Suspend ECHR to pave way for migrant deportations, Blunkett tells Starmer - "The former Labour home secretary urged ministers to consider the “radical” approach in order to give them time to “get a grip” on the crisis amid a growing backlash over the use of some 200 hotels to house more than 32,000 asylum seekers. Speaking on BBC Radio 4, Lord Blunkett said the Government should follow the example of countries such as Germany and suspend parts of the ECHR for a temporary period, possibly six months, in order to be able to clear the backlog of asylum seekers’ appeals... “The Germans have done it, but only for three months. We may have to do it for six months in order to get a grip, to ensure the appeals process is not abused and to help the Government accelerate still further the number of people that are returning to their country of origin and getting them out of the country.” Lord Blunkett’s proposals go further than measures already set in train by Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, under which judges would face curbs on their application of articles three and eight to restrict their ability to reject asylum seekers’ appeals against deportations. However, they do not go as far as the Tories, whose leader, Kemi Badenoch, has commissioned a review into leaving the ECHR altogether and is expected to set out her plans at the party’s autumn conference."
Meme - Christopher Snowdon @cjsnowdon: "If we leave the European Court of Human Rights we could be tortured and enslaved like the New Zealanders, Australians and Canadians!"
Socialist Opera Singer @OperaSocialist: "If you want to "leave" the ECHR, which of these rights do you want to give up for yourself and your family?"
"the right to life (Article 2) freedom from torture (Article 3) freedom from slavery (Article 4) the right to liberty (Article 5) the right to a fair trial (Article 6) the right not to be punished for something that wasn't against the law at the time (Article 7) the right to respect for family and private life (Article 8) freedom of thought, conscience and religion (Article 9) freedom of expression (Article 10) freedom of assembly (Article 11) the right to marry and start a family (Article 12) the right not to be discriminated against in respect of these rights (Article 14) the right to protection of property (Protocol 1, Article 1) the right to education (Protocol 1, Article 2) the right to participate in free elections (Protocol 1, Article 3) the abolition of the death penalty (Protocol 13)"
Thread by @carto_graph on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Britain in 1997 was a barbarous time. Slavery was a way of life. Censorship was rife. Habeas corpus was unheard of. The tyranny of John Major suspended elections, and locked up and prosecuted people in kangaroo courts for made-up crimes. Oh wait.
To everybody pointing out we were signatories to the ECHR in the 1950s: Yes I know. It’s called a joke x There is a more serious point though: the ECHR only started seriously influencing domestic law when it was incorporated in 1998."
First Labour MP calls for withdrawal from ECHR - "A Labour MP has become the first in his party to call for Britain to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Graham Stringer, the MP for Blackley and Middleton South, urged Sir Keir Starmer to leave the convention, which has been blamed for the scale of the current asylum crisis. Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, is reviewing how Article 8 of the ECHR – which guarantees the right to family life – is being applied by immigration courts. But the Government has repeatedly ruled out the prospect of leaving the ECHR altogether and calls to do so have previously been confined to Tory and Reform MPs... Mr Stringer told BBC Radio 4’s World at One: “What you’ve got to remember is most of the people crossing the Channel are young men, they have destroyed their papers before they get here, they’re coming from a completely civilised country in France. “They’re paying international criminals to get here and the courts are saying they have a right to stay under the refugee convention, I assume, and possibly other conventions. That doesn’t seem reasonable to me.” Pressed to confirm whether he was suggesting the UK should withdraw from the ECHR and the Refugee Convention, Mr Stringer replied: “Yes. “Clem Attlee, who was prime minister when the Convention on Human Rights was signed, agreed to it on the basis that it didn’t apply to the UK and the same with the Refugee Convention. Europe was in a mess. It applied only to Europe at the time.” Mr Stringer said asylum laws were “very good” back when they were introduced, but added: “They have extended their remit, and we need laws that apply to the current situation.” The Labour backbencher also called for Sir Keir to take a zero-tolerance approach to the Channel crisis after small boat crossings reached a record high during his first year in power. Mr Stringer added: “I think people who come here illegally, and they are funding international criminals, should not be allowed to stay. “What happens when they’re allowed to stay? They’re getting priority beyond my constituents who need to be housed, who need access to the health service and need access to dental services.” As well as the first Labour MP to publicly declare support for leaving the ECHR, Mr Stringer becomes only the second Labour parliamentarian to back this position. Lord Glasman, a Labour peer and the founder of the socially conservative pressure group Blue Labour, listed Britain’s exit from the ECHR as one of his policy demands of the party... In June, Shabana Mahmood, the Justice Secretary, called for the ECHR to “evolve” or lose public trust in an acknowledgement of public discontent with some of its consequences. But just a day later, Alain Berset, the head of the Council of Europe, slapped down Labour’s calls for change and said he was “not calling for reform” of the convention."
Labour to trial AI facial recognition technology to test whether migrants are really children - "There have long been fears that some of those who cross the Channel in small boats - who often don't carry official documents such as passports - are wrongly claiming to be children. Unaccompanied minors are more likely to be granted asylum than adults, with some suspected to be faking their ages in a bid to boost their chances of staying in the UK. In the first half of 2024, a total of 1,317 migrants claiming to be minors at the border were later judged to be adults."
Weird. We used to be told that dental checks were an unreliable indicator of age. What more facial recognition?
Meme - arctotherium @arctotherium42: ""We have ancestral racial grievances against you" is a reason to keep you out, not to bring you in."
"The English invaded more than half the world. Of the countries that they ruled, how many languages do the English speak?"
Bella Wallersteiner 🇺🇦 on X - "My once liberal views on immigration shifted dramatically after witnessing pro-Palestine protests in London, where I regularly saw individuals spewing hate on our streets, people who didn’t share our values. I challenge anyone to see that and not rethink their stance"
Chris Rose on X - "A whopping 116 charges have been brought against 51 “asylum seekers” living across three hotels near Bournemouth seafront. Madness. You’re labelled as “far-right” if you dare to get angry about this."
Manchester City of Sanctuary on X - "When your work gets targeted by right-wing commentators, you know you’re doing something right. #RefugeesWelcome 🧡"
Charlotte Gill on X - "Oh really. Like working with a charity that gets children to create Valentine’s cards for asylum seekers?"
'Laughing' Syrian asylum seeker who stabbed boy, 14, to death was motivated by 'Islamic terrorism' : r/gbnews - "It’s already happening https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crgyggw4z05o.amp Last year in Hartlepool… stabbed a random 70 year old pensioner for ‘Gaza’ didn’t get much news coverage… I imagine if a Brit stabbed a random asylum seeker simply for being an asylum seeker we wouldn’t of heard the end of it.."
"I remember the stabbing in the news initially but absolutely no follow on story from it. Wasn't aware of this at all."
" Most people aren't tuned into politics. The average person still thinks net migration is around 70K, not 700K. You see how much discontent the small boat issue is creating, and that's just a fraction of the inflow. It's no wonder these things get swept under the rug as quickly as possible, and why you've never heard of them."
Patrick🕸 on X - "Teen died in care after imposter staff member left her unsupervised before fleeing the country"
Harriet Sergeant on X - "The man used fake documents and a fake name and has now returned to Ghana. The UK seems clueless to the fact whole industries have grown up in the developing world to provide phoney anything in order to bamboozle the UK authorities."
Lisa Nandy accused of prioritising Islam over other religions - "The Culture Secretary is facing criticism after she appointed the boss of a Muslim charity as an adviser to a new civil society project but no one from Christian, Jewish or other specific faiths. Lisa Nandy has made Fadi Itani, the chief executive of the Muslim Charities Forum (MCF), a member of the steering committee of her Civil Society Covenant... In 2015 the MCF was stripped of £138,000 of government funding after a Telegraph investigation reported alleged links to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood... The group was founded in 2008 by Dr Hany El-Banna, who was awarded an OBE in 2004 and remains a trustee of MCF. In 2020 he posted a video on X of a lecture he gave in which he described the Yazidi people – thousands of whom were massacred by Islamic State terrorists – as “devil worshippers”."
Lisa Nandy accused of prioritising Islam over other religions : r/europe_sub - "'A spokesman for Insight UK, the Hindu and Indian advocacy group' was the one who criticised this. Couldn't make this shit up. Foreign interest groups complaining that another foreign interest group was chosen and not them."
Lisa Nandy accused of prioritising Islam over other religions : r/europe_sub - "I guess the Hindus are now far right white supremacists, shame."
Robbie on X - "Judge Sarah Przybylska (pictured) gave Amar Jabar a two-year suspended jail sentence after he was convicted of stabbing a man repeatedly. She said Jabar "will be better rehabilitated in the community than in prison" and “You will not be subject to automatic deportation"."
‘A direct result of the irresponsible mass immigration’ – 40% of all violent crime suspects in German schools are foreigners, over 2 knife attacks a day : r/europe_sub - " All these people are stuck in their little echo chambers in Bristol and Bath (personal experience) another such universities and think that the reality of Britain is whatever migrants they see in their expensive private universities. They are sort of touch with the average person it’s insane"
Pictures of anti-immigration protests outside migrant hotels across England following multiple sexual assaults on schoolgirls. : r/europe_sub - "They're barely reporting this in the UK, and when they do it's generally that the "far right" are organising and there's going to be "disorder"."
Pictures of anti-immigration protests outside migrant hotels across England following multiple sexual assaults on schoolgirls. : r/europe_sub - "There is evidence of asylum seekers being involved?
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/685559d05225e4ed0bf3ce54/National_Audit_on_Group-based_Child_Sexual_Exploitation_and_Abuse.pdf
Page 86 of Baroness Casey’s audit -
While the future outcomes of these investigations remain unknown, and the number of live, open cases we had access to was limited, this audit noted that a significant proportion of these cases appear to involve suspects who are non-UK nationals and/or who are claiming asylum in the UK."
Why is it at the migrant hotels it's always indian / asian security? : r/gbnews - "72% of Somalis live in social housing"
"Source?"
"The government. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/culturalidentity/ethnicity/articles/somalipopulationsenglandandwales/census2021/pdf#:~:text=Of%20those%20who%20identified%20as%20Somali%2C%2072.0%25%20lived%20in%20social,group%20or%20national%20identity%20questions"
Time to import even more to pay for pensioners' benefits. It's the only way to keep the system sustainable
More small boat arrivals under Starmer than Sunak, despite ex-PM being in power seven months longer - "If the current rate is sustained, by the end of 2025 more migrants will have crossed the Channel under Sir Keir than the number that did under Boris Johnson, despite Mr Johnson having been prime minister for more than three years."
Exposed: Labour’s plot to silence migrant hotel critics - "A secretive Whitehall “spy” unit has been used by the Government to target social media posts criticising migrant hotels and “two-tier policing”. The Telegraph can reveal that officials working for Peter Kyle, the Technology Secretary, have flagged videos with “concerning narratives” to social media giants including TikTok, warning that they were “exacerbating tensions” on the streets. Emails recovered by a US congressional committee show that civil servants have complained to tech firms about content mentioning asylum seekers, immigration and two-tier policing. The dossier has emerged as ministers battle claims that the UK is censoring social media with the Online Safety Act, including from allies of Donald Trump, the US president. The disclosure reveals that members of the Government’s National Security and Online Information Team (NSOIT) complained about a series of posts that were critical of mass migration and asylum hotels in August last year during the Southport riots. The team, based in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, was previously known as the Counter Disinformation Unit and was used during the Covid pandemic to monitor anti-lockdown campaigners. The exchanges are likely to fuel claims that Labour is seeking to silence criticism over its continued use of asylum hotels... critics have said they amount to Government censorship of free speech online. The emails were revealed by Jim Jordan, chairman of the US House of Representatives’ judiciary committee, which issued a subpoena to TikTok to hand over messages “regarding the company’s compliance with foreign censorship laws”. Mr Jordan said Labour ministers had censored posts that were critical of the Government’s policy on asylum, warning critics of Sir Keir to “watch out”. He said: “In recent years, UK citizens have become increasingly fed up with the double standard in the UK. Mean tweets get you a longer prison sentence than many violent offences.”... the emails have prompted fresh scrutiny of the secretive disinformation team, which was criticised during the pandemic for using the government’s “trusted flagger” status to report critics of lockdown and child vaccinations. A spokesman for the Big Brother Watch campaign group called for an immediate investigation into the team, warning that an “unaccountable and secretive Government unit is spying on speech that is critical of the police and Government policies”. “Legitimate concerns about racism and violence must not become a blank cheque for the monitoring and censorship of controversial speech, absent of any oversight or scrutiny,” they added. Labour was recently criticised over the “cover-up” of a secret resettlement programme for Afghans affected by a data leak in 2022. Officials were worried that the announcement would create a “risk of disorder”."
Put Navy and drones in Channel to stop boats, says Labour peer - "Lord Glasman told the Prime Minister he should “just turn them back to France” as he set out his proposals to curb the worsening Channel crisis... Speaking to Tom Swarbrick on LBC, the peer said the current scale of illegal migration was “completely out of order”... Sir Keir struck a deal last month with Emmanuel Macron, the French president, which means Britain will detain illegal migrants and send them back to France in return for taking a similar number of asylum seekers. But the evidence suggests that the “one in, one out” scheme is already failing, with 50 per cent more migrants crossing the Channel since the deal than in the same period last year."
‘British women and girls are paying the price for Labour’s lax immigration laws’ - "Most European countries use detention centres. Britain puts undocumented men in accommodation, in the heart of communities, that many taxpayers can’t even afford for themselves and then sends them the bill. We don’t know who they are, we don’t know what their criminal history is and we have no way to check. That unknown presents a huge risk to the public. Any responsible government would take that into account when deciding where to place them. Ours does not. That is not just incompetence. That is a failure of basic safeguarding. It is British women and girls who are being put in harm’s way as a result... This government and the last one have shown they will take more steps to monitor your social media posts than they will to monitor the unvetted men they house at your expense. Labour claim to care about women’s safety online, but offline, in the real world, they don’t. They will use the language of “protection” to pass censorship laws like the Online Safety Act but ignore the real-world risk of placing unidentified adult men next to children and vulnerable women. There is no serious plan to deport foreign rapists or sex offenders who shouldn’t be here. No plan to stop placing anonymous adult men in residential areas. No interest in facing the real-life consequences of their policies Instead, Labour are attacking Reform for pledging to scrap the Online Safety Act as if that legislation is the last line of defence for women. It isn’t. It’s a cover for censorship, and an excuse to hand unelected regulators sweeping powers to silence views they don’t like, while doing nothing about the real crimes happening on our streets."
How the gig economy conquered Britain and stoked the migration crisis - "two in five delivery workers stopped in random searches in 2023 were working illegally, according to statistics from the Home Office. The figures applied to all takeaway riders stopped, not any one app... “If you want to design a market so that immigration would undercut wages, you couldn’t do better than this,” said one source who works in the industry. “You have very lax right to work checks combined with no minimum wage, combined with algorithmic pay. Put those three together and you’ve got this perfect environment for migration to pull down wages.”"
Afghan TikTok migrant filmed ‘how to kill your wife’ video
‘You don’t see many locals at anti-migrant protests’: Kent residents work for community cohesion : r/unitedkingdom - "“We have to give these guys stuff or else they become involved in the drug dealing underworld”. So the charity is required to avoid criminality… yikes not a good look "
‘You don’t see many locals at anti-migrant protests’: Kent residents work for community cohesion : r/unitedkingdom - "“Everyone’s like, ‘Oh look at Dover, everyone’s coming here’ – they’re really not,” - proceeds to talk about everything they’re doing for everyone that’s coming here"
‘You don’t see many locals at anti-migrant protests’: Kent residents work for community cohesion : r/unitedkingdom - "I've watched a right few of the protests and it generally the other way about. Its the local women organising them on facebook while the counter protesters having been organised by the unions."
‘You don’t see many locals at anti-migrant protests’: Kent residents work for community cohesion : r/unitedkingdom - "Didn’t they say this about the Southport rioters and then their addresses in court were from the area"
‘You don’t see many locals at anti-migrant protests’: Kent residents work for community cohesion : r/unitedkingdom - "And I've read other places and seen comments from videos from the protesters that buses of pro-refugee people organized by unions are sent into their towns to oppose their protest."
As usual, the unions are hijacked to push the left wing agenda
Robert Jenrick: Migrant hotel protests show British public has snapped - "The shadow justice secretary declared “enough is enough” as he attended a protest on Sunday against the continued use of a hotel by asylum seekers in Epping... In July, an Ethiopian asylum seeker staying at the hotel was charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old schoolgirl days after arriving in Britain. A Syrian man, also living in the hotel, appeared in court last week charged with sexual assault after being accused of kissing a man on the neck... “In the last 100 days alone, there have been almost a dozen serious sexual offence allegations. This problem has been going on for six years – 170,000 people, mostly undocumented young men, have broken into our country. “Each one of them is going to cost us half a million pounds if they stay. This has to come to an end, and I wanted to come here today to show my support for the fair-minded patriotic people here who are out protesting every weekend... Susan Hall, the leader of the City Hall Tories, was also in attendance. She told The Telegraph: “Most of the people campaigning are local people who are concerned for their safety. They’re not political activists, they are local people. “That’s why they asked me to come and speak. This was my first demonstration – this is the first time I’ve actually been to one, because I’m standing up for Londoners basically."
Asylum seeker shares videos of guns… then evades Home Office checks to enter UK - "In a series of publicly available Snapchat videos, the man shared footage from Yemeni capital Sanaa of himself and arms including AK-104 assault rifles, handguns, knives, ammunition magazines as well as bundles of cash... It has now emerged that the man was referred to Prevent and Essex Police for investigation following an intervention by the local MP, former Home Secretary James Cleverly... In its report, HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS) said: “We were concerned to find that there was no effective legal power to seize and examine mobile telephones or other electronic devices from irregular migrants to search for evidence and intelligence.”... In its OIC report published in May, HMICFRS found border officials don’t have access to the police national database (PND) or facial recognition technology to screen migrants who arrive on small boats. It also found that intelligence gathering when migrants arrived in the UK was “neither effective nor robust enough”."
Revealed: The 2,000 schools where more than HALF of pupils don't speak English as their first language... so is YOUR child's one of them? - "English is no longer the first language for the majority of pupils at more than 2,000 schools, MailOnline can today reveal. No children at two primary schools – one in Tower Hamlets and another in Kirklees, West Yorkshire – have English as their mother tongue. Our statistics, obtained exclusively under Freedom of Information (FOI) laws, show nine in ten pupils don't speak only English at home at 107 schools. The full results of our audit, covering all 22,000 state schools, can be viewed in our search tool below... In total, English is no longer the first language for the majority of children at 2,039 schools. This includes deaf schools, where pupils' first language is BSL. Nationwide, English isn't the first language of 1.8 million pupils, or one in five pupils. Fuelled by immigration having spiralled to all-time highs, this has risen from 1.1 million ten years ago. The soaring numbers have raised concerns among critics that the slew of different languages can be incredibly disruptive in classrooms... 'Multi-language classrooms are hugely problematic. They inevitably sap the precious time of teachers who are forced to devote additional attention to those with a weaker grasp of the language at the expense of those who only speak English. 'The resources used will be lowest-common-denominator teaching devices that provide little from the individuals to excel. 'They also foster long term division, with little incentive for those who do not speak English to improve their fluency. 'It is time for a sink or swim approach in which state funding for translation costs are stripped across the board, encouraging adult migrants and parents alike to devote greater attention to improving this pretty basic skill.' Schools have had to pivot their limited resources to provide for the needs of pupils who struggle with English. Strain has been placed on their tight budgets due to providing translated versions of resources, adding subtitling and voiceovers, as well funding in-class interpreters. Teachers have previously said schools were under mounting pressure from mass immigration and called on ministers to fund them properly to cope with the array of different languages that pupils speak."