serwianski.bsky.social
Sometime Social Worker, voyager, County Cricket fan, Labourist, 60/70s Rock Gods concert goer, Black Country dweller…. Read lots of fiction…
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As I noted yesterday it is entirely Starmer’s polarising language that has driven this debate. Cooper’s language, in white paper and since, much more measured and balanced. Seems the Home Sec recognises the gravity and sensitivity of this issue but some in Downing St don’t.
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Remember the contretemps between Wolverhampton NE MP Renee Short and her eventual replacement Ken Purchase over her quoting Powell … Powell remained a poison in local politics for years, maybe still does with Reform’s nearby wins…
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Getting really annoyed by politicians and commentators referring to Social Care workers as unskilled . Perhaps a reflection of their view about people needing social care ?
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And Pat McFadden , influential Cabinet member & Wolves SE MP is usually wheeled out to defend Starmer....
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Silence from Wolverhampton MPs & Councillors despite the City's local Enoch Powell connection and the real pressures on the local Council over Social Care. Labour Politicians weren't so reticent in the Powell era.
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Organised by local Sikh families, attended by a real mix of local people: white, Caribbean, Polish, Jewish and several English people, some who have lived here 50+ years- and Starmer says we’re an Island of strangers! Some good polish cheesecake as well as samosas and cheese sarnies!
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Actually I find this personally offensive although my Great+ Grand Parents came to the UK in 1874. Think of all the Public and private services that have benefitted from the children and grand and great grand children of migrants. I should think many MPs and Ministers have this background.
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Casablanca
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The Grapes of Wrath was vilified by business and government officials who called it “communist propaganda.” In some areas, the book was branded as obscene, burned, and banned from schools and libraries. Nevertheless, the book was the biggest selling novel of 1939. /end
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www.itv.com/news/2025-05...
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Good that @itvnews.bsky.social is continuing its investigation on historic forced adoption, now with the PFI (Pregnant From Ireland)children, born in the UK to Irish mothers and trafficked back to Ireland