Alex Barnicoat on X - "If a two seater plane accidentally flies into British Airspace, the UK will scramble 2 $120 million Typhoon Fighter Jets to potentially shoot it down. But if a boat filled with 60 military age men arrives, who we don’t know, the UK pays for them to live here. Why is this?"
Mahdi Zaidan on X - "Yesterday I became British. I thought the ceremony will be nationalistic and a bit cringe until the lord mayor of Brighton started his speech with al salamu ‘alaykum"
The horror of a citizenship ceremony being nationalistic!
Clearly, anyone suggesting dual loyalty is racist, xenophobic and Islamophobic. Though really it's really a single loyalty (just not the one on paper)
Thread by @sarah_bool on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Today I asked the Government whether it is fair that undocumented illegal migrants get priority access to NHS services over British taxpayers. The response shows the Minister was clearly not aware of a scheme called "987 Inclusion Health" at University College London Hospital which allows undocumented migrants to get priority access to A&E services."
Steven Edginton on X - "New FOI data from 41/43 UK police forces finds: Foreigners 3.5x as likely to be arrested for sex offences than British citizens. In the City of London 2/3 of arrests for sex offences were foreigners. The arrest rate for Albanians is more than 200 per 1000 people"
Daily Mail Online on X - "I was sexually assaulted by a Deliveroo rider using a fake name - the app had no details for monster who attacked me in my home"
pagliacci the hated 🌝 on X - "just one month ago shitlibs on this site harassed a woman for a week straight after she said she reported food delivery drivers who didn’t match their profile because she felt it was a safety issue. they told her she was being a delusional Karen and putting migrant men at risk."
Time to blame white people!
Pound plunges after Bank of England cuts interest rates - "Mr Bailey said policymakers have been left with a puzzle, as the fall in Britain’s GDP comes despite an increase in the population. He said: “We’ve got more population, we’ve got more labour force and we’ve got the same output. “You can only conclude then that you’ve got low productivity.” He added that it would be “very unusual” if negative productivity persisted."
Matt Goodwin on X - "Could opening Britain to mass, uncontrolled, low skill, low wage, non-selective immigration, often from impoverished nations, have anything to do with this I wonder?"
Weird. We keep being told that mass migration is good for the economy
Meme - Sam Ashworth-Hayes @SAshworthHayes: "I keep referring back to this case from 2010 as the best possible illustration of what the British state will wave through it you let it. The housing benefit alone for this family was eating the total taxes - income tax, NI, VAT, duties, the lot - of 8 average households."
"Former asylum seeker on benefits given £2 million house. A family of former asylum seekers have moved into a £2.1 million home in one of the smartest areas of London at a cost to the taxpayer of £8,000 a month after complaining about living in a poor area."
Time to "tax the rich" to pay for endless migrants and hate on the Telegraph for reporting inconvenient facts
Rebecca on X - "In my 90% white town, I can walk around wearing all of my jewelry, a cashmere coat and a nice handbag with a wallet full of cash. I can leave my doors unlocked. I can leave my laptop in my car overnight and no one steals it. I accidentally left a scooter at the park…went back 3 days later and it was right where I left it. This is it what your life could be like without diversity."
Dan 🇬🇧 on X - "So many immigrants in the replies refusing to believe a high trust society ever existed. Its simply incomprehensible to them."
Pakistani paedophile escaped deportation because it would ‘harm his children’ - "A Pakistani father who was jailed for child sex offences escaped deportation because it would be “unduly harsh” on his children. The unnamed father of two toddlers, who was granted anonymity by an immigration court, had been banned from living with his children since he was convicted of trying to get three “barely pubescent” girls to engage in sex and was jailed for 18 months. However, a lower tribunal judge ruled that he should not be deported back to Pakistan because it would be “unduly harsh for the children to be without their father”... It is the latest case in which foreign criminals have been allowed to remain in the UK by immigration tribunals because they have ruled that deportation would breach their rights to a family life under article eight of the European Convention on Human Rights. Others uncovered by The Telegraph include a Polish serial offender whose deportation was halted after a court ruled he was a father figure to his 12-year-old nephew, who would face a “disproportionate” impact if he was removed... the lower immigration tribunal judge who heard his appeal against deportation accepted that it would be “unduly harsh” to separate him from his children, whom he was being allowed to see for up to 12 hours a day under “supervised contact.” The judge also “placed weight” on the wife’s claim that she felt partly responsible for his online grooming of the girls because she had not been able to have sex with him after being admitted to hospital to be treated for Covid. The court was told: “Her guilt would be an additional burden and would detrimentally impact her ability to care for her children, albeit not at a level requiring social services intervention.” The judge ruled: “In light of the above matters, considered cumulatively, I am satisfied that it would be unduly harsh for the children to be without their father.”"
Failed asylum seeker can stay in UK because she joined terror group - "A Nigerian woman who tried and failed eight times to secure asylum in Britain was finally granted the right to stay after joining a terrorist organisation just to boost her claim. The judge who gave the 49-year-old woman the right to stay acknowledged that she was not being honest about her political beliefs and had become involved with the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) only “in order to create a claim for asylum”. The woman, who came to the UK in 2011, joined IPOB in 2017. A separatist group that has been blamed for acts of violence against the Nigerian state, it has been banned as a terrorist organisation by Nigeria but is not proscribed in the UK. Upper tribunal judge Gemma Loughran ruled that the asylum seeker’s activities on behalf of the group meant she had a “well-founded fear of persecution” under human rights laws due to her “imputed” political opinion... The Nigerian woman, who was granted anonymity, submitted eight different appeals against a rejection of her right to remain in the UK. They ranged from claims under ECHR Article Eight, which guarantees a right to a family life, to assertions she was a victim of trafficking. They were all rejected over a 10-year period."
Illegal immigrant who stabbed wife to death wins right to stay in Britain after arguing he might have to face wrath of in-laws back home in Turkey - "An illegal immigrant who savagely stabbed his wife to death has won the right to stay in Britain – after arguing that he might have to face the anger of his in-laws back home in Turkey. The convicted killer, who can only be named as KD, entered Britain illegally with his spouse in 2001 and had a political asylum application turned down. Despite that, he was still here several years later and managing a kebab shop in London when he caught his wife chatting to another man online in 2005. Infuriated by the chat and by the fact his wife had been wearing a low-cut top, KD stabbed her ten times, before calling friends to confess... a Jamaican thug ordered for deportation after being convicted in a horrific wounding case has been allowed to stay because his daughter was refusing to go to school. Donovan Reid, 59, was jailed in 2022. The Home Office began deportation proceedings, but he appealed on human rights grounds."
Tom Jones on X - "Judges are now consistently ruling that Britain's immigration system should be used to protect foreign criminals from the consequences of their own actions. This cannot hold."
Albanian criminal's deportation halted over son's distaste for chicken nuggets - "An immigration tribunal ruled that it would be “unduly harsh” for the 10-year-old boy to be forced to move to Albania with his father owing to his sensitivity around food. The sole example provided to the court was his distaste for the “type of chicken nuggets that are available abroad”. As a result, the judge allowed the father’s appeal against deportation as a breach of his right to a family life under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), citing the impact his removal might have on his son... Sir Keir Starmer and his Attorney General have said that they will not withdraw from the ECHR and that the Government is committed to upholding the rule of international law. Charles Hymas Home Affairs Editor. Tim Sigsworth. Sam Ashworth-Hayes Related Topics Immigration, Migrants, Crime, Labour Party, Reform UK, Albania 09 February 2025 8:29pm GMT 4581 Criminal's deportation halted over chicken nuggets An Albanian criminal was allowed to stay in Britain partly because his son will not eat foreign chicken nuggets, The Telegraph can reveal. An immigration tribunal ruled that it would be “unduly harsh” for the 10-year-old boy to be forced to move to Albania with his father owing to his sensitivity around food. The sole example provided to the court was his distaste for the “type of chicken nuggets that are available abroad”. As a result, the judge allowed the father’s appeal against deportation as a breach of his right to a family life under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), citing the impact his removal might have on his son. The case, revealed in court documents, is among a record 34,169 outstanding asylum appeals. The number represents a five-fold increase in two years from the 6,386 appeals outstanding at the same point in 2022. The legal challenges, largely on human rights grounds, threaten to hold up Labour’s efforts to fast-track the removal of thousands of migrants with no right to remain in the UK. They also risk undermining the Government’s efforts to appear tough on immigration in the face of the rise of Reform. The revelations come as the Government launches a campaign to counter claims that Britain is a soft touch for migrants by announcing the results of a blitz on illegal working. Data to be published on Monday show there were 609 arrests last month for illegal working, 73 per cent up on January 2024, and a 48 per cent rise in raids from 556 to 828. The Home Office will also publish pictures and videos of migrants being deported from the UK and forcibly placed on planes. It comes as both Labour and Tories are trying to head off the electoral threat from Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, whose hardline “freeze” on non-essential immigration and turn back the boats plan has helped his party overtake both Tories and Labour and top the latest opinion polls. Commenting on the chicken nuggets case, Robert Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary, said it was “mind-boggling” that food was being used as an argument to prevent deportation. “It’s ludicrous that a judge would entertain it. Cases like this make us a laughing stock. “It’s an insult to the British public that our immigration laws are being abused in such an outrageous way,” he said. Chris Philp, shadow home secretary, said: “This case shows how bogus asylum seekers and foreign criminals are ruthlessly exploiting human rights laws and weak judges to stay in the UK when common sense clearly shows they should be kicked out.” A Home Office spokesman said: “Foreign nationals who commit heinous crimes should be in no doubt that we will do everything to make sure they are not free on Britain’s streets, including removal from the UK at the earliest possible opportunity. “Since the election, we’ve removed 2,580 foreign criminals, a 23 per cent increase on the same period 12 months prior.” Sir Keir Starmer and his Attorney General have said that they will not withdraw from the ECHR and that the Government is committed to upholding the rule of international law. Albanian Klevis Disha, 39, came to the UK illegally in February 2001 as a 15-year-old unaccompanied child. He used a false name and falsely claimed to have been born in the former Yugoslavia. Although his asylum claim was rejected, he secured UK citizenship in 2007 after being granted exceptional leave to remain, and then indefinite leave to remain... The judge, David Merrigan, said the only example of why the boy could not go to Albania was that he “will not eat the type of chicken nuggets that are available abroad”."
Thread by @lara_e_brown on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Having now read this case, it is even worse than is being reported. The story involves 20 years of falsified documents, €300,000 of theft, and an endless appeal process. Chicken nuggets are just the tip of the iceberg. Short 🧵
In 2001, the appellant (Mr Disha, an Albanian National) entered the country illegally. He makes an asylum claim on the basis of political persecution. Given this would be quite difficult to pull off from Albania (a safe country) he lies about being from Yugoslavia. Thankfully, his claim is rejected in September 2001 (8 months after it was filed) due to lack of any evidence he was being persecuted. He appeals this decision, although this is withdrawn in March 2003. However, despite the fact that Mr Disha was lying about being persecuted, was not from Yugoslavia, and was probably using a fake name, somehow he gets Exceptional Leave to Remain in September 2005 and then Indefinite Leave to Remain. In 2006, Mr Disha marries a naturalised British Citizen. They have two children - one born in 2009 and one in 2014. Child C (2014) is central to Disha's case, in part due to the grounds he dislikes Albanian chicken nuggets. In 2017 Mr Disha is sentenced to two years in prison for acquisition of, or of possession of criminal property. He is found with €300,000 in cash on his person, which is later determine to be the profits of crime. After spending just two years in prison, the Home Office begin a 'deprivation of Citizenship' process in 2019. Two more years later, in 2021, Mr Disha is deprived of UK Citizenship on the grounds he acquired it through deception. In 2021 Mr Disha begins a lengthy appeals process which will have cost the taxpayer huge amounts of money. He claims the deportation order goes against his 'human rights'. The judge allows this appeal on 'human rights grounds'. She decides that it would be 'unduly harsh' to ask child C to either move with Mr Disha to Albania, or stay with his mother if she chose to remain in the UK. The judge's decision rests on child C's 'educational needs'. Key facts about this claim:
1) Child C has no formal diagnosis
2) There is no professional assessment of whether their needs could be met in Albania
3) CAHMS have said they don't meet the threshold for support
4) Child C hasn't seen a proper educational psychologist. Just a trainee who provides no CV
5) The school's educational report only lists 'emotional regulation, independence; reading and writing' where Child C needs support
6/ Much of the evidence of Child C's educational needs relies just on a letter written by a neighbour to the court claiming they have 'special needs' and another by a family friend claiming Mr Disha has been 'supportive' in helping Child C 'trying to get a diagnosis.
The judge rules Mr Nisha is important to Child C's life because he eats with the family, helps the child with emotional regulation and 'spends time with him playing Lego figures'. This is where the chicken nugget claim comes in. As part of the evidence Child C has special needs, it is claimed that they 'will not eat the type of chicken nuggets that are available abroad' Thankfully, the upper-tribunal found that this bizarre case 'involved the making of an error of law'. Does this mean the criminal can finally be deported? Not necessarily. We will now go back round again with a different First-tier Tribunal judge making a new ruling.
The system is totally broken. The Government don't publish First-tier Tribunal decisions. We don't see the outcome of most of these cases. A criminal with falsified documents, who lied in their asylum claim, should never have been allowed to stay for 20 years. We urgently need reform - of the tribunal system, the ECHR, and how we process these claims."
Slovakian jailed over shovel attack allowed to stay in UK after rehabilitation claim - "A Slovakian jailed over a shovel attack on a woman during a violent brawl has been allowed to stay in Britain after claiming he has been “rehabilitated”. The 22-year-old was jailed for 15 months for his part in an attack on another group of Slovakian party-goers with shovels, sticks, bats and metal bars in a car park after an event at a community centre in Stoke-on-Trent. A woman was hit to the floor with the shovel in what a judge described as a “large-scale incident of serious public disorder” where men and women were attacked, “put in real fear” and victims kicked while on the ground leaving them with multiple injuries. The Home Office sought the man’s deportation as a “serious threat to the public”. He also had three previous convictions for threats, abuse and driving while disqualified. However, the deportation was blocked by Christopher John Hanson, an upper immigration tribunal judge, who said the Slovakian’s “rehabilitation appears to have been very successful as evidenced by the lack of further offending”. The judge admitted that because the offence was committed when the UK was still in the EU, it was harder to expel him... The Slovakian, who was granted anonymity, was said to have a short temper and propensity to violence when drunk. He supplied some of the weapons from his van after an incident on the dance floor escalated into violence. They included a metal bar, cricket bat and shovel that came from his brother’s car. The court was told: “It is difficult to believe that these objects were placed in the boot for any other reason than to be used as weapons should the need arise. “This evidences intent and may indicate that some members of his family are well-versed in violence and the use of weapons.”"
Asylum seekers allowed to stay in UK despite lying in claims - "Immigration judges have accepted that migrants challenging their removal have deliberately lied or provided evidence that was “not credible”, but have still granted them the right to remain under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). One judge allowed a 54-year-old Zimbabwean woman’s appeal against deportation, despite evidence that she would “do and say almost anything to try to fabricate a means to remain in the UK”. Convicted for deception in a previous asylum claim, the woman later concocted a political blog criticising the Zimbabwe regime so that she could claim she would be persecuted if returned. Another illegal migrant escaped deportation despite “lies” about how few relatives he had in his home country of Sri Lanka, told as part of his legal argument that it would breach his rights to a family life under the ECHR to be returned there. In backing 52-year-old Puspam Elangeeran’s appeal against deportation, judges cited a previous ruling which stated that “any court or tribunal must be very careful not to dismiss an appeal just because an appellant has told lies”... The upper immigration tribunal judges backed Mr Elangeeran’s claim on the basis that he had been in the UK since 2000, having mounted successive appeals against deportation. They ruled it would be “unjustifiably harsh” to return him to Sri Lanka, given the length of time he had lived in Britain... Like Mr Elangeeran, the 54-year-old Zimbabwean had made a series of applications to try to remain in the UK since she arrived as a student in March 2001. This included a fraudulent claim for recognition of right to abode, for which she was jailed for 18 months in 2009. She made subsequent human rights claims to stay in 2009, 2010, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2022 before she was refused in 2023... a Somali found to have lied about fleeing Al Shabaab, the Islamist terror group, was spared deportation and an unnamed man from Gaza was allowed to stay in the UK despite having an initial asylum claim rejected after lying that his life was in danger at home. Court documents reveal a judge ruled the Gazan man’s 2022 account was “not credible” and he had actually come to the UK “as an economic migrant” – but an upper tribunal decided the judge was wrong to have rejected his appeal."
Drug dealer allowed to stay in Britain after promising to only smoke cannabis - "Jamaican Shawn Rickford McLeod, 40, who came to Britain in 2000 was issued with a deportation order after being jailed for three years and four months for three counts of supplying class A drugs. He appealed the order on the grounds that it would breach his rights to a family life under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) as he had three young children in the UK with his wife. Judge David Chaim Brannan at a lower immigration tribunal ruled in his favour, finding that deportation would be “unduly harsh” on his children and that “he genuinely wants to avoid reoffending (except for cannabis use) so he can care for his children”. McLeod told both his prison and probation officers overseeing his release on licence as well as Judge Brannan that “he intended to continue to use cannabis” irrespective of whether he was allowed to remain in the country."
Iraqi asylum seeker allowed to stay in UK after mother refuses to hand over ID - "An Iraqi asylum seeker has been allowed to remain in the UK after his mother refused to hand over an ID document that would enable him to return to his home country. The man claimed in 2021 that his safety was at risk if he returned to Iraq because he had been threatened, kidnapped and beaten by the owners of a car that he had been commissioned to repair. His appeal against the rejection of his asylum was initially thrown out on the basis that it was now four years since the attack and his safety was no longer at risk if he returned. But an upper immigration tribunal overruled that decision after accepting that his mother, who lives in Iraq, was refusing to hand over the civil status identity card (CSID) he needed to return on the basis that she believed his life was still at risk. CJ Williams, the deputy judge on the case, ruled that it would be too dangerous for the man to try to return to Iraq without any ID documentation and granted his appeal under article three of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Article three states that “no one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in all circumstances”."
Court gives Gazans right to settle in UK - "Palestinian migrants have been granted the right to live in the UK after applying through a scheme meant for Ukrainian refugees. A family of six seeking to flee Gaza have been allowed to join their brother in Britain after an immigration judge ruled that the Home Office’s rejection of their application breached their human rights. The family had made their application through the Ukraine Family Scheme and the decision to accept their case came despite warnings by lawyers for the Home Office that it could open the floodgates to “the admission of all those in conflict zones with family in the UK”... The Ukraine Family Scheme, set up in March 2022, allowed Ukrainian nationals and their family members to come to the UK if they had a relative who was a British citizen or settled in the UK. Some 72,000 visas were issued before it closed last February. The family’s claim was initially refused by a lower-tier immigration tribunal on the basis that it was outside the Ukraine programme’s rules, and that it was for Parliament to decide which countries should benefit from resettlement schemes. However, Hugo Norton-Taylor, an upper tribunal judge, overturned that decision and granted the Palestinians’ appeal, allowing them to come to the UK on the basis of their Article 8 right to a family life under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). He said the rights of the individual family who were in an “extreme and life threatening” situation outweighed the “public interest” of the rules on entry to the UK, which were designed to limit resettlement schemes and control immigration... The case, revealed in court documents, sparked criticism on Tuesday. Mr Philp said it was an “alarming and dangerous” judgment, which created “a basis for anyone in any conflict zone anywhere in the world with relations in the UK to come here”. “There are two million people in Gaza alone and tens of millions around the world in conflict zones, many of whom will have relations living in the UK. We obviously cannot accommodate all of them,” he said. “The UK has generously helped people in Ukraine, Syria, Afghanistan and Hong Kong with specific humanitarian schemes. We cannot have judges simply making up new schemes based on novel and expansive interpretations of human rights law. “It is clearer than ever that radical changes to human rights laws are needed – so Parliament, and not judges, make decisions about eligibility to come to the UK. Now there is a ceasefire in Gaza, I hope that the Government appeals this decision based on the new facts on the ground.”"
When you basically have open borders for anyone from a "conflict zone"
Lord Hermer claimed pledge to ‘control our borders’ was de-humanising - "The attorney-general said that pledges to “control our borders” are de-humanising and there is a “moral argument” for Britain to pay reparations for slavery, in comments which put him at odds with key government positions... In podcasts hosted before he entered government, Lord Hermer repeatedly hit out at Donald Trump — dubbing the US president “the orange tyrant” — and said every education secretary should be forced to read about violence in the British Empire when taking office. Hermer, a close friend of the prime minister’s, has been in the crosshairs of some Cabinet ministers after The Times revealed how colleagues had accused him of creating a “freeze on government” with a “finickity” interpretation of the law. Others have blamed the attorney-general for legal advice given in relation to the deal to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius... both Starmer and Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, have made pledges to “control our borders” in their bid to tackle the migration crisis. But in one podcast episode, released in January 2024, Hermer said he was “acutely conscious that slogans such as stop the boats, control our borders, so on and so on, are capable not only of being distracting, but also de-humanising.” On Wednesday, the polling firm YouGov found that the majority of people thought the government’s immigration policy was not sufficiently robust. Some 56 per cent said the policy was not strict enough, 7 per cent said too strict, 14 per cent said about right and 23 per cent said they didn’t know... In May 2023, in a discussion over new protest laws designed to crack down on disruptive marches by groups such as Just Stop Oil, Hermer said those taking to the streets were “inspiring”... Three months later, Starmer said such methods were “contemptible” and later said climate protestors taking part in disruptive action needed to “feel the full force of the law”."
The institutional bias is clear
Sam Ashworth-Hayes on X - "It's worth noting the UK public sector can pay decent wages, it just does so for its priorities. The head of cybersecurity at the Treasury gets £58,000, but "Strategic Director Housing" at Hackney Council gets £149,000. Putting people in subsidised homes (and in particular, immigrants - 56% of Hackney social housing has a non UK born reference person) is more central to the British state than keeping the Treasury functioning."
Ian Miles Cheong on X - "British religious scholar Abu Waleed says it’s necessary to impose humiliating laws for non-Muslims in Britain and convert them."
Connor Tomlinson on X - "This happens every time I get a train into London. Someone either on speakerphone, or playing music or TikToks aloud. And nobody dare ask him to put headphones in, because you don't know how someone with "PSYCHO" will react -- or if he'll even speak English. Death-by-a-thousand-cuts to a high-trust society."
Nick Dixon on X - "Has anyone figured out why the immigrants don’t use headphones? My best guess is they simply have no concept of the public space, so it doesn’t occur to them. They must see others using them, but presumably just dimly register it as another weird feature of a culture they hate."
Global Dissident on X - "BREAKING: A 16-year-old boy was stabbed in Birmingham and rushed to hospital with serious injuries. 🚨🇬🇧 Later, chaos broke out at Heartlands Hospital, with an ambulance raided. Police say both incidents are linked."
Thread by @LeftwaffenWatch on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "After a stabbing incident, a large mob of 30-40 Muslim men raided the A & E department of a hospital. The police in this country at the behest of successive governments, are now allowing Muslims to operate large, armed criminal gangs unhindered because they know if they crackdown on them there will be huge riots If this happened, the myth of integration and multiculturalism will be shattered overnight. The government really don’t want this being exposed so instead, they simply allow them to get away with whatever they want. ‘No arrests have been made’ Despite the fact there would be plenty of CCTV of the 10+ cars turning up loaded with Muslim thugs and even more inside the hospital. If 30-40 white males turned up at a migrant hotel there would be dozens of police vehicles on the scene within minutes. In fact, this actually happened
West Midlands police are now stating this 'didn't happen' despite being reported in the MSM and local news and after several witness accounts"
So much for two tier policing being because suspects create evidence against them so it's easy for the police to catch them
Adam Wren on X - "I got into a taxi in Rochdale once with an elderly Pakistani man who asked me if I was a Christian — I told him i was, and he replied that Christians are good people of the book & that one day we will unite to wipe out the Jews. He told me that all things in the world move according to the will of allah, and so when the Christians and Muslims eventually unite and march into Israel their advanced weapons won’t work & we can just kill them. I think about that ride pretty often, it says a lot about the cultural context he’s in that he’d say it to a passenger"
Winston Marshall on X - "Part of the reason there is so much confusion about defining ‘English’ and ‘British’ between right and left and within right and left is because in the wake of the war a false dichotomy was erected between civic nationalism and ethnic nationalism. Notable scholars like Hans Kohn began this trajectory. All part of the “Open Society” school of thought, most famous of all being Karl Popper. In the wake of the Holocaust they were motivated, correctly, that the horror must never happen again. However they made some big errors, which the worldwide populist movement today is a reaction to. And one of the errors was regarding national identity: placing “culture” in the ethnic-nationalism camp of the false-dichotomy, and written off as bad. Hence the offence the commentariat exhibit when someone claims someone else is (or they themselves are) not English. Hans Kohn himself wrote repeatedly that nationality had porous borders. Those on the right who are too rigid with the terminology- well we all know where that goes. But likewise those on the left who are too loose with ideology don’t realise the chaos they sow. (Destruction of social unity, The rape gangs scandal and rise in Islamism are obvious results) To make things more complicated, different countries around the world have different concepts of what nationalism is. Comparing Britain or England to Japan makes as little sense as comparing South Africa to Norway. And this is only part of the complication. What the civic-nationalist gets wrong is that without a common culture their project falls apart. The founding fathers of America understood this - E Pluribus Unum. For Britain - we are no longer united in understanding what our common culture is - partly (and IMO wrongly) out of guilt for our history, partly because of mass migration after the war. More complicated still by the concept of being a British subject before the war, and the British Nationality Act after the war. Yes there is such thing as being ethnically English. Yes there is such thing as being administratively English (just about, administratively British is clearer). Britain has failed to integrate the millions it is importing, partly because it’s impossible to integrate that many people that quickly, and partly because we ourselves can’t even tell them what they are integrating into. The terrible consequences of this will play out over the coming decades. The English are a people, united by Alfred, and shaped by the land conquered three generations later by Athelstan. It is an ancient heritage, much deeper than that of the British. The British don’t have the same founding narrative, but a proud narrative nonetheless. If we want a united Kingdom we better understand what heritage it is we are all participating in. If everyone is British, no one is British. So what is the common culture that unites us all?"
Jonatan Pallesen on X - "When you think about it, it is quite incredible how nonsensical this is. Out of work foreigners can live anywhere. They don't need to get to work. They don't even need to live in Britain. And yet, they take up space in London of all places, one of the most important and productive locations in the world. London has a very large region wage premium. That is, the workers earn more there compared to similar workers in other locations in Britain. This is caused to a large degree by the benefits from agglomeration economies. [See Stansbury et al. 2023]. For this reason, London is one of the best places for a young, ambitious British person to build their career. They would contribute more to companies here, and in turn, increase their own value. Unfortunately, many are prevented from doing so due to a lack of housing. This figure from the same paper illustrates the large net migration of people of prime working age from London to the rest of the UK—where they will be less productive. If there was a free market, it would not be like this. In a market-driven system, housing would be allocated based on demand and the ability to pay, meaning high-value locations like London would naturally be occupied by those who contribute most to the economy. The reason unemployed foreigners occupy so much of London’s housing is that it is state-sponsored social housing. The UK government is discriminating against its own productive citizens in favour of unemployed foreigners. This is to the detriment of the British workers being discriminated against, and to the detriment of the economy of the country. And again, from a bird’s-eye view, the absurdity of this arrangement is striking. People who could live anywhere in the world are placed so that they take up what is among the most important housing anywhere in the world."
Actual Coverage on X - "Shia Muslims take over Westminster Bridge in London and conduct self-flagellation in honor of Imam Musa Kazim Martyrdom Procession 2025 26th January 205 Westminster Bridge London"
Suella Braverman says UK could become ‘first Islamist nation with nuclear weapons’ - "Braverman said: “Vice-president JD Vance said at the National Conservatism conference, at which I also spoke in the summer, that the UK was going to be the first Islamist nation with nuclear weapons. I don’t think he was joking. “Is it an impossibility that 20 years from now it will be the UK, not China or Russia, that will emerge as the greatest strategic threat to the USA? “Born out of a broken relationship and weak leadership. What happens if the UK falls into the hands of Muslim fundamentalism, our legal system gets substituted for Sharia Law and our nuclear capabilities vest in a regime not too dissimilar to that of Iran today? “Regardless of whether one thinks that is a realistic outcome, which I do not, should we not have the courage to ask these questions?”... the former Tory cabinet minister believes the UK-US relationship is “in tatters” due to Labour. “Under Keir Starmer, the UK is now more likely than ever to worship at the altar of punitive net zero policies, bend the knee at the cross of a distorted notion of human rights and submit to the will of supranational institutions rather than sticking up for the UK’s national security and long-term allies,” she said."
Colin Brazier on X - "Whatever you think of Braverman, for her to warn that the UK could be run by Islamists 20 years from now, is extraordinary. As a former Home Secretary she had access to briefings and operational data denied to the rest of us. This ought to be headline news"
Damn white supremacist!
Tom Jones on X - "In every single nation that collects this data, non-EU immigrants are shown to be a net fiscal drain. The reason Britain doesn’t collect or publish this data is that it would prove convulsively the same thing applies here. How much longer can we ignore it?"
