@Landeur Can we not focus initially on justice being served for Henry regardless of the issues mentioned here.
The murderer was carrying a large Kirpan, not the small version but a length that caused catastrophic injury to Henry, as already mentioned in the trial. Let’s focus on that
I went to a kebab shop that has sponsored 7 skilled worker visas.
What skills do you need to work in a kebab shop that requires you to import people into Britain?
@Wommando My response is due to the response to the result of a murder where stupid people thought it ok to cause huge issues in the community, all aimed at the Police. Why isn’t that happening against SS & NHS in relation to this case? Similar outcomes. It’s called comparison.
The Jobs Did Not Disappear. They Were Rented To People Who Cannot Legally Work.
729,000 people aged 16 to 24 were unemployed in Britain between January and March this year. The youth unemployment rate, 16.2 percent, is the highest since early 2015. For the first time since records began in 2000, it is now higher than the EU average. Almost one million young people are not in education, employment or training, the highest figure in more than a decade.
The explanation offered is economic headwinds. The cause is closer to home. Employer National Insurance contributions rose in April last year. The minimum wage rose with it. The sectors that have always absorbed young workers first, retail, hospitality, delivery, became the most expensive sectors to hire into. Job vacancies have fallen seven percent in a year, to their lowest level since April 2021. The pattern is simple. Raise the cost of hiring at the bottom of the market, and the bottom of the market stops hiring first.
But the jobs have not disappeared. Walk down any high street and the delivery riders are still there, in greater numbers than ever. What has changed is who is doing the work, and how.
At the Midland Hotel in Derby, a Grade II listed building housing around two hundred asylum seekers, a whistleblower described the daytime scene. The hotel is not busy, they said, because everyone is out at work. Delil, an Ethiopian asylum seeker staying there, put it plainly. "I work for Deliveroo like a lot of my friends. I want to work, that's why I came to the UK."
This was documented in December 2023. Researchers at Nottingham Trent and Heriot-Watt found migrant couriers earning between £900 and £1,500 a month. The mechanism is a rental market. An account holder with the right to work registers with Deliveroo, Uber Eats or Just Eat, then rents access to that verified identity to someone who does not have it, for £70 to £100 a week. At the time, hundreds of such accounts were available on Facebook Marketplace. In the first quarter of 2025, almost 750 civil penalty notices were issued to companies for immigration breaches, the highest since 2016.
The response came later. Deliveroo told MPs it had removed 105 riders since April 2024 for exactly this. In July 2025, the Home Office began sharing asylum hotel locations with the delivery firms, so they could flag accounts spending unusual time nearby. Asylum seekers are barred from working for their first twelve months. The data-sharing exists because, as Delil already said on the record, many already are.
Robert Jenrick called the substitutes system a driver of illegal immigration that put public safety at risk, because the companies were not carrying out proper checks. He was right, eighteen months before anyone with the power to fix it agreed, and the underlying arrangement, an entry-level job performed by someone the law says cannot hold it, accessed through an identity rented from someone who can, has not gone away. It has simply become harder to spot.
Put the two facts together. A record number of young Britons cannot get a foot on the first rung of the labour market, priced out by costs the government itself imposed. At the same time, the first-rung jobs are being done anyway, documented, named, on the record, by people the system says should not be working at all.
Nobody designed this as a system. Nobody has dismantled it either. Years after the Midland Hotel investigation, the high street looks exactly the same.
"Researchers at Nottingham Trent and Heriot-Watt found migrant couriers earning between £900 and £1,500 a month."
@Wommando So, will this see Social Services, who have failed in the protection of this child in the 1st instance, then hospital staff who didn’t raise the concerns, be targeted and riots on the streets? I’m guessing not. Because it’s only ever the Police that are targeted. The evil ones >
🇬🇧 More than 150 kebab takeout shops across Britain have been given government licences to hire workers directly from overseas through a new visa program.
Crucially, the licences not only allow the Kebab shops to hire workers from abroad, but once those workers are in, they will be allowed to bring family members into the UK.
There are over 1.8 million people unemployed in the UK, but yeah, why not bring in more overseas workers, because this is clearly a highly skilled job.
The UK is a joke
Source: GB News / Writers: Mhedi, Ian
Dear Lush (cc Chelmsford City Council),
As a woman who had half a breast removed last year due to cancer, I am writing to raise my concerns about your “Proud of My Stripes” window display.
I am also, on behalf of other women who have experienced breast cancer, respectfully requesting its removal.
Because mastectomies are not a fashion statement, an identity marker or something to be celebrated.
They are something women undergo because they are ill, because they are frightened, because they are trying to stay alive.
Around 59,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK every year. Many will undergo surgery - a mastectomy, lumpectomy or other procedure.
Others choose preventive mastectomies because they carry a high-risk BRCA gene mutation.
If a woman chooses to have her breasts removed to affirm a gender identity, that is her personal choice.
I honestly don’t know the number of women who have elective mastectomies for this reason.
What I do know is that it is a tiny number compared with those for whom breast surgery is medically necessary and not something to be celebrated.
I think I speak for many women who have experienced breast cancer - and for their families - when I say this:
Breast removal surgery is not something I regard as cute, playful or empowering.
Nor is it something I believe retailers should be celebrating.
For that reason, I am requesting that the display be removed and that @ChelmsCouncil apologise for promoting it on social media.
Yours sincerely,
Janet Murray
@HantsPolRoads
Currently parked next to Gosport Inshore Lifeboat station with 2 males having been drinking from beer bottles walking up from Pebbles cafe.
Neither looked fit to drive.
SD13 AEN
White Vauxhall
He will only serve a minimum of 10 years and be placed on the register for sexual freaks first life! 😡😡
A man has been jailed for 13 years after being found guilty of raping a teenage girl and sexually assaulting a young woman.
Abdullahi Sheik Nor, 20, of Harrow, London, denied a total of five offences – two counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault – but was found guilty by a jury following a trial at Bristol Crown Court last month.
In September last year an appeal was issued asking the public for help identifying a man officers wanted to talk to in connection with the rape and sexual assault of a teenage girl in Bristol.
I don't see any problem here.
Is the Kirpan a British ceremonial knife? No
Are native British people allowed to carry a Kirpan, or any other bladed weapon? No.
We can't make bladed weapons illegal to carry AND make exceptions.
Either everyone can carry a knife, or nobody can carry a knife. There should never be anything inbetween.
Get it banned immediately. It's not our problem, but it's creating many.
@Perky_43@KatieMagnet I had a similar situation, working in student Development at the time. Told to shut up by the other APS (both of us shared the role when the Sgt was off), to leave the Asian female who was poorly performing, alone. Similar issues with a Chinese lad. That APS is now ACC!!
Ed Davey has written to Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson demanding she WITHDRAW official EHRC guidance protecting female-only spaces in toilets and changing rooms.
Let that land.
The Equalities and Human Rights Commission — a statutory body — has produced legally grounded guidance telling employers and public bodies that biological men should not access women’s single-sex spaces.
This is not opinion.
This is not politics.
This is the settled legal position following the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on the meaning of “woman” under the Equality Act.
And Ed Davey wants it gone.
His stated reason?
The guidance is not “compatible with long-standing British values.”
British values.
He used those words to argue AGAINST protecting women’s single-sex spaces.
The same Liberal Democrats who lecture the country about tolerance, inclusion and human rights are now lobbying a Labour minister to tear up statutory guidance that protects every woman in Britain who walks into a changing room, a refuge or a hospital ward.
This is not a fringe position within the Lib Dems.
Their leader wrote the letter.
The party has chosen its side.
It is not the side of women.
Repost if you think women’s single-sex spaces should be protected.