King’s College latest research on migration tells us 86% of UK people now think there are tensions between migrants and people born here. In practice most UK people have been welcoming to many newcomers over recent years and have hired many of them to do work that needed doing. What angers people are illegal arrivals and people given advantages by the state on arrival at the expense of settled taxpayers who have to pay the bills.
It is not surprising there are current worries given the failure to keep out illegal young men chancing it on unlicenced boats across the Channel. Most UK citizens think it wrong that people should enter illegally and then be given free housing, healthcare and financial support when no-one agreed to their arrival. Some are housed in good hotels that until recently were places people aspired to go to for celebrations and big events. How come they are now for people who have broken the law to come here and are now given priority? Why are our hotels not available for their proper uses? We have seen many protests in localities where people object strongly to this use of a local hotel. Driving rents up to put them in HMOs can also cause tensions with locals seeking affordable housing.
The news is currently led by stories about the early release of foreign criminals from jail who have committed sexual crimes which naturally causes concern, adding to domestic crime in a high profile way. All acknowledge that we have home grown criminals but that is no reason to allow in some sexual predators, murderers, tax evaders, illegal business organisers and drug dealers without making sufficient check. Where they are allowed in by mistake and prove to be criminal people want them sent back to where they came from promptly.
The King’s survey reveals wider concerns about the pace of cultural change. With around half the country telling pollsters they would vote Reform or Conservative at the next election, the fact that 9 out of 10 Reform voters and 7 out of 10 Conservative voters think the speed of change too fast is a major worry. It means many people do think a country has to evolve, with new people welcomed in numbers that local communities can accept and absorb. We want evolution not revolution, with attitudes towards religion, national identity and democracy accommodating other views at an acceptable pace. Most conservatives want some change. Things can be made better. Progress in technology and living standards is welcome. Most conservatives accept we should grant asylum to our share of people fleeing torture and death elsewhere, but there are legal routes to do that.
The problem with very high levels of migration lies in making proper provision for the new people, and in reassuring the settled community that all will be well as they arrive. Inviting in too many leaves us short of homes. It pushes up rents as the government contracts for large amounts of accommodation for new arrivals. Hotels are switched to hostels affecting the facilities of an area. It adds to the need to put in new electricity and gas supplies, to enlarge water pipes and expand sewage works, to put in more rail and road capacity. The settled community is then told it needs to pay more for water and electricity, and to pay more tax to expand our infrastructure, partly owing to the pressure of numbers. That can lead to resentments, as many people did not feel they ever voted for a policy of major population expansion from migration.
Cultural change has also been rapid over sexual and personal identity. I welcome more freedom for people to express themselves and enter adult relationships based on consent as they wish. As a recent court judgement has concluded that does not mean losing the ability to distinguish between a woman and a man or allowing men to use women only spaces.
It is putting all these things together that has led to disaffection in the conservative half of the country. These worries spread across the right/left divide, with others sharing the feeling that change has been too rapid. That does not mean trying to recreate 1950s Britain or reneging on the freedoms we have gained since. It does mean slowing the pace of these changes, and being more tolerant to those who are alarmed by some of them.
November 8, 2025
I too welcome more freedom for people to express themselves as they wish. So should parents with strong religious views be allowed to force their young daughters to wear religious garb every day for school etc?
This is clearly rarely if ever the girls genuine choice.
Not sure about this new road capacity I have recently been in London and Cambridge and every time I go they have constricted or blocked another road in acts of vandalism. A main road at Camden Tube leading to Chalk Farm and Hampstead now blocked by these government vandals. Still I did not see any shoplifting or phone snatches this time which makes a change. Though loads of cars esp. Range Rovers now have to have steering wheel locks!
November 8, 2025
‘ It does mean slowing the pace of these changes, and being more tolerant to those who are alarmed by some of them.’
A rather sanguine view of the situation.
It will either carry on and get much worse, or people will get tired of protesting and full scale rioting and violence will erupt.
At the moment, it seems that the rather phlegmatic nature of genuine Britons means that the first outcome is the more likely.
That is what governments are counting on anyway, as they have absolutely no intention of doing anything about the problems.
November 8, 2025
Peter,
Month by Month, week by week, day by day, there is a seemingly inexorable national sleepwalk towards your prediction.
Month by month, week by week, day by day we see no effort being made by government or authorities and msm to do anything other than to downplay and cover up what is becoming ever more obvious to a helpless populace, a populace which is easy to attack as a displacement activity by ineffectual powers that be.
The fire alarms are ringing and people do not want to be seen to be the first to start running lest they be thought to be foolish Chicken Lickens.
November 8, 2025
Remigration is the only solution
Germany has started to deport Syrians, Denmark is busy expelling illegals and Dublin is having riots outside migrants hotels.
It’s a pity the politicians don’t agree with your article. Over1000 arrived this week only to be housed next to married quarters in Scotland. Millions spent on refurbishment for the dross whilst our military live in substandard accommodation.
2TK busy preening himself in Brazil while the country goes down the pan, the EU demanding we pay into the budget for his reset plus £6billion to join the defence procurement pact.
We are being well and truly shafted be government as 2TK tells the world Britain is leading the net stupid race now all the other competitors have withdrawn. Madness, sheer madness.
November 8, 2025
O/T yesterday I took my car to my local bodyshop to have some minor chips and scratches removed . Talking to the young man who owns the business he was telling me how much his overheads have increased over the last years. They have gone up 50%. Business rates NI minimum wage etc to such an extent he can no longer afford to take on a trainee.
He’s particularly angry that his liability insurance has doubled because of repairing EVs and Hybrids.
I’m sure this is being played out all over the country. Of course I paid in cash.
November 8, 2025
Niqabs, burqas, hijabs are not worn for religious reasons. Even the hijab was not worn much in moslem countries before 1979. Since that horrible Islamic Republican revolution which was carried through by the left allying with the islamists, this manner of dress has been spreading over the world. It is political, not religious, and signifies conquest, just like the mass praying in the street.
November 9, 2025
And something similar is likely to occur in Britain thanks to the same unholy alliance of the Woke Left and Islamists.
November 8, 2025
Graham Stuart a Cambridge Law drop out and ex energy minister on Question Time. Showing the Tories are still pushing the climate alarmist (vast exaggeration of) lunacy. Just a touch on the brakes is still the deluded party line. He was however right to criticise the dire QT chairwoman for absurdly defending Rachael Reeves by selectively quoting their estate agent. It was Reeves’s responsibility and she also supported this dire anti-landlord law.
Reply Not what his boss Couthino is saying. She has made clear opposition to bans on Uk oil and gas and pledged a cheap energy policy using our own fossil fuels and not subsidising very expensive renewables. She called to stop the big give away upcoming wind round.
November 8, 2025
Perhaps the BBC this it has to cosy up to this dire government after their Trump “editing” dishonesty and perhaps a very large bill.
Even Boris says he will not pay his licence fee until they explain or their head resigns!
November 8, 2025
Couthino isn’t incharge of the conservatives and after 14 years of lies with the same failed faces incharge of Tory policy, who believes them
Shell are offloading the Bacton terminal to some foreign gangster together with 19 oil wells. Harbour Energy have sacked 500 this week and imports from Norway and America have risen.we are in crisis and thus governments answer is to build more useless windmills.
November 8, 2025
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November 8, 2025
To reply well they are moving in the right direction but far too slowly. The dire BBC still endlessly pushing mad climate propaganda every day see 50 bbc climate lies on the Daily Sceptic.
November 8, 2025
But are Coutino and Kemi believers the CO2 plant food driven climate emergency religion or are they just pretending to as they think more votes in this dithering approach. Are they really so daft to think that renewable and EVs will save the world? They do not even save any sig. CO2!
November 8, 2025
Good morning.
So more of the same but less noticeable ? No ! Not good enough. We need MASS RE-MIGRATION. Since the 1950’s people have been coming here uninvited. The so called, ‘Windrush Generation’ were no different to those who today illegally enter the country. More people have entered, legally or illegally, the UK between 1945 to the present than have between 1066 – 1945. We, the native peoples of these islands, have NEVER consented to foreigners entering the UK and, ever since, we have suffered in a multitude of ways. We are now treated as second class citizens in our own lands and are damned and imprisoned for even dare noticing and complaining.
Either the damage is undone or, there will be large scale unrest throughout the land, caused in most part, by those not from here as has been seen. Our society is beginning to polarise much like the Balkans or in Lebanon. And we all know what happened. It is happening here, it is just not as bad yet and, as with the case of Wayne Broadhurst, the media will not report it and the government will use the Online Harms Bill to silence social media.
We have to admit it, we are a failed State.
November 8, 2025
The Windrush generation were invited to the UK to help rebuild the country after WW2. As they were from the British Empire they had just as much right to come to England as Englishmen had to go to Jamaica.
November 8, 2025
An excellent article Sir John.
Regarding the change in crime, I believe the number of recent crime incidents be that domestic or foreign perpetrated needs addressing as a priority. We all know there have been an increased number of violent crimes being reported lately and various left-wing politicians still claim such cases are only creating a ‘perception’ of a less safe society. However, that’s not true at all as both violent crime rates and total crime rates have been uptrending significantly.
We can see from the below link (sourced from ONS data) incidents of violent crime have increased from 708,742 per year in 2003 to 1,940,059 per year in 2025:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/288256/violent-crimes-in-england-and-wales/
Incidents of total crime trended down and troughed at 4,028,463 per year in 2014 but have subsequently trended up again reaching 6,590,890 per year in 2025:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/283069/crimes-in-england-and-wales/
It’s little wonder then the public are concerned about their safety as clearly violent crime and total crime have been trending upwards for years.
Instead of going off specific and convenient measures like ‘murder incidents’ which have downtrended since 2003 the Left need to aggregate all violent crimes such as attempted murder, rape, attempted rape, GBH, ABH, assault etc (as per the above charts).
They also need to stop the phony claims that our streets are ‘incredibly safe’ and get on with getting these crime rates down.
All figures in these charts are run like the financial year (from 1st April to 31st March) so all crimes post 31 March 2025 are yet to be included in them.
November 8, 2025
Morning Sir John,
Personally, I would in many ways, prefer to go back to 1950s Britain, a time when we were far more optimistic about the future of our nation and we knew what a woman was and what a man was.
If I could pick and choose, I would opt for the medical and scientific advances we now enjoy with the ethics and morality of the 1950s and the population levels of the 1950s.
I would keep the crime levels of the 1950s and sense of public duty and service of the politicians of the 1950s.
Life is far too complicated now with everything taking place on line rather than face to face.
Perhaps I am a bit of a dinosaur, I don’t know but, on balance, I preferred our country, our culture and our values and morality in the middle of the last century.
November 8, 2025
Cliff:
I feel the same. I lived through the 50s, and I recall it was a time when I could go anywhere, without being nervous about my personal safety. I recall that people did not have as much money, generally speaking, but were happier and more content with their lives.
I quite like the advance of technology, ie: being able to communicate by email, do online shopping and banking. Not having access to a car, I would be lost without supermarket deliveries.
What really annoys me about the situation today, is that, if we protest about illegal immigrants, we are called ‘racist’. Not allowed to express an opinion, but expected to pay all the bills.
I have always voted, considering it my duty, but I would be at a loss as to how to vote today, if there was an election.
November 8, 2025
You are not a ‘dinosaur’ that is just a label slapped on people to belittle them and make their knowledge and opinion appear to be one of a dangerous past.
A past and a people that must be eradicated it seems.
November 8, 2025
While all you say is true the solutions do not lie within the current parliamentary parties to rectify.
All that Labour has done in their fifteen months of office is deliberate. No party could be as stupid as they have proved by accident. In the eyes of the electorate they are heading for oblivion.
Conservatives in Parliament, are largely of the left of centre, since central office took over candidate selection, which resulted over fourteen years, in the eyes of the electorate, in self destruction and long term lack of trust. Whatever Kemi has to say will not rehabilitate them to the point where they become part of the solution.
None of the above have any plans to deal with the unelected would be government, the civil service, the quangos, the judiciary, the house of lords, the police, and the sectarian mob who of late have been exercising their street power.
Conservatism is a philosophy shared across the old political spectrum. It is no longer the property of the Conservative Party. It has flocked in large numbers to Reform, the only party trusted to correct the divide between the unelected who have grasped the levers of government under the noses of government, and the electorate who see this and are desperate for a return to a Parliament that is the final authority reflecting the will of the people.
The timetable for such change may rest in the sheer incompetence of the current government and arrive earlier than the normal electoral cycle.
Reply You are out of date on Conservatives.They propose ending ECHR and other international law commitments that prevent control of borders, have announced major slimming if civil service and will be working on the abuses of Quangoland
November 8, 2025
Reply to reply
I do not think agricola is out of touch at all, Reform were the first to go public in a big way with leaving the ECHR, many of us think the Conservatives only jumped on the bandwagon when they saw it was gaining popularity.
An interesting comment from a very old veteran when interviewd on TV yesterday, to the question was the sacrifice worth it:
Answer:
Not when I see the state of our Country now.
Which just about sums up the mess politicians of all Party’s have created for us over the last few decades.
Reply Conservatives moved amendments to the governments Migration Bill that removed ECHR from immigration cases many months ago
November 8, 2025
To Sir John,
The composition of the Tories remains Yellow – with many Yellows being posted to safe seats. Until they all become conservatives, the Tories have no chance.
How do they address this?
How does a party deal with the unelected who run the country?
Kemi has to figure these two things out.
November 8, 2025
They were secure in the knowledge that the amendments would not go through the House.
Kenneth Clarke had the same strategy, when his vote did not count he voted as we expected and wanted a Conservative to vote, it was only when he could swing the outcome that his vicious politics came to the fore.
By the way, Michael Hestletine has a 5 ton statue of Lenin (the Russian one, not John) in his famous arboretum. Why did so few recognize his politics when he was actively destroying us? Or is it just too gouache to recognize such debasement?
November 8, 2025
Reply to reply:
So why weren’t measures taken by the same people 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 years ago?
Because they’re captured by the same leftist ideology as Labour. Easy for them to shout off now, but you’d have to be extremely naive to believe anything would change. Hence their poll rating. Naive = vote Conservative. Benefits junky = vote Labour
November 8, 2025
Reply to reply. That’s what the Conservatives are saying, but after their years in government few of their former/potential supporters believe these policy statements any more than they believe Labour’s statements. Reform as a newcomer benefits from this, as do the Greens (outpolling Tory & Labour). It’s a credibility problem and somewhat intractable.
November 8, 2025
@reply People haven’t suddenly started voicing concerns about immigration and the submission of our govervning classes to foreign interests, this has been an issue for decades. The conservatives may appear to be changing their tune but they did not instigate the public debate and highlighting of these issues, quite the opposite, they suppressed it. They are taking advantage of Reform and others who did raise these issues and were villified by the establishment.
So you may think the Conservatives have changed their spots but you don’t have a voters perspective, that of someone who had and has zero influence over policies, attitudes and practices they are the victims of.
A someone who voted almost exlusively Conservative in elections I hold the Conservatives just as responsible for the current situation and how it develops as the current Labour gangsters, as far as I am concerned both have utterly betrayed the interest of the country and citizens.
November 8, 2025
What the Tories propose or even promise is rather irrelevant as the chance of then gaining power again is extremely low. Plus what is in their next manifesto will prob. be rather different. And anyway why we we ever trust them to deliver their promises ever again? They never delivered £1M IHT threshold promised by the dire Osborn and they are not even promising it now. They did not even raise the £325k limit with inflation so it has declined to circa £200K in real terms.
Trust in the Tories was deliberately (not a mistake) squandered for 14 years hence their current dire poll position 18% of the vote and circa 54 seats.
November 8, 2025
So James Watson has died at 97 the 25-year-old American biologist who in 1953, with Francis Crick, revealed the double helix structure of DNA.
He was once rightly scathing of the then Charles Prince of Wales’s opposition to GM foods: “Your crown prince can afford to be a Luddite. He doesn’t have to be efficient. He’s a rich farmer. You have to think of farmers who might suddenly go out of business because someone else can do it cheaper.”
November 8, 2025
Our friend, Dr Peter Gilbert, who went on to work in the Cabinet Office, sat in the same lab in Caius College as Watson (who also rejected the climate change scam) and Crick. Brilliance was a pretty mundane thing in both Oxford and Cambridge. But since even Lammy has become a graduate such is the degradation of Britain and her accomplishments to pander to the equalisation of ability and uselessness.
The preference to slow down the speed of the degradation is hardly a surprise. The Conservatives have lost their party because they are and were prepared to compromise on everything.
As The Lady said, Compromise is a disaster.
November 8, 2025
I think it has gone way beyond “worries” and “concern.”
Even “tensions” between the settled population and migrants is downplaying the situation we find ourselves in, after 30 years of mass immigration, State enforced multiculturalism and now the (deliberate) importation of almost 200,000 criminal migrants for a life of “free everything”.
I think Professor David Betz, Professor of War Studies at Kings College University, analysis is correct: we are in a situation which has a very high probability of leading to a form of civil war, along the lines of the Northern Irish “Troubles.” Sadly, I believe (with probably another 25 years to go) it will start well within my lifetime.
And the British Establishment did it deliberately.
November 8, 2025
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November 8, 2025
We don’t need to leave the ECHR to control our borders and it wouldn’t stop the influx of illegals completely. Channel migrants could be stopped at the channel border. This could be preceded by some detailed scenario planning as to how exactly to do it and overcome inevitable French objections. The gangs would be smashed in days as the migrants quickly realise they are wasting their money as the panoply of legal and social support to them cannot be accessed. The government could then focus on dealing with those that are here.
It won’t happen of course. Even Reform say they would only do it ‘if necessary’. If it’s not necessary now it never will be.
November 8, 2025
The Court in Strasbourg treats the ECHR as a “living” document and applying it to situations it was never intended for when signed.
This creep into any areas they want cannot be stopped.Only by leaving can we extricate ourselves from the people of law who want more law and less democracy.
November 8, 2025
@MPC – we don’t need the ECHR period. We need a democracy one were the Legislators create, amend and repeal the laws of this land. The concept that unelected unaccountable technocrats in foreign lands should make our laws is obscene. Laws that democracy’s are prevented from changing, tailoring to meet the needs of society.
The Concept that it is others, others with no vested interest and not democracy that chooses how a country moves forward is perverse. If parliament cant serve and work for the will of the people ten we don’t need it.
The only ‘will’ coming from parliament is to fight and smash the people if they have to use foreign gangs to do it so-be-it
November 10, 2025
They have to be stopped beyond the territorial limit, in the Contiguous Zone. UNCLOS fully entitles UK to do so. UK would simply be acting iaw the ECHR Art 5.
November 8, 2025
That does not mean trying to recreate 1950s Britain
And why not I grew up in the 50s and having fantastic memories of that time , we had just come out of the dark days of WW2 and everything seamed lovely with community sprites at a high and you could walk the streets without fear and leave your doors or windows unlocked, but not now after successive governments of bit by bit giving our country away and being destroyed by sly of hand by governments and the unions
November 8, 2025
Mick
Then we had the early 1960’s when the younger generation were positive about our and their future, everything was deemed possible for a few years before Labour then wrecked it all with brain drain taxes and Union power.
November 8, 2025
Mick:
Well said. That is exactly my recollection of the 50s. Todays Politicians are scornful of such as us, and sometimes try to imply we are ‘senile’.
November 8, 2025
The idea that the radical changes are only an issue with people because of the speed at which they’ve occurred is infuriating.
Whoever said they wanted these radical changes at all? It has come from those who despise everything and everyone in our past that laid the foundations of a nation that gave them all they have, and they have plenty.
Those who saw a money making opportunity for themselves.
Those who live in the fantasy world of ‘Kumbaya’ who are completely oblivious it seems, to factors such as human nature, group identity and top dog status, and history itself.
Quite frankly if I wanted to see English towns become places more in keeping with an Asian or African country, well then I’d move to one of those countries.
Everything has been manipulated to bring these changes about, from keeping our own people out of training and work, housing and ability to raise a family, and destroying the roots of a people and nation knowing full well an uprooted people are easily manipulated.
There was never a shortage of workforce, one of the main reasons Blair used, which was shot down by a then Conservative MP as false. Enter benefit dependency culture, a cruel tool of a devious establishment.
It’s all about creating a new Britain with its heritage population pushed into oblivion, well it won’t end well and not least for those who orchestrated it I hope.
Perhaps we could see a piece giving 10 good reasons to become a minority in your ancestral home.
Reply I consistently opposed inward migration and made the case against the cheap labour fallacy
November 8, 2025
Some high skilled only immigration can be good but the vast majority is low skilled and with higher benefit claiming and more crime so net liability even if working.
November 8, 2025
✔️ Well put, Michelle!
November 9, 2025
Michelle, +++++
November 8, 2025
“the speed of change too fast is a major worry”
It is not the speed of change, it is the amount of change people are worried about. If we get to the same point in 30 years rather than 20 years, we still get an unrecognisable country. We still become a minority in our own country. We still get poorer. We still lose our culture.
“The problem with very high levels of migration lies in making proper provision for the new people”
We don’t want to make provision for new people. We don’t want more of our countryside ploughed up for new housing. This country is overpopulated. We need to use the resources we have, not bring in even more people. Get the feckless into work. Stop rewarding people for working just 16 hours a week. The whole system is unsustainable and is a Ponzi scheme to provide employers with cheap labour.
I don’t think we can return to the 1950s, but I wish with all my heart we could. Politicians have done the damage to our country, and they should be filled with shame.
November 8, 2025
A rather long piece Sir JR, in which you dodge around the biggest issue, demography. We have never been asked if we want cities or the country to become multi-cultural or Islamified. Take Birmingham, now 50% immigrant. Some boroughs of London exceed that. How long before every major town or city becomes 50% immigrant? twenty years, thirty years? It’s certainly picking up speed.
November 8, 2025
I certainly would not trust Labour, Conversatives nor the LibDems to reduce immigration, let alone get it down to the miniscule numbers we want. All of the above demonstrated a terrible record in this matter.
The only credible “none of the above” alternative is Reform
November 8, 2025
When even the architect of this insane immigration policy, one Mr now Sir wash their smug white faces in diversity Blair, expresses concern his decision has led to cultural tensions and should be dealt with and controlled, then you know even the left are starting to understand the scale of their mistake.
Clearly the current administration is blind to their role in the endemic lawlessness now common across the whole country. Vape shops, fake barbers, fake businesses at every turn, rape gangs, knife crimes, drug gangs, honour killings, FGM clinics the list of diversity in our society is almost endless. Our Labour left government will do nothing. Sadly during the 14 years of a Tory administration they did nothing to correct the situation Blair introduced either…..why didn’t they?
November 9, 2025
RE, ++++
November 8, 2025
It’s not so much the speed of change that is bothering people, it’s what is being changed.
I can’t think of anything being done by this government that anybody wanted or needed. Nobody asked for digital IDs or for HMG to penalise farmers or landlords. Nobody asked to get us attached to the EU by the side door. Nobody asked for what resources we have left to be spent abroad on woke projects.
This government is not working for the good of the British people – they have their own agenda!
November 8, 2025
Did anyone read about the Aston Villa football match.
Horrified me.
The sit in of similarly dressed people in black with matching balaclavas was also of concern.
Should we remember Karl Popper:
“The idea that a tolerant society must be intolerant of intolerance was articulated by philosopher Karl Popper in his 1945 book, The Open Society and Its Enemies. He called this the “paradox of tolerance,” stating that unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance if the intolerant are allowed to destroy it.”
Popper’s proposed solution , “A tolerant society must retain the right to be intolerant of intolerance to protect itself. He argued that the intolerant should be suppressed if they are not willing to engage in rational argument and resort to violence instead.”
A well-known quote reflecting this idea is, “If we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them”.
The pace of change is worrying. A large number of our new migrants do not seem to be interested in adopting to our culture and historical norms.
November 8, 2025
“illegal arrivals and people given advantages by the state” then the parliament, the government and the media calling them asylum seekers. As is stand they might be fleeing criminal jail for criminal activity elsewhere but nothing else.
Front and foremost they are steeling places the UK would be open to offering genuine asylum seekers. Then the steel from the taxpayer and are treated as above the laws the rest of us have to comply with. We need some honesty from what used to be our parliament
November 8, 2025
Sir John
The changes you mention forced on the country by a wayward parliament are needed for them to succeed as directed by the WEF for the ‘Great Reset’ and turn the UK into a Marxist State. 2TK hates the UK and its people with a passion and as he says prefers his religious leaders at the WEF. Of course, the majority of parliament has taken up this fight against the people.
The King the head of the CofE has deserted his church and is seeking different direction, parliament has lost its purpose in its clamour for Marxist ideology. The message being sent by those that pretend they serve the people and the nation, is the need to change those with a free spirit, to eject those that inspire, you follow the cult of the Politburo or you pay the price,
November 8, 2025
True that more people object to illegal immigration than to legal mass immigration. But the factors are very different. The former is a short to medium term risk to personal and national security, imposes a huge costly burden on tax paying citizens and the government’s policy is insulting to British citizens putting then in second place. Legal mas immigration is medium to long term and permanent and lowers GDP per cap and creates a deeply divided culture, destroying the unity and cohesion of the citizens of UK upon which democracy depends.
There is only one solution: selective immigration that raises GDP per cap and disallows cultures antithetical to British culture. It really is that simple except that socialists, who are now in power, will never side with British citizens over mass immigration. Doinig so would be profoundly contrary to their principles and their hatred of British historic culture.
November 8, 2025
648 criminals were illicitly shipped, into the UK yesterday on the 7th November from France… again, same as yesterday in nine (9) massive boats that no one saw coming
November 8, 2025
Frome the wider World ‘British taxpayers were being “forced to foot the bill for a Leftist propaganda machine”’
The World sees what destruction those running the UK Parliament are doing to the innocent and hardworking people of this once proud nation. The UK parliament is the management of the country, they appointed the excitative they hold the excitative to account on our behalf. Yet like 2TK himself have gone AWOL.
“Donald Trump’s White House has accused the BBC of “purposeful dishonesty” amid a row over bias at the broadcaster.
It launched its attack over the way the corporation selectively edited a speech made by the president, dismissing it as “100 per cent fake news”.
British taxpayers were being “forced to foot the bill for a Leftist propaganda machine”, said Karoline Leavitt, Mr Trump’s press secretary.”
November 8, 2025
This is not new “Total payments: Over £1 billion has been paid out across all schemes as of June 2025.” That is Taxpayer money down the drain caused by incompetent management.
Parliament approved Ed Davy to be the man in charge and manage what was the UK Post Office. For his failures in office the UK Parliament put him up for a Knighthood.
November 8, 2025
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”The NHS has spent £1.4bn of taxpayers’ money on net zero schemes without reducing its carbon footprint at all, The Telegraph can reveal.”
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2025/11/08/nhs-wasting-billions-on-net-zero/#more-89403
November 8, 2025
Whilst I agree with your points Sir, for me the issue is, since the open borders policy in Tony Blair’s time EU migration and both legal and illegal immigration has grown to ridiculous proportions causing untold strain on the indigent population, not least as no successive governments have increased necessary infrastructure, services etc to deal with the resultant population explosion.
We all know this has happened in (almost) all western nations and has been a universal policy for whatever nefarious? reason.
Until a Government comes in willing to stop all illegal immigration, pause all legal immigration, assess what manageable numbers are, (given existing infrastructure), and repatriate a large enough number of people to enable good governance, nothing will change for the foreseeable future. Either leaving or ignoring (as the French do) international treaties that inhibit governments taking positive action as outlined above is a necessary part of taking back control of our borders and applying proven standards of good governance.
It is doable if there’s the will.
November 8, 2025
Your article is accurate but too mild. No one I know is against immigration in reasonable numbers, but everyone I know is against uncontrolled immigration, both legal and illegal. Yet the will of the people has been ignored by both the Conservative and Labour governments of the last 25 years. It is an absolute disgrace.
Even more disgraceful is this appalling Labour Government allowing Northern Ireland Veterans to be prosecuted for serving in the army and protecting us from a ruthless terrorist organisation. Starmer and Lord Harmer should both be prosecuted for treason. Let’s hope for a future government that does exactly that!
November 8, 2025
A factor to be considered: how much are hotels paid to house migrants?
independent.co.uk 23/08/2025 ‘Explained: how much is the government paying to house asylum seekers in hotels?’
A somewhat related topic: how comes that there are more and more HMOs at the expense of regular one-family renting?
Could it be that some of the people voicefully ranting about immigration are profiting from it?
November 8, 2025
The people ranting about immigration are British people who can’t find a home because nobody can outbid the Government. They also cannot find jobs, can’t have children because it costs £180,000 at least to raise a child in the U.K.
The Government using even £1 of taxed money to house people illegally in OUR country is too much.
November 8, 2025
I find it extremely frightening to read so many comments that this decline into a Third World State of our homeland has been deliberately created by a succession of previous Governments. I have to ask Why? What was in it for them? I would be grateful for a sensible answer as I am in the depths of despair. I too was brought up in the 1950s with sweet rationing etc. My father served in the Navy. What have the past 80 years been for? Why has it come to this?
November 8, 2025
Christine P
hefner gives a hint to the very profitable industry that now exists with all the hotels and HMOs who have switched to migrant accommodation.
Then there is the liberal left’s desire for open borders.
Then there is the political dimension where eventually all these recent arrivals get to vote.
ps
One million a year new arrivals isn’t a sustainable level.
Our relatively small crowded island cannot cope or keep up with the infrastructure needed.
Four cities the size of Southampton needed every year.
Impossible.
We are already seeing examples of societal cohesion reducing.
November 8, 2025
The Globalists dream of One World Government based on the U.N. they think they are ‘world leaders’ rather than the leaders of countries. The oldest Parliamentary cross bench Association in Westminster is the One World Government Group.
The stumbling block to achieving One World Government is first world (white world) living standards. They needed to be reduced to the average. Joining blocs and surrendering your country was also a first step, because surrendering the bloc (EU, AU etc) to the U.N. would be easy.
That is why the Globalists loathe Presidents and PMs who have loyalty to their nations. Putin, Orban, Trump. Putin in particular because he has defeated the globalists militarily in Ukraine.
There was a British veteran in tears on the TV recently. ‘Lines of white crosses, what was it for?’ Your father and mine are watching from above with their heads in their hands.
November 8, 2025
I counted the shops on my highstreet today and 90% where takeaway, nail polish, mini-market, foreign barber, foreign restaurant, bookies, pubs and charities ….that 180 outlets on 2 streets …
November 8, 2025
Not all cultures are benign and equal and it is extraordinary that our ruling elites appear so keen to turn the U.K. into a multicultural and multitribal society despite seeing the results in Africa, ME, Lebanon, Yugoslavia, Northern Ireland and elsewhere. What is their plan? How do they want the country to look and function? Which system of law do they plan for us to have?
November 9, 2025
Divide and conquer.
Create tribal areas which are unlikely to easily co-exist; set them against each other; create rules to govern disputes and impose authoritarian governance to “keep the peace” when the inevitable conflicts kick off.
It’s about power and control.
November 8, 2025
Immigration is out of control and so is the government
There were some serious people that turned the Conservative party around last time
Michael Howard, William Hague, IDS I do not see this happening now
I like Kemi very much but she is not a PM in waiting
The party is not yet an effective opposition and has a poor record on long term planning
Water, Waste, Food & Energy what a disaster
November 8, 2025
Certainly “What angers people are illegal arrivals and people given advantages by the state on arrival at the expense of settled taxpayers…” but let us be clear that the anger extends to legal arrivals of the like of visa holding students’ families (sometimes large), those on IT visas (as arranged in some sweetheart deal with India by one Sunak (Conservative)), those with no or not in demand skills to sell, those with criminal convictions etc.. Running as a deliberate if unannounced, even disavowed, policy of “the more the merrier” once noticed is going to create anger: the established political class reaps what it has sowed.
Whilst likely “It is not surprising there are current worries given the failure to keep out illegal young men chancing it on unlicenced boats” those worries are of long-standing and for example Home Secretary Priti Patel was “absolutely determined” to address them although of course she was nothing more.
And as for “We want evolution not revolution, with attitudes towards religion, national identity and democracy accommodating other views at an acceptable pace” just where do you get these notions? Have you no conception that some “other views” held by a few but too many are repugnant to religion as established, national identity and democracy? Further, I for one am now much more comfortable with the notion of revolution than once I ever was. Do you think you might be as out of touch as is the Conservative Party at all?
Writing the foregoing leaves me annoyed and dismayed for, as you may recall, I am a Redwoodista.
November 9, 2025
Agreed. I think the article is extremely complacent about the societal breakdown, and likely consequences, caused by the Uni-Party’s policy of mass immigration, multi-culturalism and multi-faith – where one faith in particular gets a Free Pass from the Government to try and impose its doctrine and behavioural “standards” on the rest of us and expects to be protected from criticism.
November 9, 2025
F 57, +++++
November 9, 2025
Our economy will never recover while we have a Labour government increasing taxation and public spending at every opportunity. The ONLY answer is to reduce public spending and then use the savings to reduce taxation.
Starmer knows this – indeed he tried to reduce the benefits bill a little, but he is no longer in charge – his extreme left backbenchers are. The embarrassing fact that Miliband refused to move to the Housing brief and Starmer was then unable to sack him is proof enough that he is in post but not in power.
Nothing will happen until this squalid government is removed and Reform can abandon Net Zero, thus saving billions and reducing our energy bills.
November 9, 2025
It is not just the speed of change. It is the type of change. We don’t want Islam dominating UK life. As a sovereign democratic nation state we have every right to reject Islam and to reject laws and customs based on Islamic faith and teaching. I am glad to see that finally we have a judge prepared to rule that criticising Islam is a protected belief.
November 9, 2025
P.G. ++++++