Britain does not exist simply to offer a better life to everyone in the world - "we welcome all these people only because we choose to. Not because we have to. And we should make those choices in the national interest. This basic fact seems to have been forgotten by those who run our immigration system and many who comment on it. Sometimes this is explicit. Reflecting on his time as Permanent Secretary for the Treasury, senior civil servant Gus O’Donnell once famously said, “I argued for the most open door possible to immigration… I think it’s my job to maximise global welfare, not national welfare.” Sometimes it’s more subtle. Take Indefinite Leave to Remain, or ILR. My Shadow Home Office colleagues and I have been pushing for reform to the rules, which currently say that after just five years here most migrants are entitled to stay in Britain indefinitely, access benefits and social housing, and begin the path to citizenship, whether or not they’ve ever paid a penny in tax. The number of people getting ILR is rising, and will only continue to grow as those who’ve arrived in the last few years become eligible. We’ve proposed to extend the qualifying period, and to ban anybody from claiming ILR (or remove it if they already have it) if they’ve claimed state support, committed a crime, or are unlikely to contribute more than they cost. We’ve also proposed to stop new visas being issued to anybody who meets these conditions. Those who don’t have any legal right to stay here will then need to leave. That’s how immigration works. Various Labour, Liberal Democrat and SNP MPs are up in arms about these proposals. They think they’re “unfair”. As it happens, I think they’re completely fair – if you move to a country on a time-limited visa, then when that period is finished, it’s time to go home again. But whether or not this is “fair” to foreign nationals is entirely beside the point. What matters is that it’s good for the country. As representatives of the British people, that should be all we care about... Britain does not exist simply to offer those from abroad a better life and the point of the British state isn’t to take care of global welfare. Its primary purpose – indeed, its only purpose – is to advance and protect the interests of the British people."
Access to white people and their money is a human right
John Swinney attacks ‘despicable’ debate on shutting migrant hotels - "John Swinney has lashed out at the Tories for calling a “despicable and opportunistic” Holyrood debate on asylum seeker hotels. The First Minister, fresh from talks with Donald Trump in Washington DC, hit out after the Scottish Conservatives lodged a motion calling to end their use “as soon as possible”... Craig Hoy, the shadow local government secretary, told MSPs the cost of housing asylum seekers was huge and that “ignoring this problem will not make it go away”. Mr Hoy accepted the previous Tory Government had been “wrong” to start using hotels to house migrants, but said the decision had been made during “the eye of the Covid storm” . The row broke out amid warnings that Scotland is facing a huge influx of refugees from England, attracted by the SNP’s more liberal homelessness laws"
If you question any aspect of mass migration, you are despicable and opportunistic
Meme - Mark Houghton @Not__So_Obvious: "Whenever anyone attempts to assert that Britain was always a nation of immigrants, or that they built Britain, post this simple refutation and move on. They built only the Yookay."
"When did you arrive in the UK? Non-UK born residents by year grouping of arrival
*Biggest group* Arrived 2011 to 2021 42%
*Next biggest group* Arrived 2001 to 2010 27%
*Next biggest group* Arrived 1991 to 2000 11%"
Connie Shaw on X - "A Muslim teacher has sued for discrimination after her colleagues discussed The Satanic Verses in front of her. She claimed it was a deliberate attempt to provoke her. But remember, if you are concerned that Western civilisation is under threat from mass migration and a lack of assimilation, according to Prevent you hold a far-right terrorist ideology."
Freedom of speech is so you can call for Jews to be murdered, support terrorist groups and attack people with sledgehammers, not to discuss "Islamophpbic" material
Half of Britons back ending immigration and deporting recent arrivals
What is the problem? - "The issue is the huge and rising scale of immigration, both legal and illegal: net migration in the year to mid-2023 alone was 906,000. It was lower in 2024 at 430, but this is still catastrophically high... the 2025 ONS figures put the level of net immigration for 2024 at 431,000 per year, after peaking at 906,000 in mid-2023... For a long time, it has been claimed that migration has economically benefitted the United Kingdom. The government’s own immigration White Paper from May 2025 admitted this was false, detailing stagnating GDP growth (just 3.4% since 2019, compared to the US’ 12% in the same period); immigration from low-skilled workers “distorting the labour market”, and displacing workers in six out of 10 key industries; and, most damning, conceding GDP per capita has fallen, meaning the average Brit is worse off, continually since 2022. So much so that our GDP per capita is now lower than before the Covid pandemic, as explained in the May 2025 Immigration White Paper... Our own economics briefing warned that this was the case years ago, while the academic research points to immigration resulting in a clear fiscal cost to the UK. Between 1995 and 2011, immigrants in the UK cost at least £114 billion, or about £18m a day, according to University College, London research. Likewise, a 2018 report for the Migration Advisory Committee estimated that immigrants overall cost the Exchequer £4.3 billion, adding to the UK's fiscal deficit. On paragraph 4.11, it was admitted that while EEA migrants contributed a net benefit of £4.7bn, this was considerably outweighed by a cost of £9bn for non-EEA migrants. On this evidence, immigration does not generate the tax receipts needed for migrants to 'pay their way' let alone to finance the new infrastructure or anything else required by rapid population growth. Additionally, despite the number of migrant workers growing by over two million since 2006, productivity (key to economic performance) has flat-lined. Arguments that immigration to the UK is vital for the economy, in particular that it is enhancing UK productivity, are often disingenuous and exaggerated... the public regularly underestimate exactly how much the scale of net migration is. Onward found in 2024 that the average person believes Britain’s net migration figure is 70,000 - a tenth of what it was that year. Promises have been made consistently by political parties to bring immigration under control. In its 2024 manifesto, the Labour Party promised to end the abuse of the visa system by employers, but so far no serious efforts have been made to do so."
'Tell Your Friends To Come!': Illegal Migrant Mocks 'Soft UK', Provides Step-by-Step Guide On How To Enter Via Boat - "An illegal migrant has been encouraging his TikTok audience to enter the UK via boat. The creator, known as Alexandra420, racked up nearly a million views with his step-by-step guide on crossing the Channel with a small boat. This comes amid the Prime Minister's 'soft-touch' approach in addressing illegal crossings in the UK... Alexandra420 would boast about his success, saying 'Tell your friends to come!'. He also told his story of addressing deportation, claiming he was told by UK officials 'If I send you to France, you won't have any problem'. He replied that he would commit suicide, and noted that it angered the officials... Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philip also reacted, saying 'it is disgraceful that illegal immigrants are saying it is their dream to be put up in a hotel, all paid for by the British taxpayer'. Concerning Alexandra420, he said that 'this illegal immigrant had multiple opportunities to claim asylum in other European countries before choosing to come here'. He also said that this is a sick joke, and anyone coming to the UK illegally must be swiftly deported. This comes in light of The Sun revealing that he was able to swap stays in Germany and France. Notably, removals to Afghanistan were paused since the Taliban seized control in 2021. This means that the TikTok influencer had access to this knowledge prior to entering the UK. It also suggests that he was aware that he's unlikely to be deported as well."
Illegal migrants hiding in lorries could be behind surge in food poisoning outbreaks that has seen up to 3,000 trucks contaminated, claims report - "Lorries - or refrigerated trailers - were the most common route used by people smugglers to hide migrants before tighter security around ports and the Channel Tunnel prompted smugglers to change their tactics to favour small boat crossings. Migrants stowing away in lorries typically board them in northern France before remaining hidden until the vehicle has entered Britain. But this has put trailers packed with chilled and frozen food, household goods and pharmaceutical products at risk of contamination, logistics firm Oakland International, who published the report, said. The true figure could be even higher given just a small sample of refrigerated trailers are checked by Border Force. Dean Attwell, Oakland International co-founder, said: 'The rise in clandestine infiltration is not just a statistic, it's a ticking time bomb for food safety, driver security, and public health. 'Every compromised load puts the public at risk and costs the industry millions per year.'"
Clearly, they should just have open borders so this doesn't happen
Mass migration has been a disaster. Here’s how we fix it - "We should distinguish clearly between people we are happy to have residing in Britain temporarily, and those we want to remain here long term. The lesson of the last 70 years of immigration is that no matter how appealing it might be to a government trying to balance the books before an election, cheap labour today is expensive tomorrow. If we must have short-term labour in Britain, it should be short-term. An explicit guest-worker scheme with clear time limits, no right to bring dependents, no right to switch routes and no right to renewal would be a major improvement on our current approach of bringing in low-skilled workers on a pathway to full access to benefits, and in particular the vast cost of the care worker scheme... Lobby groups describing the university sector as a major exporting industry are pulling one of the all-time great scams. The growth in international student numbers was driven by the least selective universities offering the cheapest degrees, with students in the worst institutions three times as likely to apply for graduate visas than those in the best. These students are not here for a world-beating education. They are here to work. And what these institutions are selling is the right to deliver fast food... The second follows on from the first. We should see migration for what it is: a tool that can completely reshape a country. We should treat it with the seriousness it deserves. As Garrett Jones has argued, culture transplants go both ways. Migrants moving from rich countries to poor countries brought their culture with them. So too do those coming from poor countries to Britain. In the long term, the culture of a country is probably the most important determinant of its success. Constitutional safeguards around debt and spending only work for as long as people support them; so too do concessions over taxation, rules over corruption, and the bargain through which the poor agree not to expropriate the rich in exchange for growth. There is ample evidence that these cultural differences show persistent transmission over time. Our immigration policy should weight them accordingly, offering different income thresholds for different countries, and attempting to avoid the sort of large-scale inflows which disrupt integration... Given the scale of the policy errors over the last few years, we should look at how we can ensure that only those making a contribution stay... A simple measure would be to make access to welfare, social housing and NHS treatment contingent on residency as well as citizenship... The Government has been strangely unwilling to measure the net fiscal effects of migration, scrapping publications on benefits and taxes by nationality. It was not until late last year that the Office for Budget Responsibility decided to actually examine the lifetime costs of low-wage migration. This is unacceptable. We should know what we’re doing to our country. What are the crime rates for different migrant groups – not nationality, where grants of citizenship muddle long term figures – and what is the implied cost to the public? How much infrastructure spending goes to prop up areas experiencing high inflows? How much more do we need to avoid capital shallowing? What does it actually cost when a migrant leaves a hotel, receives refugee status, and moves into local authority housing? What is the expected lifetime cost of an asylum claim? It’s hard not to suspect that the reason the Government has avoided asking these questions is that it already knows the answers. In that case, the public should too."
Rape charge against asylum seeker in taxpayer-funded hotel kept quiet to avoid inflaming ‘community tension in cover up’ - "There were also two other rape cases where it was not disclosed that the suspects were in taxpayer-funded asylum hotels... Cllr Madgwick said: “This is precisely why the public don’t trust politicians and public bodies: things are hidden that should be disclosed. Anyone involved in any form of cover-up from disclosure to the public should question their role in a publicly funded position.”"
Asylum seeker who raped girl, 15, was not aware of ‘cultural’ differences, claims his lawyer : r/europe_sub - "Sadeq Nikzad, a 29-year-old Afghan asylum seeker, was sentenced to nine years in prison for raping a 15-year-old girl in Falkirk, Scotland, on October 16, 2023. Nikzad, who arrived in the UK illegally via a small boat in 2021, targeted the teenager in a town center. His defense lawyer, Janice Green, argued that Nikzad was unaware of "cultural differences" between the UK and Afghanistan, where child marriage is common."
Sadiq Khan demands axing of London arms fair saying it offends asylum seekers and is 'inappropriate' during Israel's Gaza campaign - "Sadiq Khan today demanded the axing of Britain's biggest arms fair because it offends asylum seekers and is 'inappropriate' during Israel's Gaza campaign. The London mayor hit out at the DSEI event being held from September 9-12, insisting the capital should not be used as a 'marketplace for those who wish to trade in weapons'. He argued that the city is 'home to thousands of people who have fled conflict and suffered as a result of weapons like those exhibited at this event'... The UK Government has already caused a backlash by barring Israeli officials from the event over growing concern about the war in Gaza... 'It's just another boring Sadiq intervention on major national issues while he refuses to address concerns in London. 'While knife crime in London has risen by 54 per cent since he's taken office, he's decided to focus on the people who are working day-in day-out... ensuring the lives of Ukrainians and other allies who are under ceaseless attack from our enemies are protected from meaningless violence.' Defence analyst Francis Tusa told ITV News: 'It's two years after the last show, he said pretty much the same thing last time. 'So it's a stuck record, a bit of student politicking. Not very serious. 'I think he's showing his naivety. 'If he talks about refugees and wars he should go and speak to some of the Ukrainian refugees who are in London and ask them whether we should be spending more on defence equipment, especially to provide to Ukraine. 'I think he will get a very robust answer.'"
Albanian with 50 convictions can stay in UK because crimes ‘not extreme enough’ - "An Albanian burglar with almost 50 convictions has been allowed to stay in the UK after a judge found his crimes were not “extreme” enough. Zenel Beshi’s “serious and prolific” offending saw him jailed for six years in Italy for robbery, theft and false imprisonment, an immigration tribunal was told. He failed to disclose these convictions when he arrived in Britain, however, said the Home Office. It told the tribunal that he posed a “genuine, present and sufficiently serious threat” to the UK and should be deported. However, Leonie Hirst, the upper tribunal Judge, rejected the Home Office’s arguments. She found that Beshi’s crimes were not of the “very extreme” type of offending that would cause “deep public revulsion”, and allowed him to stay"
Meme - Nioh Berg: "The fact that their defence always is "I didn't know raping a child is wrong" says everything you need to know about their societies."
"Muslim abuser who 'didn't know' that sex with a girl of 13 was illegal is spared jail
Ignorant: Adil Rashid (pictured) did not know it was illegal to have sex with a 13-year-old girl"
Meme - Steve Laws @Steve_Laws_: "A yacht letting on water & kayakers who rang the Coastguard for assistance, were left to wait for fisherman to assist them. Border Force & RNLI were too busy assisting and facilitating illegal immigration from France to the UK. Over 1,000 illegals have crossed the Channel today."
"Coastguard 'too busy with migrant rescues' to come to yacht's aid. Fishing boats were asked to help the stretched service on a record day for Channel crossings. Migrants prepared to cross the Channel from Gravelines beach as French officers watched"
Starmer to move asylum hotel migrants to military barracks - "Currently, there are two former bases being used to house asylum seekers: MDP Wethersfield in Essex and Napier Barracks in Folkestone. Both were opened by the previous Tory government amid significant opposition from pro-migrant groups, who have compared them to prisons... Labour now intends to expand upon the previous Conservative policy, despite drawing up plans just a year ago to end the use of the two sites. Ms Cooper previously closed down the Bibby Stockholm, a barge procured by the Tories to house up to 500 migrants off the Dorset coast. She had also planned to move asylum seekers from hotels into “dispersal” accommodation, such as houses and blocks of flats rented by the Government. But the move ran into local opposition, including in Waterlooville, where protests backed by Suella Braverman forced the council to drop the scheme"
Midlands doctor suspended for sixth time after struggling to grasp English - "Dr Monika Matko has been suspended indefinitely after a panel found she did not have the required grasp of English, which posed a risk to patients. Dr Matko - who graduated as a doctor in Hungary in 2003 - was working the University Derby and Burton NHS Trust in 2019 when colleagues raised serious concerns... An email from a colleague claimed Dr Matko made 'significant errors' with her documentation when providing care for a patient with diabetes. The email later adds: "The constant need for cross-checking everything that she does is having a toll on the rest of the team." The General Medical Council (GMC) told her to undergo an English language test. But she failed to achieve the required scores for listening, reading and writing... Prior to the tribunal Dr Matko, who was not present at the hearing, listed a number of courses she was undertaking to help improve her English skills but no certificates were provided."
Why is it easier for refugees to get into the UK than my hard-working American husband? - "Tony and I both have good jobs and speak good English (well, he is American, but that’s another story for another day). We aren’t going to add to the benefits crisis. Surely, this overcrowded country can absorb just one, friendly, hard-working Yank, when it has happily found room for so many others? Perhaps one day it will. But so far, rather than a honeymoon period, we have endured weeks of tears and rage as we have fought to tick every exhaustive box set out by the Home Office. Even before our wedding, Tony and I found ourselves thrust into the Ninth Circle of Bureaucratic Hell. He and I initially tried to manage the immigration process ourselves, but the online forms were so labyrinthine, so confusing. Have a question and you’ll be directed to the FAQs, designed to answer every query except the actual one you have. There is no easily found helpline and seemingly no-one to ask. Eventually, we bit the bullet and instructed a lawyer, at a cost of £3,500 to date. Having a solicitor made things easier (though not on our bank account). Even so, the amount of paperwork we’ve had to do is astonishing. In order to be an adequate “sponsor” for my husband, I have to prove I own my house (£24.95 went to the Land Registry for the pleasure of receiving my own title deed). PDFs of council tax have had to be sent. I’ve had to download bank statements dating back 12 months to prove I’ve earned the requisite £29,000 a year. Then I had to source statements from my ISAs – which I discovered after a tech meltdown could only be sent through the post, adding another five days of administrative pain to our application. Just when I thought we had everything, my lawyer had a final surprise for me: the Home Office would need my 2025 tax return. Who has done their January tax return in August? More tears were shed, as I prepared to rouse my accountant from his summer break. But that wasn’t the end of it. Once it had been established I was financially solvent, we had to prove we were a real couple. Remember that Gérard Depardieu film Green Card, where he and Andie MacDowell mock up skiing holiday pictures, because they haven’t been together for very long? Turns out you really have to provide these photos. Fortunately, Tony and I have been together for half a decade, and are quite snap-happy: in the age of the iPhone, it wasn’t that hard to find pictures from our first meeting, holidays, Christmases. After this, we had to get letters from my family and friends, confirming our relationship status. This was all incredibly time-consuming – not to mention expensive. As well as the price of the immigration lawyer, we had to pay £1,938 to the Home Office to apply for the visa (the cheaper option compared with getting married in England). Two-hundred pounds for paperwork stateside, to make our marriage licence valid over here. Most expensive of all, £3,255 for Tony to be able to use the NHS for the next two and a half years (a fee we will presumably be forced to cough up for again at the start of 2028, when the visa – if granted – expires). That’s almost £9,000 in total so far, and with Indefinite Leave to Remain and citizenship at least five years off yet, the costs will no doubt keep racking up. Have the asylum seekers’ families had to shell out this cash? I suspect the answer is no. In fact, the scheme has been so lax that it has allowed for their relatives to come to the UK without proof of accommodation or any English language skills whatsoever. Even Cooper herself has admitted it has been seized on by people smugglers, noting the sharp increase in the number of small boat arrivals who have subsequently brought family members to Britain in recent years."
Brazilian asylum seeker ‘earned £6k a month’ on rented delivery accounts - "An Uber Eats spokesperson said: “Uber Eats is fully committed to tackling illegal work and will continue to work with the Home Office and industry. "We have introduced a range of state of the art detection tools to find and remove fraudulent accounts. We are constantly reviewing our tools and finding new ways to detect and take action on people who are trying to work illegally.”"
Illegal migrant crackdown risks pushing up takeaway prices, warns Uber
In the year 2000, one man foresaw today’s woke tyranny. If only we’d all listened - "Speaking to The Spectator this week, Robert Jenrick said that, rather than hotels, asylum seekers should be detained in prison-style camps. His argument was swiftly strengthened by the news that an Ethiopian asylum seeker staying at the Epping hotel had been convicted of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl. The story was already disturbing enough. What makes it truly extraordinary, however, is that the asylum seeker committed the assault a mere eight days – I repeat, eight days – after arriving in this country. Imagine, just for a moment, that you were an asylum seeker. On finally reaching our shores, you’d probably be thinking something along the lines of: “Oh, thank heavens! I’ve finally reached a safe country, free from war and persecution! I just pray that the local authorities don’t send me back to the benighted hell-hole I’ve just escaped from! So, to avoid jeopardising my new life here in this wonderful place of sanctuary, for which I’m so eternally grateful, I’m going to be on my absolute best behaviour. Polite. Friendly. Respecting local laws and customs. And, above all, not sexually assaulting any underage girls!” Yet this asylum seeker from Ethiopia barely managed a week before doing exactly that. Incidentally, the court heard that, as well as telling his 14-year-old victim that they should “make lovely babies and have sex”, he’d urged her to “come back to Africa, you would be a good wife”. Come back to Africa? How odd. I thought he’d had to flee Africa, because it was so dangerous. Perhaps it’s safe for him to return already."
Asylum seeker living in Epping Hotel blasts protests for causing ‘pain and fear’
Freedom of speech is so you can call for the death of Jews, support terrorist groups and attack people with sledgehammers, not to protest outside migrant hotels
The £300k eco-friendly houses being given to migrants in a Suffolk village - "if the alternative to hotels is the placement of asylum seekers in high-end rental properties that the county’s essential workers can only dream of, could the outcome in the case of the Park Hotel turn out to be the very definition of a Pyrrhic victory?... “When work began we assumed they would be affordable homes for locals,” says Keseru. “Instead they are hugely overpriced and so close to the railway line they have been sitting empty for over a year – which makes me think they were purpose built and always intended as homes for asylum seekers.”"
