It’s time to declare a national emergency over violent crime by migrants

Despite what the BBC would have you believe, people are right to be fearful of the consequences of our open borders daily Telegraph 29/10/25 link How could any decent human being possibly object to mass immigration? That, it would seem, is the mystery puzzling the BBC. Yes, even after all these years. Because earlier this week it sent reporters to Buxton in Derbyshire to ask residents the following question: why are you people all saying you’ll vote Reform, when practically everyone in your town is white British?

Buxton, noted the BBC’s reporters, has experienced “very little” immigration, is a good 250 miles from Dover (“where the small boats arrive”), and has “no hotels housing asylum seekers”. Yet almost everyone they spoke to, apart from some wonderfully compassionate teenagers at a local school, viewed the small boats, and mass immigration in general, as a major source of concern. How baffling. If you work for the BBC, anyway. Well, since our friends in W1A seem to be struggling, perhaps we should offer them a helpful hint. The people of Buxton may indeed have experienced very little immigration. Nonetheless, I’m reasonably sure that they do have access to newspapers, TV and the internet. And as a result, they’re probably aware of certain things that have happened in towns with very high levels of immigration. Perhaps, for example, they’ve heard about something called the grooming gangs scandal. Or the terrorist attack on a Manchester synagogue earlier this month. Or the march through Tower Hamlets, east London, last Saturday by masked men chanting, “Zionist scum off our streets.” And perhaps, having heard such stories – plus a fair few others – the people of Buxton are thinking, “We’d quite like to prevent that sort of thing from happening in our own little town, if that’s all right. “So don’t ask, ‘Why are you voting Reform? You don’t have a migrant hotel!’ Because it’s like asking, ‘Why are you buying a fire extinguisher? Your house isn’t on fire!’” Anyway, if that is indeed what they’ve been thinking, I suspect that their resolve is now even stronger – for a reason that should be obvious, even to the BBC. On Tuesday, in Uxbridge, west London, a dog-walker was stabbed to death in the street. Two other passers-by were stabbed, too. Police swiftly arrested a suspect. He’s an Afghan national who, in 2020, entered this country illegally on a lorry, and was subsequently granted asylum and leave to remain. This story would be horrifying enough if it were an isolated incident. But it’s not. On Friday, an asylum seeker in Walsall was convicted of murdering a female member of staff from the migrant hotel in which he was staying. On Monday, an asylum seeker in Bournemouth was jailed for chasing hotel workers with a knife because he was unhappy with the free food he was being given. On Wednesday, a small-boat migrant in Derby was jailed for life for stabbing a bank customer to death. And this is just in the past week. If we go back to the start of the month, a gang of small-boat migrants in Dorset was jailed for committing “roaming street violence” armed with machetes. We really shouldn’t have to live like this. Responding to the news from Uxbridge, the former Tory MP Nadhim Zahawi spoke for millions when he asked: “How many more people need to lose their lives before we take this threat seriously?”, and thundered: “Anywhere else in the world it would be a national emergency.” Well, he’s right. This is a national emergency. And it’s time for Sir Keir Starmer to admit it – and act accordingly. That means detaining and deporting anyone who enters the country by illegal means (whether small boat or lorry). It means no more migrant hotels. And it means telling the leaders of other Western nations, in case they haven’t noticed yet, that existing refugee treaties are no longer fit for purpose and must be scrapped. Far too many dangerous men are exploiting them, and it’s got to end. Of course, I’m not completely delusional. Obviously a Starmer administration isn’t going to do any of this. We all know that. At the very least, however, it would be nice if our national broadcaster could finally grasp why, even in areas of low immigration, people want proper border controls. So, if nothing else comes from this week’s horror, please can the BBC get the following concept into its collective head. This country produces quite enough violent criminals of its own. We really don’t need to import more.