Women will pay the price for Labour’s open borders

Barrow-in-Furness is a perfect microcosm of events taking place up and down the country

24 June 2025 

Daily Telegraph 

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When property developers applied for permission to turn a former hotel into a “house in multiple occupation”, they claimed it was to accommodate nurses.

According to the planning application, the occupants would “predominantly” be NHS staff who would “contribute to the local economy”.

But instead of being filled with hard-working staff from the nearest hospital, the 17-bedroom property was swiftly packed with new arrivals. Far from breathing new life into a downtrodden area, it became yet another blight – and a new source of anxiety for local women.

Mothers and daughters in Barrow-in-Furness have every reason to be fearful. Such is the concern for the safety of female staff working in other migrant hotels in the town that they are said to have been issued with rape alarms. When a concerned resident used freedom of information legislation to find out what was going on, Cumbria Police revealed that in the space of 12 months, more than a dozen potential crimes were linked to “guests” at the Imperial, including three sex offences. Quite the record for a small premises.

There is a mountain of evidence – both official and anecdotal – that what is happening to women and girls in Barrow-in-Furness at the hands of illegal immigrants is happening to women and girls all over the country.

The Home Office does not publish crime statistics according to immigration status. Nor are the police required to collect and share such data. Instead, arrests and charges are only recorded by nationality – a system that creates some very convenient ambiguity about how long the perpetrators have lived in this country.

When voters are crying out to know just what kind of individuals are pouring across the Channel, and how likely it is that any will ever make a positive contribution to our society, it is an extraordinary omission. Just what are the authorities – along with all those who keep peddling the false narrative that all Channel migrants are good people – trying to hide?

What little information is routinely published about crimes by foreign nationals provides a very strong clue. Despite making up less than ten per cent of the UK population, “foreign nationals” account for around 15 per cent of all sexual offence convictions, including rape.

When convictions in which the offender’s nationality is “unknown” – ie not British – are taken into account, that figure rises to almost one quarter (23 per cent) of all sex offences. It is known that only a fraction of sexual assault and rape complaints ever reach court. How many more female victims of sex offences by foreign nationals, particularly the occupants of migrant hotels, are out there, never getting justice?

Among the best witnesses to the disgusting attitude of some asylum seekers towards women are female staff in migrant hotels. Unfortunately, they cannot speak out. Forced to sign confidentiality contracts, their experiences at the hands of rude, leering, entitled occupants of migrant hotels have never been documented.

Some time ago, on condition of anonymity, I interviewed a cleaner at one of these places in Derby. She too spoke of rape alarms; harassment; and bowls of free condoms in the hotel foyer. One police force has felt the need to draw up a PowerPoint presentation to educate local asylum seekers about British culture. It includes recognising that women “have the same rights as men” so “must be treated with respect and courtesy”. What on earth are we doing continuing to provide for foreigners who are so ignorant and disrespectful that they have to be told that “violence of any kind is not acceptable”?

Crimes that do reach court offer a terrifying glimpse of the nightmare our leaders have created. Witness the case of the Qatari camel herder, who as a member of a conservative Bedouin tribe, had never had “any meaningful contact” with a woman except his mother before coming to the UK to receive treatment for a rare heart condition. During treatment at a clinic in Marylebone linked to the Royal Brompton Hospital in Chelsea, he dragged a woman into a disabled toilet and attempted to rape her. In court, he blamed his “limited interaction” with females in the Middle East, where his lawyer says he prefers a “desert environment.”

In another case a 29 year old Channel migrant cited “cultural misunderstanding” and language barriers after luring a teenage girl behind a pub and raping her. The victim had repeatedly told him she was only 15 years old.

A cursory internet search reveals umpteen other such cases – along with some very welcome honesty from Baroness Casey. Her report into the grooming gangs revealed that asylum seekers and foreign nationals make up a “significant proportion” of live police investigations. Finally, someone in a position of power, telling it as it is!

Neither the Home Office, nor the police, can justify continuing to hide what is going on.

As thousands more undocumented young males continue to pour across the Channel, it is women and girls who are at most risk.