One in (No)One Out

ROGER WATSON

I predicted recently in these pages that, whatever the government claim they are going to do about illegal migration, they won’t. And once again, they haven’t.

The last Tory government talked a good talk about flying illegals out under two Home Secretaries, Priti Patel and Suella Braverman. But each time they tried, even with planes loaded, not even one took off.

An uncooperative blob, spurious legal challenges and the spectre of the European Court of Human Rights ensured that they were thwarted each time. I don’t know which company the government uses but perhaps they should try Ryanair, not just for the punishment of flying with them but because Michael O’Leary waits for no man.

On 15 September the first plane due to fly to France under the ‘one in, one out’ deal which Starmer struck with France was cancelled due to last minute legal challenges. “How many migrants were on board?”, I hear you ask. Was it a hundred, fifty, twenty or ten? Brace yourself…it was one. One!

The number of illegal migrants in the UK is estimated to be somewhere between 120,000 and over one million; a difference of 880,000 between the two estimates. Let’s use the lower estimate (it matters little). If we are only planning to move illegal migrants out one at a time and we cannot even achieve that then the net efflux of the great unwanted will equal the square root of sod all. Zero, none, nil.

(Update: The first migrant deported under the ‘one in, one out’ scheme finally left our shores on Thursday morning. That leaves a mere 5,589 illegals that have arrived since the scheme came into effect at the start of August!)

As I also said in these pages, there soon won’t be any piss left to take. And that is what Tommy Robinson’s March last Sunday was all about. Like him or dislike him (I cannot make up my mind) he probably held the biggest rally ever held on British soil. It certainly looked big from the aerial footage I saw on New Culture Forum. Police estimates of ‘up to’ 150,000 people marching are laughable and, of course, willingly repeated by the BBC and other captive media.

Of course, The Guardian described it as ‘pure and simple’ racism. They obviously did not account for the black singers on stage before Tommy Robinson addressed the crowd or the many South Asian faces among the marchers. The march was about immigration; legal and illegal. The people of the UK having long realised that both are excessive but the difference now is that they are no longer afraid to give voice to their concerns.

British people are afraid that their identity is becoming diluted and they are afraid to display symbols of that identity. Legal migrants, already well established in the UK, also have a lot to lose from uncontrolled migration. They came here for higher salaries and a better life. The last thing a well-integrated and peaceful Pakistani migrant wants is more Pakistanis coming here. Especially if they want to bring Pakistan with them in the shape of Sharia Law, the abuse of women and the general sense of misery that seems to emanate from Islamic zealots.

What the endgame will be following Robinson’s march is not clear, but it is clear that he has a larger following than even he probably thought. Keir Starmer can nasally intone “far-right” as often as he wants. He could not be more wrong, but it barely matters. People are becoming immune to labels.

If it is ‘far-right’ to want your taxes spent on your own deserving cases and your own culture to flourish rather than on abject scroungers who do not respect our culture, then I must be far-right. If it is racist to state the blindingly obvious about the origins, beliefs and behaviour of the marauding hordes of ‘beach boys’, then I must also be a racist. We must let these labels run off our backs like ducks.

Starmer, almost certainly, is toast; either soon at the hands of his own backbenchers, or later when the country votes. It is of genuine concern who succeeds him. Will Reform deliver? If the economy crashes, as some are predicting, will a future government even have the resources to mount the massive and much needed remigration that Farage promises?

Sooner or later, someone will have to stop treating the British people like a nuisance in their own land. The public mood is shifting, and fast; people are less afraid of being called names than of losing their country altogether. Whatever one’s view of Tommy Robinson or the march itself, it cannot be denied that a corner has been turned. Unless those in power grasp this shift and act decisively, they may discover, for real, what ‘far-right’ and ‘racism’ really mean.

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Roger Watson is a retired academic, editor and writer. He writes regularly for a range of conservative journals including The Salisbury Review and The European Conservative. He has travelled and worked extensively in the Far East and the Middle East. He lives in Kingston upon Hull, UK.

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Hundreds In, Two Out

MORE THAN 800 MIGRANTS CROSSING CHANNEL AS UK DEPORTS JUST TWO ASYLUM SEEKERS

More than 400 migrants are currently making their way across the channel at the time of going to pixel. GB News’ Mark White has shared footage of 166 migrants arriving in Dover, with hundreds more en route. Less than 24 hours ago, Keir Starmer boasted of his ‘one in, one out’ deal with France, which has so far returned… two people. Trump advised him to call in the military to get a grip of the problem. This morning Peter Kyle poured cold water on that idea, saying it’s UK Border Force’s job. How’s that working out?

UPDATE: There are now closer to 800 migrants crossing the channel. The total figure could reach more than 1000 by the end of the day…

SOURCE: Guido Fawkes

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Flights fiasco makes Britain a global laughing stock

ALEXANDER MCKIBBIN

WHILE future historians might not be able to agree upon a specific date when Great Britain began its vertiginous and rapid descent into impotent irrelevance, they will most certainly be able to agree that Monday, September 15, 2025, marked the moment that the UK’s futile absurdity was nakedly on display for the whole world to see.

This was the day when the political posturing that has so dominated the news agenda for years was finally and unceremoniously exposed for what it is – irredeemable cant. Despite hundreds of well-remunerated politicians, thousands of civil servants, the top legal brains at their disposal, we are incapable, when we want to, of removing one single, solitary person who should not be here in the first place. That just one Channel migrant is now believed to have finally been deported to France under Sir Keir Starmer’s ‘one in, one out’ deal, of the 100 detained for a over a month now, makes no odds to this symbol of the country’s sheer ineffectiveness. Threats of legal action have not stopped.

 If ever there was a defining and deeply shaming moment in how farcical this country has become, this was it.

The ungrateful public, the angry masses who had the temerity to voice their growing annoyance at the Government’s multiple failures, were finally treated to the final act of what for many has simply been a long running Whitehall farce – minus the trouser dropping and the unexpected arrival of the vicar.

For over the last year our ears have been deafened to the repetitive ‘smash the gangs’ and ‘stop the boats’ rhetoric alongside the squandering of hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ cash to the French authorities. For what? For all the bombast and earnest pledges we, the electorate, have been sold a pup.

When Starmer announced his one-in-one-out plan after Macron’s state visit, a multitude of commentators queued up to pour l’eau froid on this patently risible plan. It was, as foretold, a putty policy that would founder on the granite-like rock of the ECHR.

So, after none too subtle leaks and briefings about the inaugural deportation, we were able to see first-hand just what an inept and totally ineffectual entity Great Britain has become. Could there be anything quite so emblematic of our decay and incompetence as our inability to exclude just one irregular migrant from our shores?

How hollow all the tough talk from the Prime Minister downward now sounds. The serious faces, the entreaties that they were going to get a grip on things, quite how they look at themselves in the mirror each day while trousering our money for abjectly failing to do what the public expect is a mystery.

The delicious irony in this carnival of imbecility lies in the fact that the PM has been well and truly hoist by the ECHR petard he has so eloquently and volubly defended. How the individual who edited the manual on human rights failed so spectacularly to see how it would derail his ludicrous extradition plans speaks volumes about Starmer’s intellectual nous and judgement, the latter being well documented with his ill-advised Mandelson appointment.

With exquisite timing, like a ringmaster entering the circus, comes the President of the United States. Someone allegedly in thrall to pomp and pageantry – a vestige of tradition that Britain can still pull off with some aplomb. The sixth-form antics of protesters projecting the images of Epstein and Trump on to Windsor Castle epitomise perhaps all too well what a failure Blair’s determination to send everyone to university was and remains. Universities, where once the orders of intellectual rigour, academic discipline and open mindedness were hallmarks, now lie discarded on a smouldering tip of diversity, equality and inclusiveness surmounted by a burning tyre of youthful stupidity.

The contrast between Trump and Starmer could not be sharper. The President oozes conviction, principles, beliefs and a determination to impose his weltanschauung on the US. By contrast, we have a straw premier, twisting and bending in the wind. A leader unloved and mocked, not only by the population at large but even by his own party who realise that he is a liability, hopelessly out of touch, unable even to effect the most basic of acts.

Whatever he does now, nothing will escape the most minute scrutiny and like all lame ducks, events will finally overtake him, and the Peter Principle (not Mandelson) will claim yet another scalp. The plentiful mocking memes on social media are the digital Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, a harbinger that Starmer’s political time will shortly be up and a quiet backwater in lecturing will beckon.

The fiasco over Rayner and Mandelson, immigration, the accusations of two-tier justice, the faltering economic news, and lurking in the background a Budget that will once and for all cement in people’s minds the absolute madness of Labour’s financial policy, his condemnation of his populace as ‘plastic patriots’ will render the UK a basket case on the international stage.

Remember the glee of reporters at Labour’s election victory, and the claim that the adults were back in the room? Now the clowns are in residence and we, the people, are on the receiving end of a daily unappetising custard pie in the face.

Yet as the sun sets on this once proud and capable nation, perhaps, just perhaps, there is one thing we could do. With our world class pageantry so effortlessly delivered, we should simply become one large theme park off the coast of Europe. A mixture of the fun of Alton Towers and the pomp and circumstance of state occasions. Depending on where you live you would be outfitted accordingly. Pearly suits for those born within the sound of Bow Bells, tweed suits for country dwellers, kilts, pointy and bowler hats for our kindred brethren.

Then, at five o’clock each day, tourists and sightseers could gawp at the spectacle of regimented soldiers performing the ancient ceremony of Trooping the Migrant where youthful good-looking cavalry wearing plumed helmets would imperiously escort an irregular migrant towards Heathrow, only to march back again having been thwarted by actors representing the ‘Refugees welcome here’ brigade. God help us.

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