Witnessing Labour trying to mimic Reform with migrant raid videos is sickening & will simply reinforce Reform’s messages. Just months after race riots, it also risks encouraging further animosity. We need safe & legal routes for asylum seekers, not boasts about which party can be cruellest - ThreadSky

carolinelucas.bsky.social • 77 days ago

Witnessing Labour trying to mimic Reform with migrant raid videos is sickening & will simply reinforce Reform’s messages. Just months after race riots, it also risks encouraging further animosity. We need safe & legal routes for asylum seekers, not boasts about which party can be cruellest

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semaleena.bsky.social•76 days ago

Absolutely sickening

slightreturn.bsky.social•77 days ago

Starmer once again proving he is no leader at all. This time by following the lead of the odious rabble-rouser, Farage. Our so-called 'Labour' Party is an absolute disgrace.

baron-of-navan.bsky.social•77 days ago

they are grubby

davidwallen.bsky.social•76 days ago

In a few years time Labour risk going the same way the Dems did over the pond

linusd.bsky.social•77 days ago

May failed with the hostile environment, so did Patel, Cleverly, Badenoch, Braverman, Farage, Lee, Tice and Hitler so why are we seeing this negative and counterproductive communications strategy? What a lame start to the week

andymc01.bsky.social•77 days ago

Disagree. For too long govts have been quietly removing those whose asylum claims have been rejected) with no chance of asylum (cos they're not refugees) as Farage and his haters falsely claim Nothing is Being Done! Worth shutting them up so their possible march to a position of power is stopped.

stufloydy.bsky.social•77 days ago

That's fine, and I agree to a point. But these videos are hateful. A far better way would be to see the actual process of applications being explained. To hear them refute the right wing bollocks of hotels, cars and free mobile phones for free to immigrants.

andymc01.bsky.social•77 days ago

Fair point

oldmanrambling.bsky.social•77 days ago

How long before we see a Labour Minister togged up in Police garb joining these sickening raids, with their overtones of what is happening with Trump’s Nazi ICE squads in the US?

sparkleandsmile.bsky.social•77 days ago

Reform are demanders like the Talibans who are talib. So the more they submit to demands or talab, more prolific the demands will become. Giving in to Reform seems to be Starmer’s political choices. Labour has changed beyond recognition.

alistairblantyre.bsky.social•76 days ago

😳

petemarchetto.bsky.social•77 days ago

Labour sees no threat from the left. Too many of us stick with Labour on the 'But the Tories' principle, so Starmer knows he's got most of us in his back pocket. We need to start showing we're not so safe. I joined the Green Party the day Faiza Shaheen was ousted as Labour's PPC. Not enough of...

petemarchetto.bsky.social•77 days ago

... us did that. If the Greens were consistently in double-figures, McSweeney wouldn't be instructing Starmer to court the right.

It's our pathetic inaction that's leading to this, and it can only drag the nation's Overton window along with it.

Time to defect, people. If not now, when?

leewilson1971.bsky.social•76 days ago

I knew a victim of child abuse, who didn't get why she shouldn't be watching 'Hostel' and the like in front of her kids.

The government is laying on its own torture porn. It'll work on the people they've groomed and abused in the same way, and kids will have their boundaries wrecked.

stairy.bsky.social•77 days ago

Starmer is strangely similar to Boris Johnson. He sees which way the mob is running, then runs to the front to lead it.

harrietburns.bsky.social•77 days ago

Dreadful

sligogirl.bsky.social•77 days ago

Well said, a shameful performance from Yvette Cooper and Keir Starmer.

ombudsmans61pc.bsky.social•77 days ago

"Truly I live in dark times" Bertolt Brecht.

My computer has hacked as I emailed MPs at Parliament.

Police Ref: CCE21 11.30 9.2.2025.

Will this culprit be raided by the police?

docpaperback.bsky.social•77 days ago

bluenotgrey.bsky.social•76 days ago

Just remembered our MP one before last was Amber Rudd. I actually think she carried the can for T.May and wasn't as bad as our next Tory. But my hostile environment email to my current Lab MP may mention A.Rudd...

akay24.bsky.social•77 days ago

I’d like to see the same kind of raids on those British people who are using and abusing the benefits system rather than migrants who are crying out for work and just want some opportunity to better their lives. This country is an utter disgrace.

martinpb66.bsky.social•77 days ago

What we need is start raiding and imprisoning tex evaders, money launderers, insider traders and fee gaugers. Most benefit fraud is more due to error in a system designed torture the poor.

akay24.bsky.social•77 days ago

The benefits system is a mess and open to being abused, it’s why we have absurd levels of social care funding in the UK. Benefits are there for people who need them, not those who WANT them and choose not to work. I find it perplexing that we have a pool of asylum seekers wanting to work and…..

akay24.bsky.social•77 days ago

yet we insist on prohibiting them the opportunity to do so and fill much needed gaps in the labour pool. It’s ignorant, racist and makes me ashamed to be British.

martinpb66.bsky.social•77 days ago

Here is an example of a real benefit cheat. Claiming to be sustainable when it is not. Corporate welfare costs hundreds of billions.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/10/uk-subsidies-for-drax-sustainable-wood-power-plant

akay24.bsky.social•77 days ago

Indeed. Benefit cheats come in all shapes and sizes.

intruder1500stevie.bsky.social•77 days ago

I don’t remember anyone from the Labour Party ever explaining how this situation has now been changed ? https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/priti-patel-admits-there-are-no-safe-and-legal-routes-for-asylum-seekers-crossing-the-channel-b2188451.html

nacnudrium.bsky.social•77 days ago

I'm still glad the Tories were expelled, but bloody hell Labour are disappointing.

ceruleanman.bsky.social•77 days ago

Red meat to the socially conservative. Starmer has no politics other than imitation. The refuge of a scoundrel.

nacnudrium.bsky.social•77 days ago

He's an empty man.

pete882.bsky.social•77 days ago

The ‘driver’ isn’t driving the train. Mandy and other creatures of the right tell Keith what to do. What to say. What clothes to wear. He follows instructions and gets to be a star.

lyricallymisheard.bsky.social•77 days ago

You get...Free Glasses and tickets to Taylor Swift...I'll do it said Keith not even pausing to ask, are they front row tickets?

ballroomjam.bsky.social•77 days ago

Labour in name only.

Labour as a party for the people is dead and has been for a long time.
Starmer's labour serves the genociders and the billionaire thieves.

celticboi.bsky.social•77 days ago

Starmer has no ideology other than looking out for Starmer and Starmer's fame and future opportunities.

A sycophant of the highest order

maryjka.bsky.social•77 days ago

That immigrants scapegoating clearly gone out of hand!!
It's the system that's sucks, not caught in that innocent people who mostly sought safety and now are harassed !!!
Turning public against foreigners is a nasty thing to do!
Sort out the Home Office first!

spiritoftherainbow.bsky.social•77 days ago

Thank you for standing up for humanity.

ratspart.bsky.social•77 days ago

As you well know Caroline, after the last scumbags, it’s lucky we still have a firm. People want to stop filming the police, support AC12, work for them, and ably support our XR.
Labour don’t mimic anything. Why would we/they/us?

inequalitynews.bsky.social•77 days ago

This is just vile. We're voting #Green next time. Can't be a party to this fascist nonsense. If you have a #Labour MP, write to them and express your disgust - we have. Would love to know why #Labour think this will attract more votes than they lose. Think they could be in for a shock.

andreiabluesky.bsky.social•77 days ago

Yeap, wrote to my Labour MP. This is pathetic...

jimerzcook.bsky.social•77 days ago

I agree. This only benefits them, Labour need to make the positive case for immigration.

deadgirlyoyo.bsky.social•77 days ago

what's going on? yinz looking at the us and saying "hey, that's a good idea"?

joep90.bsky.social•77 days ago

Path to citizenship for existing undocumented migrants and a coastal patrol to prevent more boats. Won't cost anything if you are taxing big tech appropriately.

humanpings.bsky.social•77 days ago

If only #Reeves was MAKING #Corporation pay 99% taxes they DO NOT pay + force them 2 register in UK, NOT Ireland, we would be flying!

Oh, there is the threats for jobs... the usual Corporation tactic. OK do not create jobs, a competitor will as soon as you fire people!
It is called #Business!

pete882.bsky.social•77 days ago

They want politics to be fought on the right. All politics. The progressive politics of Jezza, that’s forbidden. You drive the progressives out of the party. Race riots and pogroms. Refugees burnt alive. Labour shrugs. That’s the new political terrain. They accept it. Because they are swine.

csav55.bsky.social•77 days ago

Don't like this at all, though illegal workers are presumably not asylum seekers, don't conflate the two, though absolutely agree we need safe and legal routes for asylum seekers to use.

carolinejmolloy.bsky.social•77 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/carolinejmolloy.bsky.social/post/3lhsu5wmci22e

latedaysun.bsky.social•77 days ago

Nazi Trump is setting an example for your country, STOP THEM NOW!

indar13.bsky.social•75 days ago

And we need to look after them when they arrive.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/brighton-hotel-where-asylum-seeking-children-went-missing-reopen

christo-walton.bsky.social•77 days ago

I wish Labour would understand that you cannot appease racists/bigots/fascists. Pandering to them just reinforces their ignorance & hatred.

endless-resistance.bsky.social•77 days ago

Thats what Keir Starmer is aiming for - to get Farage into no. 10

mikea57.bsky.social•77 days ago

Why video and publish these raids ? If,or more likely when, vigilante groups spring up copying this action and take the law into their own hands like they have in other areas, who will the Government blame for encouragement and incitement.

peterwelsh68.bsky.social•77 days ago

In Thatchers day before comms were comms there was Saatchi and Saatchi shouting Labour isn’t working.

Now Labour use Snatchi and Snatchi to drive home their awful messaging about immigation raids with nuance none.

##LabourIsntWorking

maryjka.bsky.social•77 days ago

https://skywriter.blue/pages/georgemonbiot.bsky.social/post/3lhsyfjzbb22c

dudleydebeau.bsky.social•76 days ago

Agree it’s utterly tasteless & dehumanising

glisglis.bsky.social•77 days ago

Who would have thought that a Labour govt in the UK would be competing for the most right wing spot on the political spectrum? Labour voters must be appalled (and moving to Greens in droves).

interestedpartyuk.bsky.social•77 days ago

It is clear they are not just mimicking Reform. They are rw scum who truly believe in their superiority. They support genocide of Palestinians, allowing the poor and disadvantaged to suffer, the removal of human rights from the non-wealthy etc. They need to be destroyed.

oliviamlondon.bsky.social•77 days ago

Performative cruelty is never a good look. These videos only show how the system is repressive and most definitely not on the side of ordinary people. Disgusting neo Fascist posturing from a party that claims to be socialist.

mikebrady.bsky.social•77 days ago

Journalists and politicians need to focus in on one of the five core Reform policies being to scrap net zero and unlock Britain’s vast oil and gas reserves.

How does accelerating climate breakdown benefit their backer Musk - who will survive it on Mars?

seaghano.bsky.social•77 days ago

A labour movement that appeases fascism is not a labour movement.

fplhonk.bsky.social•77 days ago

Would you prefer them to not publicise anything they’re doing and allow the media to dictate what they’re not doing when even the most pro-immigration of us know that at least half the country want to deport ‘illegal’ claimants and seeming to do nothing is exactly what fuels the far right?

finnis.bsky.social•77 days ago

New Labour, countless reboots, complicit in genocide and aping Reform. One term bozos. Or was that the plan?

jmc123.bsky.social•77 days ago

It is repulsive. Targeting the poorest is repulsive. It's Labour who is 'taking the mickey. As for this ex labour me I vote Green. 💚

sideeply.bsky.social•77 days ago

They should be raiding the homes of the Architects of Brexit FIRST.

No greater crime was ever perpetrated upon the people of Britain.

This Labour Government is concentrating on ALL the wrong issues.
It's almost an act of collusion to enable Reform to be successful.

Finger OUT,Starmer.

hampshirekarin.bsky.social•77 days ago

It’s shocking to think a so-called Labour government would act this way!

cerimu.bsky.social•77 days ago

Thank you to Greens for consistently speaking up forALL human rights. 💚

telson.bsky.social•77 days ago

*Labour not very nice* impression intensifies.

stilldelvingh.bsky.social•77 days ago

Just saying
https://bsky.app/profile/stilldelvingh.bsky.social/post/3lhnvscullc2v

wildwildwind.bsky.social•77 days ago

I'm not so sure it will 'reinforce Reform’s messages' - people genuinely want reassurance that some issues are being tackled. It doesn't mean that people are anti-migrant. Rather just concerned. Labour is correct to do so.

paulthedoodlebug.bsky.social•76 days ago

The problem arises when Farage starts popping up at each and every hotel/HMO demanding this place needs a raid next. Now, if more people are not seen being dragged out of their homes, those 'concerned' citizens are likely to vote for a party that will see it done.

wildwildwind.bsky.social•76 days ago

Thanks for your reply. If I'm understanding what you are saying - you are probably correct. However, there is a fine balance that needs to be conveyed - between genuine compassion & action when necessary.

paulthedoodlebug.bsky.social•76 days ago

It is certainly a tight rope. The raids and deportations are an unfortunate though necessary part of the process, the televising it was IMO too far down 'The Purge' path for comfort.

dd-a2112.bsky.social•77 days ago

I remain deeply disappointed by Starmer. In an interview in 2023 he stated his priority was gaining power, not policies. He remains focussed on the same, hence pandering to the right-wing thugs.

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