Albanian drug dealer claims no hot water in prison breaches his rights - "Maringlen Qefalia, 41, who was sentenced to five years in prison in Italy for supplying 1.5kg of cocaine, is being sought by the Italian authorities to serve his jail time. However, Qefalia – who is believed to have fled to the UK and entered illegally in 2022 – is trying to block his extradition on the basis that prison conditions in Italy would breach his article three rights under the ECHR... Mr Scandurra said many prison cells in Italy failed to meet the recommended footage required to enable inmates to have the necessary free walking space to exercise. Regulations stated they should have a capacity of nine square metres per inmate, with an additional five square metres for every extra prisoner. But the court was told: “A number of prisons were not built as prisons, such as convents or military facilities, and they can have single cells that do not meet the requirement... Mr Scandurra also told the court that the provision of hot water was “variable” and that cells could overheat in hot weather. Prisoners could buy desk fans to mitigate this, he said, but last summer he estimated at least 50 per cent of cells he visited did not have fans... The judge rejected Qefalia’s challenge to his extradition., saying: “Maringlen Qefalia is a fugitive in the technical sense. “I am quite sure that he left Italy with full knowledge of the criminal process, the sentence remaining to be served, and without notice to the Italian authorities. He knowingly and deliberately placed himself beyond the reach of Italian justice. “In relation to temperature, the evidence is vague and non-specific and does not analyse how it compares to the lived experience of the population. “The variable levels of hot water again would need to be specific by reference to location. While hot water might be essential in a cold winter in northern Italy, a cold shower might be preferable, even essential, in a hot summer in the south of the country."
Home Office on X - "Irish people living in the UK will be able to apply for British citizenship under a new easier, cheaper route. Applicants will be subject to a more streamlined application process and won't be required to demonstrate knowledge of English language or sit the Life in the UK test."
Paul Weston on X - "Can you believe this? Sweden pays Somalians 30,000 Euros to leave Sweden for their "country of origin" or a "safe third country." What predictably happens next? They fly to Ireland, claim asylum, and wait for the Home Office to fast track them into England. HT @EstebanMathurin"
Ex-asylum seeker wants government to deport him to Somalia because it's 'safer' than Nuneaton - "A former asylum seeker wants the government to send him back to his home country Somalia because he believes it is "not safe" living in a market town in Warwickshire. Yusuf Ali Hamud arrived in the UK two decades ago to seek asylum, but after a criminal conviction for a serious assault, he was stripped of his right to work. He lives in Nuneaton and has claimed that over the last five months he has been asking to be deported to Somalia, but said he is still waiting for a Home Office response. "The country is not safe," the 50-year-old told Sky News's Shamaan Freeman-Powell. "But my country [Somalia], now, I'm safe. I want to go back." "The Home Office, they are ignoring me," he said."
Migrants need to be protected by not letting them claim asylum in the UK, since it's so dangerous
How the EU halved illegal migration – while Britain got ‘taken for mugs’ - "Although many experts are sceptical about the EU’s figures, pointing out high levels of undetected migration, the raw data certainly suggest that Britain could learn a lesson or two from her neighbours. Signalling that it is serious about the crisis would be a start, say experts. “I found it very puzzling that the first thing Sir Keir Starmer did as Prime Minister was to scrap the Rwanda scheme [which was originally Denmark’s idea],” says Dr Rakib Ehsan, senior fellow at the Policy Exchange think tank and the author of its 2023 report entitled “Small-Boats Emergency”. “That decision gave the impression that the new Government was a pushover regarding illegal immigration.” While asylum seekers in Denmark and Sweden are given cash incentives to leave voluntarily, Britain has been criticised for spending lavishly on hotels and healthcare for migrants. “It makes Britain the El Dorado for illegal migrants,” says Ehsan. “There will be people in other European countries who can’t quite believe the generosity shown towards those who enter the UK without permission.” The French have long argued that Britain’s liberal labour market is also part of the problem. In July, Emmanuel Macron accused the UK of attracting migrants through generous welfare payments and easy access to undocumented work, echoing complaints made by several of his predecessors. However, British politicians have often ignored these more complicated pull factors in favour of simplistic three-word slogans like “stop the boats” or “smash the gangs”... The British Right is not alone in arguing that the ECHR limits its ability to decide its own migration policy: the convention has been heavily criticised this year by leaders from all wings of the political spectrum in Europe (and even centrist British heavyweights from Malcolm Rifkind to Jack Straw have recently joined calls to leave its jurisdiction)... "there’s no reason why the UK Government couldn’t impose much tougher sentences on anyone knowingly employing illegal migrants [the current maximum is five years’ imprisonment]. We are also being restrained by our own legislation, such as the Modern Slavery Act, which needs to be talked about a lot more. “We also need to look more closely at the culture within our judiciary, where there are blatant examples of judicial activism. There is a tendency to side with the rights of the individual – even foreign criminals. But collective security – maintaining social cohesion and minimising the risk of crime – needs to be prioritised too. In that wrestle between freedom and security, we need to lean that bit more towards security.”... Some of the EU’s other methods of reducing unauthorised migration offer a perhaps unpalatable blueprint for Britain. In January, Greece was found guilty by the European Court of Human Rights of systematically pushing stranded inflatable boats outside territorial waters, leaving them either to the mercy of the sea or for other countries to pull them back ashore. Pushbacks have also been recorded in countries from Spain to Poland, Italy to Hungary. In 2022, the director of Frontex, the EU’s border agency, resigned over these and other allegations. “Physical intervention of boats is definitely a factor in stemming the flow,” says Dr Peter Walsh, a senior researcher at the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford. “Australia did that with Indonesia with bigger boats, which are easier to intercept. But the French resolutely refuse to do ‘pullbacks’ in the Channel and there is some justification to their argument that it’s too precarious. When you have 100 people on a boat designed for 25, it could lead to people being crushed and going overboard... “There would be a very high political price if there were deaths in the Channel on the same scale as the Mediterranean,” agrees Neidhardt. “The British public has not been desensitised to the same level as people in the Mediterranean countries.” According to the UN, at least 25,500 migrants have died or disappeared in the Mediterranean since 2014, including more than 2,200 last year. This figure is 30 times higher than that for the Channel, where 73 migrants died last year: more than in the previous six years combined... Another key element of EU migrant policy has been channelling billions in aid, investment and training to countries such as Egypt and Tunisia in return for cutting illegal migration routes – a policy picked up in Britain by Reform last month when it promised to make £2bn available to countries such as Afghanistan to take back migrants. However, for all its success in reducing arrivals, the EU has seen considerable blowback from this policy after reports emerged of migrants being beaten, tortured and raped in Tunisia and Libya. As The Economist reported last month: “The EU has now proved the thesis that harsh policies can reduce illegal migration. The genie is out of the bottle.”"
UK records biggest increase in asylum claims in Europe - "Britain posted the biggest rise in asylum claims in Europe last year, new figures show, as the number of applications surged to a record high. A total of 108,000 claims were lodged in 2024, reflecting a 28pc jump on the 84,000 recorded in 2023. This increase far outstripped the UK’s peers across the Continent, including France and Germany, where the number of asylum claims actually fell... The figures reflect an unprecedented surge in refugees across the rich world, as more than three million asylum claims were made across the OECD’s group of 38 countries last year. This was the highest number on record."
Asylum farce as man wins court fight to stay in Britain on human rights grounds despite committing 19 crimes since arriving - "An Egyptian man has been allowed to stay in Britain on human rights grounds despite committing 19 crimes since arriving in the UK. The court also granted him the right to stay anonymous and protect his identity. The 24-year-old arrived in Britain in 2016 and has committed offences including robbery, burglary, possessing an offensive weapon and drug offences. He also served time in prison after assaulting an emergency worker. The Egyptian argued that he was at risk in Egypt as his father was a banned Muslim Brotherhood extremist. The court ruled that his deportation would violate the European Convention on Human Rights [ECHR]."
Nicholas Lissack on X - "Tower Hamlets councillors Shabina Khan and Ohid Ahmed are running for Parliament in Bangladesh. It’s an absolute disgrace. Anyone elected to serve the British public has no business chasing power abroad. They should resign at once. Their contempt couldn’t be clearer."
Controlling our borders - "the Government has the wherewithal to stop the illegal variety should it wish to. It would mean intercepting boats mid-Channel and returning everyone to France. The difficulty is that the French would object. It could involve sending them to a third country, like Rwanda – but the Labour Government scrapped that plan. If Ms Mahmood wants to take back control it is in the Government’s hands to do so."
Home Office ‘should be split up’ after migrant hotels fiasco - "The Home Office should be split up because it is “not fit for purpose” after squandering billions of pounds on asylum hotels, the head of a Commons committee has said. Dame Karen Bradley, who chairs the home affairs committee, said the Home Office should be divided into two departments – one for managing borders and the other for dealing with crime because they “need different skill sets”. She made the comments after her committee found billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money were squandered on asylum hotels because of a “failed, chaotic and expensive” system imposed by the government department. Ministers and officials “neglected” day-to-day management of their asylum accommodation providers even as the cost of the 10-year contracts tripled from £4.5bn to £15.3bn
I’ve seen Britain’s future if it fails to end mass migration - "Absent radical changes, with current migration and fertility trends, the demographic future of Britain could be for the indigenous people to be a minority within a generation or two. In that case, I see two likely scenarios for Britain’s future. The best case is akin to the United Arab Emirates, where a native population controls the land, wealth, and politics, while vastly outnumbered by a non-Arab clerical and labour class. Or Britain could end up like Lebanon, where no dominant political force or culture holds things together at the centre. Enclaves of prosperity and even comfort remain, but without the unifying history, faith, and collective identity that forms a strong nation. To avoid either fate will require both massively reducing legal channels of immigration and ending asylum abuse. Parliament has the power to do both. If the current popular mood holds, and Britain elects in a few years a party or coalition committed to ending mass migration, there is a possible third future. That would be an era similar to the US between 1925-1965, when immigration was severely limited, and the huge wave of immigrants that arrived over the prior decades was slowly absorbed into the “melting pot” of American society. Sovereign states can control their destiny. No country is compelled to accept migrants. Conventions on refugees can be left as well as joined. Laws allowing asylum claims can be restricted or scrapped. There is no better example of the power of leadership to control migration than the US, where Joe Biden’s open borders and mass release of aliens was halted almost immediately when Donald Trump began his second term in the White House. Since then, enforcement has been the priority, and record numbers of would-be migrants are leaving on their own. For now, Britain is stuck in a rut. But should it wish to get out of it, there is a clear map to follow."
Human rights law and DEI means they can't have a caste system like in the UAE, so good luck
Migrant murdered Lloyds Bank customer after asylum application was refused - "A Channel migrant has been jailed for at least 25 years for murdering a bank customer shortly after his asylum application was rejected. Haybe Cabdiraxmaan Nur, a Somali national who paid €400 (£350) to travel to Britain last year, attacked Gurvinder Singh Johal, 37, with a kitchen knife at a branch of Lloyds Bank in Derby. The 47-year-old had called the charity Migrant Help less than two hours before the killing, which happened at about 2.30pm on May 6, saying he was “going to kill 500 people”, Derby Crown Court heard. He later suggested he was going to target “doctors, police or people working at the Home Office”... He had allegedly been shouting “f--- the English” and calling members of the public “white racist b-------” before headbutting a construction worker in December 2024. He was also detained in April after allegedly smashing a phone shop window in Derby. The court heard that after initially travelling to Libya from Somalia in 2016, the killer was sent £1,362 to board a boat to Europe. He was known to police across Europe. In 2023, Nur was convicted of robbery, assault and resisting a public official in Italy, resulting in a suspended prison sentence and a €400 fine. He was also given a warning in the same year for damaging electricity meters and setting fire to a mattress. In Germany in 2023 he was accused of stealing bicycles, cannabis-related offences and a serious assault. He was jailed for just under two months for robbery between June and August of 2023. In the Netherlands, he came to the attention of the police for being drunk and disorderly and shoplifting but was never prosecuted. In Luxembourg, he was accused of stealing alcohol from shops on several occasions."
The way to stop this sort of crime is to have open borders and accept everyone
Restore Britain on X - "Remember the Afghan super-injunction? Through Restore Britain's FOI work, we've uncovered the cost of the legal work by the Government on the super-injunction. £2,601,883.46. All to hide the importation of thousands of Afghans from the British people. Grim."
Fact Check: Foreign-born residents live in less than 50% of London social housing - "Less than half (47.6%) of London’s social housing was occupied by people describing themselves as born outside of the UK in the 2021 Census, opens new tab."
Clearly, there's no problem, and anyone who suggests there is one is a racist xenophobe
Half of London’s council houses occupied by people born overseas - "Foreign-born heads of households in London cost Britain around £3.6 billion a year in discounted rent, Telegraph analysis suggests. Nearly half of all social housing in the capital, 48 per cent, is occupied by foreign-born heads of household, data from the 2021 census shows. This is well over the national average of 19 per cent. These households benefit from cheap rents which, when compared to private rent in London, average out at a discount of around £11,600 per year per household. Responding to the figures, Robert Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary, said: “This research shows how the huge costs of mass, low-skilled migration are often hidden from the public. When you lift up the bonnet, it’s clear that the level and composition of immigration have been hugely economically harmful for decades”. The figures also show some 35 per cent of working age foreign-born heads of households in London’s social housing are either unemployed or economically inactive, despite living in one of the UK’s most prosperous regions. The most recent ONS figures show that output per hour worked in the capital is approximately 26 per cent higher than the UK average. The figures cast further doubt on the UK’s migration policies. Last year, the Office for Budget Responsibility found that low-paid migrant workers were costing taxpayers more than £150,000 each by the time they hit state pension age... Roughly 48 per cent of Black Caribbean households, 40 per cent of Black African households, and 40 per cent of Bangladeshi households in England live in social housing, compared with 16 per cent of White British households, and 5 per cent of Chinese and Indian households"
Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 on X - "It’s so strange that poor migrants to Britain are basically a new aristocratic class. Majority of native British young people cannot afford housing in London Zone 1, but their tax dollars subsidise the poor foreign migrants to live in London Zone 1. Reminds me of the estate system under the French Ancien Regime"
Taliban commander's nephew granted asylum in UK can be joined by SEVEN family members even though none can speak English, judge rules - "a tribunal accepted they would place 'a significant burden upon the public purse' if they were allowed to move to the UK... the tribunal was told that Afghans in Turkey are not recognised as refugees and are at risk of 'violent summary returns', 'torture' and 'ill-treatment'."
Why are Muslim countries so Islamophobic?
Women’s Safety Initiative on X - "We're standing against mass immigration making Britain unsafe for women. Importing danger is not compassion. We need mass deportations NOW!"
Syrian migrant who had 'receding hairline' and 'grey hair' wins case after judge quashes council decision that he was 'clearly an adult' - and rules he was 16 - "A migrant from Syria who has a 'receding hairline' and 'grey hair' has won an age case after an immigration judge ruled he was 16. Authorities in Britain said the Syrian was 'clearly an adult' when he arrived on a small boat last year because of his 'mature' physical features, a tribunal heard. The migrant - who claimed he was 16 - had 'hairy, muscular arms', 'crow's feet lines' on his eyes, and 'wrinkles' on his forehead. He is a smoker and has 'stubble', a 'deep voice', a 'visible Adam's apple', and age assessors said he had a 'receding hairline with grey hair all over his head'. Derby City Council, which carried out the age assessment after his arrival, rejected his claims and said he was 'significantly over 18 years of age'. Senior immigration workers judged him to be aged between 24-26. An immigration officer said the Syrian, who was given anonymity and was referred to as SMF, used his 'slim' body stature 'to present himself as a child'. But the Applicant took the case to an appeal in the Upper Tribunal of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber and has now won his case. An immigration judge ruled that he was 16 at the time of his arrival in 2024 and is 17 now. Judge Gaenor Bruce said she accepted testimony of an Iranian asylum seeker who was in the same Derby hotel as SMF who was concerned about his young age and noted that the Syrian couldn't cook or do the laundry... The judge said that she did not accept everything the Applicant said. 'I do not accept that he is entirely illiterate, to the point of being unable to sign his own name on the bottom of his statements', Judge Bruce said. 'That is quite obviously incompatible with his use of a smartphone."
If "white" men can't cook or the do the laundry, they're manchildren and it's proof that we need more feminism. But if "brown" men from a patriarchal and misogynistic culture can't cook or do the laundry, it's proof that they're children
Sheffield man jailed for six years for strangulation and rape of a woman
Peter Lloyd on X - "'Sheffield man' is actually from Sudan. 🇬🇧"
Basil the Great on X - "🚨ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIC CALL🚨
A London woman calls in and cries her eyes out in desperation
"WE'RE NOT RACIST WE'RE PETRIFIED"
"WHAT ARE THESE POLITICIANS DOING TO US. THEY'RE PUTTING EVERYONE IN DANGER"
"I DON'T LEAVE THE HOUSE WITHOUT A MAN"
- My local shop has had 3 stabbings. 1 Murder.
- My friend was murdered last year
- A girl I know was murdered in the park
- I'm begging my son to leave the country
- My cousin was murdered
"OUR FRIENDS. OUR FAMILY ARE DYING""
Kevin O'Sullivan on X - "The strange silence of Keir Starmer. The nation is traumatised by the brutal murder of 49 year-old Wayne Broadhurst. A decent man just taking his little dog for a walk. Stabbed to death by a frenzied attacker. Why hasn't the Prime Minister said a single word about this horror?"
Harman Singh Kapoor on X - "Today I laid flowers in memory of Wayne Broadhurst. I’m still in shock: he was killed by an Afghan asylum seeker, the same man whose life in the UK was made possible by hardworking taxpayers like Wayne. As another Afghan, I felt it was my duty to pay my respects to a man who welcomed us with open arms. Wayne represented the kindness and trust that Britain offered to people like me seeking safety. To my fellow Afghans who came to this country for a better life, I ask you to visit and pay your respects too. Let’s show Britain that not all of us are the same, that we stand with the innocent and against violence in every form. Rest in peace, Wayne. You deserved better. 🕊️💔"
Dan Wootton on X - "Not one MP raised the brutal murder of Wayne Broadhurst by an Afghan illegal migrant at Prime Ministers Questions, letting Slippery Starmer off the hook again. NOT ONE. Let that sink in. We are being let down and gaslit by our entire political system. This will not end well..."
After Uxbridge, how can anyone call the migrant crisis a ‘myth’? - "the pro-EU group Best for Britain published the results of a poll it had commissioned, asking people across the nation to list the three most important issues facing their local community. And, proclaimed Best for Britain in triumph, “only” 26 per cent cited immigration. But they weren’t alone in hailing this figure as a glorious vindication. Several newspapers quoted a woman named Saeema Syeda, from the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants. And, according to her, the poll “proves what we’ve been saying all along – there is no immigration crisis. It’s a manufactured panic, pushed by some politicians and parts of the media to distract them from what actually matters to people.” Well, I don’t know about you. But I for one am deeply relieved to hear this – because I must confess that I myself had been under the impression that we were indeed experiencing something of an “immigration crisis”. Particularly given that, in the past week alone, a refugee from Afghanistan has been charged with stabbing a dog-walker to death in Uxbridge, an asylum seeker from Somalia has been jailed for stabbing a bank customer to death in Derby, an asylum seeker from Sudan has been convicted of murdering a female member of staff from his migrant hotel in Walsall by stabbing her with a screwdriver, an asylum seeker from Libya has been jailed for chasing Bournemouth hotel staff with a knife because he didn’t like the free food they’d given him, an asylum seeker from Afghanistan has been found guilty of raping a teenage girl in Elgin, and an asylum seeker from Ethiopia who’d been convicted of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in Essex was first accidentally released by prison staff, and then, upon recapture, was handed £500 by the Home Office in a desperate effort to dissuade him from trying to challenge his deportation. As I say: all in the past week. Those stories – and a fair few others from recent weeks, months and years – had somehow given me the idea that Britain’s borders weren’t quite as secure as they might be, and that an alarming number of extremely dangerous men were not only managing to enter our country, but being allowed to stay here, at our expense. Happily, though, I now see that my fears were totally unfounded, and that I was merely a credulous victim of a manufactured panic whipped up by the wicked media. As a result, I recognise that absolutely everyone on planet Earth has a God-given right to come and live in Britain, and that the British taxpayer has a moral obligation to feed and accommodate them all. And if, every now and again, one or two of these fine gentlemen happen to indulge in a psychotic frenzy of stabbing, terrorism or child-rape, it’s bound to be the media’s fault."
It’s time to declare a national emergency over violent crime by migrants - "How could any decent human being possibly object to mass immigration? That, it would seem, is the mystery puzzling the BBC. Yes, even after all these years. Because earlier this week it sent reporters to Buxton in Derbyshire to ask residents the following question: why are you people all saying you’ll vote Reform, when practically everyone in your town is white British?... The people of Buxton may indeed have experienced very little immigration. Nonetheless, I’m reasonably sure that they do have access to newspapers, TV and the internet. And as a result, they’re probably aware of certain things that have happened in towns with very high levels of immigration. Perhaps, for example, they’ve heard about something called the grooming gangs scandal. Or the terrorist attack on a Manchester synagogue earlier this month. Or the march through Tower Hamlets, east London, last Saturday by masked men chanting, “Zionist scum off our streets.” And perhaps, having heard such stories – plus a fair few others – the people of Buxton are thinking, “We’d quite like to prevent that sort of thing from happening in our own little town, if that’s all right. “So don’t ask, ‘Why are you voting Reform? You don’t have a migrant hotel!’ Because it’s like asking, ‘Why are you buying a fire extinguisher? Your house isn’t on fire!’”... in Uxbridge, west London, a dog-walker was stabbed to death in the street. Two other passers-by were stabbed, too. Police swiftly arrested a suspect. He’s an Afghan national who, in 2020, entered this country illegally on a lorry, and was subsequently granted asylum and leave to remain. This story would be horrifying enough if it were an isolated incident. But it’s not. On Friday, an asylum seeker in Walsall was convicted of murdering a female member of staff from the migrant hotel in which he was staying. On Monday, an asylum seeker in Bournemouth was jailed for chasing hotel workers with a knife because he was unhappy with the free food he was being given. On Wednesday, a small-boat migrant in Derby was jailed for life for stabbing a bank customer to death. And this is just in the past week. If we go back to the start of the month, a gang of small-boat migrants in Dorset was jailed for committing “roaming street violence” armed with machetes. We really shouldn’t have to live like this. Responding to the news from Uxbridge, the former Tory MP Nadhim Zahawi spoke for millions when he asked: “How many more people need to lose their lives before we take this threat seriously?”, and thundered: “Anywhere else in the world it would be a national emergency.”"
Time to blame the media for accurate reporting
