Boston mum has no regrets over speaking out about immigration on BBC1's Question Time

A despairing mum who some have labelled a spokesman for Britain's "ordinary people" says she is glad to have spoken out about immigration live on prime time TV.

Rachel Bull's spontaneous outburst on BBC1's Question Time sparked rapturous applause from the show's audience at Lincoln's Drill Hall.

"You go down to Boston High Street and it's just like you're in a foreign country. It's got to stop. The services are at breaking point."

When she finally finished speaking, there was a moment's silence and then applause.

After the show had finished, some audience members were still praising Mrs Bull.

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Boston immigration levels to be discussed in Parliament

Paul Kenny, a councillor in Boston, Lincolnshire, will present a report to MPs on how the large influx of migrant workers has changed the area.

Last year residents held a "peaceful protest" to highlight the pressures on services after 9,000 foreign workers settled in Boston in recent years.

Igor Kartel, a representative for the Polish community, blamed the recession.

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NO ROOM FOR MORE MIGRANTS IN BRITAIN

It is politically incorrect to say so but Britain is already bursting at the seams  

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Migrants with no job or money are being allowed to settle here because of failure of background checks

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Albanian gangster behind three murders is STILL in the UK despite 19 court battles to extradite him

An Albanian gangster convicted of three murders is still in the UK almost a year after his arrest and is now likely to claim asylum.

Ndricim Sadushi, 42, has been on the run for 15 years and is receiving legal aid in his fight against extradition back to Albania that is costing the UK taxpayer tens of thousands of pounds.

His case has been listed before judges 19 times during the lengthy court battle.

Westminster Magistrates' Court heard today there is a 'suggestion' he will appeal for asylum.

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“15 000 Militant muslims

Up to 15,000 militant Islamists are set to descend on east London this week to pressure town hall chiefs into allowing a 9,000 capacity mega-mosque.

 

This Wednesday December 5th, 2012 at 7.00 pm has been set as the date on which Newham Council's Strategic Development Committee is to decide on the application for the MegaMosque at West Ham.
The meeting will take place at the Old Town Hall, 29 The Broadway, Stratford, E15 4BQ

  a “big Islamic symbol in the heart of London”.

Thousands of robbers and rapists let off with cautions

More than half a million criminals have been let off with warnings for serious offences including rape, burglary and arson.

Official figures revealing the full scale of the problem show more than 400 sex offenders who admitted rape or attempted rape over the past 15 years walked free after being given a caution by police.

Over the same period more than 90,000 burglaries, almost 8,000 serious assaults and 7,000 robberies were dealt with by cautions, along with more than 500,000 acts of vandalism and arson attacks.

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No more Space

1,500 square miles of English countryside needs to be built on, says planning minister Nick Boles

More than 1,500 square miles of open countryside - over twice the area covered by greater London - needs to be built on to meet housing demand, the Government’s planning minister has said. 

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D-Day looms for decision over socalled mega mosque in West Ham

D-Day is looming for plans by a Muslim movement to build a socalled mega-mosque in West Ham holding more than 9,000 worshippers.

 It is believed Newham council officers will recommend that councillors reject the controversial proposals for the Riverine Centre, also known as Abbey Mills Mosque, put forward by Tabilighi Jamaat.

The plans to erect the complex, which at 29,227 square metres is more than three times the floorspace of St Paul’s Cathedral, are due to be heard by Strategic Development Committee at Newham Council on Wednesday of next week (December 5). A report prepared for the meeting is expected to appear on the council’s online meeting calendar this evening.

The development includes a segregated space for nearly 2,000 women, a library, dining hall, visitors centre, eight flats for imams and guests, along with tennis pitches, a garden, and a riverside walk along Abbey Creek. Around 264 parking spaces would be provided.

The former industrial land at the end of Canning Road is one of ten sites listed for strategic development by Newham Council. The council’s core strategy set out plans for developments on the site to create a new town centre for mixed use around West Ham Station.

It states that any faith must not dominate the use or scale of the 6.3 hectare site overlooking the historic Abbey Mills pumping station and Canary Wharf.

The council’s core strategy also states that the site should provide a mix of residential and retail uses.

Previous plans for a mosque on the site included retail units but mosque trustees said these were dropped following consultation with the Muslim community.

Around 3,000 worshippers a week currently use facilities at the site, which has around 300 car parking spaces.

The meeting will be held at the Main Hall at the Old Town Hall in Stratford. 

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Protestors plan Spalding march

Protesters who gathered in Boston to highlight problems with immigration have vowed the next stop will be Spalding.

More than 300 people attended the protest last Saturday, some holding banners such as ‘Free Us From The Shackles of Europe’ and ‘Get Back Our Country’.

Now the Boston Protest Group have bowed to pressure from residents in Spalding to hold an event in the town next year.

Organiser Dean Everitt said: “We are in the very early stages of arranging things but are looking at March. There have been several requests for us to do it and it’s time to come to Spalding now.

“Then if the Government and councils still won’t listen to us, we’ll take it to Westminster.”

Mr Everitt said he was delighted with the turnout in Boston, which was a static protest. He said: “It was a peaceful protest. There was no trouble at all.

“We even had a migrant worker in the crowd talking to protestors – it was a really good atmosphere.”

The protest was planned for last year but was cancelled after the borough council agreed to set up a task force.

A report on population change was published as a result, but campaigners said it had “not gone far enough” and the Government still needed to listen.

Protestors are planning a march in Spalding and Mr Everitt believes it can’t come soon enough.

Mr Everitt, said: “I am a landworker and it’s almost impossible for an English man to get work now.

“Migrant workers can afford 16-hour contacts on minimum wage and then be laid off for a day because several of them live in a house together.

“When they are out of work they gather in town centres drinking on the streets which upsets many people.

“The days of time and a half for overtime have gone – companies are making big bucks out of it.

“In 10 years time when our kids are looking for jobs there will be none.

“We need full-time jobs and until this is addressed we will keep raising awareness about it.

”Councils and the Government must pull together to look after our towns.”

Nick Worth, deputy leader of South Holland District Council, attended one of many scrutiny committee meetings in Boston to give input on the situation in Spalding.

He said: “I don’t think migrants cause that much of a problem in the Spalding area, but this is a democracy and so if campaigners want to come here and have a peaceful protest that’s fine.

“However, we would hope they speak to us and the police first so arrangements can be made for it to go off safely.”

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'SIR' MOHAMMAD CHOWDHURY 'IS A KILLER'

A TEACHER has been unmasked as a convicted murderer after checks into his background failed to show he was wanted in his home country.

The Home Office is being urged to extradite Mohammad Chowdhury, convicted in Bangladesh of killing a man in 1997.

He received a life term in 2005 in his absence after moving to Britain.

The father-of-two, who works at the Darul Hadis Latifi ah School in east London, says he is innocent and his late brother, Seraj, stabbed the victim in self-defence.

The school will re-open an probe which cleared him in September and if he is found guilty it will “stop employing him”.

Hundreds in city centre for 30th annual Martyr’s march

AROUND 500 Muslims marched through Newport city centre this afternoon in the 30th annual Martyr’s march.

The march, which is organised by the Islamic Society for Wales, commemorates the anniversary of the martyrdom of the Prophet Mohammed’s grandson Imam Hussain.



Imam Hussain was among 73 Muslims slaughtered in Iraq more than 1,300 years ago.Men, women and children chanted as they took part in the hour-long march which made its way way from Victoria Place, along Commercial Street and back up Stow Hill.

The marchers also repeatedly placed their hands against their chest as they paraded through the city while some carried flags and banners.

The marchers stopped along Commercial Street for a group of men to perform chants while beating their hands against their chests.

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Spanish send an Algerian criminal to live in the UK... and there's nothing we can do about it

An Algerian-born career criminal suspected of a ‘marriage of convenience’ to a British citizen has been deported from Spain to the UK.

Police said Lazhari Zemouche had been arrested 92 times in Spain over the past 25 years for crimes from theft to robbery and had used a number of fake identities.

But because he had married in the UK before his latest crime spree in Spain, he was deported to London rather than to his native Algeria.

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BELGIUM BOOTS OUT UNEMPLOYED MIGRANTS

Antwerp Belgium

JOBLESS foreigners are being forcibly ejected from Belgium.(Ex).JOBLESS foreigners are being forcibly ejected from Belgium following a public outcry at a massive surge in immigration, it was revealed yesterday. Belgian authorities have introduced a law allowing the withdrawal of residency rights from any newcomers remaining unemployed for six months after arriving in the country. The crackdown is being seen as a huge turnaround for the country that is home to many EU institutions and was previously seen as one of the most welcoming nations in Europe for migrants.

Euro MP Derek Clark, the Ukip employment spokesman, said: “Amazingly the Belgians seem to have a better idea as to their own interests than we do. If they can do it to protect their taxpayers and welfare system, then why on earth can’t we?” 

Many of the migrants being turfed out of Belgium are thought to have moved there from Spain in response to the worsening Spanish recession. Some are understood to have originally migrated to Spain from Latin America.

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Pair jailed over fake qualifications scam exposed by the Post

TWO men have been jailed for a total of 10 years for running an immigration scam worth up to half a million pounds which was exposed by the Yorkshire Post.

Yousaf Amin and Sajad Khan fleeced hundreds of unsuspecting immigrants by providing fake English language courses which purported to offer genuine qualifications required by the Home Office when applying for British citizenship.

The fraudsters, both 34 and from Bradford, also set up an illegal immigration advice service despite Amin previously being jailed and banned for life after a previous fake work permit scam.

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Mayor of London invites Khalifa of Islam to City Hall

... Praising the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at’s motto of ‘Love for All, Hatred for None’ the Mayor said that such a message ‘ought to be the foundation for London’. Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad said that it ought to be the basis not only for London but for the ‘entire world’. ...

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UK Border Agency's '100,000 Unopened Letters'

UK Border Agency (UKBA) staff dealt with a backlog of immigration cases so inefficiently that at one point 100,000 items of post were unopened

Applications were placed into an archive of unresolved cases after "very minimal work", despite the agency assuring MPs that "exhaustive" checks had been carried out

In March 2011, there were 147,000 unfinished cases that were passed to an audit unit

 In a sample of 135 files examined as part of the inspection, each case had lain dormant for an average of 87 months - more than seven years - before they were reopened in 2010 for consideration.

The shortest period of inactivity was six months - the longest was an astonishing 17 years and nine months.

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Immigration Cases Spiral 'Out Of Control'

MPs warn that thousands of illegal immigrants may have to be given an amnesty to stay in the UK to clear the backlog.

The number of outstanding immigration and asylum cases rose by 25,000 in three months and is "spiralling out of control".

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Backlog of immigration cases is size of Iceland’s population, MP reveals

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MEGA MOSQUE FOR 10,000

Plans for the mosque in Newham, East London

Sunday November 4,2012

By James Murray

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PLANS for a super mosque close to the Olympic stadium reveal that it could hold almost 10,000 people.

Architects’ drawings show that the vast mosque will be about the same size as Battersea Power Station.

By comparison, Britain’s largest cathedral, in Liverpool, can hold 3,000 worshippers.

Newham Council in east London is due to decide whether it will grant planning permission for the structure next month.

Former councillor Alan Craig has launched a campaign to stop the project. He has produced 100,000 leaflets, which were being distributed throughout the borough yesterday. Mr Craig said: “The mega-mosque is proposed and planned by a particularly disturbing Islamic sect called Tablighi Jamaat.”

He said that Tablighi Jamaat had been promoting itself as open and socially integrated. However, progressive Muslims who support the campaign against the mosque view its beliefs as “narrow and divisive”. He said: “In my view we would be mad, barking mad, if we let the project go ahead.”
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The mega-mosque is proposed and planned by a particularly disturbing Islamic sect called Tablighi Jamaat

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Efforts by the Sunday Express to seek the views of those behind the project, known as the Riverine Centre, were unsuccessful.

The architects responsible for the plans are quoted as saying: “The ambition is to create an exceptional piece of architecture of national significance.

“A building that provides a destination not only for the Islamic community, but for the whole of Newham and beyond.”

A website set up to promote the mega-mosque says: “The community acquired this site in November 1996.

“In the first week, over 1,000 worshippers attended. The centre now attracts 2,500 worshippers on a weekly basis . The community has grown and now requires the redevelopment of its centre to cater for its requirements.”

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West Ham residents reveal mega-mosque plan fears

Prospective neighbours of a large mosque planned for West Ham have told of their concerns surrounding the controversial development.

Residents living close to the site in Canning Road believe it would completely dwarf the surrounding conservation areas and fail to serve a mixed community if given the go-ahead.

They say no proper public consultation has been held to reflect the current plans, which they say serve almost exclusively one Islamic group -Tabilighi Jamaat - rather than the whole community.

Mike Duff, a 33-year-old director of an urban planning consultancy, is among the residents who have put their objections to the council and mosque backers.

He said: “I worked for six years in Saudi Arabia and helped At-Turaif, the village where Wahab Islam, the strictest interpretation of Islam globally, was founded to achieve Unesco World Heritage Status, so being anti-Muslim is the furthest thing from my mind. I understand where they are coming from with regard to practising their religion.

“But the scale of this mosque is completely unsuitable for this location, I would feel the same if it was a church of that size.

“The building would dominate the view from the Greenway and all the listed sites around here such as Three Mills with the world’s largest surviving tidal mill and the Abbey Mills Pumping Station.

“The land presents an amazing opportunity to really regenerate it for the whole of the community. We are not saying the land owners should not be allowed to practise their faith, but it should not be at the expense of local residents.”

Kevin Fitzgerald, a retired sociology university lecturer, fears parking problems if the plan goes ahead, saying: “Most of the current worshippers come by car and the idea you can suddenly get most of them to come by public transport is at best naive.

“No more than the current 300 parking spaces are proposed despite the number of worshippers being multiplied by five. ”

There are also fears the decontamination of the land ahead of building works risk polluting the air and ground water.

Moira Storey, a 54-year-old academic manager said: “We need assurance from the planning authorities that an independent examination of the land is carried out and guarantees are in place to ensure the land will be properly cleaned and made safe before permission is given.”

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CHAOS AS MIGRANT HORDES PLEAD FOR JOBS AND BENEFITS

POLICE had to be drafted in yesterday after a job training centre was swamped by unemployed migrants seeking work.

Officers arrived to keep order as hundreds of EU nationals descended on the Jobs Education & Training offices in Normanton, Derby.

Staff at the centre are struggling to cope with a rising tide of eastern Europeans looking for jobs or help with
benefits claims.

Manager Mohammed Sharief said his volunteer staff were at “breaking point” as they toiled to cope with the chaos caused by the deluge of foreign job seekers.

The reception area was packed with migrants waiting for their turn in front of a terminal. Many more hung around outside in the street.

Mr Sharief explained: “Hardly any of them speak English and it’s difficult to keep people in line.”

Their attendance came on the same day that new figures revealed that unemployment for the 17 countries that use the euro has risen to a record high of 11.6 per cent.

Mr Sharief explained: “There has been a surge of people from Slovakia and Latvia in recent months. We have had to bring in interpreters especially for them.

“We are the only place in the area where they can sit in front of a computer with someone who can speak their own language.”

But it is not just help in finding work that migrants want from the centre.

“We are a sort of one-stop shop for them. As well as helping them with CVs and job searching some also want us to fill in their application forms for child benefit, welfare and housing,” explained Mr Sharief.

 None of the migrants at the centre approached by the Daily Express yesterday could speak English.

One who was willing to talk, through an interpreter, was Maria Horvatova, 50, from Presov, Slovakia.

Ms Horvatova said she had been living on and off in the UK for seven years and during that time had been employed just once at a chicken factory in Derby for a few months.

She was at the centre to apply for a cleaning job paying £6.19 an hour.

Ms Horvatova said: “The reason I am here is that in Slovakia there is no work and life is very hard. In Slovakia you
have to survive on benefits of 200 euros (£160) a month – too small to live on.”

A spokesman for campaign group MigrationWatch said: “For a variety of reasons, including our benefi ts system,

Britain is a very attractive place. Even Labour now accepts that migration has had an impact on low-skilled jobs.”

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Palestinian Terrorists on the Payroll

British taxpayers are helping to pay the salaries of jailed bomb makers.

Why do politicians always resign over the minor things, while getting away with the major ones? Swear at a policeman, for instance, and after a month of harrying from the media and your political opponents, you will finally stand down. 

Waste millions of pounds on a taxpayer-funded self-aggrandizement scheme, on the other hand, and you will not only get away with it, but be praised. Such is the case with Andrew Mitchell, former minister at the U.K. Department for International Development (DfID) and now—after an angry altercation with a Downing Street policeman—former chief whip.

Swearing at a policeman is bad. But far worse is what Mr. Mitchell presided over at DfID and what his former colleague Alan Duncan—who still has his job—allows to go on, even now.

A report by Palestinian Media Watch recently revealed that British taxpayers have been paying salaries to terrorists. It revealed that £3 million every month is paid by the Palestinian Authority (PA) in salaries to Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. The salaries come from the PA's general budget. That "general budget" is kindly provided by the U.K., among other EU countries.

Many British taxpayers, struggling to pay their family's way through a recession, might rightly wonder why their money is going to pay as much as £2,000 a month to people serving the longest sentences—those who have targeted Israeli buses and other civilian targets with suicide bombers, for instance. That is higher than the average wage in nearly all of Britain. You might be forgiven for wondering, if you were a struggling teaching assistant in the North of England, why failing to tick "suicide bomber" on your careers form should have left you so much worse off than a terrorist in the Middle East.

Fortunately such people can be consoled by the limitless complacency of the international development minister. For after the facts about the DfID budget were revealed, Alan Duncan rejected them in the following tones: "If these claims were true, this would be a matter of very serious concern for me and the Department."

Britain's International Development Minister Alan Duncan

"However," Mr. Duncan said, "I am pleased to reassure you that we have investigated the matter fully and can confirm that the allegations in Palestinian Media Watch's report are both inaccurate and misleading." The payments were not in fact salaries, he claimed, but rather "social assistance programs to provide welfare payments."

How nice it must be to be Mr. Duncan. So clever, so satisfied and so wrong. For this week it became clear quite how little Mr. Duncan knows or cares about the uses to which he puts our taxpayers' money.

It is possible of course that on this occasion he does not care. When it comes to the Middle East, Mr. Duncan's views are well-known. As well as being fond of some of the ropier regimes in the region, he has expressed a long-held disdain for the region's only truly free state.

Just a year ago Mr. Duncan dragged his department into a row when its website posted a video of him divesting himself of some of his franker opinions. Standing beside Israel's security fence—built, successfully, to stop a spate of suicide bombing—Mr. Duncan described the fence as a "land grab," claimed that Israelis deliberately stole water from Palestinians, and said that the land in question did not belong to the Jewish state. The latter point was spat out by Mr. Duncan with such ferocity—the video has since been removed—as to make it perfectly clear this was something Mr. Duncan felt, as well as thought.

But perhaps one should be more generous and assume that Mr. Duncan simply had not known what he was talking about on the subject of taxpayers' money or the security fence. DfID spends around £86 million each year in the Palestinian areas. Around £30 million of this goes to the PA's general budget, from which the terrorists receive their salaries. And PMW's latest report provides exactly the evidence Mr. Duncan said did not exist. The PA itself refers to the payments to prisoners not as "welfare payments," as Mr. Duncan would have it, but as a "monthly salary."

In addition, there is no possibility that the salary reflects the prisoner's family's welfare needs because the payments bear no relation to either the prisoner's marital status or social welfare situation. What they do relate to is the length of the sentence, with those convicted and sentenced for the worst crimes receiving the highest payments.

So there the situation lies. If there is one thing we can be fairly sure of, it is that Mr. Duncan will suffer little or no political inconvenience either for the liberality with which he distorts the facts or that with which he distributes taxpayers' money. A slip of the tongue might lead to disgrace. A slip of the pen does not, even if it occurs over the nation's checkbook.

The thinking behind the increase in Britain's overseas aid budget during a time of recession seemed to be something like this: that the developing world would learn to love Britain if we gave them more money. Unlike that awful old-fashioned hard power (itself going through debilitating cuts) this soft power seemed likely to actually enhance Britain's standing in the world.

There are plenty of reasons to doubt that. But what a curious situation we then find ourselves in. For at the exact same time as Britain is drawing down its defense spending, and as the government is eviscerating the armed forces it still relies on, it is increasing the spending on salaries for terrorists and others who attack our allies.

I suppose we shall have to wait for Mr. Duncan to have a petulant run-in with a policeman before his own career suffers in any way.

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