Labour’s latest immigration U-turn could in large part be due to lobbying by foreign nationals and taxpayer-funded pro-migration organisations.
Earlier this week, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood rowed back on proposed changes to settlement rules, after previously vowing to extend the Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) qualifying period for lower-paid migrant workers, including care workers, from five to 15 years. As it turns out, this reversal was in large part due to pressure from foreign nationals and migrant-friendly charities.
The Home Office had led a consultation on the government’s proposed changes to ILR, which grants holders the right to live, work and study in Britain without restriction and to claim eligible benefits.
The consultation had sought to gather British public opinion on the issue.
However, it has since been revealed that four in five of the respondents to the government consultation were foreign nationals, and that 38 charitable organisations lobbied politicians and submitted responses to the consultation.
These charities had received a combined £1 billion of British taxpayer money from this Labour government in the past year alone. That means British people have been paying for the pleasure of being ignored by their own government.
Zia Yusuf, Reform UK’s Shadow Home Secretary, criticised the scandal: “We will listen to one voice and one voice only: The British people.”
This latest disastrous U-turn could see an estimated 280,000 foreign care workers and their dependents secure faster routes to permanent settlement – at an estimated cost of around £10 billion.
The British public never voted for the Boriswave of mass immigration – in fact, they voted for the opposite. And the biggest, most fraudulent and costly part of the Tory Boriswave, the Health and Care visa cohort, is now being given ILR and British passports. This will change Britain beyond recognition.
Yusuf said: “At a time when public services are in crisis. When you struggle to get a GP appointment… When a million young people are out of work. Enough is enough.”
Reform UK won’t allow this betrayal to continue. Reform will reverse the Boriswave and review all ILR citizenship granted by this Labour government – even stripping passports if necessary.
Three-quarters of a sample of suspects brought before French courts following last month’s mass riots bore Arabic–Muslim or African-origin first names, according to an analysis by leading pollster Jérôme Fourquet.
The finding points to mounting indications of significant immigrant-background involvement in the looting and violence that, with the help of the far left, turned France’s protests over education and living costs into weeks of urban chaos.
Fourquet, director of the opinion department at polling institute Ifop, examined national and local newspaper accounts of expedited court hearings following the 17 October riots. Of the 70 cases in which sufficient biographical information was available, 75 per cent had first names he classified as Arabic–Muslim or African in origin. He described the result as showing ‘very strong overrepresentation’.
Similar concerns had already emerged in neighbouring Italy and Germany. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said around half of the 330 people stopped or arrested during October’s riots were of immigrant background. In Frankfurt, Hesse Interior Minister Roman Poseck described the groups involved in looting on 31 October as predominantly migrant in character.
The French findings have also exposed a growing split within the political establishment. Former prime minister and 2027 presidential contender Édouard Philippe said on 1 November that footage of the pillaging showed significant numbers of young French citizens of immigrant background. Far-left presidential candidate and one of the main political forces behind the riots, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, condemned his remarks as racist, while Republican leader Bruno Retailleau cited Fourquet’s research in support.
National Rally presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, meanwhile, blamed the violence on an alliance between far-left agitators and delinquent groups from the suburbs, accusing LFI and Antifa militants of fuelling the unrest. She explicitly linked the riots to decades of ‘uncontrolled immigration’, judicial leniency and political failures under successive French governments, accusing President Emmanuel Macron of losing control of the country.
Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin said this week that 70 per cent of those convicted were French nationals. That does not, however, contradict Fourquet’s findings, as many of the looters and vandals were considered to be second- or third-generation immigrants.
Choko was allegedly killed in a hit-and-run attack by a Bangladeshi migrant.
A 30-year-old man of Bangladeshi origin has been identified and arrested after allegedly killing a 3-month-old dachshund puppy named Choko with an electric scooter in a park in the Italian city of Mestre, local police said Thursday.
The man, who was riding the scooter with a second person, faces charges of killing an animal, failure to render assistance, and multiple traffic violations, including operating without a helmet or license plate and carrying a passenger.
He faces up to three years in prison and a fine under Italian law for killing the woman’s puppy.
The incident occurred Monday afternoon around 2:30 p.m. in a park between Via Costa and Via Aleardi. The puppy, named Choko, was on a leash and was playing with a stick. At that point, the Bangladeshi struck the dog’s leash, sharply yanking the puppy, and then the rear wheel struck the dog’s neck. The female owner was also knocked to the ground with her dog.
Immediately afterward, the riders sped away from the scene without stopping to render aid.
Witnesses aided the owner and took her and the injured puppy to a veterinary clinic but Choko was already dead by the time they arrived.
The owner later said, “Choko for me was everything, and they killed her.”
🇮🇹🔴Police are hunting for a suspect in Rome who r@ped the cat Rosi, who remains in critical condition.
Rosi's veterinarian has given an update on her status, which is improving but she is on her eighth day of hospitalization at the CVS veterinary clinic. Her situation remains… pic.twitter.com/INR2hgpeXH
Remarkably, she had adopted the puppy about a month earlier in an effort to overcome a fear of walking outside after she was assaulted in Mestre last year outside a cinema. Her father was also assaulted, strangled and robbed of his watch in the street in 2024. The nationalities of the suspects in both cases have not been released.
Police identified the Bangladeshi driver within hours after reviewing surveillance footage and reconstructing the scooter’s route. The dog owner had initially described the two riders as appearing North African based on their skin tone but said she was providing the detail only to help with identification. Later, police determined the main suspect was actually Bangladeshi.
Venice Mayor Simone Venturini condemned the incident and said the municipality is examining whether to join the case as a civil party. He also said controls on electric scooters would be increased.
“I express my firmest condemnation for what happened in Mestre. An episode that arouses deep indignation, not only for the loss of little Choko, but also for the behavior of the person who hit him and left without providing help. I therefore extend all my closeness to the young owner for the pain she is experiencing,” he stated.
He also wrote on X that the suspects had been apprehended without mentioning their nationalities.
Italy has recently seen violence against animals from migrants in a broad range of cases, including instances where migrants were filmed killing and eating animals.
Amid the ongoing debate in society over women’s dignity, freedom and capacity for decision-making, remarks made on a podcast by Maulana Sajid Rashidi, president of the All India Imam Association, have once again raised a big question mark over the soch of so-called maulanas. Commenting on the intelligence of Hindu and Muslim girls, he said that girls have their brains in their knees.
During the conversation, he also made several objectionable remarks about women’s romantic relationships, jobs, promotions at the workplace and their behaviour with men. The most serious controversy is over his statement in which, in the context of incidents of rape, he made an argument on women’s consent and responsibility that is being described as downplaying the gravity of a crime committed against a woman’s will. His statements have now raised questions about respect for women, gender equality and the need for responsible statements in public life.
The conversation on the podcast began with the question of Muslim girls being attracted towards Hindu youths. On this, Rashidi cited religious beliefs and social behaviour as the basis. He said that Muslim youths explain the matters of deen and Islam to girls. According to Islamic beliefs, a boy and a girl meeting alone before marriage is not considered proper. According to him, some Muslim girls studying in college feel more comfortable with those youths who do not discuss religious rules and the Quran with them. In this way, he appears to put only the Muslim girls in the dock.
During the conversation, commenting on girls’ decision-making capacity, he said that whether a girl is Hindu or Muslim, her brain is in her knees. This remark targeted women’s understanding without making any distinction on the basis of religion. Rashidi said that girls get influenced by small things. A young man’s treating her to a meal at a good restaurant, buying her clothes or gifting her an expensive mobile phone can make her ready for a relationship. Here the focus of his statement remained on women’s decisions and their behaviour.
The most serious remark by Maulana Sajid Rashidi, president of the All India Imam Association, came on rape. He claimed that rape cannot happen at all without the girl’s wish and that a lone man cannot commit such a crime. In this statement, a notion about responsibility for the crime was expressed that clashes with the reality of a sexual crime committed against a woman’s consent and her will.
Two Afghan migrants allegedly raped and sexually assaulted a 14-year-old autistic girl on a busy London commuter train.
Inner London Crown Court heard Baryalai Rahimi, 25, and Mirebadurahman Sadat, 29, allegedly followed the child onto a Southeastern service on February 5 after spotting her at a Kent train station.
Rahimi, of Southall, west London, and Sadat, of Cricklewood, north-west London, have pleaded not guilty to all 20 charges including rape and multiple counts of sexual activity with a child.
Rahimi is accused of raping the 14-year-old inside the train toilets three times, while Sadat is alleged to have sexually assaulted her twice.
Jurors were shown the child’s police interview in court following the suspected attack.
When asked about what fellow passengers on board were doing at the time, the girl said: “No one was really looking at us. Everyone was just on their phones.”
CCTV shown to the court appeared to show Rahimi walking with girl to the toilet and brushing past a number of commuters.
After entering the cubicle, the Afghan migrant allegedly raped her three times.
After entering the cubicle, the Afghan migrant allegedly raped her three times.
The video appeared “almost as if Mr Rahimi was handing over the girl to Mr Sadat”, Mr Witcome told the court.
After the girl got up to go to the toilet, Sadat followed her before attempting to open the door, jurors heard.
The prosecution said the two men were later spotted on CCTV following the child off the train after it arrived into London Bridge station.
On the day of the alleged attack, the girl had been reported missing after running away from home.
She was discovered by officers at Peterborough Station shortly before 11pm.
Following his arrest, Rahimi told officers the girl told him she was 17 years old and claimed: “What happened was all started and instigated by her and was consensual.”
Sadat, meanwhile, said in a prepared statement he has “memory issues”, but denied the offences he is accused of.
Rahimi denies three counts of rape, two of sexual assault, one of assault by penetration and six alternative counts of sexual activity with a child.
Sadat denies two counts of assault by penetration, two counts of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent and four alternative counts of sexual activity with a child.
The trial, which is expected to last three weeks, continues.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s love affair with the European Union is getting more dangerous by the minute.
The Labour PM is reportedly preparing to abandon plans to deport more foreign criminals back to Europe, following demands from the unelected bureaucrats in Brussels.
Under the proposed law change, ministers plan to deport foreign criminals sentenced to more than 12 months, even if their sentence is suspended. These changes would allow the Home Office to deport offenders immediately after sentencing, rather than waiting until they have served at least a third of their sentence.
But the EU is threatening to resist this, as part of Andy Burnham’s Brexit “reset” deal, which could see Britain moving back towards the EU’s orbit – including possibly reintroducing free movement.
A new report by the Centre for Migration Control has revealed that Britain has sent over 100,000 conviction alerts to EU member states since 2025. These notifications are sent when an EU national is convicted of a crime in a British court, or when a conviction is substantially amended.
In 2025, Roughly 165 notifications a day were sent out in 2025, with each notification relating to one convicted individual.
Among last year’s total, 28,715 notifications were issued to Romania, while Poland was informed 24,687 times and Lithuania 9,276 times.
If the European Union gets its way, none of these criminals will be able to be sent back to where they came from. And if Burnham drags us back into freedom of movement with the EU, this will only get much worse.
As Robert Bates from the Centre for Migration Control said: “European offenders are already placing immense pressure on our criminal justice system and a return to freedom of movement will only heighten this crisis.”
Burnham is showing that his true allegiance lies with Brussels, rather than the British people – even when EU demands come at the expense of public safety.
Reform UK would put the interests and safety of the British people first. A Reform government will champion the mandate of Brexit delivered by 17.4 million voters in 2016 – and will deport illegal migrants and return all foreign criminals to their countries of origin.
Only Reform can stop this betrayal of the British people, restore law and order, and keep the public safe.
Yesterday evening in Neuenburg, in the municipality of Zetel in the district of Friesland, a severely disabled Jewish man, who is a member of the AfD, was attacked and seriously injured whilst on his way to a party get-together at the Alten Bahnhof pub. The man wears a kippah in public for religious reasons and was therefore recognisable as a Jew. According to Martin Sichert, district chairman of the AfD Friesland-Wittmund and Member of the Bundestag, two young German perpetrators – apparently from the far-left scene – initially insulted the victim, calling him a “son of a bitch” and a “bastard”, threatened him with a knife and knocked him over from behind. They then deliberately punched and kicked the victim in the head and face whilst he was lying on the ground. One of the attackers threatened to kill the victim.
Fearing for his life, the man managed to knock the attacker to the ground, pull himself up and flee to the dentist’s surgery in the former railway station building, whilst the second attacker continued to assault him. A motorist passing by briefly addressed the attackers, but did not offer any help and drove on. The victim reached the surgery, banged on the door and rang the bell. Only then did the attackers let up and flee. He received first aid at the surgery; an ambulance took him to the Accident and Emergency department in Sanderbusch. He is now out of danger. The police are investigating the incident as attempted murder; a complaint has been lodged.
The background to the crime is particularly explosive: the victim had fled from Berlin to Neuenburg in November 2023 because life there as a Jew in public had become unbearable for him. Following Hamas’s attack on Israel, the man had, within the space of a month, experienced constant threats, calls for his extermination, stones being thrown at his house and anti-Semitic slogans daubed on the walls of his home, leading him to regard his life in the capital as being in acute danger. Martin Sichert described it as simply inconceivable that a person who had fled the anti-Semitic stronghold of Berlin should be “exposed to the same violence in our region”. He went on to say: “The cowardly attack by several perpetrators on a severely disabled man, solely because of his religious beliefs, shocks me to the core. I hope that the perpetrators will face the full force of the law for this inhuman act.”
22-year-old Marius Dick (left) was stabbed to death in a random attack by Afghan national Sajad Mirzaee, who illegally entered Germany in 2017. Dick’s family has been outspoken about the murder and the lack of punishment meted out to their son’s killer.
German prosecutors will not file criminal charges against a 22-year-old Afghan man accused of stabbing a German history student to death in the city of Trier in July, arguing that a psychiatric evaluation found he was not criminally responsible when he killed the victim. The parents of the victim have spoken extensively with the media, describing their anguish over their son’s murder and calling for political change in Germany, including political cooperation with Alternative for Germany (AfD) party to protect citizens.
The Trier Public Prosecutor’s Office announced Tuesday that it had applied to the Trier Regional Court for a security proceeding aimed at permanently placing the suspect, Sajad Mirzaee, in a closed forensic psychiatric facility. They cited a preliminary expert report that diagnosed Mirzaee, who arrived in Germany in 2015 as an unaccompanied minor refugee, with a schizophrenic disorder that left him unable to control his actions, according to Welt newspaper.
🇩🇪 The grieving parents of Marius Dick, the 22-year-old German student stabbed to death by an Afghan migrant last week, demand action from politicians to stop such attacks.
The victim, 22-year-old Marius Dick, was a military history student from Landstuhl. He was murdered on July 15 on a sidewalk along Robert-Schuman-Allee. Police said the two men did not know each other before the stabbing.
Mirzaee allegedly pushed Dick from the sidewalk in a random attack and stabbed him multiple times with a large kitchen knife. During the attack, one blow struck Dick’s heart. Emergency services attempted to save Dick but he died shortly after arriving at a local hospital. Mirzaee was arrested close to the scene.
Prosecutors classified the act as manslaughter committed in a state of lack of criminal responsibility, which means Mirzaee cannot be tried in court.
The regional court must still review the placement application in a closed psychiatric facility but Mirzaee is being held provisionally in forensic psychiatry.
Even though Mirzaee’s asylum application was rejected in 2017, German authorities imposed a deportation ban to Afghanistan, which meant Mirzaee was allowed to remain in the country. Mirzaee later received a permanent residence permit in 2023, meaning he could stay in Germany indefinitely.
Dick’s parents, Elke and Thomas Dick, had previously told EuroNews in October that they did not think the suspect would be found fully responsible for the murder of their son. During the interview, Thomas Dick and his wife Elke said the family viewed the killing as murder and wanted a criminal conviction.
“It would be very unsatisfactory for us if things went in this direction and a judgment were made in this sense. This was a murder for us, and he should be convicted as a murderer,” said Elke Dick.
Notably, Elke Dick is involved with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, which has been highly responsible for Germany’s immigration crisis. In fact, the migrant who murdered their son came in under Angela Merkel’s tenure in 2017 and was never deported. She stated that she received hostility for her role in the party from those who said she “deserved” what happened to her son.
The father questioned why the CDU does not at least work with the AfD on certain key issues, telling Welt: “The AfD has so many voters – they’re all supposed to be evil? We don’t talk to them? Even if we disagree, we still have to work together. You have to look for majorities to find majorities. This also means sitting down at a table with the AfD and talking about overlaps. Please do something! Anything else is a political failure.”
Elke Dick agrees, stating: “I’ve seen it that way before too: You can’t simply exclude people who were elected lawfully and in large numbers. That’s not possible; that’s against the will of the people. The politicians have sworn an oath: ‘For the good of the German people.’ People only ever talk about the AfD, but not with it.”
Elke also described the first moments of horror when she learned of her child’s death.
“Thomas was already waiting for me at the door. That was strange. When I came into the apartment, I saw the police officers and the chaplains. My husband said to me: ‘Marius is dead.’ I collapsed in front of the kitchen and all I could do was scream: ‘My child, my child, my Marius, this can’t be.’ A world collapses inside you; it tears your heart out,” she said.
A number of German commentators point to what seems to be a trend involving foreigners killing victims in Germany and then being sent to psychiatric facilities instead of prison. Columnist Anabel Schunke wrote on X about the murder: “Just for the record: A state that shoves almost every foreign knife-wielding thug into a psychiatric ward instead of deporting them back to their home-country shitholes is no longer capable of delivering justice through punishment.”
“The go-to main argument from the left is always: Yeah, but they should be tried here and serve their sentences here, otherwise they’d just pose a danger back home. But feeding these people here with our tax dollars in the loony bin even after such a bestial crime—that’s totally fine,” she continued.
Schunke noted that many of these suspects are released early, and in other cases, they are brought outside the closed psychiatric clinics for various activities, including in cases with no supervision even for murderers.
“And as for the argument that the psych ward is often worse than prison: I’d just like to remind everyone that the Somali murderer of Dr. Joachim Tüncher got unsupervised leave from the psych ward after a short time and was released after just a few years. With meds, these types get declared harmless pretty quickly. That’s not punishment. That’s a goddamn joke. Might as well just slap a postage stamp on their asses and ship them home,” she wrote.
Levels of honour-based abuse have soared to record-high levels in England and Wales, new Government data has revealed.
The Home Office figures record a significant rise in rates of forced marriage and female genital mutilation, among other offences, in the year ending in March.
Under the police and Crown Prosecution Service definition, honour-based abuse encompasses violence, threats, intimidation and coercion carried out to defend the perceived honour of an individual, family or community.
Police forces across England and Wales logged a record 3,145 honour-based abuse offences over the past 12 months.
The total marks a seven per cent increase from the 2,949 cases documented in the preceding year.
However, the Home Office warned that the figures were “likely to only represent a fraction” of the true number of offences taking place, as its statistics capture only those crimes reported to and recorded by officers.
Female genital mutilation cases saw a 51 per cent rise, with 166 offences recorded, 57 more than the 109 logged the previous year.
That figure was the highest annual FGM total since the twelve months to March 2021.
Controlling and coercive behaviour was the most common offence category, accounting for 22 per cent of all recorded cases.
Assault occasioning injury made up 14 per cent, while stalking and threats to kill each comprised 8 per cent.
Forced marriage offences edged up slightly to 129, four more than in the prior reporting period.
London’s Metropolitan Police Service recorded the highest number of offences of any force, with 625 cases, a fifth of the national total.
West Midlands Police followed with 395 offences, or 13 per cent, and Greater Manchester Police registered 254, representing eight per cent.
The age profile of the victims of the abuse was also revealed through a freedom of information request.
Over the five calendar years from 2021 to 2025, at least 100 children aged 12 or younger were referred to the government’s forced marriage unit, which accepts referrals from police, social workers, educators, relatives and victims themselves.
Of those, 62 were aged ten or below, and 27 were no older than five.
Officials characterised honour-based abuse as a “hidden crime,” noting that many victims are reluctant to approach police or other agencies.
Rebecca Paul MP, a Conservative member of the Commons Women and Equalities Committee, said the growth of honour abuse was “unacceptable in modern Britain”.
“Close-knit clannish structures within isolated, unintegrated communities allow such violence to continue unreported and unchallenged,” she said at the time.
The Home Office added that enhanced training and improved awareness among officers may also be contributing to the rising figures.
A Home Office Spokesperson said: “Honour-based abuse leaves victims with lasting trauma. Yet too often it goes unidentified, masking its true scale.
“We are strengthening our response through new multi-agency statutory guidance, supported by a statutory definition of ‘honour’-based abuse.
“This will help police and other agencies better identify and tackle this abuse while helping victims to come forward. We are deploying the full power of the British State to halve violence against women and girls within a decade,” they said.
In a way, it’s true: Germany is getting the ‘cultural enrichment’ it truly deserves. A country that not only revels in its intellectual and cultural decline but has also become a stronghold of cultural Marxists – and despises nothing more than its own culture – naturally attracts the stars and starlets that match its intellectual pretensions. Thus, our self-proclaimed celebrity scene is teeming with high-and-mighty left-wingers who exist solely for their own sake, public moralists, state puppets, faceless nobodies and professional dimwits, all of whom would be nothing without the appropriate political stance. One of them is a certain Yasin Mohamed, 35, a self-proclaimed ‘reality star’ simply because he once appeared on RTL2’s ‘Love Island V.I.P.’ – though who actually knows that dating show anyway? Mohamed is tanned, tattooed up to his neck and wears a showy nose ring. Apparently, he was even a professional basketball player at one point. He left the programme with a certain co-star named Sophie Imelmann (30), and their romantic holiday continued in Greece. There, however, the Muslim man became violent; a rape occurred, which ultimately resulted in a trial at Munich Magistrates’ Court.
Before that, Sophie had insisted to him that she did not want to have sex, as she was afraid of becoming pregnant and of contracting diseases. Mohamed did not take her “No!” at face value and penetrated her twice without a condom. Mohamed was sentenced to one year and eight months’ probation and 200 hours of community service; as is so often the case, he denies all the allegations. The judge, however, ruled that this was not a harmless assault. The prosecution had even sought a sentence of two years and eight months, though this would not have included a suspended sentence. Imelmann had previously made her allegations public on Instagram. After the hearing, she broke down in tears. She was wearing her lucky charm around her neck. Mohamed, on the other hand, has lost several scheduled TV appearances; amongst other things, he is no longer allowed to appear on RTL’s ‘Dschungelcamp’.
