Immigration causing major shortage of school places

Mass immigration is causing a shortage of school places and poor attainment amongst English-speaking pupils according to the Campaign for Real Education.

According to figures released by the Department for Education, 1.19m pupils in England speak English as a second language and the CfRE says that so much teaching time is taken up helping pupils that don't speak English as a first language that those who do are being held back and neglected. A teacher from Oxford has told the Association of Teachers and Lecturers that staff aren't trained to teach children who don't speak English as a first language.

One in six English secondary schools are over-subscribed but rising immigration means 300,000 extra children will need to be found a school place over the next 5 years.

Former Labour deputy leader of Rotherham Council accused of rape

The former Labour deputy leader of Rotherham Council has been accused of rape by one of the victims giving evidence against three brothers who have now been convicted of child sex offences.

Jahangir Akhtar - a relative of Arshid, Basharat and Bannaras Hussain who have all received prison sentences for grooming, pimping and trafficking young girls - has been accused of rape by one victim and possibly two others.

Akhtar was vice chairman of the South Yorkshire Police & Crime Panel but resigned after the Times published details of him doing a deal to avoid Arshid Hussain being prosecuted if he handed a missing girl to police at a petrol station.

Investigations into allegations of sexual abuse of children in Rotherham by Pakistani men have found evidence of decades of abuse allowed to continue because police, councillors and social services were scared of being accused of racism. Despite evidence of social services and the police failing to carry out their statutory duty of care, not one social worker or police officer has been prosecuted for their part in knowingly allowing child sex trafficking and paedophile gangs to operate in Rotherham with impunity.

Akhtar lost his seat to UKIP in the local elections last year. He denies the allegations.

Cambridgeshire Conservative County Councillor defects to UKIP

A Conservative county councillor in Cambridge has defected to UKIP.

Cllr Adrian Dent, who represents Bassingbourn division on the county council, said that the Conservative Party is not the democratic party he joined years ago and that he was forced to accept things that were bad for his ward and the people he was elected to represent because of the party whip.

Did you know?

UKIP doesn't operate a whip which means that its councillors are able to vote in the way that they consider to be in the best interests of the people they were elected to represent rather than how they are instructed to vote by the party whips.

The UKIP group on Cambridgeshire County Council now has 13 councillors, one short of the Lib Dems who form the second largest group. The Conservatives have a minority administration with 29 of the 69 councillors on the county council.

Nottinghamshire Lib Dem councillor charged with 10 counts of child sex offences

The former Lib Dem leader of Nottinghamshire County Council, Cllr Jason Zadrozny, has been charged with a number of sex offences involving children.

Cllr Zadrozny - who was suspended by the Lib Dems last year when he was charged with gross indecency with a child - has been charged with 3 counts of raping a male under 16, four counts of indecent assault on a boy under 16 and three counts of engaging in sexual activity with a boy aged 13 to 15.

EU orders Scottish beef rebranded as "from Europe"

The EU has forced the Scottish beef industry to relabel their products as "from Europe" in exchange for an advertising grant.

Quality Meat Scotland secured an £861k grant from the EU to promote Scottish beef but it came with strings attached. Scottish beef now has to have the slogan "Enjoy! It's from Europe" printed on it.

Rather than protest the hijacking of Scottish beef by the EU and the dilution of a valuable Scottish brand as you might expect a government to do, the Scottish government has instead given the directive its backing and is calling on other food producers to brand their products as European instead of Scottish.

EU postponing legislation to limit power of toasters until after the referendum

The EU is holding back new regulations cutting the power of toasters, lightbulbs and boilers and regulating the standby modes of electronic items including mobile phones until after the EU referendum.

EU officials are worried that their continual interference in every aspect of our lives will boost the campaign to leave the EU and are holding back legislation that they think will be unpopular. They have already decided to hold back a €20bn budget increase, new guidelines on freedom of movement and EU-wide accession to the ECHR that will override our own human rights legislation until after the referendum.

EU facing hostile voters in three referenda in three months

The EU is facing a democratic crisis with both Hungary and the Netherlands holding referenda on key decisions before the EU referendum in the UK.

The Netherlands is holding a referendum in April on the EU's treaty of association with Ukraine. The referendum on this treaty is being treated as a proxy vote on the Netherlands' relationship with the EU as a whole and opinion is as divided in the Netherlands as it is here.

Hungary, meanwhile, is holding a referendum on the EU's imposition of quotas for illegal immigrants which requires Hungary - along with other member states - to take a quota of illegal immigrants from other EU countries that are bearing the brunt of the EU's disastrous open door immigration policy.

While the Dutch (being "good Europeans" and one of the handful of net contributors to the EU budget) have been left to get on with their referendum, the Hungarians have been told that a referendum doesn't "fit into the decisions making process" by the EU Commission.

A survey by a leading Dutch pollster has found that a majority of Dutch people want a referendum on membership of the EU with a very small majority wanting out. The poll also finds that Geert Wilders' anti-immigration, anti-EU PVV is the most popular party in the Netherlands, enjoying almost double the support of the ruling VVD.

New daily newspaper from pro-EU, UKIP hating Trinity Mirror launches tomorrow

Trinity Mirror - which publishes the Mirror, the People and a long list of local and regional newspapers - is due to launch its new title New Day tomorrow following a £5m advertising campaign.

The new publication was only conceived a couple of months ago and they're going to print already. A suspicious person might wonder if the timing of the launch of yet another left wing, UKIP hating, pro-EU newspaper in the run-up to the EU referendum campaign was more premeditated than coincidental.

Martin Schulz on a United States of Europe

This is from 2013 but as relevant as ever. Martin Schulz is now President of the EU Parliament which will get to vote on and amend Cameron's new deal if we vote to stay in the EU.

US have one currency, one Central Bank and one Govt. Europe has one currency, one Central Bank and...17 govts! Cannot go on like this.

— Martin Schulz (@MartinSchulz) July 5, 2013

Residents of Faribourne taking legal action over global warming plan

Residents in the Welsh village of Fairbourne in Cardigan Bay are planning to take legal action after a council coastal management plan left their homes worthless through global warming propaganda.

Gwynedd Council has written coastal management plan for Cardigan Bay which assumes that sea levels will rise by 3.3ft in the next 40 years because of global warming, wiping out the village. Homes in the village have now been valued at zero by estate agents, making them impossible to sell.

Despite a couple of decades of sustained scaremongering by global warming propaganda merchants global temperatures have failed to rise, the ice caps have failed to melt and low-lying islands and coastal areas have stubbornly refused to be drowned under rising sea levels. The science of global warming isn't science at all, it's a series of alarmist stories to create headlines and keep research grants rolling in.

This financially and politically motivated scam has already claimed the lives of countless elderly and vulnerable people who are forced by "green" taxes to choose between eating and heating. Now the values of peoples' homes are being wiped out by the same scam.

Cameron plans to abuse honours system to bribe pro-EU campaigners

David Cameron is planning to reward up to 40 supporters of the EU with peerages^(£) after the referendum.

The combined upper and lower houses of Parliament makes the UK's legislature the second largest in the world, second only to China's which administers a country of 1.36bn people.

Stuffing the House of Lords with political appointments by successive governments has grown the upper house to a whopping 850 members which, when combined with the 650 MPs in the lower house, makes a total of 1,500 lawmakers. That's one politician for every 43,000 people or thereabouts. In the United States there is one lawmaker for roughly 617,000 people.

Cameron's abuse of the civil service and honours system to support his pro-EU campaign shows him up for the bullying dictator he is.

British government holding back British Bill of Rights & Responsibilities until after the EU Referendum

The British government are holding back their British Bill of Rights & Responsibilities - a new law that would replace the EU Human Rights Act and the 1689 English Bill of Rights - until after the EU referendum to avoid being slapped down over attempts to curtail the jurisdiction of the EU Court of Injustice.

The Human Rights Act - often referred to as the criminal's charter - brought into force the European Convention on Human Rights. The ECHR gave some of the human rights already enjoyed in England by the Bill of Rights, Magna Carta and Habeas Corpus (amongst others) legal protection under EU law and gave the EU Court of Human Rights and EU Court of Injustice the right to overrule our own courts when interpreting its provisions. In addition to what are considered human rights in the commonly accepted definition of the term, it gave new legal rights to criminals, illegal immigrants, hate preachers and terrorists that can be used to escape punishment and deportation.

The EU has already admitted to holding back new legislation and a budget review until after the EU referendum because they don't want to help the leave campaign and now it seems the British government are doing the same. Irrespective of the fact that we don't need a British Bill of Rights to replace the perfectly good Bill of Rights we've had for the last 328 years, the British government shouldn't be manipulating the legislative process for their own political campaigns.

The rights we have from our own constitution

Bill of Rights 1689

• Only Parliament can make or repeal laws
• Only Parliament can levy taxes
• All subjects have the right to petition the Crown
• Armed forces are answerable to Parliament
• Members of Parliament must be elected in free elections
• Immunity from prosecution for libel for Members of Parliament
• No cruel or unusual punishments or excessive bail
• The right to trial by jury
• No fines or forfeitures without conviction
• Parliament will sit on a regular basis
• The Crown is not above the law

Magna Carta 1215

• The right to trial by jury
• No fines or forfeitures without conviction
• The state cannot use force against you without legal authority

Habeas Corpus 1679

• Prisoners have a right to appear before a judge
• Prisoners can't be moved to a different prison or out of the country to avoid due process

Petition of Right 1627

• Only Parliament can levy taxes
• The Crown can't demand that you lend it money
• Armed forces don't have a right to enter your home and demand hospitality
• Soldiers have to obey the law of the land even when martial law is in effect

The "rights" we don't get from our constitution

• The right to break into the back of a lorry and illegally enter the country
• The right to preach hatred and intolerance on our streets
• The right to free housing and benefits without ever having to pay a penny in taxes
• The right to compensation for hurt feelings
• The right to special treatment because of your age, gender, sexuality, disability, race or religion

BBC bias over EU exit "risks British science" article

The BBC ran an article yesterday with the headline EU exit 'risks British science' in which the director of the EU-funded Francis Crick Institute claims that leaving the EU would be detrimental to the science industry. His claims are backed up by "Scientists for EU" - an organisation which the Leave Alliance have already taken to task over their dishonest political posturing.

Scientists for Britain, which advocates leaving the EU and opening up research programmes to the rest of the world, is given fairly equal coverage in the article arguing that the most successful scientific collaborations the UK takes part in have nothing to do with the EU and that the extra money we will save from not being in the EU can be put into research funding of our own.

So given the obvious lack of consensus - which the BBC actually reports - why does the headline read EU exit 'risks British science' rather than No consensus on impact of EU exit on British science? The BBC has already failed its impartiality test by giving prominence to pro-EU commentators on flagship programmes and allowing staff to call the EU "Europe" to confuse viewers, according to Tory MP, Andrew Bridgen. This biased headline is yet another example of the institutional bias in the EU-funded BBC.

The latest immigration figures are out and they still don't add up

Last year - according to British government figures - 257,000 immigrants arrived in the UK. Of those 257,000, about 630,000 applied for National Insurance numbers.

No, an extra zero hasn't slipped in there by mistake. About 630,000 new National Insurance numbers were issued to EU immigrants last year enabling them to work and claim benefits whilst according to the Office of National Statistics, only 257,000 EU immigrants came to live here.

Some of the discrepancy can be explained away by existing EU citizens living here without National Insurance numbers applying for a number because they've decided to work or pay tax but that's not a plausible explanation for a difference of over 370,000. Either there is rampant benefit fraud taking place or the ONS are way out on their statistics.

In reality it's probably a combination of both but mainly the ONS fiddling the numbers to suit a political agenda. We said back in November that the numbers didn't add up and they still don't.

The EU is holding back legislation until after the referendum

The EU are deliberately holding back on new legislation until after the EU referendum to avoid giving ammunition to the leave campaign.

Included in the queued up legislation is a proposal to increase the EU budget by €20bn, new guidelines increasing the freedom of movement rights and EU accession to the European Convention on Human Rights which will override domestic human rights legislation in all EU countries.

If the referendum goes the wrong way there is a lot of pain waiting for us as soon as it's over.