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The British economy continues to struggle under PM Keir Starmer, the military is depleted and a pension crisis is on the horizon, but there is one area where the UK is exceeding expectations.
Starmer’s UK has achieved levels of political prisoners not only resembling but occasionally even outdoing those of Communist dictatorships like Cuba, Venezuela and even China.
Freedom House estimated that Cuba has 2,768 political prisoners, Venezuela has 1,953 political prisoners, and thousands more in China. Starmer’s regime and an enthusiastic police force have easily outdone these backward Communist regimes by arresting over 1,000 people a month for social media posts. The full number of political prisoners in the UK remains unknown, but the high number of arrests suggests that Britain may be able to compete with Cuba.
The 12,000 arrests by 37 forces a year are a record high. Speech arrests more than doubled from 5,502 in 2017 to over 12,000 since 2022. increasing by 1,000 or more every year. The internet did not fundamentally change since 2017. The UK authorities however have.
The London Times recently reported that “British police arrest more than 30 people a day for online posts”. London’s Met Police, who have been at the center of some of the worst speech abuses, maintain a secretive operation monitoring social media leading to almost immediate arrests. The Met Police arrested a staggering 5,332 people in 9 years for speech and 1,700 speech arrests in 2023 alone making London into its own speech gulag.
Other forces have tried to duplicate it with their own social media monitoring teams.
After a Muslim terrorist murdered 3 British girls, a 55-year-old woman was dragged out of her home, arrested and held for 36 hours for “posting inaccurate information” that he was Muslim.
Allison Pearson, a journalist, had the police show up at her door after she tweeted a criticism of them for posing with members of an Islamist movement. Such incidents have become routine.
And some have led the victims of Starmer’s speech police becoming political prisoners.
One of the most infamous cases is Lucy Connolly, the mother of two children, who had lost her little boy after his hospitalization, and expressed her anger after the brutal Muslim terrorist murders of three little girls at a dance studio. Lucy was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison even while Islamists have been allowed to spout their support for terrorism and genocide.
While organizations like Freedom House and Amnesty International assemble lists of political prisoners in dictatorships, no such lists are being compiled for the UK since it’s ‘free’ (and since the British government has been one of the largest funders of Amnesty) however there were 7,734 ‘detentions’ in 2019 suggesting the possibility of a higher number of political prisoners in the UK than in many dictatorships.
Political prisoners in the UK are not limited to those arrested for online social media posts.
Recently a man who burned a Koran outside the Turkish consulate to protest the Islamist dictatorship was locked up, not in Istanbul but in London, for “harassment” against “the religious institution of Islam”. To add insult to injury, the Islamist who stabbed him was let out on bail while he was kept in prison. In the UK, speech is a major crime, stabbing the speaker is a minor one.
At political rallies, a Jewish protester who waved a sign mocking Hezbollah’s leader had his home raided by two police vans looking for “offensive materials” and was accused of stirring up “racial hatred” by offending “pro-Hezbollah” terrorist supporters. He was charged with “racially or religiously aggravated harassment” and put through an eight month court case before the case was finally dropped. Even an anti-Israel activist was arrested for carrying a sign reading “Stop Israel genocide! Stop Hamas executions!”. He wasn’t charged for the anti-Israel slogan, but for the anti-Hamas one, on the grounds that criticising Hamas was engaging in a “racially and religiously aggravated breach of the peace under the Public Order Act.”
Offending Hamas or Hezbollah is a crime in the UK, supporting terrorists however isn’t.
Such arrests make it even more difficult to begin assembling a full list of political prisoners, but the expansiveness of speech suppression operations in the UK is on par with dictatorships.
While it’s easy to blame the Starmer regime for the transformation of the United Kingdom into a speech gulag, much as in East Germany, where much of the public was revealed to have been informing on each other, the increase in speech investigations and arrests has been driven in part by a growing population of enthusiastic political informants. Cancel culture in America can get people fired or shunned, but in the United Kingdom it can actually send them to prison.
Over 14,000 “non-crime hate incidents” were reported to UK police forces including someone offended by a classic children’s illustration considered racially insensitive today and a family member “reported for being transphobic after saying that the ‘victim’ was “living out a sexual fantasy”. In a recent case a portrait of Enoch Powell, a British politician who warned about the dangers of unrestricted mass migration, in a store window was reported as a hate incident.
British leftists used to moan about Thatcher and warn of a tyranny that would take away free speech, but it’s their regime of radicalization and Islamization that is killing free speech. Englishmen had more free speech under even the most tyrannical kings, where men could at least whisper criticisms to each other in the corner of a pub, than they do under PM Starmer.
Crime rose 10% in 2024 and robberies rose 64% in a decade, but the only crime that the Starmer regime and police will prosecute is the crime of speech. The UK is falling behind in everything, but when it comes to political prisoners, it’s catching up to Communist tyrannies.
Police state, like East Germany, where some say half the population were informers. Probably exaggerated, but it turns out that many people are willing to be informers.
We learned that during Covid didn’t we.
The UK (United Kaliphate) is just efficient at enforcing Sharia. They should be applauded by all jihadists.
Starmer Trooper tee shirts could compete with Che Guevara ones.
Meanwhile the Radicals and Terrorists roam the Streets of London. MOVE OVER JACK THE RIPPER
Funny stuff. The Brits wanted to bring that here, threatening to charge and extradite Americans that violate their (lack of) free speech laws.
Virginia Delegate Nick Freitas points it out here :
See previous piece about Oman and money for your answer.
UK has two choices:
Deport all islamists and ban islam.
Or
Go extinct, a slow painful and humiliating extinction.
No, , they won’t go to extinction. Them Maw Zees are too lazy and/or distracted to be able to maintain a functioning society. The loud ones are too busy meddling on other people’s business to DO anything productive. WHO will raise their food, build their roads, fix their cars, produce their ammunition, build their houses?
Eventually, as has always happened in the past with these louts, their radical non-functionality will devolve into chaos, starvation, collapse.. this has happened a number of times in the past. READ your history.
There will ALWAYS remain a remnant who are motivated, wise, capable, to rise up again and rebuild. Unless they are all killed… but they will never find them all. A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. This works both ways.. to destruction or to prosperity.
This Yank enjoyed a wonderful holiday in London in 2000.
I’ll never return.
I am sure my arrest warrant is already signed, b/c of comments I have posted.
My Lovely wife desires to visit Ireland. I won’t go. “Visit with your girlfriend.”
One wrong word and they would jail me.
What is wrong with western Europe?
Nothing to see.here. Move along.
The English people have been conquered – by the Globalist Communist
jackboots among them – and by Islam. Going about one’s life being daily
angry and frightened is only a taste of what the thugs eventually have in
store for them. Show trials – forced labor – disappearances – and death
loom on the horizon. Because what are the unorganized, defenseless
citizens – and their families – going to do about it?
It could happen here. What exactly could you do if the likes of Biden,
Kamala, Obama or Hillary began to monitor the internet for what they
disapproved and arrest accordingly. After all, when they were in power,
such things as a wide open border – two-tiered justice – racial preference –
pay for play corruption – etc. were flaunted. And there wasn’t a damn
thing the people could do about it while governed under those regimes.
The Globalist Communists and Islam are a global threat. Not just to
England but to America as well. The U.K. has already fallen to them.
America – while still free under President Trump – remains dangerously
close to doing the same.
The only solution may be to make Trump De Facto President for life, under some cover story to make it palatable, like they did with Augustus in Ancient Rome. Of course, the real problem comes after Trump, who will be the successor?
My suspicion would be that, in this instance, informing is a form of jihad, and that there might be people who advance the cause of Islamization by combing the more popular social media platforms for statements from identifiable British citizens which question Islamic cultural imperatives.
My decision to leave “social media” seems, with the passing of time to have been a wise one. Don’t post, they can’t find.
Of course, we can’t ever trust that “they” are not monitoring places like this one…..
We did well to give General Thomas Gage and his minions the “left boot of fellowship” back in the 1770’s, sending them back to from where they came. Gage’s minions had informed him that two very dangerous old men, Sam Adams and John Hancock, had fled Boston (realising they had attracted the special attention of said Gage) and were in hiding at the minister’s home in Lexington.
Gage’s orders were to first arrest this pair, with the goal of trnsporting them to London where they would be tried” and certainly convicted, to become featured “guests” at a public necktie party on London Bridge. hen second on to Concord to seize two small cannon and a shipment of new long guns out at Colonel Barrett’s (head of the Concord Militia) farm. Being warned by Paul Reverel the two would be dead men fled Lexington, the two cannon were seized at Concord, but none of the long guns. Gage lost half of his officers and a third of his foot in that failed sortie. Little did he realise he had lost the entire war and the colonies. It took ten more years before the Brits realised the obvious: those “damm Yankees” would NOT be subject to any corrupt king from the other side of the ocean.
The Brits have never caught on to WHY we gave them the boot 250 years ago. They are today the perfect example of cowed subjects mute before the shearer. I seriously doubt this will change in time. The nation seems doomed to chaos and destruction. I’d say get out whilst you yet can.. Like those Boers recently liberated from South Africa and brought here. There are few here who realise who they really are nor what they have endured. South Africa seems lost. Britain herself as well.
Thanks to American woodsmen with rifles vs Redcoats with muskets 🙂
God save -er- the queens subjects
The US or Israel should offer political asylum to British dissidents.
First , that the British patriot, Tommy Robinson was sent to prison for only specking out the truth about the many dangers of Islam with it’s different kinds of jihad ,reveals that the Western value of “Freedom of speech” Is no longer allowed in the United Kingdom.
Second, this exposes that the non—Muslim government authorities who are still in power in the UK have taken the practice of “Walking on eggshells” to not offend the Muslims who are living in England, This must mean are weak for they are afraid of Muslim outrage and riots as well as other forms of Muslims mayhem in Britain. That is terrible, because such violent lawless chaos should not be tolerated in any Western nation.
Third, the imprisonment and the other terrible treatment of the British patriot, Tommy Robinson, by the government United Kingdom is evidence enough that there is an insidious movement for Islamic power in England for advancement of Sharia in the UK,
This Muslim infiltration and influence in the governmental working of the United Kingdom . is called the “Stealth jihad.” This technique is practiced by Muslims who are also stealth jihadists to infiltrate the UK as well as other Western countries using lies and deception, Taqiyya, for the advancement of Islam with its Sharia.
This Muslim scheme for achieving the goal of the Islamic agenda is as, many times, as subtly effective as it is demonically clever. Furthermore, this Islamic gradualism, in some ways, is very similar to the instruction printed in the book entitled THE ART OF WAR by Sun Tzu. Which reads, “At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden, until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late for the enemy to oppose you.”
It’s important that we go to war with Russia and Putin to save democracy in Europe.
Throughout human history, many people have gone. Yet none has gone so shamefully – Alexander Maistrovoy.
Then: Give up your guns. Your freedoms are perfectly safe.
Now: You are guilty of wrong think. Off to prison with you.
Question: Are you praying silently outside this abortion clinic.
Correct Answer: I don’t know am I? Prove it.
Isn’t Keir Starmer the Poster Boy of the absolutely preposterous World Economic Forum?! Isnt the UK the LAND of the MAGNA CARTA , the most remarkably advanced document of its time and treasured as the inspiration for Human Rights and Freedoms in America? Surely, the real British people didn’t actually have a chance to VOTE for this? or were they victims of Vote Fraud, a common crime everywhere now thanks to Chinese Bribery and their sickening alliance with Marxist Thugs and AntiSemites. The loss of Free Speech in UK is not surprising. Once they get your Guns it’s Open Season and the primary reason all the Globalists despise AMERICA, MAGA + TRUMP.