Britain might have voted for Brexit but don’t believe the hype —we are still not a sovereign, self-governing, independent nation. Why? Because we cannot control who comes in and out of the country. We cannot deport foreign national criminals. And, because of this, we cannot keep the British people and our children safe.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. A state that cannot control its borders is not a serious state and a nation that cannot keep its own people safe is not a serious nation.
This is why I’ve gone against the grain by advocating that we leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), reform if not replace Tony Blair’s Human Rights Act (HRA), and pass new laws that put the interests and rights of the British people ahead of international conventions and courts.
I’m not the first person to say this.
At the last election, Nigel Farage and Reform became the first political party to openly advocate that we exit the ECHR while Conservative leadership candidate Robert Jenrick and Boris Johnson have since said so, all of which reflects how our membership of the ECHR, much like Brexit before it, looks set to become a major new debate and dividing line in British politics, maybe even the topic of a referendum.
And I’m going to play a big role in this debate. Why? Because many of us consider the nation to be our home. But ask yourself: would you live in a home where people are free to come and go as they please, where you are unable to remove people who enter your home illegally, who show contempt for your rules and ways of life, and where you cannot even remove the most dangerous invaders who harm your neighbours, if not you and your children Seriously? Would you choose to live in a place like this?
I ask these questions because this is exactly where you are living. In a country that— because of a complex patchwork of international conventions and laws built up by activist judges and lawyers over many years— cannot control who is coming in and out of its own national community, cannot remove dangerous foreign offenders from its own streets, and cannot keep you, the British people, safe.
And I don’t know about you but I’m sick of it.
Sick of the injustice that’s shown to the hard-working, tax-paying, law-abiding British people who do play by the rules, and sick of the indifference among the elite class when much of this is discussed in polite society.
This is also one big reason why I started this Substack community of ours —which now has 57,000 people like you. With your help, with your support, I wanted to give voice to the millions of people out there who are not only fed-up but want to go beyond complaining by pushing people forward who do have an alternative.
I’ve also further irritated the elite class by advocating that we do a few other things to send a big signal that you either play by our rules and laws or you can leave the country, such as by demanding that we deport dual-national citizens who are involved in the truly sickening grooming gang scandal, an idea which has since found its way into Kemi Badenoch’s recent speech for the Conservative Party leadership.
Why am I doing all this, you might ask? Because, in all honesty, I’m just really fed up with how ordinary people are being treated and I’ve reached a point in my life where I want to do something about it and not shut up until something is done about it.
And I’ve been influenced, strongly, by watching what’s happening in this country on a regular basis simply because of how powerless and weak we have become. While politicians will tell you we’ve ‘taken back control’, the blunt reality is that we do not have much control at all.
And so to underline this point and try and convince some of you of the need for radical changes to our laws, here are ten of the most shocking cases which not only reflect how powerless and weak we have become but the sheer idiocy, lunacy, and tragedy that’s now playing out on Britain’s streets on a regular basis. Here are ten reasons, in other words, why we need to leave the ECHR, reform if not repeal the Human Rights Act, and replace this legal architecture with laws that prioritise the safety of the British people and their children above all else.
1. Ahmed Ali Alid
Although Ali Alid, a Moroccan asylum-seeker, was denied asylum in Italy, Germany and Spain, he was somehow allowed to stay in Britain for three years while his asylum claim was being processed. Shockingly, the Home Office only refused Ali Alid’s asylum claim after he committed hideous crimes. In October last year, Ali Alid murdered 70-year-old Terence Carney and attempted to murder his housemate, Javid Nouri, an Iranian asylum seeker who had reported concerns about Ali Alid to the police days earlier. Nouri, who converted to Christianity (something that would have made Ali Alid, who was Muslim and extremely religious, view him as “an apostate” - punishable by death in some countries), was especially worried after he saw Ali Alid laughing at footage of Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israel and keeping a knife by his side. The police merely gave Ali Alid a warning and he was left to his own devices again. Days later, he broke into Nouri’s room at 5am with two knives and stabbed him twice in the chest, crying “Allahu Akbar”. Despite being attacked while asleep, and suffering severe blood loss and injury, Nouri amazingly managed to restrain Ali Alid, alert housemates and hide before the police came. Sadly not before Ali Alid attacked and killed Terence Carney, a pensioner who was simply going for a morning stroll.
Sentence: Life imprisonment
2. Sakhidad Ahadi
Ahadi, an Afghan asylum-seeker, was staying in a government-funded hotel for asylum seekers after claiming that he was at risk from the Taliban. Between December 2022 and January 2023, Ahadi twice raped a 12-year-old Albanian girl who was staying in the same hotel. Afterwards, he tried to bribe her to stay quiet with £5 and a SIM card. The girl kept the rapes a secret from her mother until she told a hotel security guard she was afraid of Ahadi and the police were informed. When officers arrived she revealed to them for the first time that she had been raped and her first recorded police interview had to be scrapped because she was so distressed. Her mother said: 'The sky has fallen in on my head and destroyed me. We came to this country for safety and I did not want anything like this to happen to my children.'
Sentence: A minimum of eight years in prison and he must sign the Sex Offenders’ Register for life
3. Shahin Darvish-Narenjbon
Darvish-Narenjborn is a failed asylum seeker whose permission to stay in the UK expired in 2015. His application for asylum was unsuccessful, as was his appeal against the refusal to allow him to stay. He had exhausted all appeal options by 2017, but submitted another claim in 2020 – which was outstanding when, in January 2022, he murdered Brenda Blainey, an 87-year-old woman who had befriended him after they met in a restaurant. In an act of extreme generosity, Blainey invited Darvish-Narenjborn to live with her in North Yorkshire where he had access to her study and car. In a horrifying turn of events, the failed Iranian asylum seeker strangled and stabbed Blainey to death in what a judge called “circumstances of appalling brutality”. He smashed her head on the kitchen floor, stabbed her in the chest and cut her throat.
Sentence: Three consultant forensic psychiatrists diagnosed Darvish-Narenjborn with schizophrenia and he’s now indefinitely detained at Rampton high security special hospital. He has been deemed a “risk to members of the public of serious harm” and capable of “homicidal violence” while in psychosis.
4. Azam Mangori
Mangori was denied asylum in 2018 but never deported. In 2020 - two years after Mangori should have been removed from the country - he murdered and dismembered Lorraine Cox, a 32-year-old woman who was walking home from a night out in Exeter. Mangori followed Cox through the street to “pick her up” for a sexual encounter. They went back to his room before he suffocated her, later disposing of her body, which he had cut up into seven pieces, in an alleyway and woodland. Mangori removed Cox’s SIM card from her phone and used it on his own, impersonating her on social media in an attempt to convince her loved ones she was still alive. Ahead of the murder, he had also looked at amputation videos. He was caught on CCTV buying supplies - such as tape, bin bags and an air purifier - to help him dispose of her body.
Sentence: Mangori was found guilty of murder and preventing a lawful burial and jailed for 20 years.
And here are another six shocking cases …
