Politics & Stuff

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2 hours ago, guddy6969 said:

I have a few friends in Sweden, you do have a point it is ruined.. I don't know how they could possibly stop what's happening now.. The hangs are to powerful and armed to the teeth. The country is doomed 😢

Yup. My uncle lives in sweden, theyve had like over 300 bombings alone in like a year, loads of the country is a no go zone now, absolute take over that dark forces have used far left politics and laws to abuse and shield themselves from true justice and integration, pretty much an invasion, the murder, sex crime and general crime rate by foreigners is insane

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It's like the Dollar Tree version of Versailles

Donald Trump has, quite literally, covered the Oval Office in gold.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/golden-door-oval-office

 

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I'll just leave this here 😇

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If Europa was a football club, surely people would heavily shout for the "deadwood" to "be sold". 

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47 minutes ago, CucurellatheCat said:

I'll just leave this here 😇

Disputed or debunked claims about migration and crime in the UK

As politicians face criticism for promoting misleading data, here are some claims that do not bear scrutiny

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/05/disputed-or-debunked-claims-about-migration-and-crime-uk

Several politicians have got into hot water for promoting and repeating misleading data in recent months, particularly about migration and crime. There have been calls for the government and police forces to be more transparent about the figures to tackle misinformation and hysteria.

Here are some of the high-profile claims that have been disputed or debunked.

 

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1. Are foreign nationals responsible for 40% of sexual crime in London? 

Conservative Robert Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary, said on Radio 4’s Today programme on Monday that 40% of sexual crimes in London last year were committed by foreign nationals.

The claim was sourced from the Centre for Migration Control (CMC), a thinktank and blog that describes its purpose as “controlling and reducing migration to Britain”. It is run by the Reform UK activist Robert Bates.

CMC’s claims come from the Metropolitan police’s response to a freedom of information request. The Met issued a breakdown of the number of people who had been proceeded against – ie brought before a court – for sexual offences by nationality. This does not mean they have been found guilty of committing the offence as Jenrick said. For example, there were 14,242 defendants brought to court for sexual offences at magistrates courts in England and Wales in 2024, but 8,098 convictions, according to Ministry of Justice statistics.

“Some of the data we’re seeing is very striking,” Jenrick also said. “Afghans and Eritrean nationals are 20 times more likely to be convicted of a sexual crime than a British national.” The statistic about Afghans has been repeated by Reform UK’s chair, Zia Yusuf.

This is a muddled figure that also came from the CMC, after it submitted freedom of information requests to the MoJ. It is based on population statistics from 2021 but data on offences covering the years between 2021 and 2023. That means the statistic is likely to be based on a significant underestimate of the number of Afghan and Eritrean nationals in the UK – meaning the comparison with British rates is unlikely to be 20 times as high. Immigration to the UK from Afghanistan has risen significantly since 2021 because of the Taliban’s return to power, while Eritrean migration has also risen due to wars in Eritrea, Sudan and Ethiopia.

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Restore Britain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restore_Britain

 

Restore Britain is a far-right political organisation in the United Kingdom, founded and led by the former Reform UK politician Rupert Lowe. It was announced on 30 June 2025 and advocates for the deportation of all illegal immigrants, protecting British culture and restoring what it describes as "Christian principles".

Background

Rupert Lowe was elected as one of Reform UK's five members of Parliament in the 2024 general election, representing the constituency of Great Yarmouth. However, Lowe was suspended from the party in March 2025, after allegations of threatening behaviour towards the party chairman, Zia Yusuf, as well as alleged other incidents of threatening behaviour between December 2024 and February 2025. Lowe has vehemently denied these claims and said that he has desired to make an alternative to Reform UK.

Platform

The platform of Restore Britain largely rests on immigration policy. Lowe, having previously said that Nigel Farage was "watering down" Reform's policy on the deportation of illegal migrants, has stated in the Restore Britain manifesto that they must "defend" Britain from "illegal migration, Islamist extremism, and foreign crime gangs threaten our safety", including the deportation of all illegal migrants currently residing in the UK.

He has also stated that "Migrants didn't build this country — Britons did. Stop apologising for it," saying that Britain should be proud of its history and Christian values. The principles of Restore Britain also state that "Mass immigration has left communities unrecognisable. Multiculturalism has failed, and division has grown." The organisation’s website promotes "net negative migration" and states that, "The Boriswave must be reversed, and the asylum system must be abolished."

Many other principles of the organisation revolve around ending diversity programmes and "the cancer of wokery", as well as stating that Parliament is broken and ignores the people. Lowe also calls for holding local institutions accountable, reducing unemployment by slashing benefits and cutting taxes.

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Rupert Lowe reports charity rowers to coastguard as possible ‘illegal migrants’

MP agrees to donate £1,000 to crew’s fundraising effort after alerting authorities to their boat off Great Yarmouth

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/08/rupert-lowe-gives-charity-1000-after-taking-its-rowers-for-immigrants

 

The independent MP Rupert Lowe has agreed to donate £1,000 to a charity after mistaking its rowing crew, including a former Royal Marine, for possible “illegal migrants”.

Lowe, who was elected as a Reform MP for Great Yarmouth but now sits as an independent, said he had shopped the crew to the authorities and vowed to do everything he could to have them deported if they turned out to be what he suspected

Instead, he was accused of being part of a vigilante effort after it turned out they were the four-person crew of an ocean rowing boat who were off Great Yarmouth as they attempted to row from Land’s End to John o’Groats to raise funding and awareness for motor neurone disease (MND).

Lowe, who has claimed he was ousted from Reform in March because the party’s leader, Nigel Farage, feared he was becoming too influential, posted a picture on social media on Thursday evening showing the boat near wind turbines off the Norfolk coast.

“Dinghies coming into Great Yarmouth, RIGHT NOW. Authorities alerted, and I am urgently chasing. If these are illegal migrants, I will be using every tool at my disposal to ensure these individuals are deported,” he wrote. He also demanded mass deportations.

The crew – Matthew Parker, Mike Bates, Aaron Kneebone and Liz Wardley, known collectively as Row4MND – said they had been contacted by the coastguard and asked if they could see a dinghy nearby.

Bates, a Royal Navy veteran and British record holder for rowing solo across the Atlantic, said it soon became clear the coastguard was asking about his own boat. “I looked to my right and there was maybe a dozen individuals stood on the shoreline staring at us.”

After satisfying the coastguard they were who they said they were, they continued. Several hours later, however, the coastguard contacted them again because the police had “asked if they could send a lifeboat out to check who we were”.

A friend eventually forwarded Lowe’s post to the crew, which Bates said had provided a moment of light relief. “We found it hilarious,” he said. “I’ve not been mistaken for a migrant before. The best comment was the one asking where the Royal Navy were when you need them. I’m a former Royal Marine, so the Royal Navy were on the boat.

“But it was almost like a vigilante-style, people following us down the beach. They hadn’t twigged that we were parallel to the shore for hours and not trying to land.”

 

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Owl and Pussycat mistaken for 'illegal migrants' by MP Rupert Lowe

https://www.newsbiscuit.com/post/owl-and-pussycat-mistaken-for-illegal-migrants-by-mp-rupert-lowe

Lowe posted a photograph of a beautiful pea-green boat, close to wind turbines, off the Norfolk coast at about 20:25 BST, and said he had alerted the authorities.

He wrote: 'Authorities alerted, and I am urgently chasing.

'If these are illegal migrants, I will be using every tool at my disposal to ensure these individuals are deported to the land where the Bong-Tree grows and to a wood a Piggy-wig stands with a ring at the end of his nose.'

'Enough is enough. Britain needs mass deportations. NOW.'

However, at 06:38 on Friday, he explained the 'unknown vessel' was a false alarm. He accepted it had been a mistake and the Owl and the Pussy-Cat were not immigrants. They did, in fact, have some honey, and plenty of money, wrapped up in a five-pound note. which they were planning to give to the Turkey who lives on the hill so that he would marry them the very next day.

In a later post, external, Lowe said: 'As a well done to the betrothed, I'll donate £1,000 in Greggs vouchers towards their reception.'

'Wait a minute - are they giving the money to Turkey? Hooray! I've found a way I can blame the Muslims! Form an angry mob at once!'