Grá agus ciall (love and sense). Women’s safety advocate. Irish living in England. No more being silenced. No to anti western hatred. No to open borders.
I asked the Safeguarding Minister, Jess Phillips, if she'd considered the impact that mass migration has on the safety of women and girls.
She said that there's no reliable data on this issue.
But that isn't entirely true.
There is indicative data, and it is damning.
It's true that people from any country, or culture, can be violence towards women and girls, including sexually. It's also true that, regardless of a person's background, we should come down hard on those who commit violent or sexual abuse.
However, we should also recognise that not every culture has the same attitudes towards women and girls. In some cultures, for example, it's seen as indecent for a woman to walk around without her hair covered. In most cultures, it’s normal for men and women to be segregated for some things (like getting changed); in some cultures, men and women are segregated for many more things. In some cultures, physical and sexual violence towards women is commonplace.
When men from those cultures come to this country, those are the cultural assumptions they bring with them.
This makes intuitive sense. Why would we expect people to suddenly adopt British norms, habits, and behaviours, immediately upon arriving here? Particularly when so many people in the British state are unwilling to recognise that different cultures have different norms in the first place?
That's not to say that everybody from these cultures poses a threat to women and girls. And of course, some of those people may have wanted to come here to get away from those very cultural expectations.
But what we often see is that, 'per capita' (or per person), people from certain nationalities are more likely to commit certain types of crime when they come to the UK.
That's particularly true in the case of illegal migrants, who are disproportionately likely to be young men - the group most likely to commit violent or sexual crime.
Back in October, Labour MPs voted to block the release of detailed migrant crime data, which would have given us the full picture about how likely different migrant groups are to commit certain crimes.
Some nationalities might be more likely to commit crime than British nationals. Others might be less likely. But at least we'd have the data, which would allow us to have an informed debate about this.
However, thanks to the hard work of campaigners and journalists, we have some indicative data about the rates at which different nationalities commit crime, including crime which disproportionately targets women and girls.
For example, data obtained from the Ministry of Justice last year showed that two nationalities, Afghans and Eritreans, were more than 20 times as likely to be convicted of a sexual offence than British nationals.
This data showed that Afghans had a conviction rate for sexual offences of 59 per 10,000 people, while Eritreans had a conviction rate of 53.6 per 10,000 people. British nationals, on the other hand, had a conviction rate of 2.66 per 10,000.
People have since disputed those figures. They say that, since the population figures used to work out this data are taken from the 2021 Census, we're likely to be undercounting the number of Afghans and Eritreans in the country.
But even if that's true, the rate of conviction for sexual offences would still be much higher amongst Afghans and Eritreans than amongst British nationals.
If this indicative data is wrong, then the Government should publish the full figures. Their failure to do so is a choice.
We can collect a person's nationality when they're arrested, when they stand trial, and when they go to prison.
People deserve to know what impact mass migration is having on the safety of women and girls. We need to be able to tell the truth about the fact that not every culture treats women in the same way, and that when people arrive here, they often bring that cultural baggage with them.
Today I finished my journey fighting for justice for the little girl I used to be 💪👊🏻I’m also waiving my rights to anonymity again
11 years ago I gave my first ever video interview about what happened to me with the Rotherham grooming gangs it’s been one long road but I’m happy I can finally say I’ve got justice 💪👊🏻
The last 2 years I’ve been involved 3 trials at Sheffield crown court and today I finished my last trial and secured 125 years justice …..
I will be mentioning more about the last 2 trials over the coming days and what I’ve had to go through to get the justice I deserved…..
Today riyasth Hussain was handed a 20 year jail sentence for the rapes he did when I was 13 years old I stared him in the face as I read my own victim impact statement out …..
I’m so proud of what I’ve done and I have taken 7 seriously dangerous men of the streets my only regret is not been able to do it sooner ….
I can’t thank the national crime agency enough especially my contact officer he’s one of a kind and the best at what he does 🙌🏻
These are the 7 men I’ve put behind bars in 2 years 👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻
Please bare with me I’ve a lot to share about my case and also fight for Laura’s truth thank you all for your continued support 💪👊🏻
I AM YOUR KARMA !!!
She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre.
She had the courage to speak out against power & privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s.
Thanks to her, justice may finally have its day.
Now you see why Hannah Spencer didn’t want to debate me
To the people of #Gorton & #Denton I say this:
Take a long hard look at what the Greens are really about.
LOCAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS RESTORED! 🎉
We’re back! Democracy has been upheld. If you are like me, you may have been getting seriously worried about the state of democracy in this country, ….a little hope has returned.
Oh Lucy, blowing that little dog whistle are you. 🤡 you are protecting Pakistani racist and religiously prejudiced paedo rapists from facing justice, so pipe down. @GoodwinMJ@LucyMPowell
Hi Lucy
I’d reply but your replies are off 🤡
I reject all extremism
Can I also ask:
Why has your Labour Party promoted so many people with links to paedophiles and turned a blind eye to the abuse of children?
Come back to me when you have your own house in order
Matt
I am in tears. The all American Halftime show just ended with a beautiful memory of Charlie Kirk ❤️
MILLIONS of people watched this EPIC show
Charlie Kirk would be so proud 🙏
No one has ever captured so precisely the sinister ideology of Liberals and Socialists better than Margaret Thatcher! EVER!
"Socialists just don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might NOT choose Socialism."
Level 100 Boss!!!
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"Some Pakistani men celebrated the Islamic festival of Eid by 'raping young white girls."
I was initially sceptical @RupertLowe10's Inquiry into grooming gangs was going to be a success, I was wrong. It's death by a thousand cuts for all guilty parties as daily updates festoon our news feeds.
Faithfully documented by GB News, @Alexarmstrong talks of the "Eid rapes". He quoted survivor @fionagoddarduk.
I see various commentators are trying to shut down debate around our rape gang inquiry with cries of ‘Islamophobia’.
That will not work this time. I promise you that.
A rape culture in Pakistani muslim families. We must talk about this, acknowledge this. Underage white girls have been racially selected for torture, rape and humiliation.
Without Virginia Guiffre, the world’s most powerful sex ring may never have been exposed
Without Virginia, countless other victims may never have spoken out
Without Virginia, the Epstein Files may never have seen the light of day
God bless Virginia Guiffre.
God rest her soul.
Without Virginia Guiffre, the world’s most powerful sex ring may never have been exposed
Without Virginia, countless other victims may never have spoken out
Without Virginia, the Epstein Files may never have seen the light of day
God bless Virginia Guiffre.
God rest her soul.
Please do not be fake outraged by the Epstein files if you stayed silent on the UK Pakistani Rape Gangs.
Same abuse, Same violence, Same perversion. Just a different race of men.
Waiting for the globalist left to start protesting against those who are demanding an enquiry into the Epstein files……waiting for them to tell us talking about Epstein is a dog whistle.
A rape gang survivor just laid it bare: “The gangs are untouchable. Nobody wants to admit there's a problem because they don't want to be called racist. And because it goes higher up... and they don't want it blown open.”
This is Britain in 2026.
Decades of girls raped, tortured, trafficked.
Authorities knew.
They looked away.
To protect “community relations.”
To avoid the R-word.
Cover-up after cover-up. Inquiry after inquiry kicked into the long grass.
Now one brave survivor speaks the truth politicians still won't touch.
How many more girls need to be sacrificed on the altar of political cowardice?
Enough.
No more silence.
No more excuses.
Justice! NOW!
It isn’t just a few ‘bad apples’ - the system is totally rotten.
Hundreds of testimonies from survivors show a similar pattern of behaviour from police forces across the country.