Mariam

A realist|An avid book lover|Foodie|@LFC supporter.

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

Your parents arrived from Sri Lanka in the early 1980s.

Your father as a paediatrician. Your mother as a nurse. Both worked in the NHS. They settled. They naturalised. You were born here in 1986 as a direct result of that legal migration pathway.

Without the system that allowed skilled overseas medical staff to come, work, and stay, you would not be posting from London as a Reform UK frontbencher.
Now look at the language you just used.

You describe the post-Brexit intake as “the WHOLE Boriswave of 4 million non-EU unskilled migrants” who must be denied settled status and lifetime welfare access.

You frame any softening of retrospective ILR reforms as a catastrophic giveaway. Yet a significant slice of that same cohort includes doctors, nurses, paediatricians and care workers filling the exact same NHS and social-care roles your parents filled. Many arrived under the points-based system, paid the Immigration Health Surcharge, paid taxes, and worked the same shifts.

You are not drawing a clean distinction between legal and illegal. You are drawing a distinction between the migrants who produced you and the migrants who look like them today. The former get the full “my parents played by the rules” treatment. The latter get “unskilled” and a warning about welfare. That is not principle. That is selective memory deployed for political effect.

You know the difference between a Channel-crossing small-boat case and a nurse who entered on a skilled visa. You choose the broader, more emotional framing because it weaponises public anxiety more efficiently.

The TikTok dig at Burnham is theatre. The real move is to treat the settled-status question of people doing the jobs your family once did as an existential threat, while your own family’s story is presented as the model of legitimate immigration.

I can’t believe that this has to be said but here we are!

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Domestic abuse in the UK hit a record high during the World Cup

384 incidents were reported, the majority after England’s loss to Argentina

[nav ྀིྀི ☭🇮🇳 MUÑOZ BALLONDOR @draculauras17]

U can call him Andrew or Robertson you don’t know him like that

[Rita Sunshine @1RitaSunshine]

Plzzz if you're seeing this help me retweet.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

It wasn't to be… but if you are a victim of domestic abuse tonight, call the following number:

0808 2000 247

[JH @FishBowlOfWine]

Yoruba people trying to say someone did this and that: He did calabash. He did plate.

[Kifo Mungu @TheAddlepate]

You contacted the parents of a 23 year old seeking their consent to violate their adult child's rights by forcing them to undergo unwanted tests to satisfy your curiosity because you're their employer? I don't think you're sane.

[fortune yongosi @fortuneyongosi8]

una dey really take this relationship thing too serious, your boyfriend father die you barb hair

Assistant widow.

[ZAHEER! @iam_YCee]

“a nation of fools will always have something to laugh about”

🙂

[Ora🌹🌹 @Chiora__]

All of you that decided to start frying akara for content are also very foolish.

[O.A @snrmanOA]

There’s satan and then there’s APC supporters who live abroad.

Because how can you live in a developed country, enjoy all the benefits and standard of living and somehow still actively support a government that’s chosen to impoverish people back home.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

“They are stealing our jobs.”

Yes Billy, who failed high school, Rajesh the astrophysicist has stolen your job.

[Prin🎀 ✨ @prxxna]

She should not even know what love island is wtf??? Parents please fucking parent.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Happy 39th birthday to World Cup champion, 8x Ballon D’Or winner and one of the greatest footballers of all time, Lionel Messi.

[Mariam @maydekunle]

Instead of the camera to show what’s happening on pitch, they rather show the celebrities both those that are popular and nameless.

I don’t want to see ciara and Russell, let me watch the match in peace!

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

We find out our 2026/27 Premier League fixtures tomorrow morning 🔜🗓️

[nana aba @thenanaaba]

Condemning xenophobia isn’t politics. It’s basic human decency. Unity starts with treating humans like fellow humans.

Come on, CZECHIA 🙌🙌🙌

[Mariam @maydekunle]

This Qatar vs Switzerland match is such a snooze fest.

[Mariam @maydekunle]

They’re only good when it comes to xenophobic attacks, can’t even play proper football

[Amr 🇪🇬 @amrsxn]

7 AFCONs, every single one on the pitch not in court.