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UK: “Antifascists” clash with police at migrant hotel protest

Denizens of the Thistle Hotel Barbican

Britain’s anti-asylum seeker hotel protests escalated today as an unauthorised “antifascist” demonstration led to clashes with police. The original protest, organised by opponents of migrant housing at the Thistle City Barbican Hotel, remained peaceful. But tensions flared when a masked group in black suddenly flooded the road outside, clashing with police and prompting multiple arrests.

By 11am, locals were already gathering for the 1:30pm anti-migrant protest. A group of older women sitting at a table told me they were attending “because it’s not safe anymore”. Gesturing toward the hotel windows, where asylum seekers peered down at the scene below, one woman recalled, “Four years ago there was no problem when it was one to a room. Now there are too many.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, UK

Revealed: Shocking cost of 10,000 foreign crooks languishing in UK jails

A record number of foreign thugs, thieves and sex offenders are costing taxpayers more than £360million a year, shocking new analysis has revealed. Some 10,772 overseas nationals are languishing in overcrowded jails.

This includes 6,673 criminals serving sentences and 3,781 people on remand. Almost half of foreign prisoners have been locked up for violent and sexual crimes, analysis of Ministry of Justice figures has revealed. The MoJ has, for the first time, confirmed 2,083 foreign thugs are behind bars for violent offences. Another 1,159 are on remand.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, UK

An email from England shows how that country has declined

An indigenous British friend of mine (yes, her forebearers go back more than 1,000 years) sent me a disheartening email about a recent visit she made to Gloucester, a small city in Southwest England. It’s worth reading her message to understand what has happened to the United Kingdom.

You don’t have to know anything about Gloucester to know that it was originally a Roman fort. That’s because the “cester” in the name comes from the Latin word “castrum,” meaning a “fortified place.” In the case of Gloucester, it was one of the first places the Romans established, way back in 48 A.D. It’s been continuously occupied since then and has played a significant part in British history.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUK

Five things we can’t post about thanks to the Online Safety Act

From grooming gangs to men’s fashion, literally any topic of discussion can now be censored.

A week has passed since the Online Safety Act’s age-verification rules came into effect, turning vast swathes of the internet dark for users based in the UK. Although the bill was sold as a necessary measure to protect children from pornography, it is not just ‘adult’ content that has suddenly been restricted.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society", Censorship, UK

Channel crossings in small boats top 25,000 in record time

More than 25,000 migrants have attempted to cross the Channel to the UK in small boats this year, reaching the milestone figure in record time, Home Office figures show.

On Wednesday, 898 migrants were detected crossing the Channel. It means 25,436 arrivals have been recorded since January 1, the earliest in the year that the 25,000 figure has been surpassed. There have been 50 per cent more crossings so far this year, compared with the same period last year.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, UK

Revealed: The true scale of foreign sex offenders in Britain

Record numbers of foreign sex offenders and violent criminals are being held in jails in England and Wales, the first official data by nationality has revealed.

Some 1,731 foreign-national sex offenders were in prison as of June this year, up by 9.9 per cent in 12 months. The rate of increase was nearly three times that of Britons, with the number imprisoned for sex offences up 3.8 per cent, according to data published by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) on Thursday.

The number of foreign violent offenders held in jails is also at its highest since records began a decade ago. It has risen by 8.8 per cent in a year to 3,250, nearly double the rate of 4.8 per cent for Britons imprisoned for violence.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, UK

Starmer’s Political Prisoner to Be ‘Released’—But Hold the Celebrations

Social media users are this week cheering on reports that a mother imprisoned for a post on X will soon be “freed.” Their celebrations seem premature.

Lucy Connolly was jailed for 31 months after authorities treated her post on the day of the horrific Southport knife attack—calling for “mass deportation now” and saying: “Set fire to all the f*****g [migrant] hotels full of the b******s for all I care”—as incitement. That’s despite the fact Connolly deleted the message less than four hours after pressing ‘send’ and stressed the next day that “violence is not the answer.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", "Islamophobia", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK

Keir Starmer: UK ready to recognise Palestinian state within weeks

Sir Keir Starmer has announced that Britain is prepared to join France in formally recognising a Palestinian state in September, in the face of mounting pressure from his cabinet and backbenchers.

The prime minister said that the UK could recognise Palestine as soon as the UN general assembly in September, unless Israel takes “substantive steps to end the appalling situation in Gaza”.

Starmer discussed the plans with President Trump on Monday in response to concerns that Gaza is on the brink of a “humanitarian catastrophe”, experiencing mass starvation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIsrael, UK

‘Racist, far-Right’ protesters: a Sikh, a Chinese man and a veteran with mixed-race kids

Of the thousands of bankers in Canary Wharf, only one crossed the footbridge to the newly designated migrant hotel opposite the district’s glass towers, curious to witness the commotion.

Metal fencing surrounded the entrance of the Britannia Hotel, guarded by a wall of police and a private security guard in a surgical mask. Territorial support vans crawled past. It was hard to escape the feeling that a great crime had been committed.

Police Escorted “Anti-Racist” protesters. Civil war soon? No crystal ball but to my view the French riot better than the English or Germans.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Immigration from incompatible cultures", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Camp Of The Saints, UK

Epping anti-migrant protests is heating up

Epping protests LIVE: Police in riot gear as anti-migrant protest and counter-demo erupt outside Bell Hotel

h/t Patthedog

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", The Great Replacement, UK

Elite police squad to monitor anti-migrant posts on social media

An elite team of police officers is to monitor social media for anti-migrant sentiment amid fears of summer riots.

Detectives will be drawn from forces across the country to take part in a new investigations unit that will flag up early signs of potential civil unrest.

The division, assembled by the Home Office, will aim to “maximise social media intelligence” gathering after police forces were criticised over their response to last year’s riots.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", "Surveillance Society", Camp Of The Saints, UK, WTF?

The Ulsterisation of English politics – Westminster is losing legitimacy

In his 1977 book The Break-Up of Britain, the socialist and Scottish nationalist writer Tom Nairn titled his chapter on the United Kingdom’s then-most restive province “Northern Ireland: Relic or Portent?” On this, as with so much else, Nairn may have been prescient. A year ago, it was natural to speculate on whether anti-migrant disturbances would become a feature of the English summer, as those deriving from the province’s traditional, and now largely ceremonial, ethnic conflict are in Northern Ireland. Today, it appears that “rioting season” has become England’s new routine. Rather than a freak occurrence, to be dealt with by harsh sentencing, the mixed protests and clashes in Epping, like the demonstrations in Diss and now Canary Wharf, still seem like only tremors before a greater earthquake. When Nigel Farage warned this week that “nobody in London understands how close we are to civil disobedience”, the response from Left-liberals, confused and frightened by a predictable course of events nevertheless incomprehensible to their worldview, was to cast him as a sort of English Ian Paisley, threatening violence at a safe remove for political gain.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUK

These are not extremists. Ordinary British people are being criminalised

It is becoming harder by the day to pretend this is all normal. Epping, a leafy Essex town not known for rabble-rousing, has suddenly become a bellwether. It is not extremists making the noise, but mothers: ordinary, decent, quietly exhausted. One protestor’s placard said it best: “I’m not far-Right. I’m worried about my kids.”

Eight days. That’s how long it took from Hadush Kebatu’s illegal arrival on our shores to his alleged assault of a local teenage girl. This criminal charge has pierced through the political haze, not because it is an anomaly, but because it is no longer rare. The British people are not imagining the chaos. They are living it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", The Great Replacement, UK

‘Intimidation campaign’ by supporters of pro-Gaza MP leaves town in terror

Supporters of a pro-Gaza independent MP are terrorising people in a West Yorkshire town, the local Tory leader has claimed.

Qadeer Ghafoor, the chairman of the Dewsbury Tories in West Yorkshire, has claimed he and his family have been personally threatened after falling out with some of the supporters over a business dispute.

After reporting the claims to police, Mr Ghafoor, 34, was advised by officers to move out of his home for a night and install a panic alarm so he could call for immediate help if he was attacked.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK