BeteFranklin

[The Nowhere Photographer @thenowherephoto]

20TH NOVEMBER UK PROTESTS: MY ADVICE? STAY HOME.

If the planned protests by the left go ahead, my advice is simple. Do NOT counter-protest.

I understand the anger. I understand the temptation to turn up and make your voice heard.

But if things turn ugly, you risk being dragged into the fallout, regardless of your intentions.

Sometimes the smartest move is knowing when not to get involved.

Don’t give anyone the opportunity to turn the situation against you.

Just my take on the upcoming protests.

Adrian

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

There are crimes that scar a victim. And there are crimes that scar a nation. This is both.

A 12-year-old girl was playing in a park. That is where children belong. Swings. Laughter. Summer light. Within hours she was dragged into a cul-de-sac by Ahmad Mulakhil, raped, filmed, and told he would kill her family. He laughed. She begged. He carried on. That is the truth at the centre of this case. Strip away politics. Strip away slogans. A child was hunted.

Mulakhil had crossed the Channel four months earlier in a small boat. He was processed. Housed. Moved. Placed in a taxpayer-funded property in Nuneaton. Unsupervised. Unknown to the people living around him. The state knew he was here. The state put him there.

After the rape he walked into a shop and bought two cans of Red Bull. He paid with a Home Office-issued Aspen card. The same bureaucracy that brought him in and kept him here handed him the means to fund the hour after he destroyed a child's life. That detail is not trivial. It is the system in miniature. Efficient at administration. Blind to consequence.

When you move large numbers of young men into towns across Britain without the capacity to vet thoroughly, supervise properly and integrate carefully, you are taking a gamble. Some will come in good faith. Some will not. Public policy is not judged by the best cases. It is judged by the worst ones it fails to prevent. You can call it humanitarian. You can call it lawful. It is still a gamble. And the stake is public safety.

We are told vetting is robust. We are told safeguarding is paramount. We are told communities are protected. Yet this man was here for months. Living freely. No meaningful supervision. No structured oversight beyond a debit card and an address. If this is control, it is control in name only.

The police did their job. They tracked him. Charged him. Secured convictions. The court will jail him. He will be deported when his sentence ends. None of that gives a 12-year-old her childhood back. None of it answers the prior question. Why was the risk admitted and left unmanaged?

Deportation after rape is not border control. It is an administrative footnote to a ruined childhood. Removal after conviction is not prevention. It is paperwork once the damage is done. A government that can only promise action after the worst has already happened is not in command of events. It is reacting to them.

The most dangerous shift in this country is not anger. It is erosion of trust. Parents look at a park and see vulnerability. Residents look at dispersal housing and see secrecy. They are told not to ask questions. They are told not to draw links. They are told to focus only on the individual offender. Of course he is individually guilty. But policy is collectively owned.

If you expand intake without expanding supervision, you stretch police, councils and social services beyond breaking point. Arithmetic replaces judgement. Volume replaces caution. And when something snaps, we are told it is an isolated tragedy.
It is not isolated. It is the foreseeable cost of a system that has separated border control from public protection and pretended the gap does not matter.

A civilised nation protects children first. Not second. Not after processing targets are met. Not after contracts are signed. First. If the state cannot guarantee that, it has failed its most basic duty. And once that faith goes, it does not return easily.

"A 12-year-old girl was playing in a park. That is where children belong. Swings. Laughter. Summer light. Within hours she was dragged into a cul-de-sac by Ahmad Mulakhil, raped, filmed, and told he would kill her family."

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Politicians cannot keep being ‘shocked’ when protesters are allowed to chant revolting slogans every weekend in cities across Europe. If you genuinely wish to stop the increase in hate & division, start there..

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

Starmer was distracted. Number 10 is a chaotic place. He didn't have time to read every detail of the Mandelson stuff. He had to rely on advisers.
You know what? I'd be prepared to accept that excuse had he not hounded Boris out for taking the same line over parties by officials.

[BeteFranklin @btfranklinuk]

@ajcdeane No, not on my phone 🤔

[Lord Ashcroft @LordAshcroft]

For every retweet of this post, I will donate £1 to the @VC_and_GC_Assoc up to £50,000.
Time is running out following @I_W_M’s decision to close the Lord Ashcroft Gallery.
Visit while you still can, to honour the bravery of those who risked so much to protect our great nation.

[Matthew Feinberg @thewebbie]

Even if you never post, please post this picture on your social media right now. *CONTINUED AWARENESS* is one of the most important weapons we have. It's also one of the only weapons we have.

It is our duty as their brothers and sisters to do this. Don't wait for the next guy.

[BeteFranklin @btfranklinuk]

@skynewsniall Hope all ok, get well soon x
Sure it’ll be a quiet news week 🙆‍♀️

[BeteFranklin @btfranklinuk]

@skynewsniall Get well soon x
Hopefully the world will recover soon too
🥲

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

I've seen some low political stunts in my time . But Labour announcing the axing of the already wholly inadequate local Rape Gang inquiries on the brink of recess is outrageous.

[BeteFranklin @btfranklinuk]

@skynewsniall Beautiful Stretch of coastline, that’s the only place I’ve ever seen swans on the sea! Enjoy, weather looks great

[Baa Ram Ewe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🐑🐷🦃🚜 @ShepherdWales]

If Trump really has won by a landslide then it’s time for those at the top of society to stop turning their noses up at the people at the bottom of society.

The people at the bottom aren’t racist garbage and if the people at the top really don’t want Farage to be PM then they need to get their act together, stop using racist, fascist, garbage, thick as lazy tropes to put down those who are screaming at you to sort the country out and that can’t be done until you solve mass and illegal immigration.

#Trump2024
#AmericaDecides

[Rosie Holt @RosieisaHolt]

I do not understand why what is going on in Afghanistan is not bigger news. Women now banned from “hearing other women’s voices” https://t.co/TVWg85VeE1

[Adrian Hilton @Adrian_Hilton]

Corbridge is a Church of England school. It really oughtn't to be difficult for Christian teachers to discern that presenting 8/9-year-olds with political information which warps children's perspectives against Johnson and Trump over murderous dictators is simply un-Christian.

[Adrian Hilton @Adrian_Hilton]

If the Prime Minister made a promise to Esther Rantzen before the election regarding assisted suicide, why wasn't it disclosed in the Labour Party Manifesto? I mean it's quite an omission for such a seismic shift in the State's attitude to matters of life and death.

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Beyond unfair- this is dangerous and totally ignores what happens to women athletes.. Shame on @IOC for allowing this!

[Tom Harris 🇬🇧 @MrTCHarris]

She wasn't imprisoned for "trying to raise awareness about climate change" and if you think that you're as thick as she is. She was jailed for illegally blocking a major road and selfishly disrupting the lives of others.

[James Cleverly🇬🇧 @JamesCleverly]

I’m not going to criticise David Lammy for using the government plane. The Foreign Secretary must be able to travel directly, flexibly, and at short notice.

But the criticism of me from Labour when I flew on government business now reeks of hypocrisy.

[Adrian Hilton @Adrian_Hilton]

As true as this might be (/undoubtedly is), there is no escaping the fact that it was Sir @EdwardJDavey's job to interrogate, discern, and engage with those who were challenging their convictions and asserting corruption. He didn't do it: he was too credulous. #PostOfficeInquiry

[Joanna Gosling @joannagtweets]

This is nuts! Who has the idea and the talent to do this?! It’s brilliant🤩 I’m playing the William Tell Overture after 3 @classicfm Plus, don’t forget to tell me your picks for Classic fm Requests from 1. I hope you’ll join me, 1-4! 🙌♥️