Simon Parker
@sparkerworld.bsky.social
Prof of Politics with a focus on migration, cities & social justice.
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The Green Party announces that former Labour MP, Lloyd Russell-Moyle, has defected to them, after being de-selected by Keir Starmer's party last year
"My old party has left behind millions of people who want hope... In the Greens I see a party that is offering that," says Russell-Moyle
"My old party has left behind millions of people who want hope... In the Greens I see a party that is offering that," says Russell-Moyle
November 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The Green Party announces that former Labour MP, Lloyd Russell-Moyle, has defected to them, after being de-selected by Keir Starmer's party last year
"My old party has left behind millions of people who want hope... In the Greens I see a party that is offering that," says Russell-Moyle
"My old party has left behind millions of people who want hope... In the Greens I see a party that is offering that," says Russell-Moyle
It's really important that the negative impact this will have on an already traumatised population and the damage it will do to integration efforts are shared by as many individuals & groups as possible.
No 10 today: "The Home Office is announcing details of a consultation setting out the criteria to double the standard qualifying time for settlement [ILR] from 5 to 10 years"
"The measures follow publication of the Immigration White Paper, setting out comprehensive reforms" to the migration system.
"The measures follow publication of the Immigration White Paper, setting out comprehensive reforms" to the migration system.
November 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
It's really important that the negative impact this will have on an already traumatised population and the damage it will do to integration efforts are shared by as many individuals & groups as possible.
BBC News - Trump signs bill ordering justice department to release Epstein files
"...although some could be withheld if they relate to an active investigation or are deemed to invade personal privacy"
So nothing that could inciminate Trump or his wealthy backers then
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"...although some could be withheld if they relate to an active investigation or are deemed to invade personal privacy"
So nothing that could inciminate Trump or his wealthy backers then
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump signs bill ordering release of Jeffrey Epstein files
The bill gives the US Justice Department 30 days to release all the files in a searchable format.
www.bbc.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:57 AM
BBC News - Trump signs bill ordering justice department to release Epstein files
"...although some could be withheld if they relate to an active investigation or are deemed to invade personal privacy"
So nothing that could inciminate Trump or his wealthy backers then
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"...although some could be withheld if they relate to an active investigation or are deemed to invade personal privacy"
So nothing that could inciminate Trump or his wealthy backers then
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Wes Streeting has said he completely backs the Home Secretary's Reform approved immigration policy which will devastate an already over burdened NHS. Starmer's right wing zealots are wrecking what's left of one of the best public health services in the world.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Up to 50,000 nurses could quit UK over immigration plans, survey suggests
Exclusive: union leaders say proposed changes are immoral and could threaten patient safety if there is staff exodus
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Wes Streeting has said he completely backs the Home Secretary's Reform approved immigration policy which will devastate an already over burdened NHS. Starmer's right wing zealots are wrecking what's left of one of the best public health services in the world.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
My sympathies are limited since it was Major's 'bastards' who got us into this mess in the first place. It's no good crying over the smashed up house your own family has vandalised.
John Major, "Our links to Europe and America may be loser now than once they were and that is a loss"
"The loss of trade with Europe alone costs us £100 billion of lost trade every year"
"That's a tax yield of £40 billion"
"How useful would that have been in recent months to the Chancellor?"
"The loss of trade with Europe alone costs us £100 billion of lost trade every year"
"That's a tax yield of £40 billion"
"How useful would that have been in recent months to the Chancellor?"
November 20, 2025 at 7:12 AM
My sympathies are limited since it was Major's 'bastards' who got us into this mess in the first place. It's no good crying over the smashed up house your own family has vandalised.
If the pyjamas fit as they say...
Did Labour MPs ever imagine that they would be ending the first period of their first government in more than 14 years with their own Home Secretary feeling the need to publicly deny that she plans to defect to Reform?
November 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
If the pyjamas fit as they say...
Immigration sols please consider applying for this position where you would be working in the award winning Migrant and Refugee Children’s Legal Unit (MiCLU) and alongside my amazing and inspiring spouse - who also bakes fantastic cakes!
Latest post from us: Immigration Solicitor at Islington Law Centre | Free Movement
Immigration Solicitor at Islington Law Centre - Free Movement
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November 18, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Immigration sols please consider applying for this position where you would be working in the award winning Migrant and Refugee Children’s Legal Unit (MiCLU) and alongside my amazing and inspiring spouse - who also bakes fantastic cakes!
Excellent article by @zoejardiniere.bsky.social
Let's hope this really is the final straw for Keir Starmer's disgrace of a government.
open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
Let's hope this really is the final straw for Keir Starmer's disgrace of a government.
open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
Labour’s Vile Appeasement of the Anti-Migrant Right Won’t Even ‘Work’
Stripping refugees of their jewelry is part of a cruel new anti-asylum plan by the British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood.
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November 18, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Excellent article by @zoejardiniere.bsky.social
Let's hope this really is the final straw for Keir Starmer's disgrace of a government.
open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
Let's hope this really is the final straw for Keir Starmer's disgrace of a government.
open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
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New post
The legal and constitutional implications of the asylum white paper: Some initial thoughts
publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/11/17/t...
The legal and constitutional implications of the asylum white paper: Some initial thoughts
publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/11/17/t...
The legal and constitutional implications of the asylum white paper: Some initial thoughts
Proposals for radical reform of the UK’s asylum system raise a number of legal and constitutional issues, with respect both to the European Convention on Human Rights and the domestic principle of …
publiclawforeveryone.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
New post
The legal and constitutional implications of the asylum white paper: Some initial thoughts
publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/11/17/t...
The legal and constitutional implications of the asylum white paper: Some initial thoughts
publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/11/17/t...
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“This was a cynical strategic manoeuvre to avoid losing voters to the far right, but it seems, based on polling, that all they have done is prime their own voters to join the far right rather than stay with the Social Democrats.”
Another potential Denmark example for Labour to follow!
Another potential Denmark example for Labour to follow!
November 18, 2025 at 8:15 AM
“This was a cynical strategic manoeuvre to avoid losing voters to the far right, but it seems, based on polling, that all they have done is prime their own voters to join the far right rather than stay with the Social Democrats.”
Another potential Denmark example for Labour to follow!
Another potential Denmark example for Labour to follow!
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The way this Govenrment are treating some of the most vulnerable people in the world is disgusting.
And they the audacity to pretend it's coming from a place of compassion and concern.
Their only actual concern seems to be dancing to the tune of the far right rather than tackle inequality.
And they the audacity to pretend it's coming from a place of compassion and concern.
Their only actual concern seems to be dancing to the tune of the far right rather than tackle inequality.
November 17, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The way this Govenrment are treating some of the most vulnerable people in the world is disgusting.
And they the audacity to pretend it's coming from a place of compassion and concern.
Their only actual concern seems to be dancing to the tune of the far right rather than tackle inequality.
And they the audacity to pretend it's coming from a place of compassion and concern.
Their only actual concern seems to be dancing to the tune of the far right rather than tackle inequality.
This Labour Home Secretary is the best membership and voter recruiter the Green Party has ever had.
Cruel. Callous. Cowardly.
The public are seeing this Labour government for exactly who they are.
We all have a responsibility to make them pay at the ballot box.
Reject the hate. Reject them.
This is not who we are. Let's make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
The public are seeing this Labour government for exactly who they are.
We all have a responsibility to make them pay at the ballot box.
Reject the hate. Reject them.
This is not who we are. Let's make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
This Labour Home Secretary is the best membership and voter recruiter the Green Party has ever had.
Oh dear. It looks like we are going to have to relaunch #EndChildDerentionNow and dust off our Paddington Bears...
I would never have believed we would see a headline like this under a Labour government
November 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Oh dear. It looks like we are going to have to relaunch #EndChildDerentionNow and dust off our Paddington Bears...
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The Government inherited an asylum system in meltdown, and had managed to at least get cases being processed again while ending the madness of the Rwanda plan. But the policies being announced today undermine all of that, making it harder for refugees to integrate and contribute to their communities
November 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
The Government inherited an asylum system in meltdown, and had managed to at least get cases being processed again while ending the madness of the Rwanda plan. But the policies being announced today undermine all of that, making it harder for refugees to integrate and contribute to their communities
Most people voted Labour in the hope of electing a more humane government than the previous Conservative one. They did not vote for a government that would win praise from the likes of Nigel Farage & Tommy Robinson.
Asked if Keir Starmer believes British people want to "see refugee children pulled out of school and deported after 10 years in this country”, his spokesman says that “what the British public wants and what this government was elected on a mandate to deliver was to secure our borders"
November 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Most people voted Labour in the hope of electing a more humane government than the previous Conservative one. They did not vote for a government that would win praise from the likes of Nigel Farage & Tommy Robinson.
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A few more details about Michael Prescott, the corporate lobbyist behind the “BBC bias” memo 👇🏻👇🏻
‘BBC bias’ memo was written by American pharma lobbyist
A guest post from Sam Bright.
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November 17, 2025 at 10:53 AM
A few more details about Michael Prescott, the corporate lobbyist behind the “BBC bias” memo 👇🏻👇🏻
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I hope every Labour MP considering whether to support Shabana Mahmood's asylum plans remembers Nigel Farage's assessment that the “Home Secretary sounds like a Reform supporter.”
If they support them they will too.
If they support them they will too.
November 17, 2025 at 7:19 AM
I hope every Labour MP considering whether to support Shabana Mahmood's asylum plans remembers Nigel Farage's assessment that the “Home Secretary sounds like a Reform supporter.”
If they support them they will too.
If they support them they will too.
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Stella Creasy MP writes that the asylum proposals of the Labour government are "performatively cruel" and likely to be ineffective in securing control or going after the smuggling gangs
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
ICE-style raids on Britain's streets: that's all Labour's brutal asylum reforms will achieve | Stella Creasy
If we want to ‘stop the boats’, we need to stop the BS when it comes to what creates refugees, and how to respond to them, says Labour MP Stella Creasy
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Stella Creasy MP writes that the asylum proposals of the Labour government are "performatively cruel" and likely to be ineffective in securing control or going after the smuggling gangs
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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One Labour MP told HuffPost UK: "We can’t just have [immigration minister] Mike Tapp deporting people and call it a policy."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...
Labour Splits Erupt As MPs Condemn Shabana Mahmood's Immigration Crackdown
One said the government had taken "a wrong turning".
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 6:53 AM
One Labour MP told HuffPost UK: "We can’t just have [immigration minister] Mike Tapp deporting people and call it a policy."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...
Absolute ghouls. The Danes have been doing this Nazi stuff for years and not even the worst of the worst Tory Home Secretaries have gone there. Yet here is Shabana Mahmoud proving that a Labour government can out nasty any performatively cruel regime on the planet.
Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people.
How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
November 17, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Absolute ghouls. The Danes have been doing this Nazi stuff for years and not even the worst of the worst Tory Home Secretaries have gone there. Yet here is Shabana Mahmoud proving that a Labour government can out nasty any performatively cruel regime on the planet.
Let's hope this is the first of many such posts from back bench Labour MPs. This inhumane policy was not in the manifesto & Labour voters do not believe that recognized refugees should be deported who have rebuilt their lives in Britain just bec some Home Office bureaucrat designates their COI safe.
The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Let's hope this is the first of many such posts from back bench Labour MPs. This inhumane policy was not in the manifesto & Labour voters do not believe that recognized refugees should be deported who have rebuilt their lives in Britain just bec some Home Office bureaucrat designates their COI safe.
Don't waste your time with Trump. He has a country to run apparently (when not on the golf course or cosplaying the Great Gatsby).
November 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Don't waste your time with Trump. He has a country to run apparently (when not on the golf course or cosplaying the Great Gatsby).
Blue Labour's hard-core Home Sec doubling down on leadership woes by going right of Farage - will drive remaining non-racist Labour voters to Greens. Opportunity knocks for Streeting or Miliband to say 'not in my name' and rally backbench opposition to any proposed legislation. This will backfire.
This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform.
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Blue Labour's hard-core Home Sec doubling down on leadership woes by going right of Farage - will drive remaining non-racist Labour voters to Greens. Opportunity knocks for Streeting or Miliband to say 'not in my name' and rally backbench opposition to any proposed legislation. This will backfire.
