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jonkingh.bsky.social
Immigration stuff mainly. Failed drummer. Qué arte tienes.
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Joined up government latest

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Via @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social on insta, the most accurate use of this meme ever

submitted 6 hours ago • 6 comments

Today's university making redundancies is Greenwich. Yeah, like we don't need any architects do we. This madness will run and run until someone - anyone - gets a grip. While it continues, loads of the cash down the drain used to be yours. www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/greenwi...

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

The fact that Reform's economic policy is Truss On Crack gets overlooked

submitted 8 hours ago • 20 comments

🚨NEW: Senior government source says UK-EU youth mobility scheme and measures to ease trade set to be part of the deal announced at Monday's UK-EU Summit Full story: independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-reset-deal-starmer-youth-mobility-b2748875.html

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Today’s instalment of ‘oh god, so this is happening now’…

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

Y'days post: Starmer’s Disgraceful and Damaging Remarks mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/05/star... As with austerity in the 2010s, if none of the main parties can be honest about immigration then the public debate will be equally dishonest.

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I would be surprised if any senior UK TV or radio journalist is willing to ask Jenrick if he is willing to continue to say something that is not true about the current demographic composition of Bradford ubd.bradford.gov.uk/media/1675/2...

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Home Office modelling of the new international student levy assumes the 6% tax is passed on in degree price and will lead to a further 1.6% decline in postgraduate numbers. On top of the 16% or so fall we've already seen IIRC. (1/2)

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Yvette Cooper repeatedly refused to give a straight answer just now on Today to straight Q “Will councils get more money to pay care workers more?” She repeatedly committed to higher carer pay but wouldn’t commit to money so councils can fund it. Think that speaks volumes about the mess we are in.

submitted 2 days ago • 76 comments

A very concise and sober column by @stephenkb.bsky.social about how nonsensical Starmers approach sadly is. #giftlink

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

The headline doesn’t quite capture the furious, biting sarcasm of this piece by @mrjohncrace.bsky.social - which is definitely worth a few minutes of your time www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Q: There are many people who fit the criteria of fleeing persecution. Afghans for example. But they're being denied refugee status. So why such an exception for the Afrikaners? TRUMP ADMIN OFFICIAL: One of the criteria is making sure they can be assimilated easily into our country

submitted 3 days ago • 1496 comments

The Home Secretary’s response when asked whether the proposal to make migrants wait ten years for permanent residence will apply to people already here hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2025...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Interesting move. Nice that at least one party wants to challenge Reform rather than dance to their tune.

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

'Mr Mercer, who served alongside the SBS in Afghanistan... went on to warn that the role of UKSF in the process had a "very high chance of being exposed by the Afghan Inquiry", which could "lead to serious questions of all those Ministers involved in the process".' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

'Incalculable damage'

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Birminghams, then and now.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

A very weary agree from me!

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Labour's immigration announcement today is a reflection of the paucity of honest debate by BOTH political parties over the last decade on this issue. Labour has never made a counter-argument, or been honest about economic cost of immigration curbs, so it's stuck making Tory/Reform arguments 1/n

submitted 3 days ago • 64 comments

My first immediate thought on having read through this was less the influence of Reform, and more of Colville/Timothy/O'Brien/Ashworth Hayes and that lot.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

This was just horrendous hyperbole and clearly not true

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

University accounting teams react to news of a new government tax especially just for them.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Keir Starmer denies pushing anti-migrant policies in order to chase Reform, saying that "I'm doing this because it is right, because it is fair and because it is what I believe". A reminder of what he said he believed when he was running for Labour leader.

submitted 3 days ago • 124 comments

gosh

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Those sectors include childcare, where incomes are set by the government, and social care, where…prices are largely set by the government. There have, of course, been no announcements on increasing providers’ incomes. They have had their employers’ national insurance hiked, though.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments