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vertigoem.bsky.social
"A BBC investigation found"

JFC, burn it to the ground. Bury it in concrete and set up a 500km exclusion zone
danielsohege.bsky.social Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 1h
So how exactly are they meant to get to them? Many are placed in areas without accessible transport links. They can't afford to pay for journeys themselves because of how little support they get.
Yet again Labour choosing to pander to Reform than think of consequences.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Government to ban asylum seekers from using taxis
The ban is set to come in February and any exemptions will have to be signed off by the Home Office.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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bareleft.bsky.social
UK govt policy basically boils down to:

make everything cruel/annoying as possible, ???, growth
danielsohege.bsky.social Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 1h
So how exactly are they meant to get to them? Many are placed in areas without accessible transport links. They can't afford to pay for journeys themselves because of how little support they get.
Yet again Labour choosing to pander to Reform than think of consequences.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Government to ban asylum seekers from using taxis
The ban is set to come in February and any exemptions will have to be signed off by the Home Office.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 8:28 AM
vertigoem.bsky.social
Just the 5m Native Americans would remain
harikunzru.bsky.social Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 11h
‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse
DEPARTMENT Homeland Security @DHSgov The stakes have never been higher, and the goal has never been more clear: Remigration now.
November 28, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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danielsohege.bsky.social
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I absolutely despise Starmer and the whole government for how far to the right they have gone on attacking vulnerable people. UK pushing for this shows a complete disregard for the lives of people crossing the channel.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
France to approve new plans to halt small boats crossing the Channel
Keir Starmer has urged the French government to intervene before asylum seekers board vessels heading for the UK
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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seenpoliceuk.bsky.social
The EHRC behaving like fucking mafia. We wish we could show you half what’s going on.
November 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social
If stories like this don't completely radicalise you against the very structure of our immigration system you're a fucking monster tbh
adambienkov.bsky.social Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21h
Shabana Mahmood said this month that her migration policies are a "moral mission".

Where is the morality in blocking an eight-year-old girl made destitute by a Hurricane from coming to the UK to join her parents?

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK rejects visa for girl left destitute in Jamaica by Hurricane Melissa
Lati-Yana Brown’s parents had asked for application to be expedited so she could join them in UK after house ruined
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM
vertigoem.bsky.social
Related. Scams upon scams upon scams
The housing crisis is pushing Gen Z into crypto and economic nihilism Locked out of home ownership, young adults are turning to risky financial behaviour
November 28, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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mcduff.bsky.social
Buying an asset and selling it for more money is the definition of capital gains. The only reason we don't do it is because we bribed the middle class with rising house prices to distract them from the dismantling and selling off of the public realm and the destruction of wages.
marcusjdl.bsky.social Marcus 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 1d
my unpopular opinion is if you sell an expensive house in London and move up north or a cheaper area on the coast then that she be capital gains taxed

oops i just subtweeted half of Hastings
tomusher.bsky.social Tom Usher @tomusher.bsky.social · 1d
All of this “woe is me my house is now really expensive and so a tax is unfair” stuff completely negates to acknowledge the implicit fact that the house owner has made an insane profit by doing absolutely nothing
November 28, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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jessothomson.co.uk
Graham Linehan is a normal and well man.
A few hours later, he sends me an example of how he’s been using AI. It’s a “hidden role deduction” game he’s working on. At the top is the prompt he put into ChatGPT: “You are five blind lesbian adventurers out for a good night out. Slaying dragons and whatnot. But one of your number is a hulking great troll pretending to be a woman. Find the troll lesbian and then devise an amusing punishment without giving him an erection.
November 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
These lads are going to get in trouble for making all of their journo colleagues look like gormless fucking idiots, quite frankly
November 27, 2025 at 7:36 PM
vertigoem.bsky.social
Actually it's perfectly reasonable for Mason to ask Starmer why he fashioned this gigantic rake for himself in 2024 and has now planted his foot firmly on it
euanhealey.bsky.social Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 1d
"Is this budget actually just what your MPs want (bad)" I ask in a parliamentary democracy, with a level of critical analysis only entrusted to the BBC's Political Editor
Quote from BBC: Chris Mason reminds the prime minister of Starmer's slogan, "country first, party second", and asks whether the Budget reflects this. Starmer is asked: is the Budget an attempt to keep MPs on the side of an "unpopular" leader?
November 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
vertigoem.bsky.social
Why are the dark evenings hitting so hard this year? Feels to me like it should be about midnight
November 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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wokeoaf.bsky.social
Once again, shitposting is somehow akin to prophecy. Actually has the fucking chess board out lmao
Promo photo of Reeves getting the budget ready, she has a chess board on her desk
November 26, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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rine.bsky.social
Every company sued for wrongful death:
The 'why didn't I think of that' simpsons meme
November 26, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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saulstaniforth.bsky.social
"David Lammy is considering scrapping trial by jury, an ancient right that's said to date back to the Magna Carta 800 years ago"

Labour laying the ground work for a far right government to build on #GMB
November 26, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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saulstaniforth.bsky.social
Susanna Reid: From next April Labour are increasing the minimum wage for people over 21 to £12.71 & for those under 21 to £10.85

Page 45 of Labours manifesto last year stated: "Lab will also remove the discriminatory age bands so all adults are entitled to the same minimum wage"
November 26, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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prophetcassandra.bsky.social
what the fuck
Lammy’s reforms would cover all prosecutions, including those brought by the Serious Fraud Office and the Environment Agency. It is anticipated that the government will also remove the automatic right to appeal against convictions. Magistrates are set to have their sentencing powers significantly increased from the maximum prison term of six months to 24 months. Under the heading “what do these proposals mean for your department?”, Lammy told government departments that the plans would not compromise suspects’ rights and suggested that “there is no right to trial by jury”. The move marks a departure from Lammy’s past views. In a social media comment posted five years ago, he said: “Trials are a fundamental part of our democratic settlement. Criminal trials without juries are a bad idea.”
November 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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avdeggar.bsky.social
Trial by jury to be scrapped under the pretence of efficiency, with a full fascist takeover just a couple of years away.

Dystopian, unforgivable shit.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases
Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
vertigoem.bsky.social
But not as horrified by 2 years of children being pulled from the rubble in Gaza, for some reason
politics.mirror.co.uk Mirror Politics @politics.mirror.co.uk · 3d
Keir Starmer has told MPs he was horrified at the sight of a teenage girl being pulled from rubble in Ukraine - as he celebrated his own daughter's birthday.
Starmer voices horror over Ukrainian girl his daughter's age pulled from rubble
www.mirror.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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belalugosisdad.bsky.social
"I can excuse transphobic abuse of a child, but I draw the line at damaging private property".
November 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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aurelmondon.bsky.social
I don't think anyone is saying his racism doesn't matter and of course it should be called out

The issue is that it is done so as an individual flaw rather than as part of a wider political project which has been cleared for decades and enabled by mainstream actors. The latter matters far more
adambienkov.bsky.social Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4d
All the supposedly progressive people saying 'Nigel Farage's racism doesn't matter. His fans love it'.

It matters whether the leader of the party leading all the opinion polls is an outright racist. It matters if he called black people 'wogs' and said 'gas them' to Jews. Not everything is a game
November 25, 2025 at 9:57 AM
vertigoem.bsky.social
It's a Guido story but if there's any truth then this is the most Lammy thing Lammy has ever Lammied
scotnational.bsky.social The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 4d
David Lammy has reportedly named Bill Cosby as one of his role models
David Lammy 'names Bill Cosby as role model'
www.thenational.scot
November 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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dismalchips.bsky.social
The Guardian live blog is a goldmine today if you're a fan of people finding polite and professional ways to ask someone what the fuck they think they're doing.
Screenshot of Guardian Live blog: Starmer 'significantly increased' risks associated with Maccabi fan ban by implying it was linked to antisemitism, Labour PCC says Keir Starmer “significantly increased” the risks associated with the Maccabi Tel Aviv Europa League match at Aston Villa when he denounced the ban on its fans, the West Midlands police commissioner has said. Simon Foster, who is a Labour PCC, criticised the PM in a letter to the Commons home affairs committee today, published alongside a letter from the West Midlands police (WMP). (See 2.24pm.) Foster and WMP were both replying to questions submitted by the committee. But, in his reply, Foster suggests, “respectfully”, that the committee should also be asking questions of other people, including Starmer. Foster says: It is undeniable that the prime minister’s intervention significantly increased the risks associated with the fixture, by not only criticising the decision, but also confusing who actually made the decision – it was not the police – and implying, that the decision was related to, or even motivated by, antisemitism. The committee might usefully inquire of the prime minister as to the process via which he acquainted himself with the facts and the evidence, before he concluded the decision was wrong and then decided to make such an intervention and in particular, what advice he received before doing so and what led him to use the form of words he did. IFS thinktank questions wisdom of international student levy, saying it's 'unusual for country to tax its exports' Sally Weale Sally Weale Sally Weale is the Guardian’s education correspondent. The government’s planned levy on international student fees, details of which are expected to be fleshed out in this week’s budget, would constitute a tax on a major UK export, a leading thinktank has warned. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) called on ministers to explain the economic rationale behind the controversial surcharge, which vice-chancellors have warned will leave many already struggling universities even worse off. In a new analysis of the government’s recent post-16 education and skills white paper, the IFS said: The government has not yet set out any strong economic rationale for the introduction of an international student levy. Providing education to international students counts as one of the UK’s export activities, and any lost fee income from prospective international students deterred from studying in the UK would amount to a reduction in UK exports. While taxes on imports (tariffs) are fairly common, it is unusual for a country to tax its own exports.
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
vertigoem.bsky.social
Peter Kyle's facial expression is that of a bumbling chancer permanently amused at how far he's managed to get in life. Which, funnily enough -
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d
Business secretary dismisses claim ‘shambolic’ pre-budget uncertainty has caused hit to growth – UK politics live
Business secretary dismisses claim ‘shambolic’ pre-budget uncertainty has caused hit to growth – UK politics live
Peter Kyle defends government as Reeves faces criticism about pre-budget briefings ahead of Wednesday announcement Severin Carrell is the Guardian’s Scotland editor. The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, is expected to release £14.5m in extra investment for the Grangemouth area on Wednesday to support faltering efforts to provide jobs after the closure of Scotland’s only oil refinery earlier this year. We said we would stand squarely behind communities like Grangemouth, and we meant it. And we’re building on what we have done already by putting millions in as a starter to help put the community on a firm footing and strengthening its places as part of the clean energy revolution. These investments will help deliver a fair transition for Grangemouth, securing jobs for local people way into the future. When I visit business and ask them what most causes anxiety, yes, they do talk about the tax burden. But the single most complained about measure in this government’s programme is not a tax rise. It is the employment rights bill … Nobody did more to hammer business and employees than Kemi Badenoch did as business secretary. Her Tory party crashed the economy – leaving firms and families saddled with sky-high interest rates, rocketing energy costs, and higher prices. Yet they still haven’t apologised. The Conservatives are clear: they’ve declared war on workers. Badenoch already described maternity pay as ‘excessive’ and her cruel plans would mean a return of fire-and-rehire and quashed wages for workers, while she drowns business in red tape all over again. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:19 AM