'If no one went no faster than what I do there'd be a sight less trouble in this world'

I have been reading further into Labour’s new scheme to give approved community groups the right to identify individual refugees they want brought to Britain, including people already known to them. Under the old system, these 'community sponsors' supported a refugee selected by the Government/UNHCR. Now the community group itself can nominate the individual it wants to bring here. This means groups can advocate for friends or relatives abroad to be resettled in Britain. We've gone from the government choosing who comes to these 'communities' getting to choose who comes here. Who thought this was a good idea?

I am really glad about this policy not because of the pounds saved or lost but because a core Conservative principle is that we believe in the relationship between generations across a family - that this is the building block of society.

Angela Rayner’s new policy on ‘Empty Dwelling Management Orders’ is one of the most outrageous, authoritarian overreaches by a British government ever. It gives the state the power to confiscate private property if left unoccupied for six months. It is literally legalised theft and yet the left-wing media luvvies lapped up her party conference speech and let it slip by without so much as a whimper of protest. When people realise how pernicious Rayner’s ‘Empty Dwelling Management Orders’ are, the inevitable outcry will be too late. First and foremost, it will be the state that decides if your house is ripe for confiscation. The local council will deploy ‘Empty Homes Officers’, for which there is about to be a recruitment drive, who will spy on your property. These state snoops will visit your property, check your mail, take photos of your house and obtain your water and energy usage.  Armed with this information, like some second-rate private investigator, build a case on whether you’ve been living there.   Then when the state seizes your property and rents it out, who gets the payments? You guessed it, it goes directly to the local council. And they get to decide if they want to use the rent for repairs, building works and any health-and-safety upgrades to make the house habitable. They will then take out any money needed to cover the council's letting agent fees and property management costs. Only then, if there is anything left, will the actual owner get something.   The state will be able to confiscate your property for seven years.    Of course, the property owner will still be responsible for paying the mortgage if there is one - even if they are getting no income. The council, despite taking the rent, won’t cover the mortgage payments.  But should this lead to a default, the bank can repossess the property, so the owner will potentially lose everything. That isn’t the end of the scandal, because should the tenant, which the council found, stop paying rent, the council can’t evict them as they have full legal tenancy rights. Leaving the property owner with even fewer rights than the non-rent paying tenant.    People have complicated lives which means they may end up with an empty property - for example if an elderly parent dies, a messy divorce or a house you hoped you could one day do up.   Housing Secretary, Angela Rayner, too has a complicated housing arrangement. She divides her time across three accommodations - her Westminster one, her constituency home in Ashton-under-Lyne, and her new controversial Hove apartment (the one she didn’t pay full stamp duty on over which she had to resign).   No doubt the state won’t be looking to seize her private property.  In this Socialist nightmare we are living through, some are always more equal than others.

Thought Badenoch's speech was good last year. This surpassed it. Drew a crystal clear line between herself and Andy Burnham on major issues of substance. But even more significantly, draw a line between herself and Farage. There will be no uniting the right. She wants to crush Reform.

A classic example of how playing the ‘both sides’ card is a means of avoiding, or even denying, obvious truths. “We can never allow conflict overseas to divide us at home”, Khan says. But only one side imports the conflict here. Only one side targets the other on British streets every week. The two sides are not, in fact, the same.

As far as apologies for being an arrogant bigot go, this is transparently thin gruel from Riddell-Carpenter.

At yet another rally/vigil to remember those innocents fallen on October and Stand with the world’s only Jewish state. How many more of these will we need to attend before the world wakes up to the scourge of antisemitism and the deadly threat of Islamism?

If the Mayor of London can’t bring himself to remember the over one thousand victims of the 7th October atrocity without criticising the Israeli Government, and cannot talk about antisemitism in his city without referring to Gaza, then he may as well not say anything at all. Given his tenure has been characterised by inaction and conspicuous absence as the Jewish community has suffered the worst antisemitism in living memory on his watch, for him to say nothing now would be perfectly in character. His statement is worse than nothing. Our representative polling shows that 85% of British Jews are dissatisfied with London Mayor’s performance in relation to the Jewish community since 7th October 2023. This statement will do nothing to improve that standing.

Have to say, a standing ovation for the far-right black labrador, was inspired. What a gift Labour Minister Jenny Riddell-Carpenter's prejudices have been to... well everyone who isn't a Labour hack

We drove alongside a pro-Palestine march displaying images of Kfir, Ariel and Shiri Bibas that read: “Kidnapped on 7th October. Murdered in captivity.” The police refused to ban the march, so the least we could do was educate those taking part. It didn’t go down well.

A comparison of the messages Andy Burnham and @Nigel_Farage have put out today on the anniversary of the atrocities of October 7th shows clearly which of them understands the reality of leadership. And it isn’t Burnham. Both vow to oppose antisemitism and to stand with Britain’s Jews. But while Burnham’s op-ed is full of generalised platitudes and concerns, he ducks all the hard questions about who is behind contemporary antisemitism within the UK. Instead he blames hostile states trying to divide us as if antisemitism was an entirely external phenomenon. He can’t even name the problem, so his ability to lead on solving it is precisely zero. In contrast Nigel Farage goes into immense depth in his online essay to name and shame the drivers of Jew hatred in this country, and explaining the horrors of the past three years on UK streets. He calls out the Islamist, progressive alliance and liberal institutional drivers of the sickness, and the complicity of various British political parties in making things worse. He ends with a powerful clarion call that both reminds of the deep-seated patriotism of the Jewish community as well as the need for Britain to rally and respond to it: ‘When World War One broke out, the exhortation in the Jewish Chronicle was clear: “England has been all she could be to the Jews, Jews will be all they can be to England”. A century on, Britain’s Jewish community has kept its half of the deal while we have broken ours. We must fix this.’ Indeed, we must.

Students chose today – the three-year anniversary of Hamas’ terrorist attacks – to march against Israel. So we decided to show them what actually happened on that day. Not everyone wanted to see it. Full video coming later.

This smug fool is Antoinette Fernandez, the Green Party reparations officer. She stupidly believes Britain should pay billions in repatriation for slavery action many centuries ago. Her grandad is Nigerian slave trader, recently posting his wealth at just over 2 billion dollars (he now strip mines Nigeria for oil and gas). His family wealth is entirely built from generations of selling Nigerian men and women into slavery. Mental left wing hypocrisy at its best.

Imagine doing this outside a Jewish organisation on October 7 and the thinking you are good people.

We’ve taken over a page of The Guardian to remember the victims of Hamas’ 7th October terrorist attacks and warn of rising antisemitism in Britain. Unlike readers of other newspapers, Guardian readers may not know what happened that day. Thanks to a donor, they do now.

Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, has said that every woman travelling illegally to the UK will probably have been raped on the journey. It is a startling statement. Firstly, for what is implied. The trafficking operation bringing dinghies to our south coast is, the Home Secretary now admits, not merely facilitating illegal migration, it is also exposing women to the most appalling sexual violence. Her comment, made in a Leading podcast interview with Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell, was also a whisker away from admitting that very many of the small boats arriving here may contain rapists. Second, it is remarkable that she was able to say it. You can only imagine the hysteria from much of the political establishment if someone on the right had made the same observation. There are some facts which become respectable only when uttered by a Labour politician. ✍️ Ameer Kotecha Article | spectator.com/article/shaban… | @Ameer_Kotecha

Jewish MP Damien Egan was blocked from visiting a school after a pro-Palestinian campaign claimed his visit could “inflame” teachers. The local NEU branch celebrated. Ofsted rightly investigated, but couldn’t examine the mistakes made at the time. That is a serious gap in accountability. We’d give Ofsted the power to investigate the full picture & hold those responsible to account.

It was really interesting listening to Christine Ockrent on Radio 4’s 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒂𝒕 𝑶𝒏𝒆 this lunchtime. Ockrent, one of France’s best-known broadcasters, said of the street protests there: “You have the Hamas factor, which indeed is playing in all our democracies, and even in the UK, where you have had huge demonstrations, and violent ones. And we are on the eve of the October the 7th anniversaries of the massacres in Israel. And so I think the Hamas factor has politicised this very young generation.” Sarah Montague interrupted: “You say the Hamas factor. Do you mean the pro-Palestinian factor, which is how I think it would be characterised here?” Ockrent replied: “Yes, you’re correct, but it’s factual to say the pro-Hamas, and that is fairly obvious in the various organisations that are supporting these movements.” Montague was, of course, doing her job by challenging Ockrent’s assertion. But Ockrent touched on an extremely uncomfortable truth that I don’t think the BBC, much of the progressive left or indeed large parts of the political establishment have remotely come to terms with. We have a radicalised generation of young people who have been fed a succession of ideological orthodoxies and encouraged to regard them not as arguments to be tested, but as moral truths that only bad people question. Gender identity is supposedly more meaningful than biological reality. Israel is supposedly the most evil country on earth. Western civilisation is uniquely wicked. Colonialism explains almost everything. And in the ugliest manifestation of this worldview, Hamas terrorists who murdered, raped and kidnapped civilians can somehow be recast as brave anti-colonial “resistance fighters”. No, obviously not every young person believes this nonsense. But enough do for it to have become a serious cultural and political phenomenon. And changing demographics in Britain and France are plainly part of this story. It is ridiculous to pretend otherwise. Countries can absorb enormous demographic change only if there remains sufficient agreement about the values, laws and institutions holding the country together. Importing millions of people from societies with radically different religious, cultural and political assumptions was always going to have consequences. The idea that everybody would simply arrive, adopt the prevailing liberal democratic consensus and that nothing fundamental would change was itself a kind of utopianism. Use your eyes and ears. Look at what is happening on the streets of European cities. Listen to what people are chanting. Look at the flags. Look at the glorification of people and movements whose values are profoundly hostile to the liberal societies in which their supporters are demonstrating. It is no good pretending this isn’t happening because acknowledging it makes people uncomfortable. We have a clash of cultures playing itself out on the streets of Europe. We also have a clash of realities between generations - although the insanity is certainly not confined to the young, as the Green Party has demonstrated spectacularly this week. And I see remarkably little evidence that any of this is going to improve. The question is how much worse things have to get before politicians of every political hue acknowledge the obvious: a nation cannot indefinitely function as a collection of mutually antagonistic identity groups occupying the same geographical space. Countries need borders, yes. But they also need a shared conception of citizenship. Shared institutions. Shared obligations. Shared democratic norms. And enough common values for people of radically different backgrounds to regard one another as members of the same national community. Multiculturalism without integration eventually becomes fragmentation. And when a society loses the things that bind it together, we shouldn’t be surprised when it starts coming apart.

This is on the @bbcnews LIVE updates for the Oct 7 remembrance page. This "genocide" org is junk - the BBC is publishing raw propaganda - and WHOEVER wrote this on this page should be fired. The public should not pay their wages. The BBC hates Jews. And cannot help itself.

Nearly three years ago the day after October 7th I went to the Israeli Embassy in London to pay my respects to those murdered in the Hamas attacks. I was met by a mob celebrating the death of Jews. I will never forget what I saw that day. We must never normalise hatred