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Spain offers Burnham an alternative to Labour’s Danish-style immigration crackdown

Post author:Hugo Harvey
Post published:17 July 2026
Post last modified:18 July 2026

During the Makerfield by-election, Andy Burnham backed Shabana Mahmood’s immigration reforms, aligning Labour’s prevailing strategy to the anti-immigration mood. Mahmood’s position, in short, follows the Danish Social Democrats’ model: harden rhetoric and reduce numbers to take the ground from the far right. Burnham had previously criticised the home secretary’s plans, warning they leave people “in a sense of limbo and unable to integrate”. But he seems to have dropped this concern to appeal to the political context of the Leave-voting, Reform-susceptible constituency of Makerfield. The broader public mood on immigration is, however, more nuanced. Having won the by-election, Burnham now has…

Polanski brands Labour’s immigration plans ‘performative cruelty’

Post author:Willem Moore
Post published:13 July 2026
Post last modified:14 July 2026

According to the Times, Labour is planning to restrict migrants from being able to access benefits. In response, the Green Party’s Zack Polanski has labelled their immigration plans “performative cruelty”: Labour plans to withhold benefits to people who have been granted Indefinite Leave to Remain. Performative cruelty and total cowardice. That’s why the Greens will replace Labour. https://t.co/UxqPjdOjG6 — Zack Polanski (@ZackPolanski) July 13, 2026 Polanski slams Labour’s “cowardice” Steven Swinford of the Times noted that so-called ‘Boriswave migrants’ wouldn’t have to wait ten years to be granted indefinite leave under the unveiled plan. At the same time, they’d face a longer wait…

Labour’s Lucy Powell targets free speech, not Big Tech

Post author:Maddison Wheeldon
Post published:6 July 2026
Post last modified:7 July 2026

During a recent LBC interview, deputy leader of the Labour party, Lucy Powell rightly called out X as a “toxic and difficult environment“, adding that the government should consider stronger regulation. But her comments, as usual, have missed the mark. For Powell, the concern is less about the harm social media causes to everyday life, but the influence it can have for political parties during election campaigns. When it comes to protecting children online, the outgoing Labour leader, Starmer, chose to restrict access rather than properly regulate these platforms. Yet when social media, which is undeniably more democratic than traditional media, could…

Labour’s Burgon to bring debate to Parliament to ban lucrative side gigs for MPs

Post author:Maddison Wheeldon
Post published:25 June 2026
Post last modified:25 June 2026

Labour MP Richard Burgon has secured a debate in Parliament which will consider banning second jobs for all MPs. Whilst some MPs insist their roles in healthcare and law should be continued alongside MP responsibilities, this loophole has enabled other greedy MPs to turn to lucrative side gigs which bring their priorities into question. For instance, Burgon cites Farage pocketing more than £1m since being elected in “outside work” despite MPs being afforded a pretty high salary from the public purse placing them firmly in the top 1% of earners. Other reports have said that figure is actually £2m. He says:…

Burnham runs scared as fox stunt exposes Labour’s hunting betrayal

Post author:Antifabot
Post published:23 June 2026
Post last modified:24 June 2026

Protect the Wild activist, Robert Pownall, stood fully dressed up as a fox, next to a “cold” Andy Burnham last week. The Makerfield by-election was crashed by the crafty creature, as he stood to expose how the Labour party is betraying the lives of millions of animals in the UK. Pownall stood on the stage as an independent candidate to confront Burnham, the projected new leader of Labour, face to face on his party’s failure to protect our wildlife. Burnham prefers curating perfection over conservation Of course, the mainstream media all but ignored Pownall, save for a few snapshots of him…

Strike days drop by almost two thirds during Labour’s first year in power

Post author:The Canary
Post published:11 June 2026
Post last modified:11 June 2026

The number of working days lost to strike action plummeted by almost two thirds during Labour’s first year in power. This is according to new analysis from the GMB union. The 12 months leading up to July 2024, when Labour won power, saw 1,406,000 working days of strikes. During the year following Labour’s win, there were 559,000, a huge drop of more than 60%. The GMB will discuss the figures, which come from analysis of Office of National Statistics data, at its annual congress in Blackpool. Lifting the wages of millions of low paid workers and improvements to employment rights, such…

Mandelson ‘influential’ in electing Labour’s Scottish Secretary

Post author:Cameron Baillie
Post published:5 June 2026
Post last modified:9 June 2026

Newly revealed documents expose Labour’s Scottish Secretary Douglas Alexander as a devoted friend of Peter Mandelson, publicly humiliating his position. Mandelson was “influential,” in Alexander’s own words, in securing his seat as MP for Lothian East. The SNP have called for the minister’s resignation over his apparently doting relationship with Mandelson. The disgraced corrupt former ambassador and friend of notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was well-known, well-loved, and well-connected within the Labour Party. Him and pro-corporate stooge Tony Blair shaped vile New Labour through a willingness to court power, whatever ugly face it took. However, those tight connections across the right wing…

Consortium representing child refugees speaks out against Labour’s AI plans

Post author:Alex/Rose Cocker
Post published:1 June 2026
Post last modified:9 June 2026

The Refugee and Migrant Children’s Consortium (RMCC) has spoken out against government plans to access asylum seekers’ age using AI. On Friday 29 May, the Home Office announced plans to use AI in cases when an asylum seekers’ age is in dispute. However, the RMCC warned that the scheme could lead to yet more wrongful detentions of vulnerable children in adult facilities. The news follows April’s revelations from the independent Humans for Rights Network, which exposed the fact that the Home Office routinely detains so-called “age-disputed children” as adults. Of the 76 age-disputed detainees at the time, 26 had been —…

Activists call out Labour’s ‘dangerous militarisation of higher education’

Post author:Tom Pashby
Post published:29 May 2026
Post last modified:8 June 2026

Labour’s Defence Universities Alliance (DUA) would be a “a dangerous militarisation of higher education“, according to the campaign group Demilitarise Education (dED), which is calling on universities, students, staff, trade unions, and local communities to oppose the initiative. Defence Industrial Strategy 2025 The DUA was initially announced in September 2025 in the Defence Industrial Strategy, which said: We will establish a Defence Universities Alliance (DUA) to form a more strategic relationship between defence and the higher education sector. The DUA will build on existing connections between the sectors to support careers in the defence sector and encourage ethical defence and security…

Labour’s summer cost of living policies reduce it to the Groupon administration

Post author:James Wright
Post published:23 May 2026
Post last modified:8 June 2026

Labour has announced some cost of living policies that treat voters as children. Rather than any significant economic strategy for real change, the ruling party is offering voters temporary gimmicks like no import tariffs on chocolate and biscuits for the summer. Instead, Labour could deliver cost price essentials such as water, energy and telecomms to significantly reduce costs for every person and business. Labour — The gimmicks It’s almost laughable. This is the Groupon administration. As well as cutting costs for supermarkets on trivial items, the ruling party is cutting VAT on summer days out for families from 20% to 5%.…