UK Protests Gain Steam

David Strom 3:30 PM | August 30, 2025
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Anger is boiling over in the UK pressure cooker, and it is hard to see anybody in power finding the courage to use the steam release valve before it explodes. On the issue of immigration, it now boils down to the state vs its citizens. 

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What began as a flag protest--English people putting up the St George's flag as an act of defiance against government indifference to their anger--has spread to Wales and Scotland. Larger and larger crowds are gathering, and confrontations with police are becoming common. 

The latest outrage--a High Court decision ruling that a migrant hotel the Epping Council had planned to close--must remain open because the rights of migrants to housing outweigh the rights of British citizens--has ramped tensions up several notches. Of course it has. 

The Epping hotel case was about more than planning law. It was a litmus test for where the loyalties of this Labour government lie.

I went to support the peaceful, patriotic protestors in Epping, because I share their concerns about illegal migrants being housed in communities.

Starmerโ€™s government, on the other hand, has shown itself to be on the side of illegal migrants who have broken into our county.

Yvette Cooper has used taxpayer money โ€“ your money โ€“ to keep open a hotel housing them. The Governmentโ€™s lawyers proceeded to argue that accommodating illegal migrants was in the โ€œnational interestโ€.

In court they even argued the right of illegal migrants to free hotels is more important than the rights of the British people, and they won.

The Home Secretary argued an injunction would encourage more protests. The great irony is that this decision โ€“ which puts two fingers up to the legitimate anger of the British public โ€“ will surely inspire even more.

Councils can and should still act to close hotels. If they donโ€™t, residents will rightly ask, whose side are they on?

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The decision came down because the Home Office appealed an earlier decision from a lower court allowing the Council to close the hotel. Read that again: the UK Home Office intervened to keep the migrant hotel--the site at which many sexual assaults and other crimes took place--open over the objections of the locals. It was the government versus the people, and, of course, the government won. 

The judge who ruled in this case previously ran a socialist think tank and explicitly stated that the UK government has a responsibility to prioritize the rights of migrants to housing over those of British citizens. He cited the European Convention on Human Rights. The rights of Britons are, it seems, subordinate to the rights of foreigners under this convention. 

Britons are fed up. At least those whose rights are being pushed aside in favor of outsiders. Those at the top of the social pyramid are happy with the decision and are just as happy to tear down English flags as soon as citizens put them up. The reasoning? The English flag makes migrants feel uncomfortable. 

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The conflict boils down to the battle between globalists and nationalists. Does the British government have an equal, or even greater, responsibility to defend illegal migrants as British citizens? After all, the UK government doesn't provide free room and board for its own citizens, but it does for foreigners. 

Those of us who have been sounding the alarm about globalism have been called conspiracy theorists, but the reality is becoming clear enough that it is difficult to ignore even for those who have believed in the goodwill of the establishment. Not that the establishment is giving up--when a popular TV presented made fairly benign comments about how great most immigrants are but that something had to be done about the flood of illegals, he was booted for being hateful. 

The rise of anti-immigrant sentiment is not the result of an outbreak of nasty right-wingers; it is simple self-defense. For decades Britons have been victimized by "grooming gangs," and the government covered the problem up, cozied up to the perpetrators, and often arrested the victims. 

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Britain used to have a low rate of sexual predation; now it has a rape epidemic even worse than Sweden, where sexual predation from "Asian" migrants also caused the rape incidence to rise. 

The elite are attacking their own citizens. Labour politicians, who embrace the flags such as the Progress Pride Flag, call those flying the English flag bigotry. 

Waving a Palestinian flag is great. Waving an English or Welsh flag is bigotry. 

If elections were held today, Reform UK would win in a landslide. But the next election need not occur until August 15, 2029. The Prime Minister could call a snap election, but that is as likely as aliens landing on Earth tomorrow. The only way to get Starmer out of the PM slot is for Labour to replace him, and the result of that would be a frying pan to fire change. 

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The pressure cooker will blow long before then. Starmer is beginning to talk tough on immigration, but his actions do not match his rhetoric. 

The UK Establishment seems fine with foreigners carrying their own flags while marching--or carrying the "Palestinian" flag. In fact, they go out of their way to ensure that Britons respect their right to do so. Not so with Britons carrying their own flags. 

Labour and Conservatives have been utterly discredited, yet there is no obvious pressure relief valve. The government must reverse course to appease public opinion, but it has no intention of doing so. Some level of uprising is inevitable. When anger can't be released in peaceful ways--democracies are supposed to do so through representative government responsive to the people--it will be released in less socially constructive ways. 

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All of this strife was predictable--we know that, because lots of us predicted it and were called bigots for pointing out the obvious. It isn't bigotry that motivates us to say the obvious--it's a recognition that some cultures are incompatible. Cultures that normalize the abuse of young girls can't coexist with those that don't. 

As bizarre as it sounds, a significant number of people are all right with that. They speak in lofty terms about "democracy," but their true goal is to wield raw power over the people. 

There are a lot of liberals who genuinely believe that we are exaggerating the problem. As Martha Raddatz would say, "Only a few" apartment complexes were taken over by the Venezuelan gangs. "Only a few (thousand)" British girls were raped. What's your problem, bigot?

What can't go on forever won't. It's just that simple. People are done with it. 

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