People smugglers change tack to launch boats from Belgium
2 March 26
‘Taxi boats’ for migrants coming to the UK are reportedly being launched from Belgian beaches to avoid French police, meaning longer and more dangerous journeys, and the government has provided £1.3 million to Belgian law enforcement in response.
Source: Telegraph
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Mastek win £49M deal to support UK Home Office Biometrics delivery
2 March 26
Digital engineering company Mastek wins a £49 million, five-year Home Office contract to support its Biometric Services Gateway and national DNA database, systems used across visa processing, passport applications, asylum claims and law enforcement.
Source: Biometrics Update
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Refugee status becomes temporary in asylum shake-up
2 March 26
Under asylum rules issued yesterday, new refugees will be granted only 30 months’ protection instead of 5 years, followed by a review and removal if their country is deemed safe. The Law Society warns of ‘tension’ with the UK’s obligations under the Refugee Convention, while refugee charities condemn the move as deeply harmful.
Source: BBC News
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School faced wave of abuse after Tommy Robinson lies
2 March 26
Staff at Bellahouston Academy in Glasgow are subjected to threatening phone calls after Tommy Robinson circulates claims online about an attack on a pupil involving ‘Asian gangs’. Police Scotland make arrests for assault and robbery linked to the incident, which appears to have no known racial element.
Source: Searchlight
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Reform UK council deputy admits using AI image in blog post about people being ‘shipped’ to Durham
2 March 26
Darren Grimes, Reform UK’s deputy council leader in Durham, admits using an AI-generated image of dark-skinned men getting into a coach in a post complaining that London councils are ‘quietly shifting’ ‘problem tenants, refugees and homeless families’ north.
Source: Independent
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The Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light
1 March 26
Anti-fascists oppose a far-right protest outside the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light Headquarters in Crewe.
Source: Facebook
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Shabana Mahmood’s double down on immigration ‘disappointing’, says Alf Dubs
1 March 26
Kindertransport refugee Lord Alf Dubs criticises home secretary Shabana Mahmood for saying she would press on with hardline immigration and asylum policies despite backbench and union objections, following Labour’s defeat to the Greens at the Gorton and Denton by-election.
Source: Guardian
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Nigel Farage says he would only allow British citizens to vote in UK elections
1 March 26
As Farage claims postal voting has turned the UK into a ‘laughing stock’, Reform UK unveils plans for electoral reform, including a proposal to significantly restrict postal voting and remove the right of Commonwealth citizens to vote. Farage says that Reform’s Gorton and Denton by-election candidate ‘came first’ among British-born voters.
Source: Metro
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ITV Censors Political Statements At Brit Awards Including “Free Palestine” & “F*** I.C.E”
1 March 26
ITV faces criticism for censoring multiple political statements in its broadcast of the Brit Awards, including Geese drummer Max Bassin saying ‘free Palestine’ and ‘f*** ICE’ during his acceptance speech for Group of the Year.
Source: Deadline
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Fownes Hotel asylum seeker hotel protest and counter-demo in Worcester
28 February 26
Patriots of Worcester are among those protesting the housing of asylum seekers at the Fownes Hotel, clashing with counter-demonstrators from Worcestershire Against Racism.
Source: Worcester News
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Labour anxiety and accusations after big shift in Muslim vote to Greens
28 February 26
Labour’s loss of the Gorton and Denton seat was partly due to a big shift in Muslim voters’ allegiance to the Greens, it is revealed.
Source: Guardian
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Legal challenge over plan to use East Sussex army camp as asylum housing dismissed
27 February 26
As the High Court rejects as premature a legal challenge by a residents’ group, Crowborough Shield, to the proposed use of Crowborough military training camp in east Sussex as asylum accommodation, the group says it will submit a further challenge.
Source: Guardian
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UK has already transferred €540 million to Paris for Channel-migration policing, French parliament told
27 February 26
France’s parliamentary commission confirms that Britain has transferred €540 million to Paris since 2023 to finance patrols, technology and migrant reception infrastructure, with an additional 700 gendarmes and police, night-vision drones, surveillance towers, a network of mobile command vehicles, the expansion of detention capacity and new screening facilities.
Source: Visa HQ
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Bitter Memories of Moria Camp Arrests: Report on Arrests of Rejected Asylum Seekers at Lesvos Asylum Office
27 February 26
Legal Centre Lesvos’ new report, Bitter memories of Moria: arrests at the Lesvos asylum office, describes how since the law criminalising undocumented stay in Greece came into effect, people attending scheduled appointments to receive appeal decisions are arrested immediately on receiving a rejection and charged with illegal stay, which can mean years of imprisonment.
Source: Legal Centre Lesvos
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Fascists attack Manchester Stop The War meeting
27 February 26
Fascists, allegedly supported by Iranian monarchists, post videos online of an attack on a Stop the War movement meeting in Manchester. Searchlight reports that local Shi’a mosques have been daubed with graffiti and red paint and worshippers abused on the way to prayers.
Source: Searchlight
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