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Sunday, February 22, 2026

Links - 22nd February 2026 (2 - Migrants: UK)

'Devastated' restaurateur forced to close business because of migrant hotel next door says loyal customers were 'scared off' by 100 men 'leering and whistling' at groups of young girls - "A restaurateur has told how he was forced to close down his business after an adjoining hotel was turned over to housing asylum seekers who scared off his customers. Jamie Darby, who has owned Ceno bar and restaurant in Southampton for 20 years, says he is reluctantly shutting his doors as a direct result of problems with Highfield House Hotel, which the Home Office uses to house up to 100 migrants. Ceno had been a popular dining spot since the early 2000s but customer numbers fell sharply after the hotel directly above his ground floor restaurant stopped accepting paid guests five years ago, Mr Darby says. He says that while these guests would often frequent his restaurant, other loyal customers have been put off by large groups of young men loitering outside. Mr Darby told the Daily Mail: 'I'm devastated, 20 years of my life have just been thrown away. I've come out of the end of it absolutely skint. 'Everything I had personally was sunk into the restaurant, I borrowed money from family and friends to keep going. We've been forced out. 'The business was successful until five years ago when the hotel started to house illegals. 'It's impossible to run a business with 100 young men loitering around... In the last two years, Mr Darby says his turnover has been halved as customers deserted the once-popular restaurant. The closure has cost four full-time staff members their jobs as well as numerous casual and part time staff... 'My 22-year-old daughter was propositioned - it's just disgusting 'Southampton is a university city and we employ a lot of young students but often they would leave because they were too frightened.' Mr Darby says he hasn't received any meaningful help from his local MP or the police despite pleading with a senior officer to protect him and his staff. He also claims he has been locked out of the shared car park for six months and that hotel occupants caused water to pour into the restaurant by allowing sinks upstairs to overflow while washing their feet. Highfield House has also been the site of weekly anti-immigration protests in recent months, causing further disruption. The demonstrations are regularly met with counter protests from anti-racism groups and there is often a heavy police presence at the scene... 'The hotel owners have ignored our communication for help to assist with ongoing damage caused by the hotel residents and have locked the car park for many months, meaning our customers have been unable to park and access the restaurant.' The popular restaurant has been successful for over 20 years and was rated 4.6 stars on TripAdvisor... 'The business started to fall away when the immigrants moved in. I saw some of the abuse that the immigrants would shout down from their windows above... 'The immigrants burnt holes in his awning when it was bought new. They would play awful music and turn it up on full volume just to be annoying.'"
How silly. Doctors, lawyers and engineers are good spenders
Naturally, left wingers blame the anti-migrant protesters for this

Immigration cannot and should not be the solution to our demographic woes - "There are six reasons (at least) as to why our demographic woes cannot and will not be fixed by immigration. First, as has long been observed, immigrants brought into the country to work will in turn grow old and require pensions and health and social care... Immigrants, almost regardless of where they come from, adopt local fertility patterns... This makes immigration as a solution to ageing simply a Ponzi scheme, something that can only be kept going by ever accelerating inflows. But nothing can continue flowing and growing forever... Britain has traditionally benefited from waves of immigration from high-fertility Ireland and, more recently, Poland. But the number of twenty-something Poles is plummeting (it will halve by the end of the century), and fertility rates in Ireland too have nose-dived. The idea that we can comfortably lead our child-free lives supported by workers produced by others who are prepared to go through the joyful but often exhausting and costly process of bearing and rearing children simply no longer applies. Third, the attraction of coming here reduces as the UK’s prosperity relative to other countries plunges... If fewer and fewer countries are notably poorer and higher fertility than the UK, then the only places we can get immigrants will be increasingly from poorer, more distant places. Many people from Africa and the less prosperous part of Asia are hardworking and in many ways admirable. But they are less likely to have the levels of education and skills which allow them to make a net contribution to the countries they are migrating to. There is good evidence that people coming from, say, Somalia or the Democratic Republic of Congo will never pay into the system in welfare states like Denmark or the Netherlands, and the data would point in a similar direction here too. We have seen how migration has shifted from relatively high human capital countries in Europe to relatively low human capital countries outside Europe over the past decade. Many blame this on Brexit. But in fact the declining demography now common across Europe, with falling numbers of potential workers for emigration, plus their improving economies, means that the helpful phenomenon of the ubiquitous, highly skilled Polish plumber or builder was never going to last for long. The availability of cheap skilled labour from the former Eastern Bloc was fortuitous in the early 2000s but it was never going to last. With more and more migration coming from countries which are culturally very different, we encounter the fifth issue, namely electoral backlash... The sixth issue is moral. It is said that we have more Ghanaian healthcare workers in Britain than they have in Ghana. Why should a poor country like Ghana bear the cost of bringing up a child and educating him or her to the level of a doctor or a nurse only for us to skim them off because we are too busy or preoccupied to have children of our own and train medics of our own? By taking the best and brightest, we are undoing the potential of countries like Ghana to develop."
Electoral backlash is a feature, not a bug. Left wingers want to own the chuds

The unpalatable truth about net migration - "46 per cent of voters want migration to be zero or less. Yet we need to be honest about this issue. Migration is not under control, both legal and illegal. Net migration has come down primarily because working-age Britons and EU nationals are fleeing this country in droves... The largest share of those leaving this country in 2025 were working age Britons under the age of 45. If that trend continued, it certainly would be a disaster for the Treasury. We cannot sustain a situation where close to three-quarters of a million taxpayers are upping sticks for a better life elsewhere. Meanwhile, nearly half of all social housing in London is occupied by foreign-born heads of household. And the NHS has reportedly earmarked £73 million to be spent on translation services. As for the population boom we are projected to experience, it will require more than two million new homes to be built in a decade. Where is the money coming from? How would this in any way contribute to the Exchequer in the long run? “Net zero” migration in itself is a pointless term – and goal – if all we are doing is importing millions of people every decade – whose lifetime cost could be in the billions – while losing our best and brightest to other countries. The Government’s Migration Advisory Committee estimates that the lifetime cost to the taxpayer of the 2022/23 intake of care workers was £2 billion. And migrants allowed to come to the UK to join partners who are already here will cost £5.6 billion over their lifetimes, MAC analysis also found. What really matters is who is coming here, how many of them, and whether they can be integrated. As analysis from Migration Watch has shown, the majority of migrants are not net contributors in taxes. And as our paper examining student visas explained, in 2025, the largest share of visas – a staggering 45 per cent of them – went to students, many of whom bring dependants. In 2023, according to official ONS figures, more than 260,000 visas were issued to dependants of workers, not workers themselves. So the crux of the matter is this: net zero migration in itself would be fine if the people with the skills we needed came and once here they were able and willing to integrate. The current lower net migration we are supposedly forecast – though there is no persuasive evidence that it will continue – hides a very real, and permanent change in the identity of this country."

Nigerian migrant jailed for threatening Good Samaritan British mother with knife in front of her child wins right to stay in UK - "Olajide Shinaba, 32, was jailed for 11 months after he pulled a knife on a woman, described as his friend, who had taken him off the street... The Home Office had decided to deport Shinaba due to his conviction, and his appeal was rejected due to it being 'conducive to the public good'. However, he has now successfully appealed the decision for deportation, after a judge ruled he would have difficulty reintegrating into life in Nigeria."
Nigerian migrant jailed for threatening Good Samaritan British mother with knife in front of her child wins right to stay in UK : r/europe_sub - "Apparently pulling a knife on a woman was an example of successful integration into life in UK."
Suicidal empathy, suicidal empathy all around

Migrant crisis: Foreign nationals are responsible for 80% of all train theft arrests, new data shows - "Staggering new analysis from the Centre for Migration Control, seen by the People's Channel, shows foreign nationals made up 79.3 per cent of arrests for theft of passenger property on Britain’s transport network. According to a Freedom of Information Request submitted by the think tank, 9,771 arrests were carried out across Britain’s transport network in the year 2024 to 2025. Of those arrested, 3,688 were foreign nationals, representing 37.7 per cent. CMC analysis shows foreign nationals are more likely to be arrested than native born people by the British Transport Police for a host of crimes. Foreign nationals made up the overwhelming number of those arrested for stealing, at nearly 80 per cent, and were 36.6 per cent of arrests for sexual offences, 35.7 per cent of the arrests for violent crimes, and 39.6 per cent of arrests for drug related offences. Of these migrant arrests, 225 are linked to sexual offences, 900 to violence, 187 to drugs, and 304 to theft of passenger property. In the UK 5.9 million people hold non-British passports, representing 9.9 per cent of the population, according to the 2021 census... The news comes after data obtained by the CMC from 26 police forces across the country showed that migrants are 34 per cent more likely to be arrested for all crimes than native British people. "
Proof of racist and xenophobic profiling!

Meme - "r/LegalAdviceUK
I'm a student from Azerbaijan studying in England. I'm not sure how to report or navigate police force over here when it isn't an emergency. Can I get some advice?
My English is decent but I am primarily a maths student and that is where my strength exists. Sorry for that. I've done the best I can. I started university in September in England. During this time there was a Freshman's Week when student societys were advertising themselves. I applied to several and joined them. However I am very worried about extremist people within one society I joined. They are very hateful and angry. I noticed the same when attending my local place of worship. There was also very extreme preaching there which would not be tolerated back home in Azerbaijan. I know 999 is for emergencies only. I don't believe this is a life threateneing emergency so I did not want to call it unnecessarily. Is there another person I can report this to. I would prefer to do this ANONYMOUSLY for my safety. If I can't do it anonymously then I am too scared to report it at all. Is there some way I can anonymously report both of them to police force over here?"
The police need to be involved to arrest him for Islamophobia

I've been mugged three times in London, but it's rubbish to say it's not safe - "such narratives about London are nothing new – they’re merely the latest front for conservative panic about multiculturalism and immigration. The prevailing idea is that a city filled with immigrants – or indeed, a city built by immigrants, which is exactly what London is – must be crime-ridden by default. You can see this happening after the London bombings in 2005, when some right-wingers peddled the myth that the city’s large Muslim population was creating “Londonistan” within the M25. (Twenty years on, Londonistan has yet to materialise – unless, of course, you are talking about the excellent range of Middle Eastern and South Asian restaurants now on offer across the capital.) These days, those who want to sow division and fear know better than being that blatantly offensive. Instead, their prejudices are disguised by supposed well-meaning concern for Londoners’ security and well-being."
The things that left wingers will put up with and expect others to put up with to support the cause
Clearly the UAE is deluded being worried about Islamic extremism in the UK
The funniest part is that the journalist, Zing Tsjeng, is Singaporean

The British dream is crumbling, replaced by a nightmare of sectarian division - "Britain is a wonderful, welcoming country that has embraced newcomers fleeing persecution or poverty for centuries. Our gradual affirmation of religious toleration after the English Reformation and the Scottish Enlightenment, our individualism, our early adoption of capitalism, our commitment to the rule of law, our pioneering role in the eradication of slavery, all helped forge a culture that to this day remains more open to outsiders than those of European neighbours. It is a reason why so many first- and second-generation immigrants love this country, why so many are doing so well and contributing so much to politics, business, medicine, academia, sport and entertainment, and why it is entirely uncontroversial that Rishi Sunak is our first Hindu Prime Minister. Visiting Britain in the 1720s, Voltaire was stunned. “Go into the London Stock Exchange … and you will see representatives from all nations gathered together for the utility of men,” he wrote in Lettres Philosophiques. “Here Jew, Mohammedan and Christian deal with each other as though they were all of the same faith, and only apply the word infidel to people who go bankrupt. Here the Presbyterian trusts the Anabaptist and the Anglican accepts a promise from the Quaker.” Fast forward three centuries and we continue to integrate immigrants far better than the French or Germans, an ability dubbed Britain’s “superpower”. Across western Europe, the children of immigrants perform worse than those of the native-born; in the UK, children of immigrants are better at maths than the children of natives, and children born abroad do almost as well, the Pisa tests reveal... There even appears to be a reduction, on average, in geographical segregation of minority communities, an analysis of the past four censuses reveals. Tragically, instead of building on this by embracing a controlled, rational immigration policy to forge a modern, united, multi-ethnic British nation, our ruling elites – first New Labour, and then the Tories, backed by the cultural and business establishment – have blundered so severely that the entire multicultural edifice could now come tumbling down. What could have been a model for others to follow has been ruined by insouciance. The first fraudulent claim was that we could cope with net figures of hundreds of thousands of migrants, year in, year out. On what planet? The staggering inability of the state to build infrastructure, or to allow free enterprise to do so, means that large-scale immigration is inflicting huge costs on the existing population (including earlier migrants) via congestion, rationed healthcare and smaller, prohibitively expensive homes. Robert Jenrick and Neil O’Brien crunch the data in their brilliant Taking Back Control, from the Centre for Policy Studies. England’s population surged 6.6 per cent between 2011 and 2021 (it would have grown 2.7 per cent without migration) yet during that time the major roads network grew by just 2.3 per cent, the rail network by 1 per cent, GP surgeries by 4 per cent (at a time of ageing population), the number of secondary schools by 4.9 per cent, the net capital stock of machinery and equipment by 4 per cent and, maddeningly, our electricity generation capacity collapsed 14.2 per cent. High immigration has diluted our per capita capital stock: we have effectively become poorer. Housing has grown faster – by 9.6 per cent – but even that isn’t enough to cope with the massive pent-up demand from years of under-building and the concentrated geography of immigration. Home ownership is collapsing, quality of life is deteriorating and the institutional underpinnings of conservatism and capitalism are lethally undermined. The second falsehood was that large volumes of migration – as opposed to smaller-scale, targeted, high-skilled migration – would turbocharge productivity growth and insulate us from the baby bust. Yet productivity has flatlined, even though the UK now has more foreign-born residents than the US; the availability of labour may have discouraged automation. Many immigrants contribute far more than they take out in government spending, but some do not, especially if they don’t work or don’t earn enough... The third error was to leverage mass immigration to camouflage other problems. More foreign students – many of whom stay permanently – subsidise domestic fees. Foreign care workers allow the authorities to grossly underpay staff. We don’t train enough doctors and health workers, or anybody else for that matter: it’s easier to import ready-made workers. The 5.5 million people on out-of-work benefits have been consigned to the memory hole. The success of migrant children allows the complacent to disregard the atrocious educational performance of the white working class. The Government’s final blunder was to ignore the rise of Islamist extremism, out of cowardice and stupidity, while tolerating woke critical race theory (CRT), an ideology that rejects colour-blind integrationism and pits racial groups against one another. Yes, Britain’s superpower is integration, but it turns out that Islamism and CRT are its kryptonite. The authorities did nothing in Batley to protect a teacher chased away by extremists. They haven’t tackled radical preachers and have been useless at promoting moderate, reformist Muslim voices. A toxic anti-Semitism that had been largely eradicated from British life is spreading again. The return of Israelophobic sectarian parties – including the Greens – is the final straw. We need to drastically reduce migration. We need to be much more discerning about who we let in. We can no longer allow our righteous openness to immigration to be perverted and manipulated."

The UK’s migration problem is nothing to do with being too generous. Here’s why - "The upheaval in Sudan now ranks among the worst humanitarian catastrophes in the world... The situation in Sudan is a stark reminder that irregular migration to the UK is rarely caused by “pull factors” such as our overly generous social security system or our shadow economy. People flee because their homes and communities have been destroyed and unless the root causes are addressed, crises like this will continue and the small boats will continue their perilous, tragic journeys."
The usual left wing delusions and lies to push the left wing agenda strike again; according to the Refugee Council, in YTD September 2025, "The top five countries of origin of people seeking asylum were Pakistan, Eritrea, Iran, Afghanistan and Bangladesh."

AG on X - "Incredible stuff. The United Arab Emirates is cutting funding for scholarships to allow students to attend UK Universities because of fear of Islamist radicalization on those campuses."

David Atherton on X - "🚨This Beggars Belief🚨 At St Cuthbert's Primary School in Parkfield, Stockton a group of over 10 African migrants viciously attack a mother & other locals, yesterday afternoon. The provocation was the mother said you "shouldn't hit a girl mate" & "there's kids coming out the school". The mother is in hospital. The Stockton police @Cleveland_PCC were called who did nothing. The mother was called a moron by officer 3344 for asking why. This will lead to people taking the law into their own hands, it may lead to major civil unrest."

Asylum seeker sex pest targeted two women on the train in 'terrifying ordeal' before sexually assaulting one - but is SPARED jail after judge is told he 'has no friends in the UK' - "Hamada Salah, 28, who is seeking asylum in the UK, targeted two lone women in separate incidents on a TransPennine Express journey from Leeds to Middlesbrough in February. The victims were left feeling 'objectified' and 'unnerved' after the Egyptian national began showing them pornography, Newcastle Crown Court heard. Salah targeted a woman aged 20, which he said was 'the perfect age for sex', and started touching her legs, before moving to another part of the train before rubbing his groin in front of a 67-year-old passenger."

Policy Exchange - Why is it so hard getting immigration numbers down? - "The report, written by Stephen Webb, a former Home Office director and with foreword by The Honourable Alexander Downer AC, former Foreign Minister of Australia, sets out the incentives in the system that have led to consistently high migration. These include the power of the pro-immigration lobby, mixed incentives within Government, and a human rights case law that has consistently moved in a more liberal direction over the past 30 years. It notes that the problems we are facing in the UK are increasingly shared by other European countries. The report exposes that at least £11m is being spent by NGOs with a focus on migration issues on research, analysis and lobbying – with a further £30m in taxpayer funded grants to universities, most of which have a clear tilt towards liberal immigration policies. The report argues that the policy response needs to change the incentives, whether they be on migrants themselves, employers and renters, other government departments and third countries who do not cooperate on returning their nationals. The report recommends:
An auction system to allocate a limited number of work visas to ensure they go to the highest quality candidates, with the proceeds used to increase wages in the care sector,
A system of ‘sureties’ which impose a penalty on visa holders if they do not leave on time
Illegal migrants to know they will not be allowed to settle in the UK, but will be transferred to safe accommodation on Ascension Island
Tougher laws to block visas and overseas aid going to countries that do not cooperate in returns of their nationals
Much tougher penalties for those employing and renting accommodation to people without the right to be in the UK.
A cross European coalition to reform the ECHR, with a willingness to leave if this is not delivered
In a foreword to the report, former Australian Foreign Minister, The Honourable Alexander Downer AC, said: “The issue of immigration has become one of the most contentious on the Western world…so far few countries have managed the issue well…but the British immigration system is a particular shambles… A British government will have sooner or later to get control of the immigration program. If they fail to do so, we can be sure populists and extremists will get elected who promise to do it.”"

The absurd reality of Starmer’s Britain - "Keir Starmer isn’t “smashing the gangs” that are breaking our laws and flooding Britain with illegal immigrants — he’s going into business with them... The British state, the ruling class, are now using the British people’s own money —taxpayers’ money—to offer far more favourable contracts to private landlords who rent their properties to asylum-seekers and illegal migrants instead of renting them to the British people who need them... Unlike the normal housing market, under these deals landlords are being offered leases with no risk of arrears or non-payment, funding for property repairs and council tax bills, and no fees for letting companies and property managers. In other words, they are being offered big incentives to house the illegal migrants who are breaking our laws while those migrants, too, are being offered even more incentives to enter Britain in the first place —the prospect of their own home. What this means is that, today, the British people are being put in the truly absurd position of having their own money being used by the British state to outbid them in the private housing sector so that the state can prioritise people who break the law... It’s yet another example of the shocking sense of unfairness that I’ve argued has now become a major theme of Starmer’s Britain —a country in which everybody except the British majority are put first... You might as well put a big, a bright, flashing neon sign on the white cliffs of Dover that reads: “free housing for illegal migrants”. Because that’s exactly what is now happening in Labour’s Britain. While Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper have been gaslighting the country by claiming they are “smashing the gangs”, in reality —as everybody can now see—they are strengthening, not smashing, the business model that underpins the gangs. The Labour government, remember, have scrapped the Conservative Party’s Rwanda plan, which was the only serious deterrent Britain had and one that Labour could not even be bothered to wait and see if it had an effect. Labour then essentially decriminalised illegal migration into Britain by overturning the Illegal Migration Act, removing age checks, and making it easier, not harder, for people to stay in the country once they make it here. While maintaining one of the most generous welfare systems for illegal migrants in Europe, Labour have also been approving the vast majority of claims that are made for asylum, providing yet another incentive for the gangs and migrants to keep coming, knowing full well they have a very good chance of being allowed to stay in Britain, forever, if they make it. And now, on TikTok videos that are no doubt being watched from Syria to Iraq, Afghanistan to Eritrea, countless more would-be migrants will be hearing about the apartments and houses that the British state is making available by pushing aside the British people who actually live, work, and pay taxes in this country. And many, I suspect, will simply be laughing at us. Because instead of creating a deterrent, Keir Starmer, Yvette Cooper, and the Labour government are merely creating more and more incentives for people. Which is why, ever since Labour returned to power, as I warned would happen, the number of small boats has been surging to record heights... I’ve written before about the critical importance of the ‘social contract’— about the critical yet delicate relationship between the people and their rulers... just ask yourself, what kind of protection is this —a ruling class and a state that before our very eyes is prioritising foreigners and law-breakers over its own people when distributing what little housing we have in this country? Ask yourself, too, what kind of organised society is this —one that not only welcomes but rewards those who break our laws while treating the hard-working, law-abiding majority with such contempt, leaving the British taxpayer with a bill of more than £2 BILLION a year for these hotel and accommodation costs alone? And, lastly, ask yourself why should we voluntarily surrender our rights and freedoms to a political class and a state bureaucracy like this, which is at best indifferent and at worst openly hostile toward its own people, who are openly being treated like second-class citizens?... It won’t be members of the elite class who have to live this way, much like it is not members of the elite class who are on waiting lists for social housing, having to compete with dozens of others to rent the same flat, or being squeezed out of buying their own home. No, as usual, it will be the hardworking, tax-paying, law-abiding forgotten majority who have to pay the costs of disastrous policies being pursued by the luxury belief class —the elites who like the idea of open borders so long as they do not have to live with the consequences themselves."

Women’s Safety Initiative on X - "We’re building a community of women who aren’t afraid to say that mass immigration is impacting our safety. Mass immigration = mass risk to women"
celia on X - "You’re more likely to be assaulted/hurt by men you know, ladies"
Connie Shaw on X - "Foreign nationals were 71% more likely than Britons to be responsible for sex crime convictions from 2021 - 2023 according to our own government"
Charlie Bentley-Astor on X - "Remember, Britain is now the rape capital of Europe - twice as many instances as France which is second in the league table. In terms of reported instances of rape, the UK is 2nd in the world, only siting behind Grenada..."
Clearly, this is because of increased reporting and is good

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