I once knew an ex-policeman who, after many years of faithful service, finally left the force in disgust at what the job had become post-Blair. The final straw had arrived when, following repeated complaints from officers about the excessive amount of paperwork they had to waste their time filling in following each and every interaction with the public, bosses had gathered the station’s PCs together and proudly announced that, after intensive consultation and deliberation, they had managed to cut the number of pieces of paper that had to be filled in by half… by printing the exact same number of boxes to fill in on both sides of the sheets rather than just one.
A similarly wrong-headed, almost autistic, level of excessive literalism around problem-‘solving’ is currently being displayed by the UK Government when it comes to addressing swelling public demands, as expressed in near-daily demonstrations outside asylum hostels to “Close down the hotels!”
Hearing this plea, what do you think it really means? It should be obvious that the basic translation is “Send all the men inside the hotels back home to their own countries!” But no. The politicians, just like the block-headed paperwork-cutting police management team, have heard this anguished cry and decided to technically comply… by closing the hotels to asylum seekers as requested, before immediately reassigning the unwanted occupants into ordinary private streets and cul-de-sacs instead, within so-called ‘Houses of Multiple Occupancy’ (HMOs), an arrangement which,
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Clearly they must all be sent back to France – I can’t understand why we are not doing this.
France is a safe country with more land and a smaller population, better health care, public housing, education and welfare – but without a powerless and useless police force – French police are very tough.
Which is why these criminals pay thousands to people smugglers to cross the Channel in small boats despite the danger.
We are known to be a soft touch.
More fool us.
Problem Reaction Solution
The solution desired by ‘the state’ is to invoke powers of surveillance against the wider public to seek out the tell-tale precursors to their committing illegal acts – crimes. Precursors to crimes. PreCrime.
Matters such as CO2 bunkum, gender bunkum, CV19 bunkum, etc. (and this flood of illegal migrants no doubt too), do not have just one objective. It is the promise of the delivery of a multitude of objectives that gives them such enduring traction.
Pretty sure there are an increasing number of HMO’s being used by Serco in my area of a sedate leafy suburb. Driving through the area you notice some characters who fit descriptions of English Channel one-way trippers walking along the streets. They are not particularly in a hurry to go anywhere, carrying a backpack and seemingly attired in garb more appropriate for lands well away from Western Europe. Thankfully the property that was next to me and up for rent recently has been taken by a very nice couple and their child. Hopefully its a very long let.
My local MP Emily Darlington (Milton Keynes South) has given the following written replies to my ‘specific questions’ about so-called asylum seekers in MK. Note the inadequacy of her reply to question 2.
Answering your specific questions
1.“They’ve come from France—how can they claim asylum here? Why aren’t they ruled illegal on the spot?”
Under the 1951 Refugee Convention, which the UK helped write and still upholds, there is no requirement to claim in the first safe country. People can seek asylum in the UK, and their cases must be decided fairly. The Convention also says refugees must not be penalised for irregular entry if they present themselves without delay and show good cause. None of this prevents us from declaring claims inadmissible and returning people to a safe third country where lawful arrangements exist—which is precisely what the new UK–France treaty enables.
2.“Why are people in hotels rather than detention?”
Immigration detention in the UK is used to effect removal, not as a blanket response to an asylum claim. There is a presumption not to detain unless necessary and lawful, especially for vulnerable people, under the Home Office’s Adults at Risk policy and detention guidance. Detention capacity is focused on those being removed, including under the returns deal.
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But, it seems, while there’s rioting, there’s hope.
I’m just wondering if the human rights law can really be interpreted as being violated if you don’t give them free five star accommodation, a phone, pocket money, free access to the legal system, the health service, education, entertainment and “protection”; from the legitimate concerns of people who live here legally and don’t even get a tenth of all that; whilst being taxed out of any money they might have the cheek to earn.
What a scary, but accurate summation of things! Dear God!….the saying, ‘things can only get better,’ really don’t apply here, do they?
If you value your mental well being do not listen to BBC coverage of the latest court ruling. Apparently hotels don’t work because the occupants feel intimidated and fear the locals. Heard on PM this afternoon.
Risible hypocrisy on the part of the Muslims, who always use the same tactic after every Muslim Terrorist Attack on the West: they immediately start shrieking about a “backlash” and demanding money for extra security, pretending to be the “victims” who “fear the locals”. Then they attack again, then shriek hysterically again, then get visits from politicians to “reassure” them again, and hand them extra money for security.
Then they attack again… and again… and again.
And shriek hysterically again… and again… and again.
Another excellent article by Steven Tucker. The Communist Brainwashing “Neuro-linguistic Programming” has successfully persuaded the public that we have some kind of obligation to provide housing for any criminal who pays human traffickers huge amounts of money in order to break into our island home.
We don’t.
When British people campaigned to get the hotels closed, the implicit instruction was for mass immigration to be halted, not simple a dilution of the same numbers by dispersing them more inimately in the community.
Only a willfully unobservant, arrogant government would interpret the desire of its citizens this way.
It’s a Genocidal Communist Government, preparing for mass slaughter, as their Communist comrades have done everywhere in the world they have been allowed to seize power.
It is a false dichotomy. The alternative is deportation. Either back where they came from or to detention in third countries.
Detention in this country would be no bad thing.
By the way, whatever happened to those detainees trumpeted about nearly 2 weeks ago. Where are the updates promised by Bambi Balls and how many are now on their way to France?
As I and many others predicted, in the absence of any effort or intention to solve the fundamental problem, all political efforts will be directed at gaslighting the public by concentrating on reducing the number of hotels whilst the numbers of migrants increases
Am I right in thinking that legitimate tenants of existing HMOs have been evicted to make way for immigrants?
Labour have proposed to abandon the section 21 ‘no fault’ eviction notice. Maybe it suits them to keep the legislation in place a little longer?
What is the legal arrangement of these immigrants in these HMOs homes? Are they tenants? And why are they being given priority housing over the needs of British citizens ?
Our enlightened leaders are stoking the flames of dissent with their policy ‘for the greater good’. But that doesn’t mean for the good of the people who voted them into office or the people as a whole who they are supposed to govern without fear or favour.
I’m worried that our author is starting to lose his grip in his frustration. I don’t think including the phrase “raghead” adds anything useful, other than encouraging the nutters.
I’m also frustrated – with interviewers and opposition politicians alike. Every five minutes, Labour excuse their situation by referring to the failure of the last 14 years, whether it’s money, migrants, housing, whatever. Why isn’t Labour asked what they were doing if all these wrong or failed Tory policies were so obvious? What would they have done? What was their alternative to the very expensive Rwanda project?
Philip Mountbatten used Ragheads, he wasn’t losing his grip. I used to enjoy his little remarks.
It’s called “FREEDOM OF SPEECH”, and this website was founded by one of the great champions of FREEDOM OF SPEECH, Lord Toby Young, who also founded THE FREE SPEECH UNION.
It was not a useful contribution to the content of the article and gave detractors something to point to. Unnecessary, even if it was within the rules of free speech.
Nonsense! One of the glories of the English language, according to some researchers, is the myriad ways of insulting people, often cheerful and irreverent, without resorting to the paltry handful of obscenities describing crude bodily functions normally used by other cultures.
“Raghead” simply refers to the pieces of fabric worn on their heads, so perhaps you would prefer the more precisely descriptive
” Tea Towel Headgear “, as used by some for the Palestinian scarves.
No we need to spit in the eye of detractors instead of being fearful of their displeasure.
HMOs – “bedsits” as they were known in less troubled times. An affordable way of getting a “place of your own” – and far from “third world slum housing”. Handing them over to SERCO has put them out of reach for our native down at heel, eccentrics, bohemians and amiable misfits that used to populate such places.
I was all three in London for eight years 🤣
Landlords of my various abodes were, in order:
1. Jewish
2. Irish
3. Nigerian
4. Irish
5. Undetermined (probably Greek although possibly Albanian)
6. Turkish
So now we know who has bought up all the properties…
I was discussing this with a retired Royal Marine chum over the weekend and he said, “Now imagine they are quietly issued automatic rifles and sidearms”. A sobering thought indeed.
That is the crucial point: there have been reports of boxes of weaponry kept in waiting “no questions asked” by landlords, and in mosques. Our own treasonous, satanic politicians are importing a Muslim Army, awaiting the signal to attack us.
It reminds me of how Jacob H. Schiff sent men and weaponry to Russia, to start the Bolshevik Terror.
Submit an FOI to your local authority asking if there is any intention of moving illegal migrants into HMOs in your area, and watch them squirm. Protests should be outside the council offices, as the Police will use different powers to stop protests outside someone’s ‘home’.
Why can’t we just stop giving them all the benefits we give them to begin with? Remove the incentive to come here in the first place.
That would be too simple a solution for politicians to comprehend.
And the outcome would be the opposite of the destruction they seek; so ain’t going to happen.
It would be easy to overturn Starmer’s treasonous act of legally forcing the British Taxpayers to lavish money, housing, healthcare & education upon CRIMINAL INVADERS.
The Tories could easily have overturned it, but they did not, because they are entirely complicit in the Treason.
The Globalists in the British Establishment WANT them here. That’s why they’re providing so many incentives and are shipping them in.
Immigration Policy is not decided by UK citizens voting for policy as promised by their politicians, It is decided by International Treaties and Courts. One World Government Policies are being imposed and we are all to align with the idea that National Identity is bad. There is a constant pressure to comply with the new global order that seeks to control all of the worlds wealth and resources, and all of the people. The people still think they are free, they still vote, but the things they think they are voting for are no longer decided by the names on the ballot paper. They are decided by International frameworks, treaties and courts. Democracy is now an illusion. It has been removed, one international agreement at a time.
All that may be true but only so long as the voters allow it. If they make the right choices in large numbers it can be changed, as POTUS has shown.
The hope is it can be changed, but remember we have a Political Class that are fully onboard with the One World Government Agenda. So no matter till now who you voted for nothing was going to change. It is to hoped that REFORM can solve that problem by doing what they say they are going to do. —–Let’s wait and see.
if only there was a way to get Rupert Lowe into a leadership position. Probably the only chance the U.K. has now?
I am not sure Rupert would lead any party to victory or any government to success.
Maybe not but there are no other options regrettably unless you can think of some?
Rupert Lowe is ace and strikes me as a true patriot and a very authentic man. This is where I’m reminded of Geert Wilders, however. I like very much what both men have to say, as do a good percentage of the public, but can I see either of them as leader of their respective countries? That’s a hard “no”. It’s as fanciful as it is idealistic. Wilders certainly is best suited to being the opposition, which is where he belongs.
And who would you suggest, then, as your ideal candidate to represent the British People?
Or the Dutch People, since that is your home now?
Codswallop.
Rupert knows what the problems are and can express himself concisely. He can ask questions that should make those in power squirm. What he can’t do is be the leader of a party, unless its his ‘party of one’. Sorry guys this is just a fantasy. There is one hope and only one, and that is that Reform can win the next election. This is hopefully, unless Labour pull off some insane chicanery, like giving all the illegals the right to vote and all the other, in an attempt to create a perma-Labour government, and outlaw opposition. If its any consolation, I have seen over the last few months, a significant change in Reform. They have to be the opposition on the important items of the day, but actually, they are building to be the next government. Don’t underestimate this. Changing the direction of travel and unpicking 30 years of bad law, with belligerent CS, Justice, Police and the rest who have been brainwashed into liberal mindsets, and a media that will be looking for every piece of cake out of place. Its a generations work.
I expect you know more than I do about Lowe (not hard), so can you explain what he has said and done to make you believe he can’t be a leader of a party?
I’ve seen nothing to suggest that Rupert is a team player. He is fond of being a loose cannon and giving his priorities preference over anyone else. Its an ego thing, imo. Its stood him in good stead during his commercial career, but politics requires a much greater level of discipline not to get out of line, especially where Reform are concerned. It is quite noticiable that the two men who have vacated the party Rupert and Ben Habib have just gone on to do their own thing. They didn’t join together. Nope I think Rupert is a fine chap doing good work, but why people think he is the solution to the blob, I have no idea.
Ben offered Rupert the job of leading his new Advance party but Lowe declined , we are fooked !
I don’t think he’s the “solution” to anything. I don’t believe in solutions. I have seen him speak a couple of times, once to an audience and once in an interview. Both times he seemed confident and articulate, not mealy mouthed, and set out his political philosophy that aligns closely with mine. That’s it. Given that someone with the above qualities in politics seems like a rarity, he seems to me as good a candidate as any to be a party leader. I am aware he left Reform under a cloud but for all I know that might have been due to the “ego” of the current leadership, and not his.
You don’t really cite any other evidence or examples of not being a team player – the fact he didn’t form an alliance with Ben Habib may be because Habib didn’t want to, or Lowe doesn’t feel close to him politically.
It could be a two pronged attack, with one being the new vehicle, and the other sweeping up those not yet in the group.
Forming a tight dysfunctional group is what the Uni-party have done. What is needed are a collection of independent thinkers that can collaborate, from time to time, and come together when the threats increase. There is a trail of fine, rejected, men and women in Farage’s wake, not just Ben and Rupert.
My concern is this, presented by two of those fine men:
https://youtu.be/kd-WaYsD6nE
Many agree that Blair’s constitutional changes, outsourcing political power to unelected bodies, breaking the Crown in Parliament, needs to be reversed, and that needs a cabinet in waiting, with policies already written. Yet Farage, after a year, hasn’t even started at national level. He’s done the opposite.
And we have this calamity, from 12:40, following:
https://www.youtube.com/live/ojMcjVux2aM
Hopefully he will learn from Trump 2.0 who hit the ground running. I doubt it will be quite that efficient though. To be honest, just not doing any more damage and repealing net zero is about as much as I expect.
Well, look at that. You think one thing, and have a different opinion. We’ll have to agree to disagree.
I don’t “think” anything. I presume you know more about Rupert Lowe than I do, but all you’ve done is voice your opinion, and not pointed to much evidence to back it up.
You seem to be describing Farage not Lowe.
Afraid I’ve heard the same about Lowe through his school’s old boys network, he’s not going to succeed as a leader. Not sure that Farage is any better, he seems to me to be the Tap Room equivalent of Boris, who was a dreadful failure in every respect. All three are over-promoted marketing people, “say what the customer wants to hear”
You need to have more than integrity and a genuine sense of patriotism to be an effective and capable leader. One does not organically follow the other. I think there’s many who are living in Dream Land when they go on about who should be a country’s PM. May as well wish for Tommy Robinson as next UK PM. Great bloke, balls of steel, patriotic to the max but political leadership qualities? Nada.
And Geert Wilders. As per Tommy. How is a man with such outspoken and extreme views on Islam, who now has countless fatwas to his name, who can’t even live with his wife because she’s also now got a target on her back due to him, so they are guarded separately and must move from safe house to safe house regularly, ever going to be PM? Can you imagine him ever meeting leaders of Muslim nations in such a capacity? He’s burnt all his bridges there and as such has alienated himself from many, even if some might agree with what he says in private.
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But since the leader of Hungary cannot be the leader of the UK or the Netherlands, who would you suggest as your ideal candidate to represent the British People?
Or the Dutch People, since that is your home now?
You said Geert Wilders should stay in opposition, but in opposition TO WHOM?
The Muslim Turk in Stilettos, perhaps?
Reform won’t save us !
When the world thinks of a British Prime Minister, they think of someone like Rupert Lowe.
Not Ethnic Africans, Ethnic Indians, Ethnic Orientals, or anyone other than a true representative of the Indigenous People of the British Isles:
the English, Scots, Welsh, Irish & their descendants around the world, whose ancestors worked hard to build this land into a great nation, as they did everywhere else they went in the world.
But of course the Globalists would never allow such a thing, as they kept other Patriots out of power:
True President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil,
True President Matteo Salvini of Italy,
True President Geert Wilders of the Netherlands,
True President Marine Le Pen of France,
True President Alexei Navalny of Russia,
and True President Valerii Zaluzhnyi of Ukraine.
And True President Miguel Uribe Turbay of Colombia.
True President John Magufuli of Tanzania
True President Hamed Bakayoko of the Ivory Coast
True President Ambrose Dlamini of Eswatini
True President Pierre Nkurunziza
and True President Jovenel Moise of Haiti
True President Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi
True leader of uk – SYLennon !!
In your dreams, Freddo.
Why is Putin not a true patriot?
We don’t have a Presidential system.