"Beyond comprehension"

ORG has responded to the government's plans to rely on the deeply flawed eVisa scheme to carry out immigration raids and deport people.

As ORG's @sarahalsherif says, "with the use of technology, automated decision-making and AI, we can expect to see a Windrush scandal on steroids."

Read the full story ➡️ computerweekly.com/news/366623…

Write to your MP to say NO ➡️ action.openrightsgroup.org/wri…

#eVisa #immigration #ukpolitics #ukpol #migrants

UK government outlines plan to surveil migrants with eVisa data

Electronic visa data and biometric technologies will be used by the UK’s immigration enforcement authorities to surveil migrants living in the country and to ‘tighten control of the border’, attracting strong criticism from migrant support groups

^{Sebastian Klovig Skelton (ComputerWeekly.com)}

It's about time we killed Brexit once and for all.

What good is it doing the country? Are the bigots who wanted this even happy now? No, we're all miserable thanks to them getting played by the likes of Farage.

About time we dealt with reality instead of the fantasy Keir Starmer lives in....

#Brexit #EU #GPEW #UKPOL #UKPolitics

So now we know. Genocide is good, says the UK government.

“Preserving the British role in the F-35 jet fighter programme takes precedence over any UK obligation to prevent a genocide in Israel, UK government lawyers will argue in court this week.”

theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/m…

#Genocide #Palestine #Israel #UKPolitics #Starmer

UK’s F-35 exports more important than stopping genocide, lawyers to argue

High court case to test whether ministers have illegally supplied Israel parts that may be used to attack Palestinians

^{Patrick Wintour (The Guardian)}

#UKpol #UKpolitics
#Precrime #ThoughtCrime #FreeSpeech #PeacefulProtest
#CivilRights #Legal

👉A friendly warning to the #Starmer Government👈

(6/6)

...continues down this authoritarian path.

I agree, 👉this #London incident is a #MinorityReport inspired #PreCrime, as well as an #Orwellian #ThoughtCrime transgression by the #UK police.👈

Hopefully, there will be a high-level investigation.

//

Here's what happened in #London:

theguardian.com/world/2025/may…

Why did 30 Met officers kick the door down at a teenage tea and biscuits meeting in a Quaker house?

When six young women hired a room to discuss the war in Gaza, the gathering ended with 30 officers storming in to make arrests

^{Emine Sinmaz (The Guardian)}

@tg9541
#UKpol #UKpolitics
#Precrime #ThoughtCrime #FreeSpeech #PeacefulProtest
#CivilRights #Legal

👉A friendly warning to the #Starmer Government👈

(5/n)

...relatively small countries on the periphery lies in strengh through unity. De facto, the #UK is an #enclave of the #EuropeanUnion.

Unless, which is not unlikely, the majority of the #EU's country will be ruled by rightwing or neofascist governments, #Britain is likely to fail the test of #democracy if it...

#UKpol #UKpolitics
#Precrime #ThoughtCrime #FreeSpeech #PeacefulProtest
#CivilRights #Legal

👉A friendly warning to the #Starmer Government👈

(4/n)

...international #politics over tea 👉makes #British politics incompatible with core #EU values.👈

Inevitably, the time will come when a #UK #PM will not only come knocking at the #EU's doors, but literally banging at them, b/c in an antagonistic world of #TradeWars, the only viable possibility for...

#UKpol #UKpolitics
#Precrime #ThoughtCrime #FreeSpeech #PeacefulProtest
#CivilRights #Legal

👉A friendly warning to the #Starmer Government👈

(3/n)

... advent of #PredictivePolicing and the continuing crackdown on the right to #PeacefulProtest in the #UK, it seems that the #Starmer government seems to be following down that road.

👉The despicable use of anti-terror force by 30 #policemen in a place of #worship in #London against six young women👈 discussing...

@tg9541
#UKpol #UKpolitics
#Precrime #ThoughtCrime #FreeSpeech #PeacefulProtest
#CivilRights #Legal

👉A friendly warning to the #Starmer Government👈

(2/n)

...the other hand, having being only partially settled by #colonists from the inventors of #democracy, #Athens, is a different story entirely, politically and geographically.
President #Erdogan has been leading the country towards an #authoritarian model of society, ever further away from the #EU's principles.

With the...

@tg9541
#UKpol #UKpolitics
#Precrime #ThoughtCrime #FreeSpeech #PeacefulProtest
#CivilRights #Legal

👉A friendly warning to the #Starmer Government👈

(1/n)

I've been saying ever since the announcement of the #Brexit Referendum, that the land where 20th century human rights originated, that conceived the #MagnaCarta and the #BillOfRights, belongs into the #EuropeanUnion. Geographically and economically, it really has no sound choice.

#Türkiye, on...

theguardian.com/world/2025/may…

Why did 30 Met officers kick the door down at a teenage tea and biscuits meeting in a Quaker house?

When six young women hired a room to discuss the war in Gaza, the gathering ended with 30 officers storming in to make arrests

^{Emine Sinmaz (The Guardian)}

Slow lad finally coming to where some of us never left. 10 wasted years of Brexit......

theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

#Brexit #Starmer #EU #UKPOL #UKPolitics

‘Look forward, not back’: UK keen for closer trade ties with EU, says Starmer

Exclusive: PM says he has ambitious plans for partnership and argues Britons have moved on from Brexit

^{Pippa Crerar (The Guardian)}

Wikipedia @wikimediauk are going to court over the UK Online Safety Act!

Saddling platforms with hefty duties and penalties under the new regime will cause many safe sites to fold.

We can't lose the best of the web due to laws that were meant to tackle the worst of it.

#SaveOurSites

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62j2g…

#OnlineSafetyAct #OSA #NetPlurality #ukpol #ukpolitics #wikipedia #freedomofexpression

Wikipedia legally challenges 'flawed' online safety rules

It argues the regulations could threaten the privacy and safety of Wikipedia's volunteer contributors.

^{Chris Vallance (BBC News)}

Blimey.

Today in Parliament:

"I’ve been in this House 20 years, I have supported Israel pretty much at all costs quite frankly."

“But today I want to say that I got it wrong and I condemn Israel for what it is doing to the Palestinian people in Gaza"

–Conservative MP Mark Pritchard

#UKPolitics #FreePalestine #LabourAgentsOfGenocide

@JugglingWithEggs
There's a significant difference between getting people motivated to hold their nose and vote for a party they don't like to effect a change of government from the God-awful to the hopefully not actively too bad and getting them motivated to change one MP they didn't interact with for another MP they probably won't interact with which scarce any impact on a government's huge majority. It shouldn't be so — the election of any MP should be a serious business — but if only 31% of the electorate could be coaxed to vote Labour to kick out the Tories after the disaster of the previous fifteen years the by-election was probably too big an ask.

Perhaps we need to vigorously talk up the prospects and impacts of the Greens (for good or bad) so they become seen by the stay-at-homes as an active option rather than a passive protest and maybe that will become an alternative gravitational pull on Labour direction.

#UKPolitics

🚨 Call to Action: #UK #Archaeology Community 🚨

An open letter is being organized to the #CBA, #UAUK, #CIfA, & #FAME regarding the #EHRC Guidance and April 2025 Supreme Court ruling.

📢 If you work in UK archaeology (in any capacity in the broadest sense), add your voice!

✍️ Sign here (form closes Wed 7 May, 17:00 GMT):
docs.google.com/document/d/1vs…

#trans #transrights #ukpolitics #history #archeology #anarchism #academia #ukpol #histodons

@archaeodons @archaeology @academicchatter @academia

Open Letter to CBA, CIfA, FAME, and UAUK, in relation the Supreme Court Ruling and EHRC Interim Guidance

If you are in any way involved in UK Archaeology (in its broadest sense), and you would like to sign this open letter then please fill in GOOGLE FORM LINK. Responses will be manually inputted.

^{Google Docs}

If hatred & division is all that #ReformUK have then they will always be on the losing side. Vote for a world you want, not one you've been told you want. Vote with your conscience, not with other peoples rhetoric.

#LocalElections2025 #Localelections #Standuptoracism #ElectionDay #UKPolitics

UK: Even the Evening Standard is urging people not to vote Labour in the upcoming elections because of its horrific transphobia, racism, xenophobia and ableism. Labour is already Reform.

standard.co.uk/comment/keir-st…

#UK #UKpol #UKpolitics #Labour

I'm queer and Keir Starmer's trans rights U-turn chills me to the bone

Are you really surprised the Prime Minister turned on trans women at the first opportunity?

^{India Block (Evening Standard)}

What Labour _should_ be saying is “we are grateful to the Supreme Court for highlighting the ambiguity of the current law, and we will be bringing forward emergency legislation to resolve the issue as soon as is practicable. It has always been this Government’s position that trans women are women and trans men are men”.

Instead we get this weasel nonsense…
bbc.com/news/articles/c5y42zzw…
#UKpolitics #TransRights

Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson says

Bridget Phillipson was responding to questions following the Supreme Court's gender ruling.

^{Aleks Phillips (BBC News)}