How the lying, contemptuous Home Office completed its betrayal of Crowborough

By Madeleine Gillies 

IT WAS the early hours of Thursday when a large minibus with blackened windows, plus a police escort, made its way into Crowborough army training camp. It was clear that this arrival had been carefully planned, presumably to protect the interests of those in the minibus and of their ‘handlers’ – in this case our government.

The 27 men in the minibus were the first of 540 of male illegal immigrants due to be sent to the camp. As with anything which is long awaited or lengthy in gestation – good or ill – nothing quite prepares for the eventuality.

Ever since the small Sussex town of Crowborough learned of the Home Office plan, it has protested relentlessly. All those concerned have not only had to fight the proposal in principle, but also to battle with the Home Office to get any sort of response to the numerous questions posed and legal approaches put forward by the various interested parties.

The grass-roots organisation Crowborough Shield swiftly raised sufficient funds to instruct lawyers with the aim of instigating a judicial review. The town’s Conservative MP Nusrat Ghani had numerous meetings with Home Office officials. Wealden District Council sought belatedly to raise environmental and planning issues.

All were met with stonewalling, with lapsed deadlines for information and, in the end, with downright lies. As the weeks passed, it became evident that the Home Office was wilfully withholding information and deliberately impeding any legal intervention. Repeated requests for risk assessments – particularly relating to the location of the camp next to a small town – were never responded to, and there was an information vacuum. All planning constraints were overridden by use of Class Q planning regulation.

At the beginning of the process the Home Office director of asylum accommodation apologised for the lack of previous engagement and indicated there would be dialogue with all interested parties. That has never happened.

Until hours before the first arrivals, the Home Office still met any inquiry with the terse response that no decision had been made. People in Crowborough knew this to be untrue as for weeks the camp had been undergoing refurbishment. An employment agency had been advertising security and other posts. Last weekend there was a procession of delivery vans and lorries into the site. It was observed that notices had been placed on various buildings indicating a medical centre, a gym and a meeting point for transport.

In all the media publicity that followed the news of the first arrivals in the camp, there was predictable public outrage at the fact that there would be a 24/7 medical facility. In common with most of the country, Crowborough residents find it extremely difficult to get a timely GP appointment. And how many local people would love to have free access to a gym and free travel facilities to surrounding towns?

Even more to the point, Crowborough residents, unlike those of the camp, are having to pay for their own enhanced security measures.

All of this has been put together by Clearsprings Ready Homes, one of the companies which has made vast profits in recent years from its taxpayer-funded contracts to provide asylum housing.

Crowborough representatives were told from the outset that the camp would be used for just 12 months. Huge doubt is being cast over the veracity of this intention.

In the last few days the town has bristled with police. As independent councillor Andrew Wilson remarked, he has seen more police in the last week than in all the previous 11 years he has lived in the town. Crowborough has only a semi-functioning police station and full detention facilities are some distance away.

It was reported that within 24 hours of their arrival at the camp, three migrants had already left. Given that it has been indicated that 40 per cent of illegal migrants awaiting asylum decisions abscond, that sounds about right. Any implication that an army camp might provide a more controlled environment is completely contradicted by the fact that the residents will be free to come and go at any time of the day or night.

As explained by the director of asylum accommodation at the outset of the process, once ‘asylum seekers’ have disappeared and failed to respond to contact from Home Office officials for just seven days, they are deemed no longer to require accommodation or assistance.

The fact that a majority of such absconders will either be people who are unlikely to be granted asylum and/or who have been trafficked by crime gangs – and are in effect slaves – appears not to trouble the Home Office.

On the very day that local people digested the news regarding the first arrivals in the camp, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood spoke to the press. Even by the standards of this incompetent government, her words were shockingly inept. She said:

‘Illegal migration has been placing immense pressure on communities. That is why we are removing the incentives that draw illegal migrants to Britain, closing asylum hotels that are blighting communities.

‘Crowborough is just the start. I will bring forward site after site until every asylum hotel is closed and returned to local communities.

‘I will not rest until order and control to our borders is restored.’

Where to begin? The first sentence is correct. Uncontrolled immigration is indeed placing huge pressure on communities. In fact it’s causing societal havoc. Ask anybody who lives in run-down northern towns and cities which are full of HMOs [houses in multiple occupation] bought up by landlords to take on lucrative contracts with the Home Office.

Ms Mahmood continues that closing asylum hotels will remove the incentives that draw illegal migrants here. Yes, migrants may enjoy free stays in hotels – particularly if they’re simultaneously working illegally – but they are not the reason they come here. They come here because they can. They come because once they land on our coast and say they want to claim asylum they are ushered in. They, together with their identity documents, must have travelled through a number of safe countries where they either chose not to claim asylum or were refused. The fact that they jettison any form of personal identification before arriving in the UK is the clearest possible indicator that if their true identity and provenance were known, this could potentially inhibit their asylum claim.

Ms Mahmood’s third assertion – delivered with a degree of relish – that ‘Crowborough is just the start’ should send chills down the spines of people throughout the UK. Far from mollifying, this sounded like an out-and-out threat.

What on earth does Shabana Mahmood think the use of Crowborough camp will do to the local community? Will there be something magical about the fact that the migrants are in a different kind of environment from a hotel? Will large groups of single unemployed young males behave better outside the camp? Obviously not.

In the meantime, the Home Secretary promises not to rest until our borders are controlled. On that basis a restless time lies ahead as her government is doing nothing whatsoever to achieve her aim. In the last seven days alone 730 ‘irregular migrants’ crossed the Channel in small boats without permission to enter the UK. Notoriously there have been about 70,000 (known) illegal arrivals since Starmer became Prime Minister.

We have the perfect storm in Crowborough. Not only are we faced with a situation that cannot be viewed with any positivity whatsoever, we are also engaged in a battle with our own government. As the weeks have passed, it has become horribly evident to all those fighting the camp plan that the Home Office has no intention of engaging with the community or of honouring its promises in any way.

It is disorientating and depressing to realise that the country’s government – an entity whose prime responsibility is that of protecting and ensuring the safety of its citizens – shows every sign of reneging on that responsibility. How can the safety of a country’s citizens be guaranteed when every day hundreds of people of unknown background are entering illegally but without hindrance?

It is not the fault of the residents of Crowborough or anywhere else that the government is failing to fulfil its primary duty.

Such behaviour may be partly the result of systemic incompetence but it goes beyond that. The government is clearly determined to impose its will in various ways and it has zero interest in listening to the wishes of the people. As the gulf grows between expectation and delivery, scepticism grows exponentially.

It is now reported that there have been further arrivals at the camp. Meanwhile Crowborough residents are planning to hold their 11th peaceful protest march today. Since the enhanced media attention we have gained considerable public support, including from well-known political figures. It is deeply ironic that our own government fails to share in that support and that, on the contrary, it seems determined to cause untold disruption and dismay in our quiet peaceful town and others.

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Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Britain. Afghanistan. Trump. Mouth. Sock. On the President's Comments on NATO Shirkers in Afghanistan By Nick griffin Follow Nick on Substack Follow Nick on X Footage from Wooton Bassett. The return of eight of our dead soldiers in one cortege was most humbling, harrowing and moving commemoration of any sort that I have ever attended. “We will remember them”. Only someone with a serious sense of humour failure, or a slightly over-active humanitarian conscience, can fail to find parts of the Donald J. Trump Show entertaining. His roasting of the Euro elite was a case in point - pure comedy gold. But then he sneered at the way NATO forces”stayed a little back” in Afghanistan, without a caveat exempting British troops, and that was WAY out of order. Put a sock it, Mr. President! Here’s a reminder that Britain lost 457 of her best and bravest sons and daughters fighting in Afghanistan in a wicked and futile war started under entirely false pretences by the masters of the USA. The ones brought back through Wooton Bassett (until the rotten government and pen-pushing scum in the MoD stopped the ceremonies there as they were becoming a focus for patriotic opposition to the disgusting war) were only a small proportion of the casualties. To the dead, one must also add the 2,188 injured - many of them maimed for life. Plus the 14% of soldiers who came back suffering from PTSD, and the oft-forgotten 1,230 (and counting) veterans of the conflict who have since committed suicide. The PTSD is surely accounted for partly by the fact that many of the British soldiers who served in Helmand did front-line tours of duty in which they were under enemy fire for longer continous stretches than those endured by British soldiers even on the Western Front in World War One. The only thing more disgusting that Donald Trump making light of Britain’s contribution is to see Keir Starmer criticising him for it. Starmer - the unspeakable piece of worse-than-shit (for shit at least has a use, being good for fertiliser) whose government has just put elderly veterans of the Northern Ireland conflict back into the legal firing line for a vindictive and sadistic lawfare fest by parasite lawyers who were part of the war effort of the Marxist IRA, and are now part of the sectarianian triumphalism still being waged by their Sinn Fein partners. Nick Griffin Beyond the Pale is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Upgrade to paid Become a free subscriber to Nick Griffin Beyond the Pale. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription.

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Greenland Grab - What's Really Behind It? Trump isn't 'deranged', he's just stepping up the Yankee war on Europe By Nick Griffin Follow Nick on Substack Follow Nick on X  Why does Donald Trump seem ready to destroy NATO in order to seize Greenland? As everyone who has even glanced at the issue knows, the USA already has a huge military surveillance presence in Greenland, and this could have been expanded to whatever extent thought necessary to allow the States to defend the territory of its little NATO ally, Denmark. The propaganda about defence and the threat from Russia and China is therefore as absurdly dishonest as the claims about Venezuela and the U.S. drugs epidemic. The truth about Trump’s Venezuelan adventure is clear. A rational and informed observer merely needs to assess which of the two complimentary and interlinked motives is the primary one. Sure, the Zionist lobby is using the USA to do its dirty work, but the hostile takeover bid is also an attempt to shore up the petro-dollar and the $US’s position as global reserve currency. This isn’t a minor point; Venezuela has even more oil than Saudi Arabia, albeit very heavy crude which is more expensive to extract. Maduro’s moves to sell oil in other currencies, and to create a crypto-currency – the ‘Petro’ – backed by oil reserves rather than fiat money and usury, was an existential threat to the Federal Reserve. The end of the petro-dollar would halt the flood of foreign wealth which sustains both America’s stability at home and its military might abroad, plunging the former hegemon into economic collapse and imperial retreat. Whatever one may think of Trump’s 21st-century gunboat diplomacy, the reasons for it are at least quite widely understood, at least among those who study informed sources outside of the legacy media. Greenland, however, is a different kettle of frozen fish. As already noted, the “Russia/China threat” is a particularly threadbare excuse which no-one really buys. With no Zionist interest in the political position of polar bears or a few thousand seal-eaters, that only leaves two plausible reasons: Either Trump is drifting into Roman imperial level megalomania, or it’s about the minerals under the ice. This latter motivation has received a fair amount of coverage, but I haven’t seen any commentators who have explored this in terms of its geopolitical implications. And this is the heart of what it’s really all about. Greenland Grab - What’s Really Behind It? The thinking of Trump’s circle has best been explained by libertarian author Roger Stone. Best-selling investigative journalist Stone was indicted on fabricated charges in the now-discredited Mueller witch hunt. His sentence was commuted by Trump in July 2020, and he was pardoned that December. Stone Cold Truth with Roger Stone Greenland: The Midnight Sun Fortress That Could Decide America’s Survival Many Americans are baffled as to why the United States must acquire Greenland. It is because President Trump realizes that we cannot permit the Arctic to become an enemy highway, and the American people deserve to understand, in plain language, why this matters right now. Greenland is not a novelty. It is not a Scandinavian snow globe. It is not a quirk… Read more 18 hours ago · 60 likes · 12 comments · Roger Stone Who is Roger Stone? Entry in Stone’s fascinating Substack. The man is a shameless U.S. imperialist, but he does know what he’s talking about and gives a great insight into the mentality involved. Explaining the proposal to seize the huge island, on his Substack ‘Stone Cold Truth’, the Trump-supporting analyst wrote: “The world that runs on satellites, missiles, advanced radar, batteries, aircraft, communications systems, and next generation manufacturing is the world that depends on rare earth elements and strategic industrial inputs. Greenland is known to contain substantial deposits of critical and strategic minerals, including rare earth elements such as neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium, and terbium. These are essential for high performance magnets used in advanced defense systems, radar, electric motors, and aerospace technology. “Greenland also holds uranium, one of the most strategically sensitive resources on Earth, vital to nuclear energy and closely tied to national security realities. “Greenland contains zinc, critical for alloys, infrastructure, and defense manufacturing. It contains nickel, a major input for high strength steel and modern battery technology. It contains copper, essential for power grids, weapons systems, electronics, and industrial production. It contains iron ore, one of the foundational industrial minerals for manufacturing at scale. It contains titanium, prized in aerospace and defense engineering because it is strong, light, and indispensable. It contains gold, valuable not only as a commodity but as a signal of resource wealth. It contains graphite, vital for batteries and advanced industrial supply chains.” Whether all this is totally true or not, and to what extent mining is practical under vast ice sheets, is not at issue here. What counts is that this is what Trump and at least some of his circle – industrialists and tech bros especially – believe. There are reports that Peter Thiel sees Greenland’s riches as the catalyst for the creation of an Ayn Rand style libertarian ‘Galt’s Gulch’ future city, but one doesn’t have to stray towards transhumanist science fiction to see the straightforward appeal of all those Rare Earth Minerals to a corporate elite painfully aware that their economic and technological world is based on REM’s on which China currently has a near-monopoly. They believe that the USA must confront China, so they have to find alternative supplies of critical minerals. Unspoken Reason Now let’s move to the angle which no-one seems to have noticed, or perhaps which people prefer not to talk about: While the proposed Greenland grab is clearly aimed at securing resources for a long-term confrontation with China, the short- and medium-term target is not China at all – it is Europe. If America doesn’t seize Greenland’s minerals, they will not fall into the hands of China, they will remain in the hands of Denmark. That is to say, under the control of the European Union. Trump, Vance and Musk have all made it very clear in recent months that they see the EU (and its socialist collaborators in the UK) as ideological enemies, but the rivalry and hostility runs much deeper than that. When the people running America were trying to run the whole world, they needed loyal and economically and socially stable NATO allies to help them do it. Now they are retrenching, clearly planning to operate a Western Hemisphere zone of influence against rival great powers with their own spheres. So America doesn’t need NATO any more. It needs a collection of bankrupt and subservient suppliers of the things it needs: Greenland, South America and Canada for raw materials, Europe and Britain for high quality immigrants to feed the reviving industrial base, and reconstruction markets for its economy. It doesn’t need strong European allies, it needs chaos and total subservience, because that is what will give it power and profit in its shrunken world. For the Wall Street/Pentagon/Beltway Empire to survive the rise of a multipolar world, the Dollar has to soar above the Euro and Sterling – and stay there. Similarly, the USA’s revived industrial base and military power must completely eclipse those of its European former allies. A concerted drive to reduce Western dependence on Chinese resources must spark the huge-scale exploitation of Greenland, but if that were to happen while it was under Danish control, it would hand the new wealth and power on a plate to Brussels. The Greenland grab is therefore not some isolated incident, born out of either presidential madness or resource hunger; it is simply the latest move in the long-running US Deep State war against Europe. The sea boils over one of the ruptured Nord Stream 2 pipes. The idea that Russia would have blown up the pipeline it had just finished building, in doing so losing a crucial hold it had over Germany, is one of the most ridiculous MSM claims of recent years. Make no mistake, this was the work of the U.S. Deep State, and the target wasn’t Russia, it was Germany and the EU. Recall how, on September 26, 2022, explosions wrecked the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which was intended to transport natural gas from Russia to Germany. This was the biggest act of industrial sabotage in world history and it is crystal clear that the Ukrainian perpetrators acted on behalf of their U.S. handlers and paymasters. The principal target of the Nord Stream bombing, and the energy sanctions which it complimented, is not Russia, but the economies of Europe in general, and Germany – the powerhouse of the European Union – in particular. The entire Ukraine war, of course, is a hostile act, clearly foreseen as the end goal of the 2014 Maidan coup, which was orchestrated by Obama regime operatives, with the heavy lifting done by Soros-funded NGOs. And while a good few people know about Soros, they often miss the point that his main role was in reality a plausibly deniable front for the National Endowment for Democracy, itself the CIA in drag. At one level, the target this time was Russia but, look deeper: The emptying and impoverishment of Ukraine is clearly a war aim for a U.S. elite completely entangled with Blackrock, Monsanto, et al. The destruction of most of the old inventory of the European and UK militaries is clearly a war aim for the U.S. Military-Industrial Complex, and hence for the many ‘lawmakers’ in its deep pockets. Above all, to create a crisis which ends up with the European powers pouring their resources into a perpetual military confrontation against Russia is a deeply hostile act which will eviscerate the economic potential of these former allies, now undeclared rivals, for decades. Once this is understood, other things fall into place too. The Soros/CIA operation to flood Europe with millions of Muslims and Africans of military age has as its flip-side the push – begun by Dick Cheney gofer Frank Gaffney – to use a torrent of donations by Zionist billionaires to fund the so-called ‘Counter-Jihad’ backlash. The CIA playbook for the destruction of the former Yugoslavia through an artificially triggered civil war is being re-run, but this time with the whole of Western Europe – Britain and Ireland included – in the crosshairs. Anyone who wonders if the people running the USA would be so wicked need only check a bit of history. No sooner had the New York money power begun to emerge than it provoked the War Between the States in order to consolidate its grip in the New World. Some 600,000 Americans were sacrificed in the first stage of Yankee imperialism’s world conquest. The East Coast political, financial and industrial elites worked overtime to push Europe into the fratricidal disaster of World War One. America’s stated war aim on entry into the war was the destruction of the empires, not just of the Kaiser’s alliance, but also of the Entente’s Russian ally. That was the whole point of “making the world safe for democracy”. Yes, it is very easy to trace the machinations of the banking houses and Zionist financiers in all of it, but to focus on them to the extent of losing sight of the guilt of the East Coast establishment is a grave error. With half of the Old Continent’s empires wiped off the map by 1918, the second round of the European Civil War opened the door to the rise of the USA as the World Hegemon. The U.S. war aim this time around was not just the defeat of Nazi Germany, but also the destruction of the remaining European empires – French, Belgian and British. This too was accomplished. In simple terms, the U.S.A. took over virtually all the strategic bases of the far-flung British Empire in return for a fleet of rusty old destroyers and the right to run up a debt which we haven’t long finished paying back. Ker-ching! Or, as Major General Smedley-Butler said, “War is a Racket”. And most of them since 1900 have been American rackets as well as Zionist ones. Given the European/Muslim ‘civil war’ now being primed by the two sides of the same Stateside coin, the war in Ukraine and the theft of Greenland are not isolated quirks produced by a purely Zionist agenda or the mental state of Emperor Donald. They are merely the 21st-century iteration of a much older U.S. Deep State hostility to, and undeclared war on, the nations of the Old World. The left have always been good at spotting and calling out ‘Yankee imperialism’ when it stomps its way around South America or the Middle East. They seem, however, to have a blind spot when it comes to seeing the same baneful forces at work against the nations of Europe, including Britain. But whether the left admit it or not, that’s what this is all about. Woodrow Wilson got re-elected in 1916 on the slogan “He kept us out of war”, and then did all he could to provoke Germany into the hostility which enabled him to drag America into World War One. Strangling Japan with sanctions and then ignoring the intelligence which would have save the fleet at Pearl Harbor repeated the warmongering deceit in WW2. Donald Trump’s slogans against foreign wars preyed on the same very healthy instinct of ordinary Americans for isolationism. Unfortunately, we now see that the old trick has worked yet again. Trump has betrayed his base and his promises, and is now in full-blown imperial conquest mode. Dollar imperialism is again on the rampage. It isn’t the only evil thing loose in the world, of course, but it’s certainly up there with the other monsters. Work on this level takes TIME. And time, to be blunt, is MONEY. If you enjoy this and my other writings, please become a paid subscriber on Substack by way of thanks, fair dealing and encouragement. Thank you one and all. Upgrade to paid Invite your friends and earn rewards If you enjoy Nick Griffin Beyond the Pale, share it with your friends and earn rewards when they subscribe. Invite Friends

The Australian government's latest assault on free speech

 The Australian government's latest assault on free speech is barreling toward reality faster than a kangaroo on a caffeine high. Just this week, reports emerged of an exposure draft for sweeping new legislation that would empower the government to cancel visas, seize materials, and crack down on anything they deem "hate speech" or "extremist ideology." While Parliament is set to return on January 30 to debate and likely ram this through, the writing is on the wall: it's the most damaging threat to online free speech we've seen in a decade.

The Albanese Government's bill, unveiled in the wake of last year's Bondi terror attack, targets non-citizens (and potentially anyone on a visa) suspected of advocating hate against a "protected group," displaying "prohibited hate symbols," or associating with "listed extremist organizations." No conviction needed—just "reasonable suspicion." Border Force officers could seize your gear at the airport without a warrant if it smells like Nazi insignia or ISIS swag to them. And get this: it applies to conduct overseas too. Your old tweet? Your social media history? All fair game for visa cancellation or refusal.

This builds on announcements from December 2025, where Prime Minister Albanese promised "aggravated hate speech offences" for preachers and leaders, harsher penalties for online posts, and even listing organizations for promoting "racial hatred" or "advocacy for racial supremacy." Critics like Liberty Victoria are already sounding the alarm: this undermines due process, chills dissent, and could be weaponized against whistleblowers, activists, or anyone who doesn't toe the progressive line on issues like immigration or cultural debates. Universities are sweating over their 600,000 international students— one "outspoken" post, and poof, visa gone. Businesses? They're scrambling to vet employees' social media before sending them Down Under. As one law firm put it, "Your employee's tweet could now become a visa liability."

Why is this the biggest free speech killer in a decade? Think back: We've seen the EU's Digital Services Act, and the U.S.'s endless Section 230 fights. But Australia's move is uniquely insidious because it weaponizes free expression. It's not just fining platforms or forcing content removal—it's exiling people for words. Online, this means tech companies face a tsunami of government takedown requests tied to visa cases. Platforms like ours at Gab, which exist to protect uncensored speech, will be in the crosshairs.

We all know "hate speech" is a slippery slope. Today it's "antisemitism," tomorrow it's criticizing government policy on borders or climate. We've seen it play out in the UK with their Online Safety Act last year, where the government leaned on platforms to hand over user data or face fines—leading to shadowbans and deplatforming sprees. Germany? They've been fining Gab for "hate" posts for years under the NetzDG law and turning X (formerly Twitter) and others into extensions of the state censor.

At Gab, we're drawing a line in the sand.

Our promise to our Australian users: We will not comply with data requests related to this new bill from the Australian government, just as we refuse to bow to other foreign governments like the UK's or Germany's. We built Gab as a bastion of free speech because Big Tech and Big Brother won't. Expect retaliation—blocks, fines, or worse, à la the UK's threats against us last year or Germany's ongoing harassment. But we're ready. Free speech isn't negotiable.

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