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Home Office reaches ‘new depths of cruelty’ with plans to saddle refugees with £10K debt

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 RAF Linton-On-Ouse in North Yorkshire, which the Home Office plans to use to detain thousands of asylum seekers in its quest to shut more hotels, June 26, 2026

FORCING people seeking refuge into £10,000 of debt is an “abandonment of principles that should never be negotiable,” campaigners warned today as the government published new plans for its immigration system.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announced the proposal, which would order asylum-seekers to pay the sum to cover living costs while they await a decision on their status.

If they do not pay, Ms Mahmood’s plans would automatically deny refugees settled status in Britain.

Critics immediately slammed the means-tested scheme, saying it would punish people fleeing war, torture and famine.

And it would only raise a “relatively small” amount for the Home Office’s goals of cutting the amount it spends each year on asylum accommodation and support by £4 billion.

The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) condemned the move as “yet another shameless attempt by Labour to inflate the coffers of private companies like Serco, Mears and Clearsprings with multibillion-pound contracts to run asylum accommodation unfit for human habitation.”

JCWI spokesperson Seema Syeda told the Star: “Forcing people seeking safety into debt to pay for it is new depths of cruelty.

“There’s a simple solution: give asylum-seekers the right to rent and the right to work, so they can live in our communities in accommodation they choose — as all human beings deserve to be treated.

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How Secret Pro-Israel Money Flooded the Labour Party and Ended with a Ban of Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur

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Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer visits STARK, a defense tech company on June 5, 2026 in Swindon, England. Photo by Alastair Grant – WPA Pool / Getty Images.

Story by Paul Holden

… Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government is not really a Labour government; it came to power on the back of a secret project to wrest control of the Labour Party back from an ascendant left wing. This secret project was resourced by illegally undeclared money from wealthy donors, funneled through a seemingly anodyne think tank called Labour Together. It involved covertly seeding promiscuous claims of antisemitism against political opponents, attempting to silence independent media that threatened to expose its project, and—ultimately—developing the dishonest leadership pitch that allowed Keir Starmer to trick a left-wing membership to elect him leader.

Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary responsible for the ban on Piker and Uygur, was one of a ‘brave band’ of eight MPs that guided the Labour Together project during the leadership of Starmer’s left-wing predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn.

The MP who has most loudly demanded Piker and Uygur’s banning is David Taylor. Elected in 2024 as part of the Labour’s landslide, Taylor was closely vetted and approved by a Labour Party bureaucracy reporting directly to Labour Together’s long-time former managing director. And the single largest donor to Taylor’s election campaign was Labour Together.

Piker and Uygur were not banned by the Labour Party—they were banned by the Labour Together party. The primary architect of the Labour Together project is Morgan McSweeney, who was, until recently, Starmer’s chief of staff and widely understood as the real force running the government. McSweeney resigned in February after it was revealed he had pushed Peter Mandelsohn as the UK’s ambassador to the U.S., despite knowing of his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

I know McSweeney’s capacity for destroying free speech—and especially criticism of Israel—first-hand. I have been investigating the Labour Together Project since 2021, setting out my findings in my book, “The Fraud.” As a result, I was one of multiple journalists targeted by Labour Together. I was reported by Labour Together to the UK’s cybersecurity agency, in an apparent attempt to catalyze criminal investigations into me and my colleagues.

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Part of a long article at https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/hasan-piker-cenk-uygur-uk-ban-keir-starmer-labour-together. It’s very informative if you’re not yet familiar with Labour Together.

Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza's hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.
Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.
Keir Starmer explains that UK is actively supporting Israel's genocidal expansion and repeats his previous quotation that he supports Zionism "without qualification". Keir Starmer said “I said it loud and clear – and meant it – that I support Zionism without qualification.” here: https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/keir-starmer-interview-i-will-work-to-eradicate-antisemitism-from-day-one/
Keir Starmer explains that UK is actively supporting Israel’s genocidal expansion and repeats his previous quotation that he supports Zionism “without qualification”. Keir Starmer said “I said it loud and clear – and meant it – that I support Zionism without qualification.” here: https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/keir-starmer-interview-i-will-work-to-eradicate-antisemitism-from-day-one/
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I’m not really supposed to know …

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Image of the original Fascists Mussolini and Hitler.
The original Fascists Mussolini and Hitler salute the UK’s Fascist Labour government

That my Android phone secretly reboots at 1.50am. I say secretly because it doesn’t ask for it’s password and does it every day at 1.50a.m. when I’m supposed to be asleep and not notice.

That it also provides location data to the local police. It provides elevation as well as ground location. Think that it’s AI, I try to confuse it sometimes.

That police cars sound an alarm when I get close to them. It’s an alarm to tell them that I’m nearby.

That digital devices act strangely around me e.g. other peoples’ phones refuse to ring because they’re recording the conversation instead. Many digital devices behave strangely – POS tills, etc. It’s almost as if there’s fuzzy logic probing them and very often disabling them.

Anyway the point of this is that it has to be authorised by Fascist Labour Party Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood who wants a panopticon to know how often and indeed where you shit and who is attending to your private parts.

But it actually goes far beyond watching & the New Labour Fascist Fascists interfere in my attempts to make friends and meet people. I think that is a basic human right that the New Labour Fascist Fascists are interfering with in addition to their strange, overwhelming interest in when and where I poo.

And of course, I’m a Democratice Socialist opposed to the Fascist, Genocidal New Labour government engaging in the democratic process as people are entitled to.

GCHQ as civil servants should be politically impartial and not engage in activities that support a particular political party or perspective. I am clearly promoting opposition to the Labour Party and that should be permitted and even protected in a democratic society. I particularly object to state agents interfering in my private affairs.

ed: 40 second delay to BBC radio stations. I’m uncertain what that’s supposed to achieve. Is it that everything is routed via Langley, Virginia? ed:ed: The Langley comment is not meant seriously.

ed:ed:ed: I consider that it’s a deliberate attempt to isolate me which I regard as being particularly evil. I intend to respond better to defend myself.

24/6/26 3.55pm Prevent sending photos. There’s paranoia here that there might be hidden messages in the photos when the reality is that they’re photos of kittens, the Severn Bridge, bicycles – stuff people send photos of. It’s strange since they’re controlling the phone so see that there is no post-processing so it’s real paranoia about time and date stamp, etc to people I hardly know.

28/6/26 8.40am There was a nasty tacky ink on the entrance to my block of flats when I returned early this morning. OIt had been wiped away by the time I had cleaned my hand. I’ve been switching my phone off, why should I help them harass me, interfere in my life? I regard the ink as harassment, there is no need to use a nasty highly-visible ink. Someone is taking the piss.

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Anti-war groups call for Met chief to resign

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 Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley gives a statement outside Charing Cross police station, London, after a High Court challenge over the Met Police’s use of live facial recognition (LFR) technology was dismissed, April 21, 2026

ANTI-WAR groups have launched a letter campaign for the resignation of Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley after “openly lying” about Palestine protesters.

Signed by more than 1,300, the letter to London Mayor Sadiq Khan, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, and Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime chief executive Rena Laigie, warned that “Rowley must go.”

Sir Mark claimed that the pro-Palestine march on May 16, which coincided with a far-right demonstration, posed a threat to the public and that it deliberately marched past synagogues.

Stop the War Coalition and other organisers quickly debunked the statements and demanded corrections.

“On 16 May, Mark Rowley allowed a far-right hate march led by known fascist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon to go to Parliament while barring the Palestine movement from the political centre of London,” the letter reads.

“The Metropolitan Police has failed to act on incidents of Islamophobia and incitement to violence on the far-right demo, while downplaying the size of the Palestine mobilisation.

“Commissioner Rowley’s role as a politically neutral head of the Metropolitan Police has become untenable. We call on Rowley to resign his post immediately.”

The letter can be signed on actionnetwork.org.

The Met Police declined to comment.

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/anti-war-groups-call-met-chief-resign

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New breed of political prisoner arises in Britain as anti-protest sentences rise

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Three Just Stop Oil protesters wearing orange hi-vis jackets speak with police in front of the Houses of Parliament. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

More people are being jailed in England and Wales as a result of acting to prevent climate breakdown and the war in Gaza, research reveals

Britain has created a new breed of political prisoners through the systematic incarceration of people acting to prevent climate breakdown and the annihilation of Gaza, a report claims.

The research by Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and the protest group Defend Our Juries says that custodial sentences for acts of direct action or civil disobedience were once rare but are now being imposed with increasing length and frequency.

Their report, which will be launched on Tuesday, points to an increase in anti-protest legislation in England and Wales, police powers and civil law injunctions brought by corporations and public bodies as well as judges removing legal defences and “exceptionally long” sentences.

In what they say is the first analysis of the jailing of “Britain’s new political prisoners”, the researchers identified 286 cases involving climate and Palestine-solidarity activists who were sent to prison for protest for a total amount of jail time of 136 years.

The average detention period in the 256 cases for which data was available was 28 weeks, with one in three protesters jailed for six months or more and one in five for more than a year.

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https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/may/23/anti-protest-sentences-rise-england-wales-political-prisoners

Keir Starmer says that he's banning words and phrases now as well as placards.
Keir Starmer says that he’s banning words and phrases now as well as placards.
Keir Starmer confirms that he doesn't know anything about democracy.
Keir Starmer confirms that he doesn’t know anything about democracy.
Palestine Action joke that appeared in the UK satirical magazine 'Private Eye'.
Palestine Action joke that appeared in the UK satirical magazine ‘Private Eye’.
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