Brian Finegan

Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …

Dear Shabana,

Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

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”fixing the finances”

Facial recognition technology is bulldozing our human rights The government is stealing our civil liberties – and giving them to Reform, writes Jeremy Corbyn MP

This government is taking away our civil liberties — and handing them to Reform.

My article for @islingtontrib.bsky.social on facial recognition, the erosion of jury trials, and the attack on our right to protest.

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Cabinet Office to ‘look at the facts’ of Reed’s Labour Together Six months after journalist Paul Holden revealed that he had been followed by private investigators, today the Cabinet Office said it will be “looking at the facts” around Labour Togeth…

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Ex-Labour staffer spared jail over child exploitation pictures Tom Dewey’s now former party colleagues continue to deny any knowledge of his collecting illegal and ‘sadistic’ images that dated back to 2008 Tom Dewey, the former borough organi…

Oh... remember the @uklabour.bsky.social staffer who worked in Croydon and got elected in Hackney. insidecroydon.com/2023/08/15/e... His former ward colleague Polly Billington is, of course, now an MP...

The normalisation of violence, rpe and pdophilia surrounds us.
It's called "diplomacy, political life, valuable relationships," and all those other phrases and buzz words created to shut people up.
Don't ever roll your eyes at me when I say "Burn the Patriarchy."

Quite funny that Starmer's allies are waking up to this point now …

Cuts to Winter Fuel… not in the manifesto
Disability benefit cuts… not in there either
Cutting jury trials… also not there
Digital ID… no mention
Raising employers NI… nope
Freezing tax threholds… nah
Contracts with Palantir… no

YAY!

I was a bit on the fence about Zack Polanski but i've just seen that he's filmed his latest ad in Croydon, so now I'm willing to give up my first born for him and his cause.

From Terry Pratchett's 'Guard's Guards' when the guild leaders have to accept the demands of the dragon:

Gammon faced man Ty with his smug outraged face.

BREAKING Ty, a Blackpool resident, says he would still never vote Labour, despite Sir Keir's assiduous attempts to woo him. "Bloke's a cunt."

How MP Reed used antisemitism to discredit Labour rivals The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney and the Crisis of British Democracy, by Paul Holden, has already been a deeply impactful book which has claimed the scalp of Downing Street’s director of s…

How MP Reed used antisemitism to discredit Labour rivals insidecroydon.com/2025/10/27/h... #Croydon #TheFraud @labour-hub.bsky.social @labourlist.bsky.social @left-foot-forward.bsky.social

BBC announce new Glastonbury Festival policy.....

"There's no blood, no painkillers, no basic supplies to treat the wounded"

Hind Khoudary reporting.

Labour said they’ll build 1.5 million homes.

They haven’t said how many will be council or social rent.

I’m now asking Angela Rayner to give us numbers.

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VIDEO DEPORTATIONS: Reform & Labour voters REACTION YouTube video by Zoe Gardner

Labour is getting dragged to pieces across social media - by their own supporters AND Reform supporters - for Trump-style wannabe GBNews content.

This isn’t why anyone voted for you. youtu.be/NAjl2Pe8z44?...

Good video on Labours performative cruelty.
"you are just feeding a really awful darkness"
"most people are decent"

Wilson:
"The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing"

This is immoral; the Labour Party has become something much worse than "nothing"
fix it @teamlabouruk.bsky.social .

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Can a government choose which court orders to comply with?

A recent UK Supreme Court judgment provides an emphatic answer to this now topical question

By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Each of you can help us by encouraging others to follow this account, for our uncompromising brand of exclusive news from south London. Thank you!

News black-out after Labour Party suspends Assembly Member EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Unmesh Desai, the London Assembly Member for The City and East London, has been suspended by the Labour Party following what was initially reported as “a police inv…

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Where Have All Our Public Libraries Gone? YouTube video by CronxWatch

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Benjamin Zephaniah "If you didn't have troublemakers, most women wouldn't have the right to vote, a black person wouldn't be talking to a white person and I'd be back in slavery. We need troublemakers to challenge the establishment. I want to be one of those people."

Something for the weekend – our latest news panel podcast Here’s our latest Croydon Insider news podcast, a politician-free zone where a panel of Croydon figures delve into the news that really matters to you. Our guests for our November episode are…

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