‘Send them home': British patriots fight back against UK's growing immigration crisis
Over the weekend, anti-immigration protests broke out in London, Manchester and Newcastle, with thousands attending in total.
The protests were held outside hotels used to house asylum seekers who entered the UK, with the demonstrations leading to 15 arrests.
The protest in Manchester's city centre saw a clash between counter-protesters, and the two groups briefly scuffled before police arrived on the scene.
Group 'Britain First' organised the protest in Manchester that saw roughly 1500 people waving English and Union Jack flags.
The group reportedly marched from Manchester Piccadilly station to outside the Central Library before a rally was held.
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- Sydney Morning Herald
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'My wheat got wet in the trailer last night as the convo (sic) stopped me in the rain in chippy,' he wrote on Instagram, adding: 'I could have easily got it in the shed without getting in the way.' Cooper questioned why the vice president did not drive around in a nondescript small car, saying: 'Nobody would know who he was.' Other Cotswold residents have claimed to have been 'sealed off' by the guarded checkpoints of the vice president's holiday hamlet. 'JD Vance has taken over my village – send help,' Jonathan Mazower told The London Telegraph. 'We've been completely sealed off from the outside world.' Mazower and his family live in Dean, which is temporarily adrift during the vice president's visit. Vance, who is travelling with his wife, Usha, and children Ewan, eight, Vivek, five, and Mirabel, three, met Robert Jenrick, the Tory shadow justice secretary, at his Cotswold retreat. The Vance family is expected to round off their British summer tour with a visit to Scotland this week. Police have been seen scouring the grounds of the Carnell Estates in East Ayrshire, while a police car was parked across the entrance to the mansion on Tuesday. Carnell, which is owned by Michael Findlay and has been in family hands since the 1300s, was rented by Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in 2011 while the latter filmed World War Z in Glasgow. The 10-bedroom country house is set within 2000 acres, which offers shooting, fishing and tennis, while golf is also close by. Vance is expected to fly into Prestwick Airport, which is a 15-minute drive away from Carnell, in the coming days. Airspace restrictions have already been put in place around the Carnell Estate, preventing unauthorised aircraft and drones from flying over the site without official permission until midnight on Sunday, according to air traffic control provider NATS. Loading Mazower said the vice president's arrival in the Cotswolds had made 'a lot of people very angry,' both for the circus and baggage it has brought. 'It's the inconvenience but also, who it is in aid of,' the 59-year-old said, adding: 'This area is well-used to having politicians and celebrities around – people are generally very live and let live – but the fact this huge upheaval is for an appalling politician has got people very angry.' Mazower took issue with the way in which Vance sought to 'humiliate' Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, in the Oval Office and the vice-president 'lecturing to Europe on freedom of speech while deporting any foreign student who stands up for Gaza'. He voiced concern that the vice president was 'demolishing the foundations of liberal democracy as he and Trump drive the US along the path to fascism'. Dozens of police officers have been stationed on roadblocks at either end of the only lane in and out of the hamlet, where cars are searched with sniffer dogs and IDs are checked. A large antenna has been erected behind the manor house, and a no-fly zone has been put in place around the area. Vance travelled to the property in a 19-vehicle motorcade accompanied by a helicopter. Mazower, who is the communications director for the charity Survival International, said the lockdown had made meaningful protest nigh-on impossible. 'Those of us who feel obliged to make some kind of protest, however token, have stuck posters in our gardens, in the probably vain hope he sees them as he speeds past,' he said. 'Dance against Vance' The Stop Trump Coalition (STC) organised a peaceful protest against Vance's visit on Tuesday afternoon in Charlbury. Nearly 100 people held aloft homemade signs as they gathered in the dappled light on the common. Balloons and cake were dolled out for what was described as a Vance Not Welcome Party, while organisers from STC led chants over a megaphone. 'From Ukraine to Palestine, occupation is a crime,' the townsfolk bellowed, before a call and response of 'JD Vance, Shame on You'. Juliette Crisp, from Charlbury, penned a sign which read: 'Not too posh to protest.' 'I am fed up with the idea that Charlbury is posh,' the 63-year-old said, explaining that there were deprived areas which are too often lost in the conversation around the Cotswolds being the Hamptons of the UK. She added: 'It is all well and good to say he is on holiday, but if you are the vice president, you carry your baggage with you, and you have to be held accountable.' 'UK is not a playground' Jake Atkinson, from STC, said just three organisers had come up from London, and the rest of the participants were locals. 'We are thrilled to be here supporting residents,' he said, adding: 'Governments need to be acting in the interests of the people, not the billionaires. Loading 'The UK is not a playground for Trump to come golfing or Vance to come on a holiday and have meetings.' The banners took aim at Vance's encounter with Zelensky, climate change and Palestine. 'JD Vance – the guy who bullied a war hero from the comfort of his couch,' one sign read. The dance against Vance came after Dolly Mavies, a folk-rock singer-songwriter, and her band backed out of a gig after realising they were about to entertain Vance. The singer, whose real name is Molly Davies, claimed they hadn't been made aware that the vice president would be in attendance. 'Not being fans of his, we decided that wasn't for us, packed up our stuff and left,' she later said in a video on Instagram, adding: 'Morals are more important than money.' A campaign group called Everyone Hates Elon has also organised for a van with an electronic billboard depicting an unflattering meme of Mr Vance to be driven around the Cotswolds. The group, which was previously responsible for driving a billboard of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein around Scotland for the president's visit, raised more than £4,500 for the stunt. Mazower said Vance's decision to visit Dean hadn't come as a total surprise as 'this corner of the Cotswolds has changed beyond recognition'. He charted the transformation back to the arrival of Daylesford Organic, Lady Bamford's retail empire. He said the advent of members-only Soho Farmhouse and Estelle Manor, where Steve Jobs's daughter had her wedding party last month, had heralded a resurgent 'Chipping Norton set'. The Bull in Charlbury, an outpost of Notting Hill's The Pelican, and Jeremy Clarkson's Diddly Squat farm shop have also become incredibly popular. Loading But Mazower insisted that behind the Hollywood fairytale lies deep hardship and desperation, which is too often overlooked. 'House prices have soared, and for many local people the idea of getting a foot on the housing ladder is an unobtainable fantasy,' he said, adding: 'The local schools and health services are desperately underfunded. 'The few remaining family farms in the area will be forced to sell up once the government's changes to inheritance tax become law. 'There is real hardship and deprivation behind the media stories of the area whose latest description, apparently, is the 'Hamptons of England'.' Vance is staying in a Cotswold manor house set in six acres of garden dating back to around 1702. It was bought by Johnny and Pippa Hornby in 2017, who later submitted planning proposals for a basement gym, second cellar and an orangery. The owner of the manor accommodating Vance has apologised to neighbours for bringing the 'circus' to town. In a message seen by The Telegraph, they told neighbours they were 'so sorry for the circus that is there for the next few days'.
The Age
4 hours ago
- The Age
Rural revolt: Jeremy Clarkson leads a very British backlash against JD Vance
'My wheat got wet in the trailer last night as the convo (sic) stopped me in the rain in chippy,' he wrote on Instagram, adding: 'I could have easily got it in the shed without getting in the way.' Cooper questioned why the vice president did not drive around in a nondescript small car, saying: 'Nobody would know who he was.' Other Cotswold residents have claimed to have been 'sealed off' by the guarded checkpoints of the vice president's holiday hamlet. 'JD Vance has taken over my village – send help,' Jonathan Mazower told The London Telegraph. 'We've been completely sealed off from the outside world.' Mazower and his family live in Dean, which is temporarily adrift during the vice president's visit. Vance, who is travelling with his wife, Usha, and children Ewan, eight, Vivek, five, and Mirabel, three, met Robert Jenrick, the Tory shadow justice secretary, at his Cotswold retreat. The Vance family is expected to round off their British summer tour with a visit to Scotland this week. Police have been seen scouring the grounds of the Carnell Estates in East Ayrshire, while a police car was parked across the entrance to the mansion on Tuesday. Carnell, which is owned by Michael Findlay and has been in family hands since the 1300s, was rented by Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in 2011 while the latter filmed World War Z in Glasgow. The 10-bedroom country house is set within 2000 acres, which offers shooting, fishing and tennis, while golf is also close by. Vance is expected to fly into Prestwick Airport, which is a 15-minute drive away from Carnell, in the coming days. Airspace restrictions have already been put in place around the Carnell Estate, preventing unauthorised aircraft and drones from flying over the site without official permission until midnight on Sunday, according to air traffic control provider NATS. Loading Mazower said the vice president's arrival in the Cotswolds had made 'a lot of people very angry,' both for the circus and baggage it has brought. 'It's the inconvenience but also, who it is in aid of,' the 59-year-old said, adding: 'This area is well-used to having politicians and celebrities around – people are generally very live and let live – but the fact this huge upheaval is for an appalling politician has got people very angry.' Mazower took issue with the way in which Vance sought to 'humiliate' Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, in the Oval Office and the vice-president 'lecturing to Europe on freedom of speech while deporting any foreign student who stands up for Gaza'. He voiced concern that the vice president was 'demolishing the foundations of liberal democracy as he and Trump drive the US along the path to fascism'. Dozens of police officers have been stationed on roadblocks at either end of the only lane in and out of the hamlet, where cars are searched with sniffer dogs and IDs are checked. A large antenna has been erected behind the manor house, and a no-fly zone has been put in place around the area. Vance travelled to the property in a 19-vehicle motorcade accompanied by a helicopter. Mazower, who is the communications director for the charity Survival International, said the lockdown had made meaningful protest nigh-on impossible. 'Those of us who feel obliged to make some kind of protest, however token, have stuck posters in our gardens, in the probably vain hope he sees them as he speeds past,' he said. 'Dance against Vance' The Stop Trump Coalition (STC) organised a peaceful protest against Vance's visit on Tuesday afternoon in Charlbury. Nearly 100 people held aloft homemade signs as they gathered in the dappled light on the common. Balloons and cake were dolled out for what was described as a Vance Not Welcome Party, while organisers from STC led chants over a megaphone. 'From Ukraine to Palestine, occupation is a crime,' the townsfolk bellowed, before a call and response of 'JD Vance, Shame on You'. Juliette Crisp, from Charlbury, penned a sign which read: 'Not too posh to protest.' 'I am fed up with the idea that Charlbury is posh,' the 63-year-old said, explaining that there were deprived areas which are too often lost in the conversation around the Cotswolds being the Hamptons of the UK. She added: 'It is all well and good to say he is on holiday, but if you are the vice president, you carry your baggage with you, and you have to be held accountable.' 'UK is not a playground' Jake Atkinson, from STC, said just three organisers had come up from London, and the rest of the participants were locals. 'We are thrilled to be here supporting residents,' he said, adding: 'Governments need to be acting in the interests of the people, not the billionaires. Loading 'The UK is not a playground for Trump to come golfing or Vance to come on a holiday and have meetings.' The banners took aim at Vance's encounter with Zelensky, climate change and Palestine. 'JD Vance – the guy who bullied a war hero from the comfort of his couch,' one sign read. The dance against Vance came after Dolly Mavies, a folk-rock singer-songwriter, and her band backed out of a gig after realising they were about to entertain Vance. The singer, whose real name is Molly Davies, claimed they hadn't been made aware that the vice president would be in attendance. 'Not being fans of his, we decided that wasn't for us, packed up our stuff and left,' she later said in a video on Instagram, adding: 'Morals are more important than money.' A campaign group called Everyone Hates Elon has also organised for a van with an electronic billboard depicting an unflattering meme of Mr Vance to be driven around the Cotswolds. The group, which was previously responsible for driving a billboard of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein around Scotland for the president's visit, raised more than £4,500 for the stunt. Mazower said Vance's decision to visit Dean hadn't come as a total surprise as 'this corner of the Cotswolds has changed beyond recognition'. He charted the transformation back to the arrival of Daylesford Organic, Lady Bamford's retail empire. He said the advent of members-only Soho Farmhouse and Estelle Manor, where Steve Jobs's daughter had her wedding party last month, had heralded a resurgent 'Chipping Norton set'. The Bull in Charlbury, an outpost of Notting Hill's The Pelican, and Jeremy Clarkson's Diddly Squat farm shop have also become incredibly popular. Loading But Mazower insisted that behind the Hollywood fairytale lies deep hardship and desperation, which is too often overlooked. 'House prices have soared, and for many local people the idea of getting a foot on the housing ladder is an unobtainable fantasy,' he said, adding: 'The local schools and health services are desperately underfunded. 'The few remaining family farms in the area will be forced to sell up once the government's changes to inheritance tax become law. 'There is real hardship and deprivation behind the media stories of the area whose latest description, apparently, is the 'Hamptons of England'.' Vance is staying in a Cotswold manor house set in six acres of garden dating back to around 1702. It was bought by Johnny and Pippa Hornby in 2017, who later submitted planning proposals for a basement gym, second cellar and an orangery. The owner of the manor accommodating Vance has apologised to neighbours for bringing the 'circus' to town. In a message seen by The Telegraph, they told neighbours they were 'so sorry for the circus that is there for the next few days'.
Sky News AU
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- Sky News AU
‘Prioritising dog groomers': Anthony Albanese panned for expanding immigration system, and increasing spending to boost economic growth
Nationals leader David Littleproud has lashed the Albanese government for prioritising wild jobs in the skilled migration program including 'dog groomers' and 'skilled martial arts instructors' to boost economic growth. As the government prepares to address productivity head-on through its economic roundtable, its migration program has again come under fire. Labor is facing accusations of papering over Australia's flagging economy with rapidly boosting the net-migration rate. Net permanent and long-term immigration arrivals reached record levels in the year ending in April 2024, with the net intake in April 2025 also coming in at the highest ever on record at 24,660. This represents a 24 per cent year-on year increase despite the government vowing to substantially reduce permanent migration numbers prior to the May 3 election. In addition, the government's skilled migration cohort prioritises positions such as yoga instructors and martial artists at a similar level of importance as bricklayers, carpenters and plumbers. Tradies had previously been placed behind professions like dog handlers and jewellery designers on the draft "core skills" occupations list. Yoga instructors and martial arts teachers will remain on the list of about 450 professions. Nationals' leader David Littleproud savaged the government's strategy and said that raising immigration and government spending would not solve the nations historic productivity slump. 'The workforce which the government is putting in is competing with private sector employment, and the only way the governments has tried to fix is that is by pouring more people into this country," Mr Littleproud told Sky News. '(The government) is prioritising dog groomers and martial arts instructors rather than those that would add to productivity and grow the pie. 'We have a housing crisis that state and local governments need to lean into and this where some hard decisions need to be made." In a major blow to the government's economic agenda the RBA on Tuesday downgraded its medium-term productivity assumption to just 0.7 per cent year-on-year down from its previous assumption of one per cent. It also warned Australia's economy was incapable of growing faster than two per cent over its forecasts. Despite Prime Minister Anthony Albanese pledging to take steps to reduce both permanent and net overseas migration, it was revealed in early August that the government would move to increase the number of international student placements by 25,000 to 295,000 for 2026. Public sector employment under the Albanese government has also reached record highs, with new figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in June showing the nation now had a million a bureaucrats. The federal bureaucracy alone has ballooned to a record-breaking 213,000 staff, up from a 14-year low of 144,704 workers at the end of 2019. The government also faced intense scrutiny after quietly lowering the English language threshold for visa applicants, with the pass mark for the Pearson Test of English (PTE) being dropped from 30 out of 90 to 24. Mr Littleproud said the government needed to 'be honest about spending' and that bipartisan conversations needed to be had about reigning in federal expenditure. 'There are some bipartisan things we need to look at, the NDIS, we are going to need to have some honest conversations about getting back to first principals on what it was originated for, those that are most in need,' he said. 'We are also going to need to have those conversations about taxation and increasing tax, we need to have a broader conversation about what our tax takes should be. However, he did not explicitly state which taxes the government should look at amending.
