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pjar
8 months ago

Kurdish migrant claiming asylum over ‘affair with uncle’s wife’” What’s he claiming is the problem here? Either she gets stoned to death for adultery, or his uncle is allowed to rape his sister. Job done, all is copacetic…?

Lockdown Sceptic
8 months ago

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NeilParkin
8 months ago

Tommy Robinson arrested at Luton Airport following alleged assault at St Pancras

I thought that after his last stay at HMP, Tommy would keep well away from trouble and think about his young family.

Freddy Boy
8 months ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

Yes , it seemed like he was on a home run to mainstream effectiveness & then this happens ! Let’s hope there is nothing conspiratorial about this weird episode 🤔

Heretic
Heretic
8 months ago
Reply to  Freddy Boy

Of course it’s conspiratorial !

pjar
8 months ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

Or, somebody recognised him and decided to have a pop at him, finding out he’d taken on the wrong man? Apparently, there’s cctv of the incident? It will be interesting to see if they release it, or just bang him up again in solitary for his own protection…

Jon Garvey
8 months ago
Reply to  pjar

Colour me suspicious, but there are no names or photos of the “victim,” who almost looks hooded in the video. No police description like “a 45 year old man suffered injuries in the incident and was taken to X hospital.” No hospital reports. No “How Tommy attacked me” scoops to make the guy a few thousand quid. And I assume it must have been one hell of a punch, as the Manchester guy who broke a policewoman’s nose was only done for ABH, rather than GBH.

I read “home run to maximum effectiveness” as “needing to be silenced again ASAP.”

Heretic
Heretic
8 months ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

One commenter on the Infowars website said,

“He sent the dude’s teeth to Allah!”

huxleypiggles
8 months ago
Reply to  pjar

Or the cctv coverage is unfortunately, inadvertently and mysteriously “lost, wiped, misplaced ” -fill in as required – before the court case. These cameras have a terrible habit of failing at critical times. Any plod could tell us that.

huxleypiggles
8 months ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

We don’t know the full story yet.

NeilParkin
8 months ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Are you assuming that we will see the verdict based on the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth…?

Heretic
Heretic
8 months ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

We know what Tommy and his friends said: 1) Tommy was repeatedly harassed and threatened by a Leftist Agitator TWICE HIS SIZE (as you can see from the partial video released). The Leftist had followed Tommy from where he had been leafletting earlier. 2) Tommy backed away and warned the Leftist Agitator FIVE TIMES that he didn’t want any trouble, continuing to walk toward the stairs. The Leftist Agitator told Tommy he was “drunk” (Unlikely. More like a stitch-up to put Tommy back in jail). 3) The Leftist Attacker waited until Tommy was at the head of the stairs about to descend, then he lunged at Tommy with his whole weight, trying to shove him down the stairs to death or Grievous Bodily Harm. 4) Tommy decked him, explained to Leftist onlookers that they saw the bloke attack him, then Tommy went on his way, after Tube staff came to attend to the attacker. 5) Tommy immediately PHONED THE POLICE to report the attack, and explain what had happened to him. 6) Tommy travelled abroad to pre-arranged interviews and meetings, then returned to his ancestral homeland. 7) Tommy was arrested. The Leftist Attacker who tried to push Tommy down the… Read more »

NeilParkin
8 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

As above…

pjar
8 months ago

Concrete sales plunge to 62-year low as hopes for Labour’s building boom fade

I confess, this headline is a surprise. Where, exactly, is the building boom not happening? Every green field site that is sold off, here in the Cotswolds, seems to be under diggers, in minutes, crowding in as many tiny house on tiny plots as they can.

Tetbury, for example, has grown exponentially over the last few years, with no apparent change to its infrastructure of schools, doctors, sewage and so on.

Dinger64
8 months ago
Reply to  pjar

Its most likely to do with where you live
The cotswolds, Cornwall and other green and pleasant lands attract rich city dwellers to buy second homes or retirement homes which only they can afford which allows builders to make a profit on building houses in such places, not quite the same margins for profit in less attractive places

EppingBlogger
8 months ago
Reply to  pjar

In East Anglia too the small and modest towns and villages have exploded. Larger places including Chelmsford have become a multiple of their size just a few years ago. Roads have not been upgraded nor train services. Buses almost do not exist. Pubs are closing, turkish barbers increasing and no new commercial parks.

transmissionofflame
8 months ago

” Those who seek to reduce our nationality to a question of race show they just don’t understand it, argues Robert Tombs in the Telegraph.”

With “friends” like the Telegraph, who needs enemies?

It’s a complex topic and “Englishness” is a vague concept, but anyone who doesn’t think that culture, societal behaviour and race are not linked seems deluded to me and to deny real world evidence. Yes, introduce a smallish number of people over a long period with the “right” attitudes and they will absorb the prevailing culture. Introduce large numbers with very different attitudes over a short time and the prevailing culture is destroyed or no longer prevails, I bet he lives in a place full of middle class white people.

EppingBlogger
8 months ago

The existence of a link does not negate Tombs point that Englishness is not equated with white skin.

Heretic
Heretic
8 months ago
Reply to  EppingBlogger

FALSE! England, and the British Isles, is not AN EMPTY SPACE ON THE MAP, to be filled in by people from anywhere on the planet.

Englishness is equated with the ETHNIC EUROPEANS WHOSE ANCESTORS BUILT THIS LAND INTO A GREAT NATION.

There are many different Tribes within The World’s Smallest Ethnic Group: Ethnic Europeans = WHITE PEOPLE, who now comprise only 7% of all the people on the planet.

It has nothing to do with “Nationality” or “Passports”, which have been handed out with gay abandon to anyone.

transmissionofflame
8 months ago
Reply to  EppingBlogger

I’ve not read the article as I do not and will not pay the Telegraph my money so I can only speculate and go by what’s written here. “Englishness” is a vagueish concept and there will be as many definitions as there are people defining it, I would say. Clearly it’s possible for someone who is not ethnically English to learn to speak the language and absorb the culture to the point where they are behaving within the normal range that we would expect for an English person – I doubt many people would deny this. Whether that makes the person “English” I guess depends on your definition. I would say it sort of does and sort of doesn’t, but I would also say that it doesn’t greatly matter and it’s not worth debating and is just a distraction from the obvious which is that at a group/societal level, importing millions of people from alien cultures and races will eventually destroy Englishness, and that not all races and cultures are equally compatible with ours, and that our White European cousins will more easily assimilate. In my personal and professional life I judge people by how I find them, not by… Read more »

Heretic
Heretic
8 months ago

Ethnic Identity is what is being routinely denied to White People.
Ethnic Identity is what we’re talking about.

Heretic
Heretic
8 months ago

No, Englishness is not “a vague concept”.
Germanness is not “a vague concept”.
Greekness is not “a vague concept”.
Irishness is not “a vague concept”.
Welshness is not “a vague concept”.
Scottishness is not “a vague concept”.

transmissionofflame
8 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

In ethnic terms, I agree. If the word is being used to describe a set of typical behaviours, which I imagine it is by the writer of that article, then I think it is necessarily vague.

Heretic
Heretic
8 months ago

But it is ETHNICITY that we are being bombarded with on a daily basis, by Communist Globalists telling us that only Third World Ethnicity has any validity, and that Whiteness is a “problem”.

transmissionofflame
8 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

Oh yes I completely agree with that.

Monro
8 months ago

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/04/there-is-such-a-thing-as-englishness-it-can-be-learnt/

What does the article actually say?

‘mass immigration. Uncontrolled, non-selective and far beyond rational limits, it becomes economically ruinous and socially divisive. It corrupts democracy, affronts sovereignty and law, and pulverises national solidarity. I favour narrow limits and strict enforcement.’

Taking one example, a friend of mine: one of his grandparents had ancestors who came to Britain in the 17th Century, probably Huguenots, also ancestors who came over before written records, during the dark ages, no doubt vikings. On his other side, Anglo Irish and apothecaries, quite likely from Assyria.

Genetics for countless millions in this country will not be dissimilar. Britain has always been a trading nation and melting pot. The old language most similar to English is Frisian i.e. Germanic.

Mass immigration is lunacy. Controlled immigration is normal. After all, half a million people left Britain last year…..and who can blame them?

transmissionofflame
8 months ago
Reply to  Monro

Controlled immigration is normal.”

It may or may not be “normal” depending on your definition of the words “normal” and “controlled”.

Just because something is “normal” does not mean it is desirable. Up until after WW2 there had been very little immigration into the British Isles since the Norman Conquest. Close to a millenium of stability. And prior to WW2 almost all the immigration had been by white people.

Monro
8 months ago

‘HuguenotsFirstly, tens of thousands — estimates vary between 40,000 and 80,000 — of Protestant Huguenots fled to the United Kingdom from France over several decades following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685.  Palatines The Naturalisation Act 1708 enabled far easier, large-scale and administrative naturalisation without the expense and inconvenience of a personal Act of Parliament. Shortly after its passage, an estimated 13,000 destitute Palatines from Germany unexpectedly arrived in the UK, fleeing the ravages of war. Irish The official adult Irish population in the United Kingdom rose by over 300,000 from 289,000 in 1841 to over 600,000 by 1861.  Political dissidents The revolutions and uprisings of 1848 and ensuing repression generated many refugees, for example. Not long after then, the foreign secretary, Lord Glanville, circulated a directive to all British missions stating that ‘[b]y the existing laws of Great Britain, all foreigners have the unrestricted right of entrance and residence in this country … No foreigner, as such, can be sent out of the country by the Executive Government, except persons removed by treaties with other States, confirmed by Act of Parliament, for the mutual surrender of criminal offenders.’ Russian JewsThe final group of this era were… Read more »

transmissionofflame
8 months ago
Reply to  Monro

A lot of those are post WW2, and Irish before don’t count because I said British Isles. UK was almost 100% white, and massive majority were English, Welsh, Scotttish and Irish whose ancestors had been in these islands for centuries. What has happened since is completely different and no mention of “melting pots” will change my mind on that. In any case I don’t care whether we were a “melting pot” before, I don’t want us to be any more. But we are doomed to extinction – both our race and our civilisation. The world will miss us when we are gone, the idiots.

Monro
8 months ago

The point is clear. Controlled immigration has been normal in this country for centuries.

Many from Ireland very much dislike the term ‘British Isles’. Nineteenth century Irish immigrants to Britain have their own communities, football clubs, fly Irish Republican flags, form the greater part of the separatist movement in Scotland.

They clearly pose a significant democratic political threat to the United Kingdom.

transmissionofflame
8 months ago
Reply to  Monro

It’s far from clear. Numbers now much bigger and in much shorter time, from less compatible races and cultures. I don’t want any more immigration, controlled or not.

Monro
8 months ago

Which is precisely what the referenced article says, pretty much:

‘I favour narrow limits and strict enforcement’

500,000, unsurprisingly, left Britain last year. For me, depopulation is a good shout, for many reasons, but that won’t work with our ponzi pension scheme.

Systemic reform of taxation, government spending, government regulation, the public sector first, consequent economic growth permitting pull up the drawbridge in order to permit assimilation.

Thereafter, the voter should decide.

Our present problem is simply that the voter has been ignored for too long.

As a consequence, the demise of one major party is in train, the demise of the other just around the corner.

Sooner or later, a politician and party may get the hang of it.

Democracy: the least worst system of government.

transmissionofflame
8 months ago
Reply to  Monro

The future does not look bright to me 🙁

huxleypiggles
8 months ago
Reply to  Monro

The point is clear. Controlled immigration has been normal in this country for centuries.”

Presumably you can provide some references that can be checked?

You are talking utter nonsense. tof is 100% correct.

Monro
8 months ago
Reply to  Monro

Reference above ‘mainly drawn from a combination of Robert Winder’s excellent Bloody Foreigners, Jordanna Bailkin’s Unsettled: Refugee camps and the making of multi-cultural Britain and a bit of light Googling.’

Heretic
Heretic
8 months ago
Reply to  Monro

And what are YOU, Monro?

Monro
8 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

I am a small state capitalist democratic constitutional monarchist, where hope constantly triumphs over experience.

Heretic
Heretic
8 months ago
Reply to  Monro

You either stand up for your own White People, or you do not.

As someone said,

“I always stand with the White Folks, because NO ONE ELSE WILL.”

Monro
8 months ago
Reply to  Monro

‘White people are mostly a light shade of pink. But the whitest people I know are Koreans, who are said to have yellow skin.’ ‘Whiteness is hard to define, but apparently it involves lots of vegetables, alcohol and the arts – and names like Yoder’ ‘The obsession with “whiteness” afflicts two main tribes: white supremacists, and Woke neo-racists. Both of these groups are pitifully ignorant, and of sub par intelligence, to the extent that they believe that that there is some sort of sharp binary between “white people”, and people of colour, and that the distinction between the two is of great importance. It is telling that both of these extremist tribes put such weight upon racial categorizations, at the same time as being ostensibly each other’s worst enemy. In reality, the ‘Woke’ are desperate that white supremacists should continue to exist, since their existence means they can continue to claim that racism in Western societies has to be fought with the same intensity as it was it was sixty years ago, as if there had been no improvement in race relations over the last six decades. The ‘Woke’ are actively attempting to sow dissent between racial groups, because good… Read more »

transmissionofflame
8 months ago
Reply to  Monro

Sorry who are these “white supremacists” that you’re on about, and what does this phrase mean. I don’t know whether you are quoting someone here, or just saying what you think. Completely lost. Race exists and it matters. There is a White European race which has IMO produced the best countries to live in – but I am biased. Chinese, Japanese and Korean civilisations are also impressive, though I would not want to live in those places (but thrilled for them to do so).

Monro
8 months ago

All quotes are in quotation marks.

White Supremacism is a belief that the ‘White Race’ has certain inalienable physical and mental characteristics that makes it superior (with some variation) to other races. Often associated with conspiracy theories that explain the decline in ‘white’ political and social status over the last hundred years. This can also encapsulate a belief in the spiritual superiority of the ‘White Race’

‘Since 2016 the UK has proscribed five ERWT groups, all of whom hold a White Supremacist ideology. These groups are:

National Action (NA)
Sonnenkrieg Division
Feuerkrieg Division
Atomwaffen Division (AWD)
The Base’

The Threat from Extreme Right-Wing Terrorism’, Protect UK, Feb. 2023

transmissionofflame
8 months ago
Reply to  Monro

Yeah, all those right wing terrorist atrocities. Or maybe all avoided by the vigilance of our “security services”. Seems like the whole planet are white supremacists then as everyone wants to come and live in countries built by white people.

Heretic
Heretic
8 months ago

Ha-ha! Well said, Transmission! 🙂

Monro has also given me a new epithet to add to mine, which will now be:

“Heretic the Racist Neanderthal Bigot with Sub-Par Intelligence”

Monro
8 months ago

‘An extreme rightwing terrorist has been sentenced to prison for the rest of his life for the murder of the Labour MP Jo Cox after a seven-day Old Bailey trial in which he made no effort to defend himself.
Thomas Mair repeatedly shot and stabbed Cox in an attack during the EU referendum campaign in June. While attacking her he was saying: “This is for Britain”, “keep Britain independent”, and “Britain first”, the court heard.’

Jo Cox MP, murder trial

‘These extremists were plotting violent acts of terrorism against Synagogues, Mosques and Islamic Education Centres. By their own admission, they were inspired by SS tactics and supremacist ideology.

“Had Christopher Ringrose managed to completely finish building the 3-D printed semi-automatic firearm that he had started to, it could have been used leading to devastating consequences.”

“The prosecution case against the defendants included their disturbing Telegram and Facebook chats as well as acquiring military equipment such as riot shields, body armour and an arsenal of weapons found at their home addresses that were to be used in readiness for a ‘race war’

Counter terrorism policing July 2025

As for everyone wanting to live here, 500,000 leave every year…..

transmissionofflame
8 months ago
Reply to  Monro

And 1.5 million arrive, mainly non white

Monro
8 months ago

‘Total net migration was 431,000 in 2024. This figure represents around half of the level recorded in the year ending June 2023, when net migration peaked at a historical high of 906,000, but is above pre-pandemic estimates of between 200,000 and 300,000’

The Migration Observatory

transmissionofflame
8 months ago
Reply to  Monro

I feel supremely relaxed about far right terrorism thanks – my government is trying to destroy my country

Monro
8 months ago

Then you and I have nothing further to say to one another.

huxleypiggles
8 months ago
Dinger64
8 months ago

“Difficult exams are ‘discriminatory’, say junior lawyers”

I hope all the junior lawyers attend a national conference on the matter and the plane taking them there is piloted by people who took less ‘discriminatory’ flight exams!

EppingBlogger
8 months ago

“instead of relying on overseas workers to grow the economy” – what a daft idea. We know that almost all immigrants cost the rest of us money so how could anyone get the idea of importing more of them in order to make the economy more prosperous or even “bigger”.

transmissionofflame
8 months ago
Reply to  EppingBlogger

Excellent point. There are also different kinds of “growth”. Total GDP increasing means you might be able to have a bigger military and more negotiating clout, but it’s GDP per capita that measures how prosperous we are and that’s usually not a measure that is quoted – any fool can “grow” an economy by increasing the population, but it doesn’t make us richer.

Heretic
Heretic
8 months ago

‘Why I joined Southport riots’: jailed protester still has no regrets” 

comment by Theo_Warrener:

“A recently settled Somalian migrant was walking down a London street. He came upon a group of men gathered around luxury SUV’s and said ‘Thank you for taking me in, for giving me money and a place to live!’ The men sneered at him and one replied ‘We’re Albanian.’

The Somalian walked on and came upon a group of men outside a cafe sharing a shisha pipe and sipping espressos. ‘Thank you for taking me in and giving me money!’ he said. The men smirked, one said ‘We’re from Iraq.’

The confused Somalian continued his walk and came upon a large crowd of young men singing, dancing and drinking beer outside a pub. Again he thanked them for taking him in, giving him money and a place to live. The men laughed before one replied, ‘’We are Ukrainian.’

The crestfallen Somalian shook his head and asked ‘Where are all the English people then?’ The Ukrainian sipped his beer then looked at his watch and said ‘They’re working.’ “

Heretic
Heretic
8 months ago

FALSE!!! SHAME ON YOU, ROBERT TOMBS.

We understand it perfectly well.

Heretic
Heretic
8 months ago

Government may ban ‘barely legal’ porn amid fury over Bonnie Blue doc” 

All porn should be banned.
It serves no purpose at all except to corrupt and destroy everything good.
Just like Satan.

Heretic
Heretic
8 months ago

No, it does not prove that the Damscene Conversion of the Globalist Merz is anything other than “window-dressing”: a typical attempt to draw voters away from the AfD.

Heretic
Heretic
8 months ago

This is HUGE, and directly comparable to what is happening in Britain, and indeed everywhere in the West.

Well done to those courageous Brazilian researchers, and to Richard Eldred & the DS for drawing attention to their incredible findings.

It gives me hope that humanity really is waking up, everywhere.