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Burnham to back Shabana Mahmood’s immigration changes, allies say

Exclusive: Greater Manchester mayor understood to support home secretary’s push to limit legal and illegal migration

Any Green Party folks who are being soft on Burnham, saying we shouldn’t run, not campaign hard - whether it’s Caroline Lucas talking about country before party, or Adrian Ramsay, talking about the need for give and take - are dead to me.

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Two Slavery questions and inadequate answers

So on Tuesday our local MP Caroline Lucas asked a question with several aspects for Slavery issues. Sadly the answer from the Government appears to be very inadequate. So the starting point of the question was “To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2023 to Question 148612 on Slavery” and it was clear that several people were not happy with…

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The UK Parliament is supposed to be on recess at the moment but because of the events in Afghanistan they’ve come back in for a big debate on what the government needs to do and I’ve been watching the whole thing and it is kind of wild.

There’s this constant framing of the Taliban’s regaining of power purely as a failure of foreign policy, ignoring any wider history or context of the whole matter. There’s this contact refrain of who “we’ve improved things for women and girls in the last 20 years” as though prior to that Afghanistan had a thousand years of Taliban rule or something, as though the current problems in the country aren’t entirely because of western interventionism. They’re always paying thanks to the British soldiers who were there as though there’s not a wealth of evidence that they were killing civilians and committing war crimes that the government has covered up.

There were some good speeches and good comments about the need and duty of the government to change the current Hostile Environment policy towards immigrants to help people who are fleeing Afghanistan. But Ian Blackford’s genuinely compassionate speech was constantly booed and attacked by tory scum and the foreign secretary spent ages intentionally trying to agrivate him and slow the whole thing down.

And like, I don’t know what the solution is in the region. I know the Taliban are attrocious and not representative of the Afghan people. I know that sending our soldiers over to kill unarmed civilians in their beds was never going to endear the Afghan people to a western backed government.

The government shouldn’t focus on sending more military back there, that is clear. I just want to report the really gross approach the British Parliament is taking on this issue and the gross inhumanity with which they seem to talk about it. Everyone can see how badly the US is handling all this, but let’s not forget under Blair we also took part in the military intervention in the region. The UK is similarly responsible and the wealth of British MPs are failing to approach this with any amount of empathy

Also it is very ironic for British MPs to speak about the medieval rule of the Taliban (which is a dangerous view of progress) while standing in Her Majesty’s Parliament, serving in a government and parliament that exists by the good grace of a literal monarch, a decaying medieval institution.

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which party do you prefer, Labour or Green? What do you think of Caroline Lucas?

I voted Labour in the last election, Green all the ones before that and I’ll be voting Green again this time around. The Green Party are the closest to representing my own political views, The Green Left within the party moreso, since they’re anti-capitalist and eco-socialists. I voted Labour because Corbyn was an actual socialist, it’s early days for Keir Starmer but he’s always been soft-left and his early appointments haven’t exactly fillled me with confidence, nor has his failure to hold the government to account over their disastrous handling of Covid-19.

Caroline Lucas has a solid background in activism which is pretty much a requirement to take any left-wing politician seriously in my view. By all accounts she has done a fantastic job as MP for Brighton as well and she’s famous for her dizzying work ethic. She has by far the biggest profile of any Green politician as well, so she’s a big asset to the Party. I can’t say I’ve agreed with everything she has said and done but she can be credited with revitalising the party and then she handed over leadership when the time was right, which is to be respected.