrorists - accused of being “anti-American” for normal acts of protest, or opposition to govt policies. WAKE UP, AMERICA. www.treason.io/p/must-read-...
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"... one of the most alarming government documents I’ve ever read...
As someone who’s helped build the nation’s counterterrorism architecture, I’m telling you that it’s now being primed for (potentially) unimaginable abuse." - Miles Taylor, 1st October. ⬇️
Chilling in the extreme - under a new national security memorandum, ordinary American individuals can be designated as domestic terrorists - accused of being “anti-American” for normal acts of protest, or opposition to govt policies. WAKE UP, AMERICA. www.treason.io/p/must-read-...
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Republican senators have lost all autonomy and are no more than Trump’s puppets. Don’t mistake them for democratic leaders. Listen to Stuart Stevens on MSNBC
Beautifully put. I doubt I'd have agreed with all his policies but he's the quintessential elder statesman calling up the current generation of leaders to be better. 👌
100% this. Start with the book of Ruth and an understanding of covenant as the heart of God, and becoming a sacred part of the origin story of your adopted home.

TL/DR Jesus was a refugee and a descendent of an economic migrant.
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This is an *incredibly* good idea.
If I were running Labour comms I would commission an app called 'Will the Tories/Reform deport you?' then let the reactions on TikTok and Instagram do their work.
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The Tories can shout at me all they like, but the truth is their Brexit deal it is hurting our country and Labour won’t do anything about it.

Today I urged the Prime Minister to actually fix it.
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"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral."

I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.
It’s racist, it’s extremist and it’s immoral
The right is still calling for deportations, and the government is still being cowardly about it. Also: London’s first green belt; some notes on a shark; and some news, on my next book.
jonn.substack.com
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The Conservative Party now doing to immigration law what it did to international law. Taking a statement of the constitutionally obvious - that parliament is sovereign - as a permission slip to disregard all other consequences. Can becomes should.
• Defence of the retrospective changing of the rules: "No good parliament can tie the hands of a future parliament."
• No doubts about the morality of it all: "The Conservative party is clear that immigration was too high under successive governments. We need to bring that down."
UK residents should consider if the current Tory Party has contributed more than it has cost the country. On all objective measures being a conservative is worse for the UK than being a settled migrant. Why should they have the right to remain in the UK and sit in judgment of others? #ukpol
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Thank you to @mrjamesob.bsky.social for having me on, one of the v few people in the UK press to follow this story during what is now a decade of media apathy &/or complicity
‘The threat couldn’t be more urgent and imminent. Yet here we are, still putting our head in the sand.’

@carolecadwalla.bsky.social says it’s ‘peculiar’ that the case of Farage ally Nathan Gill admitting to making pro-Russia speeches for cash isn’t being followed more closely.
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The Conservative immigration proposals cannot be allowed to stand without a profound and widespread statement of moral condemnation inews.co.uk/opinion/tori...
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History teaches us that this brand of extremism is either met with eventual rebuke and repugnation, or gets worse.

The last 6 months in particular feel like a precipice.
4.2m EU citizens with settled status though. That's a heck of a voting block.
There is one sure fire solution:

Give people with ILR the right to vote. This is the model in New Zealand. Anyone with permanent residency gets to vote.

All of a sudden the incentives toward othering and performative cruelty are gone. There are millions of votes in compassion and inclusivity
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The actual regime that these people are hankering after is Dubai: a small elite of citizens, most immigrants to be transient, insecure and all immigrants to be second-class. In reality they would hate the world they would create and would find ever-more ridiculous scapegoats for their failure.
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But that's the point, the Tories are now nothing more than Trump's 'Project 2025' with a Blue Rosette.
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It's a very similar dynamic to the rise of Trumpism. Nobody on the right speaking up or saying anything, as the individual incentive was to keep your head down – but the collective cowardice ending up somewhere really bad.
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It'd be nice of Downing Street would wholeheartedly condemn the Lam mass-deportation stuff, but it's also an enormous failure of the centre-right to maintain a cordon sanitaire against this slide.
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