@AnnieBuddy
Yes, I was struck by the same: the casualness of the guy who shot & killed Renee Good, reholstering his gun & walking away. No attempt to render aid, for instance. ☹️
Maybe it’s down to their drug use… I’ve seen reports that they’re coking & mething up in their cars before getting out to wreak havoc. 🤔
Maybe they’ve become so desensitised after so much repetition with no consequences… 🤔
#BorderForce
You can bet most Reform UK voters think Renee Nicole Good 'Deserved it'
They say the same thing about the Hunger Strikers here, they are of the same mind as MAGA.
#ReneeNicoleGood #ReformUK #Whiteness #HomeOffice #BorderForce #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #Filton24 #HebaMuraisi #SaveOurJuries #PalestineAction #Fascism
Asylum Seekers: UK Policy Changes and Impact in 2026
Some positive news on refugees and asylum seekers
January 2026
With the events in Venezuela, threats to occupy Greenland and continuing conflict in Ukraine, news about small boat arrivals and immigrants generally has dropped out of the news recently. Problems remain however.
Firstly, the final figure for irregular arrivals in the UK by small boats in 2025 was 41,000, the second-highest annual total ever. The Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act is now in force, with new measures allowing Border Force to seize phones and SIM cards from irregular arrivals, ostensibly to help in tracking down smugglers. Seizures of cash and assets of convicted smugglers are up 33% in year to September, compared to the previous year.
More positively, 5 local councils in England and Wales have declared an interest in a pilot scheme to use new build and refurbished council homes for asylum seekers as a way of removing them from hotels. The homes would be built with government money, leased to the Home Office, and then added to LA stock. The views of other prospective council home tenants have not yet been noted.
In the EU, heads of state met on 8 January to discuss its Common European System for Returns, instituted last March. The Commission claims that only 20% of those designated for deportation actually are removed. The effectiveness of the new system is not yet clear. The UK government claims to have removed 50,000 claimants since it came into office in July 2024.
On the global level, Sherif A Wahab has calculated that the numbers of Displaced Persons is now double what it was in 2012; one-third of them are refugees (i.e. outside their country). Likewise the number of refugees who have been in exile for more than 5 years has doubled over the last decade; reasons for this include conflicts lasting longer; lack of strategy at local and national levels; refusals of permanent residency and other repressive policies. Of the world’s 32 million refugees only 204,000 returned home or settled permanently in 2022 (latest figures).
‘failure of imagination and ambition’
The head of the UNHCR, Filippo Grandi – on retiring last month – expressed his views on what he saw as a failure of imagination and ambition; “the international community should invest in asylum systems to make them faster, more efficient and better able to return people who do not need the help” In his view, governmental responsibility does not impinge on sovereignty, but is an extension of it.
The link below to an article from The Guardian looks at the working of community sponsorship schemes; it implies that the government is still committed to legal routes to resettlement. The Home Secretary said last November that she hoped to develop this model further.
“With control [over Britain’s borders] restored, we will open up new, capped routes for refugees for whom this country will be the first, safe haven they encounter. We will make community sponsorship the norm, so we know that the pace and scale of change does not exceed what a local area is willing to accept,” she said.
On the campaigning front, Safe Passage International have produced for the new year a Resolutions Generator, which, when pressed, will offer a small way in which one can help or understand better.
And here’s a petition against deportations from WeMoveEurope:
Say No to Mass Deportations in Europe | WeMove Europe
AH
Previous posts:
- Human Rights Concerns in UK Protest Laws
- Asylum Seekers: UK Policy Changes and Impact in 2026
- Latest death penalty report
- Britain’s role in the destruction of Gaza
- Israel revokes licences for aid organisations
Talk by Peter Oborne in Salisbury on 21st about his new book ‘Complicit’
#asylum #BorderForce #channelCrossings #HomeOffice #refugees
Life-saving overdose drug to be more accessible at homeless shelters and near nightlife venues
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/life-saving-overdose-drug-more-36463975
Third renewable energy company discovers asbestos in wind farm turbine lifts
Asbestos discovered in lift brake pads at a third Australian wind farm has prompted calls for greater border…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #asbestos #AU #Australia #Borderforce #China #Chinese #Energy #homeaffairs #import #importation #imports #material #renewable #windturbine #Windturbines
https://www.newsbeep.com/276777/
Anthony Albanese says no apology over Border Force’s secret boat returnee scheme
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has dismissed concerns a secret operation using fishing boats to remove people from Australia’s…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #ABF #AnthonyAlbanese #AsylumSeekers #AU #Australia #Borderforce #fishingboatprogram #Foreignpolicy #illegalfishers #primeminister #wanews
https://www.newsbeep.com/259459/
Bet he said nothing during the Child Rape scandals, but only NOW does the Catholic Church need 'sorting out'
Growing evidence of secret taxpayer-funded boats for illegal foreign fishers
An Australian Border Force (ABF) vessel carrying four fishing boats docked in Broome in Western Australia’s north this…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #ABF #AU #Australia #Borderforce #borderprotection #fishingboatprogram #fishingboatsales #illegalfishing #Indonesianfishers #northernAustralia #northernwaters #OceanShield #wanews
https://www.newsbeep.com/247250/
7,512 weapons surrendered off our streets during the Summer of 2025, a positive step!
-> But 3,334 knives were seized at the border at the same time.
-> We're fighting a losing battle until the supply is cut off.
Child sex doll heads sold as model mannequins to harness loophole
Warning: This story contains details of child sexual abuse. Child sex abuse doll torsos and disembodied heads are…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AU #Australia #Borderforce #caitlinroper #CCTV #Childabuse #childsexabuse #childsexabusedolls #childsexdolls #China #collectiveshould #DonaldTrump #HongKong #import #shein #SocialMedia #tariffs #Temu #Trump
https://www.newsbeep.com/208791/
National Disruption Group to be established to crush tobacco black market
A new National Disruption Group will be convened to stamp out the exploding illicit tobacco market and other…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AU #Australia #BlackMarket #Borderforce #illicittobacco #nationaldisruptiongroup #smoking #Tobacco #TonyBurke
https://www.newsbeep.com/194459/
Home Office says regulating poison linked to 99 deaths would have minimal effect
UK Minister Rejects Trump's Suggestion to Use Military Against Illegal Migration
Trade Secretary Peter Kyle has rejected US President Donald Trump's suggestion that the UK should use military force to tackle illegal migration. During Trump's state visit, he proposed military intervention as a solution to the issue of asylum seekers crossing the English Channel. However, Kyle emp... [More info]
Irish national charged after allegedly using a fake passport to enter Australia and escaping detention with bedsheets
Federal police have charged an Irish man they allege entered the country on a false passport and later…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AU #Australia #AustralianFederalPolice #Borderforce #Brisbane #BrisbaneArrestCourt #commonwealth #fakepassport #Ireland #MarkStone #MichaelConnors #offences #police #qld #Queensland
https://www.newsbeep.com/34583/
#eu #politics #fom #freedomofmovement #control #borderforce This must be the eagerly awaited #BrexitBenefitBollox I can hardly wait for 2029, by which time I'll have been re-programmed as a #ToryZoid. Will I get a spangley uniform from #fascist #farage ? Remember "David Davis is a horses arse" (tm) #sodem #EUFM #resist #dielinke #D66 ✊ 🇪🇺 😎
https://www.euronews.com/travel/2025/07/30/eu-announces-launch-date-for-entryexit-system-heres-how-travellers-can-prepare
You have NO rights, you are at the mercy of a probable fascist who sees you not as a human being, but an Other.
You will be degraded, humiliated and threatened, and if you get past that stage, your holiday can begin. IF, you get past that stage.
Why put yourselves through this if you didn't have to?
Have some self respect, avoid Gilead.
As can be seen from the #usa and sadly Australia any law imposed on a select group can easily be misused to harass any person more broadly.
We don’t need more laws suppressing our rights. We need more trustworthy and effective policing and governance.
Two Swansea men convicted as part of £100m cocaine sea smuggling bid
Four drug smugglers were found with more than a ton of the Class A drug on board their boat, the Lily Lola, in September last year.
Two of the offenders 45-year-old Michael Kelly from Portway in Manchester and 27-year-old Jake Marchant of no fixed address pleaded guilty before trial.
But today (12 March) two other men from Swansea, 46-year-old Jon Williams of Windmill Terrace in St Thomas and 31-year-old Patrick Godfrey of Danygraig Road in Port Tennant were also convicted after a trial of smuggling the 1,076kg haul.
Truro Crown Court heard that shortly after 2pm on 13 September 2024, the Border Force cutter HMC Valiant was onpatrol off the north coast of Cornwall and deployed a RHIB (rigid hulled inflatable boat) to intercept the Lily Lola.
Williams, the captain and who had bought the boat for around £140,000 two months earlier, was at the helm. Marchant, of no fixed abode, was next to him. Kelly, of Portway, Manchester, was in the accommodation area and Godfrey was asleep in a deck chair.
The Lily Lola was taken into Plymouth Royal Dockyard and the seized substances, which were divided into bales, removed and tested showing them to be high purity cocaine.
Drugs found on the Lily Loa boatDrugs found on the Lily Loa boatA device that had been on board the Lily Lola was downloaded and some messages were recovered. These demonstrated the boat receiving instructions and co-ordinates from a third party.
Also, Godfrey’s phone showed he sent a message to someone saying “delete everything u see and not show anybody”. His phone also made the internet search “how long does it take a ship to leave peru to uk”.
A tracker was found in the drugs haul which National Crime Agency (NCA) investigators established was linked to a user in South America.
Williams, Godfrey and Marchant made no comment in interview and Kelly claimed he was on a fishing trip. But faced with the evidence against them, Kelly and Marchant pleaded guilty at Truro Crown Court on 15 October 2024.
The four men will return to the court on 8 May 2025 to be sentenced.
NCA branch commander Derek Evans said: “The NCA and Border Force have prevented a huge haul of cocaine from hitting the streets of the UK and wider Europe, where it would have blighted countless lives and communities.
“We’ve disrupted a drug supply chain and ensured organised criminals are deprived of the significant profits they would have gained had these drugs made it into the country.
“The NCA is working around the clock with partners here and overseas to erode the criminal networks benefiting from the destructive drugs trade.”
(Lead image: NCA)
#BorderForce #cocaine #drugs #featured #NationalCrimeAgency #NCA #Swansea
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