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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage unveiled a sweeping four-point plan on immigration on Thursday, promising a crackdown on illegal migration and the appointment of a new ‘Deportations Minister’ under a Reform-led government. 

Speaking in Dover, the symbolic heart of Britain’s migration crisis, Farage declared: “We will bring a total end to all asylum claims from people who come here on travel visas or as students,” while reaffirming his pledge to take the UK out of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and repeal the Human Rights Act.

Farage’s announcement marks the clearest signal yet that Reform is preparing for government, following a dramatic surge in polling that places the party ahead of both the governing Labour Party and the main opposition Conservatives. A poll by Find Out Now released this week puts Reform at 28%, with both main parties trailing at 20%. Such numbers would see Labour’s dominance shattered and Reform storming into government.

The speech also comes amid clear signs that the political establishment is starting to take the prospect of a Farage-led government seriously. The Economist this week published a profile declaring him “the man Britain cannot ignore.” The article acknowledges Farage’s populist appeal and the volatility his rise brings to British politics, even as the liberal magazine unsurprisingly criticises his political style.

Political analyst Matt Goodwin also noted that the latest policies are “designed to shore up [Reform’s] right flank” and that immigration is now the defining issue that transcends traditional party lines. As Goodwin highlighted, Reform is positioning itself to “cut across the Labour and Tory electorates alike,” capitalising on record-high public scepticism toward immigration.

Indeed, YouGov tracking suggests nearly half of Britons now believe immigration has been “mostly bad for Britain”—a stark shift since 2019. Reform’s focus on border control, ECHR withdrawal, and deportations of illegal migrants reflects this changing mood.

Farage has promised more policy detail in the coming weeks, while suggesting his party is preparing for the levers of power. “Only Reform will fix broken Britain,” a party statement declared following the latest poll shock. With Westminster watchers now seriously discussing the prospect of a Reform government, Thursday’s speech may mark not just another headline—but a turning point.

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/farage-pledges-deportation-tsar-in-bold-reform-migration-plan/

By Allan J. Feifer

Europe has genuflected to Islam while America has bent the knee to multiculturalism; both are arguably the same. The engine is Marxism, and we’re seeing that what can’t be won at the ballot box is doing amazingly well in the streets and growing in power and acceptance in our courts.

Marxism is more than a textbook definition; it is an always morphing state of mind with only one defining quality: the subservience of the individual to the State and/or an authoritarian that knows best. Whether people call themselves progressive, leftist, anarchist, socialist, or communist, among other names, all are ideologies that seek to control people through whatever narrative serves them best.

Today, that narrative is multiculturalism, a cultural reworking of economic Marxism. The goal is to restrict individuals’ ability to think and act in their best interest in favor of the imperial “they,” with few knowing who actually pulls the strings (visualize Biden’s Trojan Horse presidency). The cudgel they use with the greatest effectiveness is placing a little person on your shoulder, constantly whispering in your ear the unfair advantage others have that you don’t. Class envy was Marx’s most potent teaching.

Karl Marx leveraged the concept of “class envy“ as a critical tool to highlight the inequalities within capitalist systems and advocate for communism. He argued that the division between the bourgeoisie (owners of the means of production) and the proletariat (working class) created a fundamental antagonism. This antagonism stemmed from workers’ alleged exploitation, for they produced wealth but received only a fraction of its value, while the bourgeoisie profited disproportionately.

The connective tissue of multiculturalism uniformly weaves a misleading tale of caring for the downtrodden and those who, for whatever reason, aren’t enjoying being part of a country of free and self-reliant people. Part of that connective tissue is incipient hatred for the successful, especially independent thinkers and entrepreneurs. We see this vividly play out in violent and illogical demonstrations on our campuses and streets by uneducated young people led by professional agitators.

The beauty of the left’s hatred is that it never has to be based on provable truths; it just must be believed, much like any other religion that demands faith over provable fact. While not a religion per se, it takes on many of the same trappings, fooling weak and uneducated minds with popular narratives in place of actual knowledge and truth.

Examples abound. Here are two particularly instructive examples of the daily lunacy that progressives unceasingly step in. The first is domestic, and involves the attacks on Teslas as a protest against Elon Musk (who owns less than 13% of Tesla shares):

“Soros-backed Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty will not seek criminal charges for the Tim Walz staffer who vandalized at least six Teslas in Minnesota, causing $20,000 in damage.

The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office will seek “diversion” rather than criminal charges.

Last week, TGP reported that a fiscal policy analyst for Minnesota Governor (and failed VP candidate) Tim Walz’s administration was caught on camera vandalizing a Tesla.

Dylan Bryan Adams, 33, was caught on camera keying a Tesla while walking his dog.”

Oh, and he keeps his government job!

Meanwhile, in Europe, we just witnessed a startlingly similar assault on law and justice using political lawfare against the likely next French President (based on current polling):

Marine Le Pen was convicted of embezzling European Union funds (of which she received none). She and her party, National Rally (RN), were accused of diverting over €4 million to pay staff in France. The court handed her a four-year prison sentence (two years suspended), a €100,000 fine, and a five-year ban from running for public office. This ban prevents her from participating in the 2027 presidential election. She plans to appeal the ruling.

It is important to note that Marine Le Pen is the leading voice against the present Islamization of Europe today: “The progressive Islamisation of our country and the increase in political-religious demands are calling into question the survival of our civilization.” One need not agree with everything she says, but current policies in Europe, especially in France, will inevitably lead to the outcome she warns us of.

While the details, at a fundamental level, both the American and European left are totalitarians.

Our valued and historic systems of government and ethics are being turned on their heads. These hateful usurpers of truth and light must not be allowed to succeed. Hold fast to our traditions, history, God, and family itself, which are the objects of their hatred.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/multiculturalism_s_marxist_roots.html

Sadiq Khans ethnic cleansing plot explained I. detail. This is how he is encouraging whites to leave London.

Germany and Spain are facing major electoral scandals that have rocked public confidence in democratic institutions, as allegations of fraud, vote-buying, and systemic irregularities raise serious questions about the integrity of recent elections. 

In Germany, a formal 80-page complaint submitted by Marcel Luthe, a former member of the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) and president of the Good Governance Union, has sparked a political storm by revealing systematic irregularities in the federal elections held in February 2025. The complaint, backed by more than 200 supporting documents, was submitted to the Bundestag’s Electoral Review Committee and asserts that the electoral system was “sabotaged according to a plan,” according to Berliner Zeitung. 

Among the most shocking revelations is the claim that at least 2.5 million deceased individuals remained on the voter rolls. According to Luthe, this allowed votes to be cast in the names of the dead—a problem that had reportedly occurred in previous elections. Moreover, many polling stations did not require voters to present an official photo ID. In cities like Stuttgart, for instance, election officials were instructed to accept only the voting notification as sufficient identification—a document that is easily forged. This practice directly contravenes German electoral law, which in most cases mandates proper identity verification.

The problems did not stop there. Numerous citizens reported being denied the right to vote because someone had apparently already cast a vote in their name. In Bad Kreuznach, near Frankfurt, more ballots were found than there were registered voters, raising further red flags. Luthe also claims that thousands of German citizens living abroad did not receive their voting documents on time, despite having registered properly. 

According to him, these voters tend to reject the traditional parties, so their exclusion may have benefited the governing coalition of Social Democrats and Greens. He described the entire electoral process as a “farce” and demanded that all polling station records be made public to allow for a full audit. 

He also insists this is not a case of isolated mistakes, but rather a deliberate strategy to favor establishment forces and silence emerging parties such as Sahra Wagenknecht’s BSW—which missed the 5% parliamentary threshold by just 10,000 votes—and Alternative for Germany (AfD), a party that poses a significant challenge to the political status quo.

Meanwhile, in Spain, the Guardia Civil has uncovered several vote-buying schemes linked to the governing Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) dating back to previous local elections. In Mojácar, a town in the southern region of Andalusia, two PSOE candidates were arrested for allegedly offering money and public sector jobs to Latin American immigrants in exchange for their votes. The amounts ranged from 100 to 200 euros per ballot. In some cases, they also offered employment at the local town hall in return for support. These arrests originally took place just days before the 2023 municipal elections.

An even more scandalous case occurred in Albudeite, in the region of Murcia, where the socialist mayoral candidate was arrested along with twelve others for orchestrating a similar operation. The investigation revealed the use of coercion and identity fraud to manipulate mail-in votes, directly compromising the legitimacy of the election results. These practices, far from being anecdotal, seriously undermine confidence in the system and reinforce the growing perception that some parties are willing to break the law to stay in power.

These scandals in both Germany and Spain reignite a crucial debate about the need to protect the integrity of the electoral process against those who seem increasingly willing to bend the rules in order to maintain power.

Dead Voters, Forged IDs: Germany and Spain Face Electoral Fraud Scandals  ━ The European Conservative

Romania’s political and legal landscape has—yet again, for the upteenth time in the past half year it seems—been thrown into turmoil after the Ploiești Court of Appeal overturned the Constitutional Court’s annulment of the 2024 presidential election’s first round—an election won by NATO critic and independent candidate Calin Georgescu.

On Thursday, April 24, Judge Alexandru Vasile ordered the suspension and annulment of the Constitutional Court’s contentious ruling that had overturned Georgescu’s first-round election victory—a judgment he deemed legally unfound, the Romanian press reported.

Georgescu—a staunch anti-globalist and critic of EU centralization, NATO, and other supranational globalist institutions—had secured 23% of the vote in November 2024, a surprise result that rattled Romania’s political elite.

The annulment—referred to by some as a coup d’état—was based on alleged ‘irregularities’ in Georgescu’s campaign and flimsy intelligence claims of Russian interference. Moscow has categorically denied the accusations, which remain unsubstantiated by concrete evidence.

Now, that annulment hangs in legal limbo. The prosecutor’s office in Ploiești has filed an appeal, with the final decision set to be made by the High Court of Justice and Cassation—Romania’s top judicial authority.

The ruling has set off a political firestorm.

George Simion, leader of the nationalist Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), hailed the decision as a step toward restoring democratic norms: “I support the return to democracy, to the constitutional order and the rule of law: these all mean TURUL2 BACK!” he wrote on Facebook, referring to the second round of elections that never happened.

On X, Simion criticized the Central Electoral Bureau for continuing to block Georgescu’s candidacy despite the ruling, saying it “ignores it and continues its activity.”

"Be it through Plan A, B, or C, we will place Călin Georgescu at the forefront of this country."

– George Simion pic.twitter.com/VJz2qr7sTf

— Daily Romania (@daily_romania) April 25, 2025

Meanwhile, the Party of Young People (POT) President Anamaria Gavrilă applauded the judge’s bravery: “Today a judge had the courage to decide for the truth. Today a judge saved the face of justice in Romanian,” she declared.

Astăzi un judecător a avut curajul de a decide pentru adevăr.

Astăzi un judecător a salvat fața justiției din România.

— Anamaria Gavrila (@AnamariaGavri14) April 24, 2025

But not everyone sees this as a victory for democracy. Former Constitutional Court president Augustin Zegrean slammed the Ploiești ruling as “aberrant” and “legally impossible,” warning that if the decision holds, it could nullify not only the annulment but the entire electoral process initiated afterward.

“A null act gives birth to null acts,” he explained, implying the government’s plans for new elections would also be invalidated.

Even Elena Lasconi, a USR politician and presidential candidate who had advanced to the second round before it was scrapped, voiced skepticism. She argued during a Thursday night interview that the new decision “will increase suspicions, confuse people, and discourage voters.”

Behind the scenes, the legal fight is far from over. Over 100 petitions challenging the Constitutional Court’s annulment have flooded Romania’s appellate courts in recent days, with HotNews reporting a “wave” of filings across the country.

The Ploiești Court’s decision is likely to be challenged within five days, and the High Court—the same one the upheld the Election Commission’s decision to ban Georgescu from running—is expected to weigh in soon

Georgescu, for his part, remains under judicial scrutiny. Indicted in February on six trumped up charges, including plotting “anti-constitutional acts” and promoting “fascist, racist, or xenophobic ideologies,” he has denied wrongdoing, claiming the charges are part of a “deep state” conspiracy to silence him. Under a 60-day travel ban, Georgescu continues to be monitored by authorities.

An investigation into Georgescu’s supposed campaign ‘irregularities’ has since found that the disruptions may have originated from a consulting firm linked to the Brussels-aligned National Liberal Party—ironically, hired to support a rival candidate. The campaign, it seems, backfired.

As Romania teeters between legal uncertainty and political unrest, the future of its presidential race remains caught in the crosshairs of its own judiciary. Whether the nation moves forward—or resets to December 6, 2024—now lies in the hands of its highest court.

BIG NEWS: Romanian Judge Defies Globalist Overlords—Overturns Deep State’s ‘Coup d’État’ Annulment of Anti-NATO Candidate Calin Georgescu’s Win | The Gateway Pundit | by Robert Semonsen

A former nurse has avoided jail after she assaulted a white Muslim man she mistook for a “racist” at a pro-asylum seeker protest.

Caroline Leneghan engaged in an argument with Dylan Fontaine, smashing his phone on the ground, calling him a “racist” and a “fascist”, inciting others to “swarm” around him.

However, Fontaine is a Muslim convert and was at the demonstration in Bournemouth supporting asylum seekers on August 7 last year.

Leneghan denied charges of assault and criminal damage but was found guilty following a trial.

Poole Magistrates Court heard how Leneghan went to the Roundhouse Hotel, which is used to house asylum seekers, in Bournemouth on August 7 last year for a rally.

Leneghan attended as part of the “Dorset Palestine Solidarity Campaign” as she felt there was a “crossover” between the plight of those living in Gaza and asylum seekers in the UK.

The court heard that she took it upon herself “to decide who should or shouldn’t be there” and singled out Fontaine alongside his brother Steven, believing they were members of the far right, reports the Daily Mail.

Steven told the court: “She was proper frantic and going mad. She shouted ‘they’re racist’ and everyone turned around and just swarmed all around my brother. I said ‘what makes you think that?’ She was basically saying “you’re not Muslim, judging by what you’re wearing”.

In video footage shown to the court, Leneghan can be heard saying “He’s a fascist, you both are… Why don’t you go back over there?” while pointing to the other side of the road where there was a small group of what were believed to be anti-asylum seeker protesters.

Leneghan then grabbed his iPhone and threw it on the floor, smashing the device. She then tried to prevent Fontaine from picking it up and “lunged” at him several times before shouting: “He’s a racist, get him.”

The 44-year-old then refused to give police her details at the scene and tried to change her clothing to evade officers before eventually providing her information.

Ewa Russell, defending, said: “Without a shadow of a doubt the matter is aggravated by the circumstances and given her personal circumstances, it should not attract a custodial sentence. She said in hindsight she should have walked away and showed an element of regret.”

Sentencing, Judge Austin told Leneghan: “In my view this is a disgraceful incident caused against the backdrop of national distress.

“You were calling them fascists and racists just by looking at them and your actions left Mr Fontaine at risk of being attacked.

“I don’t accept that you are in any way remorseful and accept the seriousness of what you caused. I am of the view that this is a maximum sentence case which would be 26 weeks in prison.

“I now have to look at the fact that you are 20 weeks pregnant. I believe the risk of reoffending is low and there are risks for the pregnancy, especially around pre-eclampsia, and so I am going to suspend the sentence for the next two years.

“There is also a prohibited activity requirement meaning you cannot join any assembled gathering or demonstration for the next two years.”

She was ordered to pay Fontaine £300 compensation as well as £200 court costs and a victim surcharge of £154.

The decision has been slammed by chairman of Reform UK Bournemouth Martin Houlden who said: “The case of Caroline Leneghan is yet more evidence of two tier policing.

“Why has she been allowed to walk free after inciting actual physical violence toward a person at a demonstration when others such as mum Lucy Connolly, are serving jail sentences for nothing more than ill-advised Tweets? Why is the Judiciary protecting those on the left?”

https://www.gbnews.com/news/dorset-news-left-wing-activist-assaulted-white-muslim-mistook-racist-infiltrator-walks-free

Police in Hamburg arrested 33-year-old Syrian migrant Firas A. on Thursday, nearly two weeks after he allegedly stabbed and severely wounded two people in the district of Billstedt.

The incident occurred on April 12 when the suspect, reportedly known for hundreds of previous offenses, coughed repeatedly at passengers on a public bus, prompting the driver to ask him to leave. After refusing, the Syrian national was forcibly removed by passengers, leading to a violent altercation.

Two individuals — a man and a wheelchair-bound passenger — attempted to mediate, at which point Firas A. is accused of producing a knife and stabbing both victims before fleeing.

Authorities launched an immediate public manhunt, initially describing the man as being of “southern appearance” and speaking German with an accent. The investigation led to his eventual arrest.

🇩🇪‼️ A manhunt is underway in Hamburg after a knife attack on a wheelchair user and a 60-year-old man aboard a public bus in Hamburg on Saturday evening.

The suspect, described by police as being of "southern appearance" and speaking German with an accent, was asked to leave the… pic.twitter.com/vyl3KUQebp

— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) April 14, 2025

This latest incident follows multiple violent and criminal acts attributed to the suspect, including in 2023 when he was convicted of smashing the windows of 245 parked vehicles after police confiscated his car keys for driving without a license.

Later that year, he attacked and injured an 84-year-old woman at an ATM. Additionally, last fall, he threatened his former employer’s life and was found carrying a banned butterfly knife; however, he was released shortly after a brief pre-trial detention.

Firas A. entered Germany during the migrant influx of 2015 under Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-door policy and was granted permanent residence in 2021, receiving subsidiary protection status.

Remix News has written extensively about the serial offender’s incredible rap sheet.

He has already been convicted eight times, including the last instance on July 24, 2024. He has compiled a total of €10,500 in fines.

Despite his lengthy criminal record, Hamburg authorities maintain that deportation is currently impossible due to concerns over his safety in Syria, with expulsion only permissible under conditions posing compelling threats to national security.

The German port city is presided over by a left-wing coalition of the Social Democrats (SPD) and the Greens. It is a migrant hub with a foreign population of well above the national average.

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) state parliamentary group has repeatedly called for the revocation of Firas A.’s protection status.

“We need tough consequences for repeat offenders. Repeat offenders must be stripped of their protection status. Anyone who abuses our hospitality in this way must be consistently deported,” said Hamburg’s AfD parliamentary group leader Dirk Nockemann previously.

https://rmx.news/article/serial-syrian-offender-arrested-again-for-double-stabbing-on-hamburg-bus-but-authorities-say-he-still-cant-be-deported/

By Thomas Fix

When I was in my mid-20s, more than 40 years ago, I backpacked throughout Europe, for two months. I hitchhiked and rode trains across 13 countries, staying in youth hostels with their daily required chores, fully immersing myself into city and rural life. It left a deep impression that I’ll never forget. Back then, each country had border controls, so the flow between nations was slowed, keeping the cultures and behaviors unique.

One common trait across all nations was their habit of entering a nearly empty rail car to sit next to you. From this, I was immersed into countless stories, across many nations. The urban people that I encountered were generally friendly, usually mentally sharp, often able to converse in multiple languages, and seemed much more educated and civilized than myself (which is somewhat of a low bar). In Geneva, I was surprised by an elderly man who walked rapidly toward me. He stopped, then asked me with deep concern in English “Are you lost?” Oddly, everywhere that I went, everyone seemed to instantly recognized me as American. I replied “Yes, but that’s alright… I don’t have to be anywhere.” Being Swiss, this didn’t make him happy. Germany was very orderly then. Switzerland was psychotically orderly. He insisted on driving me where I wanted to go.

The rural people were simply fascinating. In rural Ireland, on a train, I talked to a beautiful girl who spoke Gaelic. Like many Irish then, she was quite mirthful and happy. When I asked her to speak some Gaelic, she seemed like something out of a fairy tale. But, when our conversation turned to the government, I could see something was wrong. Her face changed to deeply serious and unhappy expressions. I slowly realized she was connected to the IRA. Europe was much more rural then, with no trace of chain stores. In those areas you felt like a time traveler, catching a glimpse of life long ago. Overall, Europe was lively, unique, and unforgettable.

Today, I’ve seen almost no trace of that old Europe in the countries where I’ve recently returned. A conversation with a young Danish gal in her 20s partly summarized it. In her place of work, everyone spoke English. Even her large friend circle speaks mostly English. She learned it properly in school, but mostly by watching movies in English. She grew up with Danish, but now speaks it mostly to her older relatives. Yet, it’s not just the loss of their language. Those European cultures are now only housed in museums, palaces, and historic buildings, where they are carefully archived and curated, because that is now the only place tourists can truly experience Europe. Those tourists throng those sites, even through admission prices are off-the-scale expensive. Everywhere that I went in Europe, I saw bland and rundown cosmopolitan cities and towns, with the people disconnected and rootless. It’s a cultural environment that has turned ugly, mired in a place and time that is not moving towards anything better.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/europe_then_and_now.html

Rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis in Paris. When I spontaneously bought a train ticket to Paris in the early 1970s and travelled to Paris with virtually no luggage, I found accommodation in this street. Why spontaneously? I was allowed to enter the upper school of a grammar school in Gelsenkirchen-Buer and was placed in an advanced French course against my will, even though I had hardly any knowledge of French from my old school. So I bought a train ticket and off I went to Paris, I didn’t need a hotel because I knew the so-called clochards who slept under bridges over the Seine from movies. After arriving at the Gare du Nord, I went straight there. On the way there, I met a Swiss man who had found accommodation in a shared flat that was partly unoccupied because the students living there were on their summer holidays. I was allowed to stay there for free and got to know and love Paris and the French language. In addition to the obligatory disgruntled Madame concierge of our house, the famous singer and actor Serge Reggiani also lived in this street. Rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis was the epitome of France for me at the time. Today the street is a kebab shithole (I learnt this painfully from google maps) and is dying like everything that was once beautiful.

On today’s #NCFDeprogrammed, hosts Harrison Pitt and Connor Tomlinson speak with Caroline Ffiske, long-standing activist against gender ideology and co-founder of Conservatives for Women (CfW) in 2019 to fight the impact of ‘gender ideology’ on government policy and the Conservative Party.