Food for Thought #765

 

“Overwhelmingly White” Countryside Needs More Halal Food, Report Claims

 This is an overwhelmingly white country; and has been for centuries.... so it they don't like abiding by the rules of this country they should take a hike back to their own. 

When we venture into their country, we have to abide by their rules and happily do so. We don't try to change their ways to suit ours. 

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The British countryside is “overwhelmingly white” and needs more halal food, a report from the University of Leicester’s Centre for Hate Studies on “rural racism” has claimed. The Telegraph has the story.

In [the report], academics claim that ethnic minority communities face “challenges” in the countryside because rural England is “overwhelmingly white”.

This creates feelings of “discomfort”, the report states, and the “psychological burden” that comes with “navigating predominantly white spaces”.

The report also raises concerns that traditional pub culture and other “monocultural customs” are exclusionary.

It states that the countryside lacks “appropriate facilities to meet religious and cultural needs”, and does not cater for “dietary norms that are rooted in religious or cultural practice”, such as kosher and halal, adding to feelings of exclusion.

To tackle “rural racism” and increase diversity, a series of recommendations are set out in a section of the report, “How Can We Make the Countryside More Inclusive?”

The report notes that “the availability of halal food or spaces for prayer could make a significant difference in whether people feel comfortable visiting the countryside”.

It states that rural businesses should adapt to improve “cultural sensitivity”, saying: “Welcoming minoritised individuals into the countryside means more than tolerance; it requires thoughtful adaptation, sustained inclusion efforts and a willingness to change.”

These suggestions mark the conclusion of a two-year project led by Prof Neil Chakraborti, Leicester’s Hate Studies lead, along with his colleagues Amy Clarke and Prof Corinne Fowler.

Prof Fowler assisted the National Trust’s controversial 2021 report into the colonial connections of its country houses.

‘Rural Racism Project: Towards an Inclusive Countryside’ was funded by the Leverhulme Trust, a charity established by William Lever, the first Viscount Leverhulme, the plantation-owning soap magnate behind Unilever....<<<Read More>>>...

Nineteen UK councils vow to take legal action to kick asylum seekers out of accommodation as furious protests spread across country

 The number of councils vowing to take legal action to kick asylum seekers out of hotels has grown to at least 19 as mass unrest continues to spread across the UK today.

Furious protesters have gathered outside migrant hotels in towns and cities such as Newcastle, Swindon and Falkirk after the Court of Appeal yesterday overturned an injunction ordering the removal of 138 migrants from an accommodation in Essex.

It comes as the Labour government was last night facing accusations from senior Tories that it is ‘taking the side of migrants over Britons’.....<<<Read More>>>....

UK Asylum Disaster Worsens With New Court Ruling

Just weeks after the High Court dealt a devastating blow to the government’s asylum seeker policy by ruling that an Epping hotel must be emptied by 12 September, the Court of Appeal has now swung the pendulum back in Whitehall’s favour. As of 29 August, it has been ruled that ministers can in fact continue using hotels to house tens of thousands of asylum seekers, despite what previously felt like a victory for protestors against the UK asylum crisis.

The new ruling is a legal victory for the Home Office, but has poured petrol on the fire in communities already reaching breaking point. Reversing the High Court’s prior decision closes a potential loophole for those hoping to reduce the vast quantity of asylum seekers housed in UK hotels, and while Friday’s ruling has been sold to us as courtroom clarity on a delicate scenario, it may yet prove to be political quicksand. 

The government continues to insist that hotels remain a “temporary necessity” in the asylum system, with migrants’ claims taking months to process and having no alternative sites ready for the next few years. For communities though, it seems to have landed like a hammer blow. 

In North Yorkshire and the Midlands, demonstrations have intensified. “Homes for Brits First” and “We Weren’t Asked” appear on placards, summing up the general attitude of local citizens. Residents continue to voice concerns about unaffordable housing, stretched GP surgeries, and lack of consultation in decisions that change their communities. To most, the case is not about legal technicalities, but rather about being excluded from key decisions that reshape their towns, and their lives, overnight. 

One protestor told Sky News: “It’s not fair. We can’t afford housing for our own people. We can’t get GP appointments. Yet the government pays millions to put them up in hotels”. ...<<<Read More>>>...

Far right ’emboldened’ says MP as Starmer faces mounting pressure over immigration

 A poll suggested that voters believe the prime minister is failing to grip the problem, despite his government setting out measures to speed up removals.

Sir Keir Starmer faces mounting pressure over the small boats crisis after protests outside asylum hotels continued over the bank holiday weekend.

A poll suggested that voters believe the prime minister is failing to grip the problem, despite his government setting out measures to speed up removals.

It comes as Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer warned that “the far right feels emboldened and validated” by other political parties.

So far this year a record 28,076 people have made the perilous journey across the English Channel in small boats, 46% more than in the same period in 2024.

Like many other European countries, immigration has increasingly become a flashpoint in recent years as the UK deals with an influx of people fleeing war-torn and poorer countries seeking a better life.

Official figures released earlier this month showed a total of 111,084 people applied for asylum in the UK in the year to June 2025, the highest number for any 12-month period since current records began in 2001.

There were 32,059 asylum seekers in UK hotels by the end of the same month.

Protests and counterprotests at sites housing asylum seekers continued over the weekend and the government is braced for further legal fights over the use of hotels....<<<Read More>>>....

Asylum Hotel Bosses Told They “Have to House Convicted Foreign Criminals” While Giving Staff “Unconscious Bias Training”

 Hotel bosses have reportedly been told they they have to acknowledge that some of the residents may be foreign nationals who have been “released on criminal bail”. 

Despite this, staff at the hotels must complete training courses on “unconscious bias” and “ethnic diversity and cultural awareness”.

It comes amid increasing pressure on the Government to close hotels across the country.  

Labour’s asylum policy was left in chaos last week after a judge ordered a controversial migrant hotel to shut.

The High Court ruling gives the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex, just 24 days to close after it became the focus of violent protests.

The documents, seen by the Telegraph, also state that housing residents with an ongoing criminal case may lead to an increase in insurance costs for the hotel and its staff.

This includes a higher premium for any migrants who have been convicted of arson. 

The 117-page “statement of requirements” document which was obtained by a Freedom of Information request is reportedly given to contractors who seek out accommodation for asylum seekers on behalf of the Home Office.

The document allegedly describes the migrants as “service users” throughout.....<<<Read More>>>...

Furious Council Discovers Hundreds of Hidden Asylum Seekers Have Been Shipped Into City Despite Telling Home Office it had no More Room for Them

 Portsmouth City Council found that 55 private rental properties were being used to house a minimum of three asylum seekers each last week.

The migrants have been staying in homes of multiple occupation (HMO) – not council housing.

It comes just two years after James Hill, Portsmouth’s Director of Housing, told the Home Office that the “system’s capacity was such that we couldn’t support additional asylum seekers”.

But when a public meeting was hosted in July by Amanda Martin, the Labour MP for Portsmouth North, figures showed the number of private rentals being used to house migrants had increased from 10 at the end of 2019 to 58 in April 2024, the Times first reported...<<<Read More>>>..

Food for Thought #740

 

Crossing the line: Navigating the national security crisis at the English Channel

 The Muslim Brotherhood entrenched in the UK Home Office are to blame for this shambles. They are intentionally permitting this crisis to happen. They want the illegals in the UK. 

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British opposition leader Nigel Farage declared a "national security emergency" on Sunday, Aug. 10, following the interception of seven small boats carrying 435 migrants across the English Channel over the weekend.

This brings the total number of migrants crossing the Channel in 2025 to over 26,000, surpassing the 17,638 recorded by the same time last year. The surge in arrivals, largely attributed to organized trafficking networks, has reignited a fierce debate over immigration policy and national security in the United Kingdom.

The latest figures, reported by GB News, highlight a growing crisis that has become a focal point for Farage's Reform U.K. party. In a video released on Sunday, Farage claimed to show a migrant vessel approaching the U.K. from France, with men of military age aboard.

"Illegal migrants can be heard shouting 'Allahu Akbar' as they invade our country," he wrote, emphasizing the urgency of the situation. "These men will now be free to roam our streets thanks to Keir Starmer. This is a national security emergency."

Farage's comments come amid rising public concern over border control and the potential implications for national security...<<<Read More>>>...

Jess Phillips condemns ‘idiot’ councils that don’t believe they have grooming gang problem

 Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips hits out at some local authorities – and denies Elon Musk’s intervention sparked a national inquiry on the issue.

Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips has told Sky News that councils that believe they don’t have a problem with grooming gangs are “idiots” – as she denied Elon Musk influenced the decision to have a national inquiry on the subject.

The minister said: “I don’t follow Elon Musk’s advice on anything although maybe I too would like to go to Mars.

“Before anyone even knew Elon Musk’s name, I was working with the victims of these crimes.”

Mr Musk had called Ms Phillips a “rape genocide apologist” in one of a series of inflammatory posts on X in January and said she should go to jail.

Mr Musk, then a close aide of US President Donald Trump, sparked a significant political row with his comments – with the Conservative Party and Reform UK calling for a new public inquiry into grooming gangs.

At the time, Ms Phillips denied a request for a public inquiry into child sexual exploitation in Oldham on the basis that it should be done at a local level.

But the government announced a national inquiry after Baroness Casey’s rapid audit on grooming gangs, which was published in June.

Asked if she thought there was, in the words of Baroness Casey, “over representation” among suspects of Asian and Pakistani men, Ms Phillips replied: “My own experience of working with many young girls in my area – yes there is a problem. There are different parts of the country where the problem will look different, organised crime has different flavours across the board....<<<Read More>>>...

The Government Has No Idea Who is in Britain

 Thousands of migrants who came here legally on work or student visas overstay and purposefully slip into illegality. The state’s ability to track them seems non-existent. They could be anywhere, doing anything – and Whitehall wouldn’t know.

Just a month ago, the Commons’ Public Accounts Committee found the Home Office had accidentally opened Britain’s doors to record levels of migration. Officials “made changes to the Skilled Worker visa route without a full assessment of the risks or potential impacts, including the risks of non-compliance with visa rules and exploitation of migrant workers.”

Those “risks of non-compliance” are no longer hypothetical – they are happening. The Committee’s report urged civil servants to do more to monitor compliance when visas expire.

Shocking as this is, it’s hardly surprising. The British state has only the vaguest idea of how many people live in the UK – legally or otherwise. The evidence is everywhere. There are 63.8 million patients registered with GP practices in England, but according to the ONS the entire population is 58.6 million. During Covid, some local health areas even managed the mathematically miraculous feat of vaccinating more than 100% of their population.

We saw the same blind spot during Brexit: the campaign group ‘the3million’ was so named because it was thought there were three million EU citizens in Britain. The real number? Closer to six million....<<<Read More>>>...

Muslim Rape Gangs: The most sustained and complete race-based crime in British history

 The Muslim rape gangs have been the most sustained and complete race-based crime in British history.

The mass rape of children by “grooming gangs” has been ongoing for decades, with tens of thousands of victims. Despite reports and inquiries, no significant action has been taken against those responsible.

Instead, it has been met with denial, deflection and trivialisation. There have been no high-profile resignations or sackings of police chiefs, council officials or Members of Parliament (“MPs”). Worse still, the British establishment has enabled and apologised for Pakistani Muslim rapists.

It’s estimated that 1 in 11 Pakistani descent men in the UK have taken part in child rapes, with recorded rapes increasing tenfold in the last 20 years. Yet, the government is increasingly censoring discussion of the issue, with laws like the Online Harms Act and Crime and Policing Act allowing for imprisonment of those who speak out about the mass rapes, such as Tommy Robinson....<<<Read More>>...

Labour Targets Anti-Migrant Protesters With Terrorist Tracking Software

 A shadowy ‘disinformation’ unit in Whitehall used tools created to hunt for jihadists to find critics of asylum hotels. The Telegraph has more.

The secretive team was this week revealed to have flagged ‘concerning’ narratives about migrants to tech platforms during the Southport riots.

The disclosure prompted the Trump administration and US congressmen to warn of a free speech crackdown in Britain.

The Telegraph can now reveal that some of the tools used by the National Security and Online Information Team (NSOIT) were originally developed to hunt terrorists.

In 2017, ministers commissioned Faculty, an AI firm, to help search for recruitment videos posted by Isil.

At the time, use of the technology was strictly limited to stopping British social media users from encountering grisly beheading videos and calls to commit acts of terrorism.

The firm developed tools that could automatically spot Islamic State content spreading online, so it could be flagged to tech companies by the Government....<<<Read More>>>...

Migrant ‘Tried To Kidnap a Little Girl, 10,’ While Living in 3-Star Taxpayer-Funded Asylum Hotel in Leafy Suburb

 A Sudanese migrant housed in a taxpayer-funded Wilmslow hotel, has been charged with attempting to kidnap a 10 year-old girl in Stockport. The Sun has the story.

The Sudanese man appeared in court accused of attempting to take the girl of ten while she was with her father.

Edris Abdelrazig, 30, in Stockport, Gtr Manchester, was arrested for allegedly trying to lure away the girl on July 13th.

Last night, the Government called the charge “deeply concerning”.

He had been living in a three-star, £100-a-night hotel in leafy Manchester suburb Wilmslow.

Abdelrazig appeared before JPs on July 15th.

He was remanded in custody to appear at Manchester crown court on August 26th.

It comes after claims of a cover-up because police told councillors in Nuneaton, Warks, to avoid disclosing that two suspects in the rape of a 12 year-old girl were asylum seekers....<<<Read More>>>...

Anti-migrant protesters face off with counter demonstrators in Southsea as disquiet grows over asylum seeker hotels across the UK

Anti-migrant demonstrators faced off against anti-racism counter-protesters this evening outside a hotel on the south coast used to house asylum seekers.

Protesters gathered outside the Royal Beach Hotel in Southsea, Hampshire, on August 1, waving flags and calling for the hotel’s closure.

Anti-migrant demonstrations have taken place across the South of England today, in locations including Portsmouth, Southampton and Bournemouth.

All the protests are taking place at locations where the government are housing migrants while their asylum applications are processed.

In Southsea, counter-protesters from Stand Up to Racism Portsmouth staged an event at the same location, holding signs reading ‘Refugees welcome’.

The day of protests on the south coast follows similar recent unrest in Epping, where a series of demonstrations have taken place calling for the closure of The Bell Inn, a hotel used on and off for the last five years as accommodation for asylum seekers....<<<Read More>>>...

Migration Adds 707,000 People to the Population of England and Wales in Just a YEAR – The Second Largest Jump Since 1945

 The population of England and Wales has shot up by over 700,000 in just one year – nearly all of it down to international migration. The Mail has more.

It is the second-largest annual numerical rise in more than 75 years – behind only the increase of more than 800,000 people that took place from mid-2022 to mid-2023.

There were an estimated 61.8 million people in England and Wales in mid-2024, up 706,881 from 61.1 million in mid-2023, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Almost all of this increase was due to international migration, with natural change – the difference between births and deaths – accounting for only a small proportion.

Net international migration – the difference between people moving to the country and leaving – accounted for 690,147 of the estimated population increase of 706,881 people, or 98% of the total, the ONS said.

Some 1,142,303 people were estimated to have come to England and Wales as immigrants in the 12 months to June 2024 while 452,156 were likely to have emigrated. …<<<Read More>>>...

Half of Public Think Islam is Incompatible with British Values

More than half of the public think Islam is incompatible with British values and 41% say Muslim immigrants have a negative impact on the UK, according to a survey. The Telegraph has more.


More than half of the public think Islam is not compatible with British values, according to a survey.

The YouGov polling also found that four in 10 feel Muslim immigrants have a negative impact on the UK.

The survey of 2,130 adults in mid-July asked people if they felt different groups of immigrants by religion generally have a positive or negative impact on the UK.

While 41% said Muslim immigrants have a negative impact, the proportions feeling this way were much lower for other groups.

Around 15% felt this way about Hindu immigrants, 14% about Sikh immigrants, 13% about Jewish immigrants and 7% about Christian immigrants.

Just under a quarter (24%) of respondents felt Muslim immigrants had a positive impact on the UK, lower than for any of the other religions stated.

Earlier this week, Angela Rayner, the Deputy Prime Minister, urged Labour colleagues to acknowledge people’s “real concerns”, pointing out that immigration was one of a number of factors having a “profound impact on society”, as she updated Cabinet on her work on social cohesion.

Some 53% of those polled said they believed Islam is not compatible with British values, while 25% said it is and 22% said they did not know.

Didn’t know, or were too afraid to admit to a pollster what they really thought?...<<<Read More>>>....

White Britons Are Right to Resist Becoming a Minority

 Demographic change is becoming an increasingly talked about issue on the British Right as the prospect of white Britons becoming a minority within 40 years looms as an ever greater certainty. GB News’s Steven Edginton, for instance, has repeatedly asked prominent Right-wing politicians, including Richard Tice, Nigel Farage and Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, whether they are concerned with the decline of the white British population. The journalist put to them the statistics that in England and Wales the white British share of the population has plummeted from 87.5% at the time of the 2001 census to just 74% of the population at the time of the most recent 2021 census – a trend that has doubtless accelerated since, following the ‘Boriswave’.

All these politicians gave unsatisfactory answers to Steven’s question: hand-waving the issue away, vaguely pointing to ‘integration’ as a solution, or in the case of Richard Tice, simply remarking that he’d be “long gone” by the time it happens.

These are woefully unserious responses to what is going to become one of the most fundamental questions in the years and decades ahead. White Britons are the native population of this country – where anyone with ancestors born here prior to 1950 can almost certainly trace their ancestry back centuries. Would it be right for this group to become an ethnic minority in their own homeland, despite consistently voting against mass migration in every election and referendum they’ve been offered?...<<<Read More>>>...

Angry residents with ‘Save Our Kids’ banners mass outside Essex asylum hotel after Ethiopian migrant appears in court accused of sexually assaulting 14-year-old schoolgirl

 Hundreds of furious Essex residents gathered outside an asylum hotel in Epping tonight to voice their anger following the arrest of a migrant on sex assault charges against school girls.

Well-dressed mothers and retired businessmen and women joined dozens of bald tattooed middle aged men to call for the closure of the Bell Hotel as refugee accommodation.

One bearded man wearing shorts draped a union flag over his shoulders as he took selfie pictures outside the embattled hostel.

Essex Police were out in force in the picturesque commuter town – blocking the entrance to the hotel car park with a riot van.

A temporary wire fence has been erected in recent days following an earlier violent and bad tempered demonstration earlier in the week.

One of the demonstrators told how the ‘whole of Epping’ was united in opposition to housing asylum seekers in their town....<<<Read More>>>...

Fear of illegal immigrants is being used to push for digital ID’s and expansion of facial recognition surveillance.

 Uncontrolled immigration is the manufactured problem for which Digital ID was always the manufactured solution. 

Regardless of where you stand on immigration, the answer should be the same: Hard NO to Digital ID......(Link)