Why are we allowing people into Britain who need to be told rape is bad?

[the_jubjub_bird]

Jake  Wallis Simons

t would be quite funny if it weren’t so appalling: successive governments have let so many men from backward cultures into Britain that they are printing leaflets with cute illustrations reminding them that child abuse, rape, female genital mutilation are not traditional in our country.

What a way to keep the public safe. Talk about closing the stable door after the horse has bolted. Occasionally, you see posters warning us to beware of pickpockets, but you rarely see information campaigns telling thieves not to steal. Yet here we are, begging sex predators, child abusers and rapists to control themselves.

Can they even understand the language (English) on the leaflets? There could be no starker admission of failure from the British state. After decades of an open-door policy towards the darkest corners of the world, we find ourselves in a position where Pakistani-heritage gangs have created the most depraved child sex network ever seen in this country, often with the complicity – complicity! – of the authorities.

Almost every week, we are hit with another outrage carried out by migrants, whether murder, rape or assault. The problem is only getting worse, and with more than 3,000 illegals arriving by boat each month, the Government is out of ideas (unless you count moving them to live in middle-class areas, at greater taxpayers’ expense).

Much of it beggars belief. Just this week, in a case that didn’t attract nearly as much attention as it should, a 33-year-old Eritrean man by the name of Bruke Desalagne was convicted by a court in Harrow for one of the most disturbing rapes I have ever seen reported.

Last year, at around midnight, Desalagne was skulking through the streets of London when he saw an elderly man sitting drunkenly on a bench outside St John’s Church in Harrow. Rather than helping the pensioner home, or even just walking past, he dragged him behind a hoarding and raped him.

Who does that? You can see the Whitehall reaction now. “Yes, Minister, we propose a leaflet telling migrants that raping drunken elderly men outside churches is not culturally appropriate. We could get the Department of Work and Pensions to share the bill.”

That’s it? That’s the plan? Leaflets? Give me strength. Since 2018, enough illegal migrants have arrived in this country to populate a city the size of York. We have handed them hotel rooms, mobile phones, food, benefits and healthcare, and looked the other way while they have joined the black economy, finding cash-in-hand work in car washes, nail bars or as delivery riders.

This – quite obviously – has created a powerful incentive for a bottomless number to try their luck, upon which the smugglers have built their lucrative business model. But while there’s no shortage of demand across the Middle East and Africa, it hasn’t occurred to our rulers to curb the supply.

A sane government would be locking illegals up in pop-up prisons on uninhabited Scottish islands, without mobile phones, benefits or access to the black economy, until the flow stopped. Instead, we have leaflets with cute illustrations. What are British women and girls – and elderly men, evidently – to make of that?

And this is only the illegal immigration (let’s stop calling them refugees; they are coming from nowhere more dangerous than France, where most of us go on holiday).

In recent decades, millions have arrived perfectly permissibly from places like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Eritrea and Yemen. What did successive governments think was going to happen?

There were pretty obvious clues. In Somalia, for example, the prevalence of female genital mutilation is 98 per cent, according to government figures.

As a barometer of cultural backwardness, that is pretty revealing: it’s a fair bet that migrants from that country may not have the healthiest of attitudes towards consent, child sex and general social norms (indeed, our friend Desalagne was from a country where FGM was at 83 per cent).

Lo, today we find that among the 175,000-strong Somali community in Britain, economic inactivity is more than twice the national rate, while the number of people living in overcrowded accommodation is nearly eight times higher than the average.

Seventy-two per cent of Somalis are in social housing, compared to 17 per cent of the general population, with double the numbers of lone-parent households. Among those older than 30, 41 per cent had no qualifications at all. It is no surprise, then, that criminality, knife offences and gang membership are high, particularly in inner cities.

In one particularly appalling case, Abdul Hafidah, an 18-year-old member of a Libyan-Somali gang called the Rusholme Crips, was hunted through rush-hour Manchester and stabbed to death by members of the rival AO gang. The blood feud that claimed another teenager five years later. Why should this be taking place in Britain?

You get the picture. Now, here’s the question that gets to the heart of all this. Why did we do this to ourselves? Of course, among Somalians, Afghans and others there are many fine people. Some have fought bravely for our country. But the data show that they are outweighed by the problems.

According to the Office for Budget Responsibility, low-skilled migrants arriving in their twenties will be an economic drain across their lifetime, with the shortfall widening sharply after state pension age.

As we learnt this week, a record 1.3 million foreigners are on benefits in this country, 20,000 more than last year. In London, 63 per cent of Bangladeshi women and 61 per cent of those from Pakistan were not working, the highest rates recorded

So Britain has received little benefit, whether economic, cultural, social or spiritual, from mass immigration from impoverished, chaotic and authoritarian countries; yet we have saddled ourselves with great costs. Those of us gainfully employed are shouldering a snowballing tax burden to pay for it, while the threat to our people has become so great that the Government is bleating for mercy by way of leaflet.

Aside from the migrants themselves, the only people benefiting from all this are the virtue-signallers who brought this catastrophe upon us. Even now, they seem to be enjoying basking in a liberal glow while the country burns.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08/20/home-office-asylum-seekers-consent-leaflet/

Comments

[juan_gandhi]

Will the UK ever cure of it? I doubt it.

[the_jubjub_bird]

My hopes are with the Tories and Reform. If not, the only way for us is the relocation to Poland. There are no Abduls or Mohammeds.

[juan_gandhi]

Hope the Polish won't object.
But imagine, for so many years the Polish were emigrating to the UK.

[the_jubjub_bird]

I speak Polish fluently and have Polish roots. Also we have lots of friends and acquaintances in Poland.
Currently the trend is reversed. The Poles are returning home and quite a few Britishers are relocating to Poland. Taxes are much lower, life is cheaper and Polish cities and towns are much safer. Also the economy is booming.

[juan_gandhi]

Oh, this is easier then.
And Poland has been preserving its culture through all these troubled times. I actually see only two European countries that are advanced in software: Poland and Ukraine. Plus, an average IQ is higher, and the education seems to be still very good. Less wokism, more education.

[the_jubjub_bird]

We are visiting Poland every other year. Wife is considering buying one bedroom flat on the first floor (not the ground floor) somewhere near the centre of Warsaw. She is still not decided as we love our garden very much.

[juan_gandhi]

That's a principal question, with a garden or without. If you plan to visit your apartment regularly, but not stay there year-round, you don't need a garden.

[the_jubjub_bird]

We will have to sell our house and garden to be able to relocate.

[juan_gandhi]

I see. So it's a permanent relocation. Sure you'll need a space outside (in my view, of course). When we were buying a house in France, realtors were puzzled why we need something sans jardin. But it's safer if you can lock all your shutters and make it impossible to penetrate your property if you go away for three or more months.

[the_jubjub_bird]

Some flats in Warsaw have access to a communal garden. We would not buy a flat in a former Soviet era block of flats.