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Every now and then, something comes along that completely blows apart the establishment narrative. And that’s exactly what just happened in Britain.
After years of lecturing people not to worry about immigration or ask difficult questions, the political class has just completely undermined its own narrative.
How so? By publishing a pamphlet for asylum-seekers and illegal migrants that’s not only gone viral online, dominating the media debate, but now also being discussed in millions of ordinary households up and down the country.
The government-produced pamphlet, titled ‘Understanding behaviours and expectations in the UK’, which was made for asylum-seekers and illegal migrants arriving on the small boats, makes a series of stunning admissions.
When you are in Britain, it reads …
You should not rape women. You should not try to have sex with someone who is asleep, drunk, or unable to consent clearly.
You should not have sex with children. You should not sexually harass strangers. You should not beat your wife, tell her what to wear, or control where she goes.
You should not physically or verbally abuse your partner. You should not prevent women from working, studying, or leaving the house.
And when you are in public spaces, you should not make sexual comments, whistle or make kissing noises. You should not follow someone, or block their path.
I’m going to go out on a limb here but if politicians are having to tell migrants not to rape or sexually assault women, abuse children, and harass strangers then they might want to ask themselves who they are letting into the country. As even columnist Matthew Syed noted in The Sunday Times this weekend:
“Don’t rape women. Don’t mutilate their genitals. Don’t copulate with children. I’m paraphrasing but only a bit. Are politicians like [Shabana] Mahmood so blind that they can’t see that if illegal migrants need such instructions, it is rank betrayal of the British people not to instantly deport them?”
He has a point.
But there’s also something deeper going on here that not only makes this a profoundly important moment in Britain’s debate about immigration but also helps to explain why so many people are losing faith in the wider system.
Because for years now, whenever people have asked entirely legitimate questions about the link between immigration and crime, and the ability of Britain to integrate people from radically different cultures, they have been told to stay quiet.
“Everything is fine”, politicians assure them. All cultures are equal. Diversity is our strength. Don’t ask whether importing people from cultures with profoundly different attitudes towards women, sexuality, and consent might have negative consequences. And definitely don’t ask what the British state actually knows about the relationship between immigration and crime and is still refusing to share with its own people.
The same politicians who routinely lecture the British people about the dangers of ‘misinformation’ are still going out of their way to hide, conceal, and refuse to release what information they have about the impact of immigration on crime. In fact, they are even going to court to prevent the release of this information!
Which is why, today, we now find ourselves in a truly absurd position. We have a political class that insists immigration is not driving crime but which simultaneously refuses to release what information it has about immigration and crime and which is now distributing a booklet that warns new migrants not to … commit crime!
I don’t know about you but here’s what I think.
What we now have in Britain is a political class that knows exactly what is going on in the country and knows exactly what the data show. They are just refusing to show the rest of us. Because why else would they be rushing to hand out this guidance to the people who are stepping off the small boats, having travelled from Eritrea, Sudan, Afghanistan, and elsewhere?
The very people who are elected to represent us are refusing to tell us the truth – the taxpaying public who are not only forced to subsidise policies that we never voted for but are also forced to live with the dire consequences of these policies.
Such as the 13-year-old girl whose life has been ruined after being raped by an asylum-seeker from Afghanistan, the vulnerable 18-year-old raped by an asylum-seeker from Pakistan, or the elderly man raped by a man from Eritrea. As everybody in Britain who reads the newspapers will know, there are now dozens if not hundreds of these cases.
And yet, over the last 48-hours, Labour ministers, who have been forced to respond to the furore over the pamphlet, have only made the situation worse by conceding the very point they have spent years trying to push out of the national debate.
Such as Labour’s new Education Secretary, Lucy Powell, who sought to defend the booklet by pointing out that migrants arrive from “different cultures”. What they are now conceding is what the left has denied for much of the last thirty years. Culture really does matter and not all cultures are equal.
Clearly, not everybody who is migrating into Britain is a criminal or needs to be told they should not harass women and children. But migration, as I’ve pointed out before, is not just about the movement of people. It is about the movement of cultures.
As the academic Garrett Jones points out in his brilliant book, The Culture Transplant, when you import people, you import the average cultural traits of those people. And when you import large numbers of people from radically different cultures outside Europe, as Britain is now doing, you import radically different attitudes toward women, homosexuality, children, religious freedom, sex, and consent. Attitudes that don’t just collide with our established way of life but are incompatible with it.
We should have the confidence to say this openly and publicly. It should not be considered controversial or ‘far right’ to do so. Because as that pamphlet reflects, even the government and the British state now implicitly accept this. Not all cultures are the same. If they didn’t think this, they wouldn’t be handing out the booklet.
So, enough of the gaslighting. Enough of the lies. Enough of the constant spreading of misinformation by Labour and Tory politicians who have all refused in recent years to tell people the truth. They clearly know what is going on in Britain. They clearly have information we are not being given. And they have clearly concluded that things are now so bad they have to hand out the warnings contained in that booklet.
What politicians should be doing is what I said they should do more than two years ago. Give us the data. Give us the information. Give us the evidence. Be open and transparent with the people. And let the people make up their own minds.
Because you cannot simultaneously tell us there is nothing to worry about while hiding what information you have and quietly telling asylum-seekers and illegal migrants not to rape, sexually assault, or abuse the British people and their children.
The British people are not stupid. They are not idiots. They can see the blatant contradiction. And they are utterly sick and tired of being treated in this appalling way by the very people who they elected to protect them and look after their interests.
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The strongest point here isn’t even the booklet itself, it’s the contradiction.
If the Government believes there’s genuinely nothing to see in the immigration/crime data, release the data and let the public judge for themselves.
You can’t simultaneously say “there’s no problem”, refuse to publish the evidence, and then issue guidance warning new arrivals not to rape, sexually assault, abuse or harass people.
Transparency would settle the argument. Why won’t they provide it?
Are we allowed to say that the cultural difference expressed in the Koran is at the root of all the problems? Why does no-one ever talk about what is being preached in mosques up and down the country? Where they say that everyone who is not a Muslim is an enemy? And that non-Muslims can be treated as slaves?