Will the UK be saved? Farage is surging, while Starmer is collapsing.
So far, Labour has lost 204 councilors, while Reform UK has gained 311, set for a win in the next General Elections.
With around one third of the local councils having reported results, it’s difficult to know what is more relevant: the unprecedented losses by the incumbent Labour party, or the astounding surge in votes for Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.
Failing Keir Starmer had no alternative but to take responsibility for Labour’s catastrophic local election results.
🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer says he will not resign despite the "really tough" local election results
"It hurts, and it should hurt, and I take responsibility. Tough days like this don’t weaken my resolve to deliver the change that I promised. They strengthen my resolve"
“[Starmer’s] party has already lost control of eight councils, in what is expected to be the worst set of results in the party’s history. The Prime Minister is facing calls to quit after Labour surrendered its majorities on councils in Westminster, Southampton, Exeter, Redditch, Wandsworth, Hartlepool, Tamworth and Tameside.
In his first remarks, Sir Keir said: ‘The results are tough, they are very tough, and there’s no sugarcoating it. We have lost brilliant Labour representatives across the country, these are people who put so much into their communities, so much into our party. And that hurts, and it should hurt, and I take responsibility’.”
While many Labour party members insist he must resign, Starmer has already announced that he will not surrender power. ‘It was a five-year term I was elected to do; I intend to see that through’.
🇬🇧 Keir Starmer : “I’m not going to walk away and plunge the country into chaos. We were elected to deal with these challenges, and that’s what we will do.”
In the meantime, the celebrations are in order among Reform UK members, and leader Nigel Farage even joked that they would be ‘very sad’ if Starmer resigned: ‘He is our greatest asset.’
“Speaking outside Havering Town Hall, the Reform UK leader said: ‘I suspect when you see the full results in the Red Wall, there’ll be a rebellion. Personally, I’d be very sad to see the Prime Minister go. I would be very, very sad indeed, he’s the greatest asset we’ve got’.”
The English local election results are a "truly historic shift in British politics", says Nigel Farage.
The Reform leader is speaking in Havering, a London borough that the party has won for the first time.
Farage has called Reform’s success a ‘truly historic shift in British politics.’
“He said: ‘I am delighted to be here in the sunshine outside Havering Town Hall, which I can now say is under new management. And it’s significant. It’s our first win borough in London. I think overall, what’s happened is a truly historic shift in British politics. We’ve been so used to thinking about politics in terms of left and right, and yet what Reform is able to do is to win in areas that have always been conservative. It’s a big, big day not just for our party but for a complete reshaping of British politics in every way’.”
It’s been a very good morning. The best is yet to come.
Great Britain once commanded respect worldwide as the irreplaceable anchor of Western civilization. Its institutions—rooted in the Magna Carta’s covenant of liberties, the common law’s impartiality, the Enlightenment’s rational skepticism, and the parliamentary democracy that exported freedom across continents—embodied the West’s highest aspirations: individual autonomy, secular governance, equality before the law, and the unyielding defense of conscience.
Yet these foundations are now being dismantled. In earlier times, this would have taken a military invasion or revolution. Today, however, the cultural collapse is brought about by mass migration and a demographic transformation whose consequences are as predictable as they are catastrophic. Projections confirm that the White British population, the historic carrier of Judeo-Christian values, will be reduced to minority status by 2063, with the transition arriving even sooner among the young. To be sure, this goes far beyond the exotic “diversity” celebrated by progressives in the past; it is the wholesale replacement of a tolerant, open society by an intolerant culture defined by ideological totalitarianism and systemic discrimination against women, homosexuals, and adherents of other faiths. The inevitable result will be the erasure of Britain as the West’s moral and cultural lodestar, supplanted by parallel societies, thoroughly Islamic powerhouses, governed by supremacist norms that brook no dissent.
The data are irrefutable and accelerating. A 2025 report by Professor Matthew Goodwin for the Centre for Heterodox Social Science forecasts that White Britons will fall below 50% of the national population by 2063, with those under forty crossing the threshold by 2050 and the share collapsing to roughly 33.7% by 2100. These findings echo Professor David Coleman’s 2010 Oxford study, which projected minority status by approximately 2066 under net immigration of 180,000 annually; current realities have rendered that timeline optimistic.
The 2010 University of Leeds analysis already anticipated a drop to 79% White British by 2051. The engines of this transformation are relentless: record net migration, peaking at 906,000 in 2023 and still exceeding 200,000 annually even after recent declines; fertility rates among White Britons languishing at approximately 1.39–1.54 children per woman, versus 1.97–2.03 among foreign-born residents; and the youthful demographic momentum of ethnic-minority cohorts.
London and Birmingham have already passed the tipping point, their 2021 Census data revealing “minority White British” majorities. By century’s end, nearly half the population will be foreign-born or their immediate descendants. Accordingly, to dismiss the problem out of hand and characterize the demographic trend as “organic evolution” is an insult to the British; rather, it is “engineered displacement,” fueled by elite policies that treat borders as suggestions and native birth rates as irrelevant.
Britain’s historic role as civilizational anchor renders this shift existential. From the Glorious Revolution’s constitutional settlement to the abolition of the slave trade, from Newton’s empiricism to Mill’s marketplace of ideas, Britain forged the template for limited government, free speech, and personal dignity. These were not abstract ideals but lived realities that defeated tyranny, emancipated women, and decriminalized homosexuality. Yet the incoming demographic tide imports a culture fundamentally at odds with this inheritance. The primary vector is not abstract “ethnicity” but the rapid growth of populations from Muslim-majority regions, whose orthodox religious framework—when measured by attitudes in British Muslim communities—reveals an ideological totalitarianism that subordinates individual rights to divine command (as interpreted by imams, community leaders, and theological scholars, depending on time and place).
Polling data expose the gulf. A 2024 Henry Jackson Society survey found that only 28% of British Muslims viewed the outlawing of homosexuality as undesirable (compared with 62% of the general public), while 27% saw outlawing gay marriage as undesirable (compared to 60% of the wider public). Earlier Channel 4/ICM polling (2016) recorded 52% of British Muslims disagreeing that homosexuality should be legal. Support for sharia provisions remains stubbornly high: 23% in 2016 favored its introduction in parts of Britain, and the 2024 survey showed significant minorities endorsing compulsory halal in schools/hospitals (57%), public prayer rooms in secular institutions (66%), and legalization of polygamy (21%). These attitudes are not fringe; they reflect a worldview in which revelation trumps consent, and apostasy, blasphemy, or “insult” to the faith justifies coercion.
The cultural consequences are already manifest and will intensify as demographic weight shifts. Women face systemic subordination. Orthodox Islamic norms—evident in elevated rates of forced marriage, “honor”-based violence, and female genital mutilation within affected communities—treat female autonomy as a threat. The 2024 HJS polling revealed only 17% of British Muslims viewing a more traditional role for women as undesirable, while 39% in 2016 agreed that “wives should always obey their husbands” (Channel 4/ICM).
Rape-gang scandals, spanning Rotherham, Rochdale, and beyond, illustrate the contempt: organized networks disproportionately involving men of Pakistani Muslim heritage preyed on thousands of White working-class girls, with authorities paralyzed by fear of “racism” accusations. Recent inquiries, including Baroness Casey’s 2025 report and the Home Office’s independent panel, confirm over-representation of Asian and Pakistani-heritage suspects in group-based child sexual exploitation and explicitly probe the role of ethnicity, religion, and culture—factors long denied in the name of “multiculturalism.” Victims were branded “kuffar” (infidels), their degradation rationalized through a lens of religious entitlement. This is not isolated criminality; it is cultural entitlement enabled by demographic enclaves.
Homosexuals encounter visceral rejection. In communities where significant pluralities still regard same-sex relations as immoral or criminalizable, public spaces in Birmingham or Tower Hamlets have witnessed harassment, protests against LGBT education, and “no-go” pressures. The ideological totalitarianism increasingly extends to non-Muslims: blasphemy sensitivities stifle criticism, antisemitic incidents surge in tandem with Muslim population growth, and Christian minorities report intimidation. Parallel legal systems—sharia councils—already adjudicate family matters in ways incompatible with British equality.
As White Britons become minorities in their own cities and eventually their nation, Islamic norms will not assimilate; on the contrary, they will dominate, demanding accommodation while offering none. Schools with no White British pupils, hospitals enforcing halal norms, and political discourse paralyzed by fear of “Islamophobia” (i.e., the consequent ostracization, harassment, or assault)—the ultimate heresy from an appeasement point of view—are harbingers of a society where Western liberalism is the minority creed.
The pessimism is warranted precisely because the process is self-reinforcing. Lower native fertility, unchecked migration, and higher immigrant birth rates create a demographic momentum that no modest policy tweak can arrest. Elites, intoxicated by virtue-signaling and terrified of “far-right” labels, have presided over this transformation without democratic consent. The result is not hybrid vigor but cultural suicide: the anchor of the West—its commitment to reason, rights, and restraint—snapped in favor of a totalizing ideology that views pluralism as weakness and dissent as heresy.
By 2063, Britain will not be recognizably British. Its cathedrals may stand, but the values that built them will be relics. The tolerant society that once exported liberty will import the very intolerance that it once overcame. Demographic destiny, absent radical reversal, ensures that the eclipse is total. The light that illuminated the West will flicker out in the land of its birth, leaving a darker, more divided realm where ideological totalitarianism reigns and the discriminated—women, homosexuals, religious minorities—pay the price of elite folly. History is unlikely to record this as enrichment; it is a civilian conquest terminating a civilization.
The Reform Party has announced a policy of building migrant detention centres in areas with Green Party MPs or which are under Green Party council control. Carl Benjamin, founder & host of Lotus Eaters and Michael Murphy, head of journalism at Outpost Studios join us to discuss.
Reform UK is on course for a landmark haul of seats in the 2026 local elections, with party chairman David Bull telling the BBC the party’s ascent had been “meteoric.”
He told the BBC that anything between 800 and 900 English seats would constitute a “great night,” with 1,000 representing “a measure of success.”
He insisted the vote — local in name only — should be read as “a referendum on the Labour Party.”
At the time of writing Sky News reported 11 seats for Reform, against 11 losses for Labour including in former bastions such as Chorley, and Runcorn and Helsby indicating the northern Red Wall was indeed falling to Nigel Farage‘s party.
The losses are already mounting — a Labour insider conceded to the BBC that Tameside, a council the party has controlled without interruption since 1979, had fallen.
A Reform source declared to the Sun on Sunday: “The Red Wall is crumbling and turning Reform tonight.”
How are the Conservatives faring in the 2026 local elections?
On the Conservative benches, shadow transport secretary Richard Holden conceded “significant losses” were inevitable, without being drawn on specific numbers.
He struck a more optimistic note on Badenoch’s personal ratings, saying she was registering “positive” feedback from voters.
A popular V-Tuber who was recently arrested for possessing indecent non-photographic images of children has been revealed as a trans-identified male. Jordan Williams, also known as “Alexandra Williams” or Mimi Yanagi, was exposed by keen investigators on controversial forum KiwiFarms.
Controversy surrounding Williams first exploded last week after a post was made to his X account revealing that he had been arrested in the UK on April 20 and had been forced to migrate to a new account as a condition of his bail.
“On Monday April 20th, Mimi was arrested by the UK Police for possession of her artwork, and her artwork alone. She’s currently on bail pending the outcome of a criminal investigation into her accounts and activities. All of her devices were seized as a result of the arrest,” the post read.
Williams was known for writing in the third-person as part of his child-like “Mimi Yanagi” persona.
The post went on to note that the new account was required by police to contain his legal name of Alexandra Williams, and that posts to that account had to be entirely “safe for work” in nature.
A friend of Williams’ later posted redacted copies of his bail documents in an effort to prove the announcement was real and not a fabricated story for viral attention.
The documents, which explicitly detailed conditions which involved not having any unsupervised contact with children, were posed next to a children’s stuffed animal.
so i was getting these questions a lot regarding mimi's arrest, and with her permission, i have her bail bond form right here.
sadly yes gamers. she was arrested for her commissions, and is being treated like she did something to a real kid.
While the exact charges are censored, it is known that Williams was charged under the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, a law which makes it illegal to possess “prohibited images of a child,” including cartoons, drawings, and computer-generated material deemed pornographic and obscene. Crucially, the law does not require a real victim—images can be prosecuted if a reasonable viewer would interpret the subject as under 18.
Prior to his arrest, Williams was a popular V-Tuber who presented himself through the avatar of a young, pink-haired girl and led most of his followers to believe he was female. He frequently commissioned highly-sexual artwork of his Mimi Yanagi persona and posted it for his followers on multiple platforms.
Williams’ story sparked international debate, with many rushing to his defense and claiming that the arrest would put a chill on freedom of artistic expression, regardless of the content. Multiple large accounts argued that it did not matter that Williams frequently depicted his child-like avatar in an extremely sexual manner, and dismissed accusations of “pedophilia” by deferring to the “loli” subculture.
“Loli,” short for lolicon, traces its name loosely to Victor Nabokov’s 1958 novel Lolita but developed its own meaning within anime and manga subculture. Originating in Japan in the late 20th century, it refers to stylized depictions of young or childlike female characters, often in sexualized and lewd ways.
Critics of the subculture note that sexualizing even animated representations of children is inherently pedophilic and concerning. Strong critics of “loli” include Schlep, a Texas-based Roblox YouTuber known for exposing child predators on the platform through sting operations. Schlep once noted that significant amount of predators he caught ended up being in possession of fantasy child erotica.
Lolicon is pedophilia. If you gratify yourself to sexualized images of animated children you’re a predator
the fact X allows a community of these people to thrive on here is very shocking. Do better @Safetyhttps://t.co/qekaWT8OCl
Proponents of the subculture, however, often go to great lengths to harass those who criticize their enjoyment of sexualized child-like characters, and defend their “hobby” as being a victimless indulgence. They also claim that it is wrong to criminalize those found in possession of animated sexual depictions of children.
One of the most prominent names defending Williams was ChibiReviews, a popular YouTuber who frequently defends “loli” artwork on that basis. ChibiReviews framed Williams as a victim of a police state, and told his followers that Williams had been “arrested for drawings.” ChibiReviews, along with a number of Williams’ supporters, believed him to be female as that is how he presented himself online.
I want to make a long statement here on the events about the VTuber Mimi that got arrested for artwork
You can find the artwork that got her into trouble disgusting and outright weird. I have always had this stance on content. However advocating for the censorship of it is… pic.twitter.com/WaeVklae7C
But new information on Williams uncovered by users at KiwiFarms has put a damper on the narrative that he was arrested for simple, harmless artwork.
A number of KiwiFarms users banded together to contribute to a massive thread exposing Williams as a trans-identified male whose birth name was Jordan and is from the South West of England. Back-tracing Williams’ past social media handles, the users found Jordan’s old Reddit accounts where he discusses his transgender identity.
The Reddit history revealed Williams was an ardent anti-feminist and had a particular disdain for women who did not support gender ideology.
“The current wave of ‘transphobia’ is basically being created by a group calling themselves ‘Gender Critical’,” Williams wrote while using the name NebulaMink. “They’re a collective clique of ‘radical feminists’ who hold a strictly essentialist view on gender/sex.”
He continued: “GC’ers do not do good faith debate. They’re a community so toxic other Feminist subreddits often ban their members on sight. They fundamentally see trans people, especially trans women, as fundamentally inferior, and some of their literature has called for transgender people to be ‘morally mandated out of existence’. That’s where most of the anger and lashing out comes from. A whole lot of vulnerable people being forced to defend their right to exist from a group that’s more than happy to roll back decades of progress (and often sides with far-right elements to do so) out of pure malice.”
Posts made by Williams on one of his now-deleted Reddit accounts.
At one point, Williams participated in harassing the PCOS subreddit after accusing it of harboring transphobic members, and called upon the moderators of the subreddit to ban women who appeared transphobic.
In another post Williams made to Reddit in 2020, he suggested “going after Mumsnet” to fully deprive British women critical of gender ideology a space to discuss their concerns with trans-identified males.
A post made by Williams on one of his now-deleted Reddit accounts.
In addition to posting anti-feminist content, Williams identified with the MGTOW movement, and once wrote: “I am attracted to women, but resist the urge to act on the attraction as I know the risks outweigh the benefits. In addition, I know there are bad men and good women. The difference is that bad men are thoroughly reviled and condemned, whilst bad women are usually given a pass by society at large.”
Williams ran an account on a Mastodon server that intersects with a community colloquially known among its members as the “pediverse,” where he connected with various “lolicon” artists and commissioned them for highly disturbing child pornography images.
The drawings are explicitly sexual and show the pink-haired childlike Mimi character in various situations of abuse.
Some of the content commissioned by Williams involved an animated short video depicting child rape, while most images included scenarios involving his young female child character being sexually abused by animals or monsters.
Williams also operated an account on the Japanese social networking service known as Pixiv, which is intended as an online community for illustrators and manga creators. Pixiv is a popular website for hosting the illustrated child pornography that is shared among members of the pediverse.
On Pixiv’s subscription-based forum, Fanbox, Williams had saved images with incestuous themes, and of preschool children being raped. He also followed an account dedicated solely to infants being raped, and added one of the horrific drawings to his “favorites” folder. Several of the accounts followed by Williams on Fanbox promoted the illustrations by using the hashtag #pedo, and one account featured pornographic drawings of a real child actress.
Both Pixiv and Fanbox are Japanese websites, and are known for hosting a trove of animated and 3D-generated child sexual abuse material. Such content is legal in Japan, where the possession of sexual abuse material involving real children was only criminalized in 2014. While Japan briefly considered extending that ban to animated depictions of child sexual abuse, publishing and manga industry organizations led protests demanding that artwork of children being sexually abused be exempted from any laws intended to crack down on pedophilic images.
Since being exposed as a trans-identified male, some former supporters of Williams have walked back their support.
ChibiReviews, who previously ardently defended Williams on the basis of supporting his right to access sexualized depictions of children, made a post today announcing he had change his mind.
“I think after seeing what evidence that was provided. I have found my limit to Anti-Censorship on this topic,” ChibiReviews wrote in reference to the KiwiFarms thread, though did not seem to specify why some sexualized artistic depictions of children were defensible in his opinion, while others are not.
I actually saw some tweets on this the other day, but since I couldn’t find an actual news report source to confirm it, I passed it by. As it turns out though, it was in fact a completely true story, with bigger outlets picking up on it now: Denmark is punishing its senior citizens in nursing homes by revoking their meat privileges almost entirely, because they “screwed up the most” with the climate.
Per an item from the New York Post, the new guidelines issued by the Danish government, which either already took effect or are set to take effect (it’s not clear exactly which) at “government-run sites” in Copenhagen, restrict the consumption of meat to just 2.8 ounces per week, which works out to be less than half-an-ounce per day (.4 ounces). For context, that’s the weight of 4–5 pennies, or about a bite of meat.
Now some of those “government-run sites” include elderly care facilities, and when a proposal to exclude the old folks from the new guidelines came up for debate, Birgitte Kehler Holst, a leftist politician dissented, saying the elderly should be “punished” with the measure, because they are “precisely the generation that has screwed up the most.”
It’s important to recognize where we’re at, because we’re edging closer to a Soylent Green or Torching the Dusties world.
Now, I completely get the anger and resentment for particular generations in general—I really do—but that should not apply to the individuals, and it should not translate into abusive and unjust punishment. It’s how I feel when someone who had the opportunity to buy a Sears mansion kit home for $10k and spend 40 years building wealth because things were affordable tells me to “quit bitchin’” about high gas prices, accept amnesty “compromises,” or pull myself up by my bootstraps, having no clue how hard I work to just barely make ends meet. It’s also how I feel with my own millennial generation when I remember that a significant number of them vote Democrat, when I see mothers my age taking their young children to “drag” brunches to be sexualized by pedophilic men because they’re happy to sacrifice their flesh and blood for wokester credentials, or when they play activist for movements that foment total chaos (open borders, mass migration, BLM, etc.).
We’ve all got our complaints and issues with one another, but that should never be the root of government policy—government should be based on objective morality and justice. Of course, I’m not offering a great comparison because Holst’s anger and resentment isn’t even founded in reality, but in her mind, it is. And that delusion is propelling the West toward democide.
So that’s where we’re at, at the precipice of the democide cliff, and it’s up to us to rein things back in and restore sanity and righteousness to the public square.
Muslims in Britain are far more likely to hold positive opinions of terrorist groups in the Middle East, Antisemitic attitudes towards Jewish people, support blasphemy laws, and see their religion as more important than their national identity, a report has found.
The “Understanding Islamopopulism” report from the Policy Exchange think tank has cast doubt over the feasibility of successfully integrating the four million plus Muslims into broader British society and democratic system. The report found that UK Muslims are increasingly favouring single-issue pro-Gaza politicians over the left-wing Labour Party, which they hitherto largely supported.
However, polling conducted for the firm of over 1,000 Muslims last month by JL Partners found that the group appears to be significantly out of step with the British public as a whole on major dividing issues. The report questioned if the rise of “Islamopopulism” could result in the voting bloc becoming so “toxic” that larger parties may fear aligning themselves with British Muslims. The report also suggested that contrary blocs, such as conservative or Hindu voters, may coalesce around opposing candidates backed by Islamopopulist forces.
The survey of UK Muslim adults “found concerning levels of favourable feelings towards terrorist organisations which have been proscribed by the Home Office.” For instance, the poll found that one in four British Muslims hold a positive view of the Palestinian Hamas terrorists behind the October 7th terror attacks on Israel. Meanwhile, the survey found that 23 per cent held a favourable view of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which has been behind the proliferation of terror throughout the Middle East, 16 per cent held a favourable view of the so-called Islamic State (ISIS), and 15 per cent held a favourable view of Al-Qaeda.
The report also found large “differences between the general population and the British Muslims living in these areas when it comes to their perception of Jews and whether they have considerable power over key spheres of British life such as politics, media, and banking, with the British Muslim respondents being far more likely to believe that Jewish people are too powerful in general.”
While just 11 per cent of the general public in Britain said they held an unfavourable opinion of Jews, Muslim respondents were far more likely to hold a negative view of Jews, at 21 per cent. Additionally, 45 per cent said that Jews have too much power in the media, 43 per cent said that they hold too much power in the weapons manufacturing industry, and 42 per cent said that they have too much power in the banking system.
On top of having radically different views on Jews or Middle Eastern terror groups, the report found that there is a “considerable gap between the general population sample and the British Muslim respondents in the polled areas in terms of their views on making it a criminal offence to show or create images in public which depict the Muslim Prophet Muhammad.”
While 17 per cent of the public as a whole would be in favour of creating such a blasphemy law, over half of Muslims in the UK would want to criminalise the depiction of the Islamic prophet. Additionally, 63 per cent of UK Muslims would make it a criminal offence to burn a copy of the Qur’an.
Perhaps most concerningly, 24 per cent of British Muslims said that it would be a “legitimate response” to violently attack someone who was burning the Qur’an or showing images depicting their prophet. Meanwhile, less than half of British Muslims said that violence would never be an acceptable response.
The UK Muslim population is also more likely to see their religious identity as more central than their British national identity, with 63 per cent of Muslims ranking their religious identity as most important to them, compared to just 12 per cent of the public as a whole. Conversely, 43 per cent of Britons ranked their national identity as most important, compared to 12 per cent of UK Muslims.
This perhaps explains the propensity of UK Muslims to rank Islamic issues, such as Gaza or Islamophobia, as critical to who they vote for. The survey found that a quarter of British Muslims ranked Gaza as the most important issue in the upcoming local elections across the UK, despite local councillors having no power to impact the Middle East situation whatsoever.
Over one in five, 22 per cent, of UK Muslims also listed “Islamophobia” as their top issue heading into this week’s elections.
Commenting on the findings, the co-author of the report, Dr Rakib Ehsan, said: “The portrayal of modern Britain as a flourishing multi-faith democracy – a paragon of religious diversity – simply no longer holds. In the face of Islamist extremism, which remains the country’s principal terror threat, the UK continues to be presented with significant challenges in terms of cohesion, integration, and security.”
Germany’s right-wing AfD party has submitted a controversial proposal to parliament aimed at better reflecting differences in delinquency between ethnic Germans and those who have a “migrant background” in official crime statistics.
The party is demanding changes to the national Police Crime Statistics (PKS), an annual report by the federal police that compiles all crimes reported in Germany – as well as data on suspects and victims.
Currently, the PKS only differentiates between German and non-German suspects.
The AfD would like to see the more detailed information on the origins of crime suspects included in the statistics.
Moreover, the right-wingers also suggest that the PKS should reflect a potential “migrant background” of German suspects – for example through naturalisation or recently immigrated parents – as well as information on suspects with dual citizenship.
AfD MP Martin Hess – a police officer – said during the debate in the Bundestag yesterday that the goal was to provide an accurate picture of the crime burden of individual groups, in order to come up with suitable security measures.
“The parameters of the PKS must be amended so that the actual impact of uncontrolled mass migration on our security is reflected transparently,” he said.
Hess bemoans that currently, the detailed numbers – while available – have had to be specifically requested in parliament by the AfD.
Hess added: “Our motion calls for these figures to be included directly in the PKS in future, so that citizens can see at a glance where the main problem lies.
“For the truth is this: Violence in Germany is fundamentally linked to migration from certain countries, particularly from the Middle East and Africa and this must finally be clearly presented and articulated and appropriate action must be taken,” he said.
The motion caused harsh opposition from Germany’s left-wing parties.
Luigi Partisano, an MP for hard-left party Die Linke, accused the AfD of being “full of convicted inciters of hatred and tax evaders” and asked Hess what he, being a police officer, would do against racial profiling and crimes against “humans with a migrant history” by German police.
Greens party MP Irene Mihailac accused the AfD of “sowing distrust” and “spreading dangerous ideology” with its “biologistic” view of being German. Mihailac also cautioned against “politically instrumentalising” the PKS.
Frederik Bouffier, an MP for the conservative Christian Democrat Union (CDU) of Chancellor Friedrich Merz, accused Hess of “painting a black-and-white picture” and “blaming foreigners for everything”.
Bouffier conceded, though, that “a certain group is overrepresented” in the PKS.
After an emotional debate, the AfD’s motion was referred to the relevant parliamentary committees for further consideration.
A young woman, who was intoxicated, was followed into a public toilet in the 18th arrondissement of Paris and assaulted at 5 a.m. on May 3. A police patrol had noted the man’s behavior, namely that he appeared to be following the women with ill intent.
According to Europe1, the officers observed the individual gradually approaching the victim, eventually following her into a public restroom, where he proceeded to rape her. The police found the restroom door slightly open and witnessed the perpetrator, with his trousers down, forcing her into a sexual act.
The BAC (Anti-Crime Brigade) officers intervened and arrested him on the spot. Fdesouche has reported that the man was born in Morocco. He was placed in deferred police custody due to his condition, and an investigation was opened for rape.
The victim, who was also intoxicated, was taken to a sobering-up cell pending her hearing.
It is unknown if the Moroccan was present legally in France or not.
The increasingly popular Nationally Rally, led by Jordan Bardella, has been calling for increased migration controls and deportations in the face of rising crime stats in regard to foreign, often illegal, perpetrators.
Two years ago, Remix News reported on the response from local rap groups to Bardella and former RN leader Marine Le Pen’s call for a stricter migration policy: a video featuring ultra-violent lyrics against the party, calling for the two politicians to be beaten and killed. “Marine and Marion the whores, beat these female dogs in heat with a stick. “Jodan, you’re dead.” “If the fascists come by, I’m going out with a big caliber,” went the lyrics.
Far-left politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of La france Insoumise (LFI) has vowed to destroy RN in his run for French president, with his official campaign just announced this week.
The latest poll cited by Europe Elects shows National Rally with a healthy lead at 33 percent versus LFI’s 12 percent. Gabriel Attal, of Macron’s Renaissance party, is in second with 14 percent, and Bruno Retailleau, of The Republicans, at 13 percent.
Detail from Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry (between 1485 and 1486), a 22.5 x 13.6 cm painting on vellum by Jean Colombe (1430–1493), located in the Condé Museum in Chantilly, Oise, France. Jean Colombe, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The controversy surrounding the banquets organised by Le Canon français shows no sign of abating. The initiative, launched by two young entrepreneurs to revive traditional banquets centred on culinary specialities from across France, has come under fire from the press and the Left on the grounds that it perpetuates an ideology of exclusion and promotes far-right ideas. The rector of the Paris Mosque has spoken out publicly to, in turn, attack these festive gatherings which bring together several thousand enthusiastic guests in towns and cities across France.
In a video dated April 29th, Chems-Eddine Haffiz, rector of the Paris Mosque—who, given his official position, is regarded as a kind of spokesman for Islam in France—lashed out at the Canon français and its banquets: the fact that it celebrates a cuisine featuring pork, he claimed, is proof of a logic of exclusion. He condemns the “4,000 guests gathered around a spit-roasted pig” and accuses them of “symbolically” excluding those who do not share this cuisine—that is to say, Muslims.
His statement was met with outraged reactions from right-wing politicians, as well as from ordinary “canonniers”, as the participants in these popular feasts are known.
The conservative mayor of Chalon-sur-Saône, Gilles Platret, took offence at Haffiz’s statement, describing the rector’s outburst as “delusional.” “We have the right to celebrate without being accused of exclusion,” he pointed out, whilst announcing his intention to host a banquet in his Burgundy town soon. On social media, Platret accuses Haffiz of being “a mouthpiece for the dictator Tebboune” and questions the rector’s true motives:
What is he after? To ban banquets where the food served isn’t halal? This is a dangerous trend that I would describe as seditious, as it is likely to accelerate the process of communal conflict. Which, incidentally, would not be unwelcome in Algiers.
On May 5th, MEP Marion Maréchal also reacted on X, pointing out that there is nothing exclusive about eating pork, but that it is one of the oldest and most fundamental ingredients in French cuisine, throughout the country:
We are in France: here, we eat pork in all its forms, always and everywhere. If that doesn’t suit you, you’re free to go and live elsewhere, for example, in a country that applies Sharia law.
Much to the chagrin of the organisers, who refuse to be politicised against their will, the banquets are now at the heart of an intense political battle—not to say a clash of civilisations.
It is a fact that French cuisine has celebrated pork in all its forms for centuries: sausages and saucissons, boudin, sauerkraut, terrines and pâtés have reigned supreme on French tables since time immemorial and are an integral part of the national consciousness. A saying well known to gourmets and peasants alike proudly declares that “everything in the pig is good” (tout est bon dans le cochon). Not a single region, from north to south, from Brittany to Alsace, lacks a pork-based recipe among its specialities. Since the Middle Ages, the motif of the pig has been omnipresent in both sacred and secular iconography, proof of the royal status it holds in the French imagination. We see it being reared in oak forests; we delight in the folk festival honouring its slaughter, a promise of culinary delights once the animal has been prepared.
It is not just in cinema that it takes centre stage in plots, as in a masterpiece such as La Traversée de Paris, whose story revolves around the perilous transport of a freshly slaughtered pig through the German-occupied city.
With all due respect to the rector of the Paris Mosque, a ‘pig-themed’ festival excludes no one. Those who do not eat it are simply not obliged to come, just as no one is obliged to attend a rock concert if they only like baroque music (or the reverse). The fact that the consumption of pork is now perceived as a factor of exclusion speaks volumes about the mental confusion and the militancy of some.
