These are not extremists. Ordinary British people are being criminalised

UK News Yahoo ^ | 25 July 2025 | Suella Braverman

[Rummyfan]

It is becoming harder by the day to pretend this is all normal. Epping, a leafy Essex town not known for rabble-rousing, has suddenly become a bellwether. It is not extremists making the noise, but mothers: ordinary, decent, quietly exhausted. One protestor’s placard said it best: “I’m not far-Right. I’m worried about my kids.”

Eight days. That’s how long it took from Hadush Kebatu’s illegal arrival on our shores to his alleged assault of a local teenage girl. This criminal charge has pierced through the political haze, not because it is an anomaly, but because it is no longer rare. The British people are not imagining the chaos. They are living it.

They see it in Canary Wharf where the once-prestigious Britannia Hotel, now rented by the Home Office at eye-watering prices, is being used to house illegal arrivals. The images are not abstract. The anger is not theoretical. The reality is visible from their windows.

In Waterlooville, my own constituency, 35 illegal migrants are earmarked to be placed right in the centre of the shopping centre. Shopkeepers ask how this decision was made. Residents wonder if they were consulted. They weren’t. They never are. Indefensibly, the local Lab/Lib council failed to even respond to the Home Office’s inquiries about the suitability of the location, such is the level of incompetence.

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[Rummyfan]

Rt Hon Suella Braverman is Conservative MP for Fareham and Waterlooville. She has served as Home Secretary and Attorney-General

[Orosius]

Britannia Hotel - you can check ‘em in, but you can’t chuck ‘em out.

[Rummyfan]

And another viewpoint here:

Now I’ve left Britain, here’s what you look like

[blackdog]

"That philosophy is well expressed in a quotation, quite well known in my country, about social justice. Again, I pause for a moment to point out that if ever you see a word with ‘social’ in front of it, I think you ought to analyse it fairly carefully and see precisely what it means. Because one of the reasons, I think, we've got some things a little bit … not quite straight is that we haven't always been precise in our use of language. And if you're going to think straight, you really must talk straight and be very precise in the way in which you use words. There is a quotation on social justice and it says this: ‘It’s just because market forces tend towards growing inequality in incomes and property that massive redistribution is necessary if political freedom and other civilised values are to be preserved. So it should be the aim of the democratic state,’ the quotation continues, ‘to re-share out these rewards, to socialise the national income, if you like to call it that … There can be no doubt that by far the most effective method has proved to be, and is likely to prove increasingly in the future, the [end p1] instrument of public finance and in particular progressive direct taxation and centrally financed public services.’"

-Margaret Thatcher

[frogjerk]

Just a note: If people are going to predicate their protesting with "We're not far-right" you have already given the opponent an edge. Just state your opinion and don't listen to the labels the radicals are going to give you.

If you are fighting a battle why would you care if the enemy is calling you bad names? Fight to win!

[linMcHlp]

bttt

[Nervous Tick]

Thanks. Lionel Shriver ROCKS.

[ClearCase_guy]

The British government hates the British people and loves only foreigners. Might want to figure out why the “election” process makes that happen.

[frogjerk]

It seems to me that very-weakened monarchical/parliamentary system is at a great disadvantage when trying to fight communists and leftists and so-called "movements". It seems much easier for many small common-held radical ideals can infest smaller political groups/parties that join together to form a coalition government of evil.

I think this is a big reason why the Founding Fathers in this country opted for a Republic and did not want a democracy or parliamentary system.

[frogjerk]

It seems to me that very-weakened monarchical/parliamentary system is at a great disadvantage when trying to fight communists and leftists and so-called "movements". It seems much easier for many small common-held radical ideals can infest smaller political groups/parties that join together to form a coalition government of evil.

I think this is a big reason why the Founding Fathers in this country opted for a Republic and did not want a democracy or parliamentary system.

[MtnClimber]

It is long past time that far left (communist/NAZI) politicians are criminalized. One child is worth more than ten of them.

[Brian Griffin]

The latest issue of The Economist on page 9 admits the current asylum system is not fit for purpose.

[GingisK]

Its all symptomatic of a collapsing Western Civilization.

[iontheball]

Sound like a familiar accusation.

[Nervous Tick]

I’ve gone to the other extreme. I accept (most of) the labels with joy. Yes I’m MAGA! Ultra MAGA even — tell me, what part of making America great again bothers YOU??!? Christian Nationalist? Properly defined, I certainly am! What are you, a Pagan Globalist? Far Right? Yep, I LOVE being Right! &etc.

[Brian Griffin]

The British government could send the refugees to the Falklands.

Most will want to go home in a few days.

[Reily]

Well said!

[frogjerk]

Either way you are not letting the enemies psyops put you on the defense.

[Brian Griffin]

via The Conservative Treehouse:

“– The mayor of London is Muslim
– The mayor of Birmingham is a Muslim
– The mayor of Leeds is Muslim
– The mayor of Blackburn is Muslim
– The mayor of Sheffield is Muslim
– The mayor of Oxford is a Muslim”
-… pic.twitter.com/JmvtlxBMMx

The British politicians had better wake up.

It’s the landscapers and low-skilled construction workers who are replaced first, followed by politicians. Ask Andrew Cuomo about that.

[dfwgator]

It’s certainly not Ozzy’s Birmingham, anymore.