I wrote an op-ed for @lbc.co.uk about Labour's immigration white paper today & how chasing Nigel Farage will take them nowhere www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view...
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No I think it will take them somewhere. Into the bin. Unfortunately it will also take the UK into fascism. So, erm...
may 12, 2025, 5:10 pm • 0 0 • view
This is worse than chasing Nigel Farage - it is chasing Enoch Powell.
may 12, 2025, 7:02 pm • 6 0 • view
Reminder: the 1970s conservative party eventually forced Powell out. Current iteration wouldn't accept his moderation.
may 13, 2025, 7:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Christ , why doesn’t he realise he cannot outperform Deform in Racism
may 12, 2025, 2:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Wouldn’t it be nice if we went after greed? Labor isn’t being paid because of greed, not immigrants.
may 12, 2025, 4:29 pm • 1 0 • view
I think it's gone beyond dog whistles now.
may 12, 2025, 2:14 pm • 0 0 • view
This is absolutely abysmal. I knew they were imitating tories but this is a new low.
may 12, 2025, 4:01 pm • 5 0 • view
Excellent article Zoe, thank you.
may 12, 2025, 2:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Democrats in the US moved right on immigration and got a whole lot of nothing. Labour should learn from that experience.
may 12, 2025, 2:12 pm • 2 0 • view
"like" :-)
may 13, 2025, 10:25 pm • 0 0 • view
What gets me is reading that Mike Padgham, managing director at Saint Cecilia's Care Group in Scarborough, said "We are doing everything we can to recruit local people but sadly the pay is not great". Then stop putting profits over people then Mike!
may 13, 2025, 8:08 am • 2 0 • view
I've been saying this ever since I was made redundant in 2009 & replaced by cheaper Eastern Europeans. Its not the migrants fault, its our terrible employment laws that allow employers to exploit workers. Its also what fuels UKIP/Reform, 'blame the migrant not your employer'. Its how we got brexit!
may 13, 2025, 10:32 am • 2 1 • view
I worry Starmer's instincts as a lawyer will kick in and by that I mean following client instructions. His "you voted for X and Y so we're delivering" approach is more following instructions than political leading. If he does this he'll simply chase Reform policies.
may 14, 2025, 7:01 am • 0 0 • view
Oh it’ll take them somewhere. In a damp corner of a rarely used Westminster kitchen there’s a food waste bin with a mouldy layer inside that used to be the Conservative Party. They’ll be on top of that.
may 13, 2025, 4:46 am • 4 0 • view
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may 12, 2025, 2:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Temu Enoch Powell has driven me back to Scottish independence.
may 12, 2025, 2:16 pm • 9 0 • view
Starmer & the Labour party are proving to be no better than the Tories. Less corrupt perhaps when it comes to lining their pockets & those of their cohorts but other than that they're behaviour is appalling. Bigoted, racist one trick ponies. I for one am disgusted & disappointed.
may 12, 2025, 4:59 pm • 4 0 • view
Very well written Zoe in such a short time. You're an academic....you should use that to your advantage.
may 12, 2025, 7:33 pm • 0 0 • view
You describe it as a dog whistle. Is this kind of racism really so hard to detect by regular folk, or have I just trained myself to hear it?
may 13, 2025, 7:58 am • 0 0 • view
Absolutely. Whatever Labour says it’s doing, or has achieved, Farage will just raise the stakes - supported by a complicit right wing media. It’s a game of ever-higher stakes where Farage will always have a better hand than Labour. It’s a losing strategy and completely pointless.
may 12, 2025, 2:45 pm • 2 0 • view
I don’t understand why he’s doing this now. There are 4 years before the next election. Plenty of time for Reform to fall flat on their faces trying to run county councils.
may 12, 2025, 6:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Is it a wolf whistle or just plain xenophobia?
may 12, 2025, 2:08 pm • 3 0 • view
What sort of weak slug gets MAGAfied in one trip to the White House?
may 13, 2025, 1:14 am • 0 0 • view
It is nothing else but shameful what they are doing.
may 12, 2025, 6:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Apart from being repulsive, it's just so stupid and obviously so.
may 12, 2025, 2:29 pm • 1 0 • view
www.youtube.com/shorts/FxOWK...
may 13, 2025, 11:51 am • 0 0 • view
Meanwhile in Spain...
may 12, 2025, 3:16 pm • 117 37 • view
People forget how currently reliant we are on foreign workers for food production in the UK today. Pretty much all meat related products would cease to be on the shelves without them.
may 12, 2025, 5:09 pm • 5 1 • view
Goes without saying it will do them no good to try to placate the Reform voters because they were never going to vote Labour in any guise. But doing so will lose them an increasing proportion of the progressive vote, and that likely will lose them the next election given their razor-thin margins.
may 12, 2025, 5:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Real precise talk in a must-read article! Hopefully, Green Party Members can take the risk of hope and #BackZack to be Party Leader to challenge the rancid hostile environment Kier has blatantly created. backzack.com
may 12, 2025, 2:16 pm • 5 0 • view
it really is fucking ridiculous. they got an absolutely massive shift in the vote last GE, and still they feel it necessary to pander to the handful of racist weirdos. fuck 'em! they need to look after the folks that got them these roles in the first place.
may 14, 2025, 7:57 am • 0 0 • view
They need to stop chasing and start to lead.
may 12, 2025, 3:54 pm • 10 0 • view
I can remember Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood and today's speech was chilling to say the least
may 12, 2025, 9:03 pm • 1 0 • view
More of Der Stürmer propaganda
may 12, 2025, 2:03 pm • 0 0 • view
I have a monthly get together with friends I used to work with. Every month the same think comes up, they are not concerned about migration in itself, but are very bothered about irregular immigration - or boat crossings. Tighter regulated migration means more irregular migration. ...
may 12, 2025, 3:16 pm • 0 0 • view
I would argue they’re doing the same as the Tories in that we have boat crossings because there are no safe routes. Those were stopped to cause the very visible, hard to hide boat crossings. Labour could stop these by creating safe ways to apply to this country for asylum.
may 12, 2025, 5:09 pm • 2 0 • view
Labour are going about the key issue the wrong way. They have become the Conservatives, with a different name, and in doing so, are alienating more people from politics, leaving a progressively smaller number of people prepared to vote.
may 12, 2025, 3:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Is ‘Island of Strangers’ code for ‘Rivers of Blood’.
may 12, 2025, 5:32 pm • 0 0 • view
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may 13, 2025, 7:34 pm • 0 0 • view
How is Nigel still around? I thought the checks from Putin would've dried up after Brexit.
may 13, 2025, 3:38 am • 1 0 • view
Don't you mean UK politics' cheques and bank balances?
may 13, 2025, 7:38 pm • 0 0 • view
At this stage, with the level of drift from the change they promised at the election, I can’t ever see myself voting Labour. Just when you thought you were saved from 14 years of Tory rule……it’s like a time-loop. What a wasted opportunity.
may 12, 2025, 5:35 pm • 0 0 • view
It will take them down, and out.
may 12, 2025, 7:18 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm clearly a stranger because I don't recognise the country i was born in and lived in for the last 59 years. We used to be better than this.
may 12, 2025, 9:47 pm • 5 0 • view
may 13, 2025, 8:50 pm • 0 0 • view
I always thought a dog whistle is something only the dogs can hear. This here seems more like a trombone
may 12, 2025, 2:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Such a good article, strong arguments clearly laid out. This Labour policy is morally vacuous and politically disastrous. And it makes it seem as if Farage was right all along when he has only ever been totally wrong.
may 12, 2025, 6:35 pm • 2 0 • view
It's not a dog whistle. It's just a whistle. We can all hear it
may 13, 2025, 9:06 am • 3 0 • view
Very nicely written, beautifully said! I’m just gonna say it again FTR: you need to be within the circle of decision makers because, you represent the adult in the room, the person that’s actually done the reading and you have no fear of saying it, I dig that about you, you’re an inspiration Zoe!
may 12, 2025, 2:44 pm • 0 0 • view
how very Enoch Powell of him...
may 12, 2025, 2:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Depressing. Who do I vote for next when i had so much hope this time.
may 13, 2025, 7:59 am • 0 0 • view