Josephine Whitaker-Yilmaz
@josephinewy.bsky.social
Here’s a few thing the Home Secretary could do if she *actually* wanted to put asylum seekers on the same playing field as British citizens:
✅ give them the right to work from day 1
✅ give them access to the social security system not below-poverty-level asylum support
www.bbc.com/news/article...
✅ give them the right to work from day 1
✅ give them access to the social security system not below-poverty-level asylum support
www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 20, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Here’s a few thing the Home Secretary could do if she *actually* wanted to put asylum seekers on the same playing field as British citizens:
✅ give them the right to work from day 1
✅ give them access to the social security system not below-poverty-level asylum support
www.bbc.com/news/article...
✅ give them the right to work from day 1
✅ give them access to the social security system not below-poverty-level asylum support
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Remind me again what lessons were learned from Windrush?
These people were actively encouraged to come here to fill yawning voids in our care system. They’re generally in poorly paid, precarious jobs where exploitation is rife. Now theyre being punished AGAIN
These people were actively encouraged to come here to fill yawning voids in our care system. They’re generally in poorly paid, precarious jobs where exploitation is rife. Now theyre being punished AGAIN
November 15, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Remind me again what lessons were learned from Windrush?
These people were actively encouraged to come here to fill yawning voids in our care system. They’re generally in poorly paid, precarious jobs where exploitation is rife. Now theyre being punished AGAIN
These people were actively encouraged to come here to fill yawning voids in our care system. They’re generally in poorly paid, precarious jobs where exploitation is rife. Now theyre being punished AGAIN
Show me one piece of evidence that suggests that this is going to work - either to the number of people making dangerous journeys to get her OR to the Labour party’s political fortune.
November 14, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Show me one piece of evidence that suggests that this is going to work - either to the number of people making dangerous journeys to get her OR to the Labour party’s political fortune.
Health care is just one sector out of many that could face crisis because of this government's ludicrous proposals to make permanent settlement harder (for some impossible) to get in the UK.
Why would ppl want to build a life here to be treated like this?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Why would ppl want to build a life here to be treated like this?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
October 7, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Health care is just one sector out of many that could face crisis because of this government's ludicrous proposals to make permanent settlement harder (for some impossible) to get in the UK.
Why would ppl want to build a life here to be treated like this?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Why would ppl want to build a life here to be treated like this?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Can someone please explain this argument that digital ID cards will be “practically effective in the fight against illegal migration”? When we already have a hostile environment and migrants *already* have to prove their right to work, rent with a… digital visa
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
August 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Can someone please explain this argument that digital ID cards will be “practically effective in the fight against illegal migration”? When we already have a hostile environment and migrants *already* have to prove their right to work, rent with a… digital visa
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
Do policy makers have any idea what their policies do to people’s lives?
Spouting about social cohesion while proposing to put millions more people into situations like Nish’s suggests… not?
Spouting about social cohesion while proposing to put millions more people into situations like Nish’s suggests… not?
May 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Do policy makers have any idea what their policies do to people’s lives?
Spouting about social cohesion while proposing to put millions more people into situations like Nish’s suggests… not?
Spouting about social cohesion while proposing to put millions more people into situations like Nish’s suggests… not?
Ugh Leicestershire what have you done?
May 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Ugh Leicestershire what have you done?
When will Labour's leadership realise that minorities, immigrants and people on benefits ARE working-class people?
After they lose the next general election. That's when.
After they lose the next general election. That's when.
April 30, 2025 at 12:09 PM
When will Labour's leadership realise that minorities, immigrants and people on benefits ARE working-class people?
After they lose the next general election. That's when.
After they lose the next general election. That's when.
Despite the swirling awfulness of the welfare debate this week, I'm taking a small measure of comfort from this.
March 18, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Despite the swirling awfulness of the welfare debate this week, I'm taking a small measure of comfort from this.
I have certainly been one to rail against justifying intl aid money because it “keeps us safer” because it has more value than this but… it *does* also keep us safer
February 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I have certainly been one to rail against justifying intl aid money because it “keeps us safer” because it has more value than this but… it *does* also keep us safer
Listening to an excellent training about the eVisa transition from @praxisprojects.bsky.social fabulous Bethan Lant. Struck again and again by how little the designers of this process have thought about the actual people who have to use it…
December 13, 2024 at 10:20 AM
Listening to an excellent training about the eVisa transition from @praxisprojects.bsky.social fabulous Bethan Lant. Struck again and again by how little the designers of this process have thought about the actual people who have to use it…
God I love this time of year
December 12, 2024 at 12:44 PM
God I love this time of year
Whoever anonymously sent me this is my hero ❤️
December 7, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Whoever anonymously sent me this is my hero ❤️