Sarah Pochin MP on X - "Last weekend, the government’s chief lawyer compared support for Reform UK to 1930s Nazi Germany. On Wednesday, the Prime Minister refused to even discuss a ban on the burqa in the interests of public safety – and shut me down without even attempting to answer. And today, we learn that the Government’s Prevent strategy thinks those of us who question mass immigration and lack of cultural integration should be considered potential terror threats. This is not how democratic governments should operate. It’s authoritarian thought policing and we must stand up to it. People should not be afraid of their governments."
Alex Armstrong on X - "The UK Govts anti-terror programme ‘Prevent’ thinks anyone who is concerned by mass immigration has “terrorist ideology”. This is the same Prevent programme that failed to stop actual terrorist Axel Rudakubana. I’m lost for words."
The Free Speech Union on X: "🚨 BREAKING: We’re on The Telegraph’s homepage tonight—and we’re front-page news in tomorrow’s print edition! FSU General Secretary Lord Young has written to the Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, raising serious concerns about how the Prevent programme is now treating mainstream conservative views as signs of potential extremism. Yes, you read that correctly. In training materials completed by thousands of public sector workers, the Home Office lists “cultural nationalism” as a form of terrorist ideology. That label now applies to anyone who believes mass immigration is threatening British values or social cohesion. Once flagged, individuals—often just teenagers—can have their names and political views logged in police and safeguarding databases for decades, with devastating consequences for jobs, university places, and future prospects. In his letter, Lord Young calls on Ms Cooper to suspend the use of “cultural nationalism” in Prevent guidance, conduct an urgent audit of the programme, and establish a way for wrongly flagged individuals to discover and delete their data. If you’ve got “very Brexity” Douglas Murray books in your house, a strong interest in national policy, and believe immigration is changing this country, the Home Office now says you’re an extremist. This has got to stop. If you’re worried about being flagged and left with a record you can’t erase, join the FSU—our expert casework and legal teams are here to protect your rights."
The Stark Naked Brief. on X - "This is Chloe Squires and Matt Jukes. Squires is the Director General for Homeland Security at the Home Office. While Jukes heads the UK’s Counter Terrorism Policing. Together with Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, they oversee Prevent—the government’s flagship counter-terrorism programme. The same Prevent that, we now know, considers “cultural nationalism”—pride in one’s country and culture—a possible indicator of extremism requiring referral to the programme. The same Prevent that previously flagged the belief that “Western culture is under threat from mass migration and a lack of integration by certain ethnic and cultural groups” as a “narrative” of concern. The same Prevent that failed to stop Axel Rudakubana—the Southport child murderer—despite him being referred to Prevent three times before the attack. The same Prevent that issues training video to councils about extremism but "will only show examples of young white men" as a Hampshire Council employee observed in March. Curiously, despite Islamic extremism making up roughly 75% of the UK’s counter-terrorism caseload, recent figures show that just 23% of Prevent's adopted caseload are tied to Islamic ideology. All this under a department that labelled concerns around grooming gangs as “right-wing extremism”."
Dominic Cummings on X - "This from the Home Office is what my recent blog predicted - link next tweet - and under this sort of thing I'll shortly find myself referred to Prevent for extremism - while the police facilitate marches for a second Holocaust by people waving Hitler photos every week in London. Our regime's behaviour is increasingly indistinguishable from an entity trying to provoke racial violence. It's extremely sad & worrying but the majority in Parliament is for continuing the madness"
WeAreNarrative on X - "They'll have to release the entire UK prison population to create places for all those who are now deemed terrorists, according to Prevent. And even then, they'll still be about 35 million places short!"
ECHR erodes public trust because it protects criminals, says Labour - "The European Court of Human Rights is “fraying” public confidence in the rule of law because it is out of step with common sense, according to the justice secretary. Shabana Mahmood said public trust in the court was “eroding” because it “too often protects those who break the rules, rather than those who follow them”. Her speech at the Council of Europe, which oversees the court, aligned Britain with nine other countries pushing for reform of the 75-year-old European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). It marks a significant moment for the government after months of internal discussions about how to approach the ECHR. There has been increasing concern about its role in preventing the deportations of foreign criminals and illegal migrants. The latest cases to hit the headlines involved two fugitives wanted for murder and child rape in Brazil who used the ECHR to avoid extradition. The push for reform of the convention at the European level, which will require agreement from all the ECHR’s 46 signatory countries, is part of a twin-track approach by the government... A review being conducted by Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, of the way in which judges are interpreting Article 8 of the ECHR, which protects the right to a family and private life, has been widened to include Article 3, which protects against torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Mahmood said Article 8 was “too often used in ways that frustrate deportation even where there are serious concerns about credibility, fairness and risk to the public”. She added: “If a foreign national commits a serious crime, they should expect to be removed from the country.” The justice secretary also used the example of terrorist prisoners using Article 8 to try to stop prison staff putting them in separation centres because of the risks they pose. Mahmood said such cases had fuelled the public’s loss of faith in the ECHR. “Prisoners claiming a right to socialise — under Article 8 — is not just a legal stretch. It damages the public perception of human rights altogether,” she said. “It is not right that dangerous prisoners’ rights are given priority over others’ safety and security.”... Mahmood said failure to reform the ECHR would embolden populists across Europe because the public were increasingly of the view that the convention was “no longer a shield for the vulnerable but a tool for criminals to avoid responsibility, that the law too often protects those who break the rules, rather than those who follow them”. Mahmood said: “When the application of rights begins to feel out of step with common sense – when it conflicts with fairness or disrupts legitimate government action — trust begins to erode. We have seen this in the UK in two particularly sensitive areas: immigration and criminal justice.”"... Attempts by the UK and other ECHR signatories to reform the convention face an uphill struggle after Alain Berset, the secretary-general of the Council of Europe, backtracked on comments suggesting he was open to reform. In an interview with The Times this month he said the ECHR must adapt in the face of the political backlash against migration, with “no taboo” on rewriting its rules. However, he told the Politico website on Wednesday that he was “not calling for reform of the European Convention on Human Rights, nor do I support any effort that would weaken it”... Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative party leader, said the cases showed that Britain was “being taken for mugs” and said she was increasingly of the view that the UK should quit the ECHR. She said: “It’s absolutely shocking. We cannot be a safe haven for rapists and murderers because the prisons in their country are not nice. That’s not our job. “I said that if we need to leave, we should leave. I’ve also said that I’m increasingly coming to that view. This is yet another piece of evidence that shows that the ECHR and the way it’s being used by hostile actors, foreign criminals, is no longer fit for purpose.”"
This Left-wing myth about Windrush is an insult to Britain - "The next time the Government tells you it’s strapped for cash, remember the following fact. Last week, it appointed the nation’s first ever Windrush Commissioner. Rev Clive Foster’s job, says the Home Office, will be to “help drive the cultural change, accountability and justice the Windrush generations deserve”. What precisely this means, I’m afraid I don’t know. What I do know, however, is that he’ll be paid a salary of up to £130,000. Still, Sir Keir Starmer clearly thinks it will be money well spent. Because on Sunday, to honour “Windrush Day”, he proclaimed that his Government would “never forget the legacy of the Windrush generation” – because they were the people who “laid the foundations for modern Britain”. Were they? If so, it was a quite astonishing feat. When HMT Empire Windrush arrived from the Caribbean in 1948, she was carrying a grand total of 802 migrants. How extraordinary that such a tiny number should manage to “lay the foundations for modern Britain” – while the 50 million people who were already living here presumably just sat on their worthless backsides and did nothing, as usual. You may wonder why the Prime Minister is so eager to distort our nation’s history in this curious fashion. Is he just wildly overcompensating for the Windrush scandal of the 2010s, which saw several dozen people wrongly deported? Or is he desperately sucking up to the more deranged of his party members, who recently decided that he’s the reincarnation of Enoch Powell? Whatever his motive, he’s far from alone in swallowing the Windrush myth. On Facebook, Natasha Irons – the Labour MP for Croydon East – celebrated Windrush Day by writing: “You called… and we came.” A lovely sentiment. But sadly only half true. The UK government of 1948 most definitely did not “call”; it expressly wanted migrants from Europe. Arthur Creech Jones, the then minister for the Colonies, wrote an internal memo firmly stressing that “these influxes” from the Caribbean were “certainly not organised or encouraged by the Colonial Office”. Indeed, he promised, “every possible step has been taken” to “discourage” them. Funnily enough, Mr Creech Jones’s government was a Labour one. Maybe that’s the reason why Sir Keir is so gushing about Windrush: he’s embarrassed.
Keir Starmer on X - "This government will never forget the legacy of the Windrush generation, who laid the foundations for modern Britain. It was an honour to thank them in person this week and celebrate the ongoing contribution of the Windrush generations."
Home Office worker granted asylum applications for money - "A Home Office caseworker took more than £3,000 in bribes to grant the asylum claim of a Bangladeshi migrant. Civil servant Imran Mulla, 39, rang the Bangladeshi man the day after his asylum claim was refused in February 2024 and offered to take over his case to secure him the right to stay in the UK in return for money. Six days later, Nural Amin Begh, the 23-year-old Bangladeshi national, transferred £1,500 into Mulla’s bank account. Mulla, who was working as part of an asylum claims team in Manchester, breached Home Office policy by allocating Begh’s case to himself and granting his asylum application. Begh continued to transfer more money over the next few months, to a total of £3,500, in return for his successful asylum claim. On Tuesday, Mulla was jailed for four-and-a-half years after his scam was uncovered when he tried a similar tactic on a Turkish national who blew the whistle."
Migrant hotels used as hubs for illegal 'dark economy' delivery jobs as asylum seekers earn £1k per WEEK - "Illegal migrants based in the taxpayer-funded hotels can earn as much as £1,000 every week for delivery firms like Deliveroo, Just Eat and Uber Eats. They can take up the jobs by "sub-letting" driver accounts on the food apps - with GB News having seen thousands of Facebook groups selling profiles on a daily basis. One group has 20,000 members, with dozens of posts every day advertising "dark" accounts which require no documents or proof."
Migrants kept in hotels despite losing claims for asylum - "A record number of migrants are appealing against rejected asylum claims and their cases are taking over a year to be heard, prolonging stays in hotels. Official figures show there were 50,976 outstanding appeals as of March, almost double compared with last year and seven times higher than in 2023. It is the highest the asylum appeals backlog has ever been. The average time taken for a claim to be heard by the courts is now 54 weeks, the first time it has exceeded a year... tens of thousands of people are waiting more than two years for the outcome in their case. The longer an asylum seeker remains in the UK, the better their chance of avoiding deportation because they acquire rights that they can use to block removal such as Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which protects an individual’s relationships formed while in a country. The figures highlight the challenge facing the government after Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, pledged this month to move all asylum seekers out of hotels by 2029. Hundreds of migrants continue to arrive daily. More than 1,000 crossed on Friday and Saturday, taking the total to 18,400 so far this year, a record high and 45 per cent higher than at this point last year... The appeals backlog is in addition to the 78,745 asylum claims awaiting an initial decision. There are tens of thousands more failed asylum seekers who are unable to be removed from the UK. Asylum seekers are given free accommodation and a £50 weekly allowance if the Home Office deems that they would otherwise be destitute, which applies to the majority. At the end of March there were 106,771 asylum seekers receiving support. There were 32,345 migrants in hotels and 66,683 in dispersal accommodation such as houses, bedsits and self-contained flats, which costs an average of £14 per night compared with the nightly hotel fee of £144."
Cost of housing asylum seekers triples as small boat crossings rise - "The cost of asylum accommodation will be three times higher than previously estimated due to the soaring numbers of migrants arriving on small boats, the spending watchdog has said. The National Audit Office (NAO) said that the cost of the ten-year contract with the three private providers responsible for housing asylum seekers would cost an estimated £15.3 billion."
Starmer told to rip up migrant hotel contracts to save foreign aid budget - "Sir Keir Starmer has been urged to rip up migrant hotel contracts by next year to stop the foreign aid budget being spent on the asylum system as record numbers continue to cross the Channel in small boats. A letter signed by the leaders of 106 international non-governmental organisations and charities supporting refugees, asylum seekers and children has described the asylum system as “not fit for purpose”... The signatories urged the government to instead house all asylum seekers in communities through dispersal accommodation — such as large houses, bedsits and flats across different local authorities — because it would be cheaper and help with integration. The letter, seen by The Times, said that using a fifth of Britain’s overseas aid budget — equating to £2.8 billion last year — to pay towards the £145 per-person per-night cost of housing asylum seekers in hotels undermined “efforts to create a more stable and peaceful world”."
Labour ministers have no grasp of even the most basic facts on migration - "That this Labour Government has no useful ideas for resolving the migrant crisis can be taken as a given. What has been harder to explain has been its lack of enthusiasm for finding viable solutions beyond simply repeating a vague pledge to “smash the criminal gangs”. A curious statement from Darren Jones, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, has offered a potential explanation: it may simply be that nobody in the party has bothered looking at who is actually crossing the Channel. Appearing on Question Time, Mr Jones claimed that “the majority of the people in these boats are children, babies and women”. This is wrong. In the latest 12 months of data, 74 per cent of those arriving in small boats have been adult men over the age of 18. Given that the British state’s ability to assess the age of arrivals is not entirely uncontested, and the advantages to asylum claimants who fall just below that critical threshold, this may well be an understatement. If senior figures in the Government believe the inflow to consist of vulnerable women and babes in arms, a great deal of policy decisions begin to make more sense; the lack of concern at distributing unvetted arrivals throughout the country, the apparent confusion that locals may feel threatened or unsafe as a result, and the apparent refusal to countenance any policy that might realistically see arrivals removed. When challenged on his claim by Reform’s Zia Yusuf, Mr Jones doubled down"
Darren Jones Backtracks On Statement About Migrants On Small Boats - "Darren Jones has admitted that he was wrong to say that the majority of asylum seekers arriving in the UK on small boats are “children, babies and women”. The chief secretary to the Treasury made the erroneous claim on the BBC’s Question Time programme... Home Office data indicates that adult males made up 73% of small boat arrivals between January 2018 and March 2025. Jones has been under pressure to correct his statement all day, and finally did so"
Migrant boat forces Dunkirk flotilla to divert - "A flotilla of “Little Ships” crossing the English Channel to commemorate the Dunkirk evacuation was forced to divert so Border Force could escort a migrant boat. The fleet of 66 boats set sail from Ramsgate, Kent, to Dunkirk at 6am on Wednesday to commemorate the 85th anniversary of Operation Dynamo. It was intended as a “poignant tribute to the bravery and sacrifice” of the Dunkirk evacuations, where 1,000 British pleasure boats were used in the rescue of more than 300,000 Allied soldiers from the Nazi advance. But the commemorations were disrupted when Border Force and the French navy demanded that the flotilla be diverted to provide a one-nautical mile exclusion zone for a migrant boat. The small boat, which had been launched from northern France, was being escorted across the Channel by the French navy and UK Border Force."
Labour’s migration promises have failed to materialise - "The weather is fine and warm, the seas are calm and the small boats crisis is getting worse by the day. Record numbers of immigrants are crossing the Channel to such an extent that even Sir Keir Starmer appears to have noticed. After meeting Emmanuel Macron at the G7 summit in Canada, the Prime Minister conceded that the crisis was “deteriorating”. Yet he came to power blithely denouncing the last government for failing to “stop the boats” while junking the one deterrent available to the authorities, namely to remove asylum seekers to Rwanda. He is now reaping the whirlwind of his complacency. If the small boats crisis cast a pall over the last months of Rishi Sunak’s premiership it is doing the same for Sir Keir’s first year in power. “Smashing the gangs”, like stopping the boats, was a central pledge that has not only failed to materialise but has made the Prime Minister look weak and ineffectual. He made a promise he was unable to keep, a pattern of behaviour among recent political leaders that is more responsible than any for the rise of Reform UK. The latest attempt to salvage this policy involves a vague promise by France to allow its police to enter the water to stop migrants boarding boats. They are not allowed to at the moment and stand by watching the boats being loaded, but a long-promised legal reform could change that. Of course, if migrants were prevented from getting on boats that might well act as a deterrent. But with thousands already waiting on the other side of the Channel, what motive is there for the French to keep them on their shores when they can pass the problem to the British?"
How Negative Media Headlines About Small Boat Crossings Are Turning Brits Against All Migrants - "New research finds that disproportionate coverage of the relatively low numbers crossing the English channel is turning British people against all incomers"
Stephen Fry says JK Rowling’s been ‘radicalised’. I’ve got just one question for him - "A 29-year-old Afghan asylum seeker, we learnt this week, attempted to defend his rape of a 15-year-old Scottish girl by claiming that he had not been “educated” about the “significant cultural differences” between Afghanistan and Britain. As it turned out, the court didn’t buy this excuse. Which is a relief. After all, doesn’t his argument imply that Britain was somehow at fault, for failing to “educate” him about these “differences” when he arrived? God only knows what he thinks the authorities should have said, the day his dinghy washed up here in 2023... "we generally tend to frown on grown men who rape children in the street. “We appreciate, sir, that as a newcomer you may find this a touch puzzling. But then, all cultures have their distinctive little quirks and foibles, don’t they? And ‘not sexually assaulting terrified pubescent girls’ just happens to be one of ours. So we thought we’d better give you a little heads-up, to save you from making a rather embarrassing faux pas! “Of course, there are some people in our country who have been known to disregard the above convention. Late BBC disc jockeys, for example, and Pakistani grooming gangs. The feeling among the wider British public, though, is that it’s still something of a no-no, and best avoided. After all, you can’t be certain that our police, social workers and politicians will cover it up for you! I mean, they might, but it’s not guaranteed."
Risk of summer riots over rapid immigration and cost of living, Rayner warns - "Angela Rayner warned her Cabinet colleagues that public anger over rapid immigration risks fuelling civil unrest amid fears that the UK could be rocked by a second summer of riots. The Deputy Prime Minister told Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting that social cohesion was deteriorating in deprived communities as a result of the “rapid pace” of de-industrialisation and immigration in areas that saw some of the worst unrest last summer in the wake of the Southport attacks... Rayner said the Government needed to “address the public’s concerns” and to improve living standards in the most deprived parts of the country."
Blair warned to keep 'out of control' immigration focus group report secret, new documents reveal - "David Blunkett told Tony Blair to keep secret a report that laid bare the public's view of 'out of control' immigration, newly released files show. The Prime Minister was warned by his Home Secretary in 2004 that the findings 'could be explosive in the wrong hands'. The top-secret focus group report unequivocally condemned the Government's record on immigration and asylum, files released to the National Archives in London reveal. The Home Office study of 27 panels from a mix of ethnic backgrounds, ages and geographic locations across the country in 2004 found the public considered immigration to be 'out of control'. Mr Blunkett, Home Secretary from 2001 until 2004, told Mr Blair: 'The consensus remains among the British public - particularly those reading national newspapers - that immigration and asylum are "out of control".' He added: 'You will see that this research, and the references to it in the paper, could be explosive in the wrong hands,' he wrote... 'Participants were overwhelmingly of the view that the UK does not have an effective immigration policy,' the report found. 'They feel that our traditional tolerance has been exploited and become a major weakness. They have a sense that our borders are completely open and overrun. 'Immigrants are perceived to benefit from positive discrimination and access to services such as education, housing and healthcare at the expense of the indigenous population who have 'paid their dues'.' The report also concluded that the public 'generally discarded' the potential positive contributions of migration, with many associating newcomers with 'scrounging' on benefits, or illegal activity. It added: 'These attitudes are held fairly consistently across all ethnic groups and all age groups. 'There were liberal dissenters in some groups - but these were firmly in the minority. 'Strongly-held negative impressions are more the result of anger that things have 'got to this state' rather than outright racism. 'There is a real resentment of political correctness - which is considered a reason why immigration and race cannot be discussed openly and therefore tackled effectively.'"
Colchester mum on X - "It's the same with people who know what a woman is. See also hate crime legislation, which protects religion but not belief (or lack thereof), and protects transgender identity but not sex. As far as Prevent is concerned, the Q+ can only be potential targets of terrorism, not perpetrators, even though the threats and violence only come from one side. Scratch beneath the surface of Islamism, the Q+ and the Police - they all lead to the same place. Violence and exploitation of women, children & vulnerable adults. Join @SpeechUnion if you want to be able to talk about VAWG or the Police, but not if you want to be able to talk about the Police facilitating and protecting abusers."
𝚃ｅ𝚣ｚ𝙰ｌ𝚊ｐ 👀 on X - "This is how Prevent bumps up the numbers of “far right” individuals on its watch list as compared to Islamic extremists. It basically categorises anyone who complains about all the muslims on watch lists as far right."
Thinking Slow on X - "The apparatus of the State has been captured by cultural Marxists who will happily describe non-Marxist thinking as "terrorism". This is totalitarianism 101 😡"
When you've already ruled out withdrawing from ECHR, you've lost a lot of your leverage
Thread by @CompositeGuy_ on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "This is prime Windrush Creationism. The level of propaganda they have managed to fit into a single minute is quite remarkable. In this thread, I will break it down, line by line. 🧵
"The first nurses" Seven of the passengers listed nursing as their occupation. Assuming all seven went on to work for the NHS in its first years, they would represent just 0.01% of the nursing workforce. Even 17 years later, only 2% of NHS nurses were from the Jamaica.
"The veterans who returned after fighting for freedom after WWII" While noble, only 0.25% of British WWII veterans were from the Caribbean, and very few made it to the frontline. To put it in context, there were almost 10 times more Polish soldiers serving with the British Armed Forces in WWII
"The construction workers who literally helped build back Britain after the war." Even today, only 6% of construction workers are ethnic minorities. That encompasses all non-White groups, not just the Caribbeans. To put this in context, we have more disabled people working in construction than Black people in 2025.Image
"It was the rebuilding of our country" This is London one year after WWII and three years before the Windrush arrived. It was already rebuilt.
"You asked, we came" In reality, the Windrush were unwanted economic migrants. Clement Attlee, the Labour leader and PM at the time, wanted to divert the Windrush to East Africa. This is a parliament debate about Jamaicans from 1948 - the majority of whom were unemployed. If Britain was begging for Jamaican migrants to fill vacancies, why were so many unemployed? These migrants appear to be a problem, not a solution.
The British government subsidised cheap passage for over a million Britons to move to Australia (as well as NZ/Rhodesia) at the same they were supposedly begging for Barbadians and Jamaicans to come 'build Britain'
"Shaping what became Britain" Let's see how the Windrush has shaped Britain: Black and Mixed Caribbean populations have the second and fourth highest arrest rates respectively, only beaten by the 'Black Other' ethnic group.
London is 13% Black but they commit:
•61% of knife homicides
•48% of the murderers
•59% of robberies
•67% of gun crimes
•54% of street crimes
•32% of sex offenses
In the 80s, Black Londoners were 26 times more likely to commit gang-rape than White Londoners.
London accounts for nearly half of the social housing budget Black Caribbeans receive the highest ratio of social housing subsidy relative to their population size, taking up over 10% of the budget. Higher than any other ethnic group
When looking at state benefits, the Black population receives the most in:
• Child benefits
• Housing benefits
• Income support
• Child tax Credit
When it comes to education, the Black Caribbean population are the second least likely to receive at least three As and A-level, with only Roma Gypsies performing worse.
The Windrush Generation and subsequent Black migrant populations can claim to have contributed to sports and music in modern Britain, however it is post-hoc revisionism to claim they have built anything. It is Yookay's foundational myth, aimed at persuading the native population that they should be grateful for a government policy which has been objectively terrible for them. Now here's Eddy Grant to play us out..."
Time to "tax the rich" to pay for the left wing wishlist. They already want to force normal people to house them
Of course, demonising all white men because of one or two incels is good, because the left hate white men
Isn't it racist and Islamophobic to say that in Afghanistan, it is normal to rape 15 year old girls? Time to jail him for hate speech!
Time to start releasing rapists and murderers from jail to make way for mass incarceration of the "far right"
