If elected, our wonderful @FloEshalomi -who has been an excellent Brixton Hill Cllr- will be the first ever Nigerian on the @LondonAssembly!

Knifeman who murdered former partner in her own home after 'targeting' her and moving in following release from prison jailed for life trib.al/MArnlCl

Unusually strong intervention from Norways Equinor - from whom UK buys 50% of its gas. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6zx…

The Blood Price of the Channel Lie Rhiannon Skye Whyte is dead because the British state chose pretence over protection. She was twenty-seven years old. A mother of one. Working an honest job in a hotel the government had repurposed as migrant accommodation. She did not die by chance. She was placed in harm's way by policy. Her killer was Deng Chol Majek, a Sudanese illegal migrant who had entered Britain by small boat less than three months earlier. He was housed, fed, clothed, and protected by the taxpayer. He stalked Rhiannon after her shift. Followed her to a deserted train platform while she was speaking to her family on the phone. He stabbed her twenty-three times with a screwdriver. Then he went back to the hotel, bought beer, and danced in the car park. That sequence matters. Not for shock value, but for responsibility. Majek should never have been there. Not in Britain. Not in that hotel. Not near unprotected women doing their jobs. He lied about his age. He was assessed as an adult despite claiming to be a teenager. He had been observed staring at female staff. Police had been called repeatedly to the hotel. Former staff warned it was a ticking time bomb. The warnings were known. They were ignored. This is the real cost of the Channel crossings con. Not statistics. Not slogans. Lives. The government insists the crossings are complex and hard to stop. That claim collapses on contact with reality. The boats are tracked from launch to landing. They stop entirely when the weather turns rough. Which tells you everything. The flow is conditional. Managed. Known. If the state wanted it to stop, it would. Yet the route remains open by choice. Britain has paid France £480 million to help prevent these crossings, yet the boats still leave. Faced with that reality, the government does not confront the failure but reaches for illusion instead, chasing Chinese outboard engines and presenting it as enforcement. None of this touches the single fact that keeps the trade alive. Reach British waters and you will be brought ashore, housed, processed, and settled into civilian life. That guarantee is the business model. Deng Chol Majek was not a bolt from the blue. He was the predictable outcome of a system that elevates process over consequence and performs compassion while neglecting public safety. When a state brings in large numbers of unknown men from war zones and cultures far removed from Western norms, fails to vet them properly, and places them into hotels staffed by women with no meaningful protection, it is not acting humanely. It is acting recklessly. Rhiannon Skye Whyte paid for that recklessness with her life. Her six-year-old son will pay for it for the rest of his. This is why the small-boats lie matters. Not because of politics. Because of blood. Because every decision to wave another boat through is also a decision to push risk downstream onto people who did not consent to carry it. Ordinary workers. Women finishing late shifts. Families living near hotels quietly turned into holding pens. Ministers will call this tragic. They will say no one could have known. The record proves otherwise. The warnings were there. The behaviour was there. The pattern was there. What was missing was the will to act. Borders are not abstract lines on a map. They are filters. When you deliberately disable the filter, you get consequences. Rhiannon Skye Whyte deserved to go home safely after work. She did not because the state chose not to enforce the one rule that would have kept her killer out. That is the truth beneath the slogans. And no amount of talk about gangs, engines, or complexity can wash the blood away. "Rhiannon Skye Whyte paid for that recklessness with her life. Her six-year-old son will pay for it for the rest of his. This is why the small-boats lie matters. Not because of politics. Because of blood."