Was in Belfast city centre today. Women frog marching their children with hand crafted signs who would much rather be playing On a Saturday. 50 year old plus men, alone and looking disheveled.
The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland @hilarybennmp said this week on migrants, that “last year we removed 1,000 people from Northern Ireland who had no right to be here”
He was however being deceptive. These were not asylum seekers but illegal migrants caught working in Northern Ireland without permission, being for the most part Roma and Albanians. We need precise details on these returns and not be fobbed off with bland statements
There are still some 3,000 asylum seekers in Belfast who are Home Office funded making the city the asylum capital of the UK (4th out of 360 local authorities.) They mostly have come to Northern Ireland over the open border having first reached Dublin but will never be sent back once they claim Asylum This figure excludes those thousands already granted leave to remain, who are not enumerated and are now reliant on Northern Ireland welfare benefits and funded accommodation. No wonder people in the more deprived communities where migrants have been housed feel angry. They were not asked or even consulted.
Sinn Féin’s Willie Clarke is a perfect example of how the party is framing the Belfast attempted beheading.
Instead of addressing immigration policy, vetting or how the attacker got here, the focus is repeatedly shifted to NHS workers and racism.
It’s a manipulative form of framing. By constantly linking immigration to NHS staff, politicians ‘encourage’ people to associate immigration with the nurse who cared for them or the doctor who helped a loved one. The debate stops being about policy, vetting or numbers and becomes about personal feelings of gratitude.
That’s an effective way of changing how people think about an issue without actually addressing the concerns being raised, shifting the debate from facts to emotions to avoid answering any real question……… maith thú 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Europe we are at war , our mothers, our daughters our wife’s are their targets
An 86-year-old woman was brutally murdered after having her throat slit today in France…
Every single person who still cringes at the memory of trying to bullshit their way through an interview or exam question: today, the slate is wiped clean. Set down your burden of shame. Nothing - nothing, I say - could touch this.
The next war won't be won by armies, navies or air forces alone.
It'll be won by the country whose 19 year olds can code, whose factories can build drones in weeks not years, and whose grid stays on when someone tries to switch it off.
Industry. Society. Economy. That's the fight now.
We're not ready. And we're not being honest about what getting ready will cost.
A defence secretary has never resigned in this way. Fox, Heseltine, Profumo - all resigned over scandals. To resign because the PM would not pay enough to keep the country secure - unprecedented.
I am a very law-abiding family man. I’ve always worked hard, have a good job, pay a lot of tax. I believe strongly in manners, respect and tradition. The fact that I feel as if the state is against me and would likely lock me up for my views is terrifying. The UK is utterly lost.
Absolutely scathing about Keir Starmer from Al Carns, who has just resigned. Massively digs out Starmer for prosecuting British war heroes. Good stuff.
As a Japanese watching the UK right now, I have one simple question.
A Sudanese asylum seeker just tried to behead a local man in Belfast. The victim lost an eye.
This comes after years of grooming gangs raping thousands of British girls — gangs that police and councils deliberately ignored because they were afraid of being called racist.
In Japan, even one case like this would have triggered national outrage and immediate policy reversal.
But in Britain, the conversation is still about “not being far-right.”
British people, at what point does protecting your own children become more important than protecting your reputation?
We genuinely do not understand this.
Now it emerges Hadi Alodid was born in Saudi Arabia, got a boat across the Med from Libya before flying into Ireland from Paris. First he was Somali, then Sudanese, then Saudi. First he flew directly from Khartoum, now he got a boat to EU. We have NO IDEA who these people are!