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Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson England is done for. A man was confronted by police for saying “speak English” to someone who mumbled. They’re labeled it as hate crime. Total insanity. From End Wokeness 11:25 PM · Apr 16, 2025

As I listen in frustration to my liberal friends complain about encroaching authoritarianism in the United States and the danger of letting people express their opinions on X, I stand amazed at their admiration for allies in Europe, such as the UK or the European Union cracking down on people who aren't in lockstep with the ruling regimes. It is a testament to the power of groupthink and the power of propaganda and gives us a window into how otherwise civilized societies descend into barbarous madness that results in crimes against humanity. The analog isn't so much the rise of...

Furious Brits have slammed Manchester Police and Labour for 'shameful' behaviour targeting a grandmother exposed by The Mail on Sunday. Two police officers were caught on camera paying a visit to a grandmother simply for criticising Labour politicians on Facebook. Detectives have been accused of acting like East Germany's Stasi secret police for quizzing Helen Jones over her calls for the resignation of local councillors embroiled in the WhatsApp scandal exposed by The Mail on Sunday. Police conceded that the 54-year-old had committed no crime – yet Mrs Jones said she has effectively been silenced by the officers, as she...

Incredible.

British fathers relate horrific accounts of trying to save daughters from Muslim rape gangs.. As the pedophile Muslim gang scandal has exploded into the mainstream this week in the UK, horrible accounts are being shared by fathers of some of the victims, with one relating how the police did nothing when he told them his daughter had been raped and advised him to “let it go” or he would “get arrested for being racist.” ... the left wing Labour government and Prime Minister Kier Starmer as complicit. The man tells Talk TV anchor Jeremy Kyle that Pakistani Muslims from the...

British police arrest an elderly man because his social media posts caused someone anxiety

Transgender police officers can strip-search women under new guidance. The British Transport Police policy allows recently transitioned officers to intimately search women if they have been issued a gender recognition certificate. ... It comes after the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) was forced to withdraw similar guidance in January after concerns were raised about women's safety. The guidance, seen by the Mail, reads: reads: 'British Transport Police recognises the status of transgender and non-binary detainees/staff from the moment they permanently identify in that gender with or without a GRC [gender recognition certificate]. 'This means that even when a person has...

Police in the U.K., who I’m assuming have run out of stabbings to look into, are now investigating a nine-year-old boy for calling his classmate a “retard.” That’s according to The Times, which did an investigative dive of their own into some of the “non-hate crime incidents” U.K. cops had recorded in the interest of “public safety.” (And yes - this is the same country currently jailing people for making "offensive" social media posts.) This newest insanity is all thanks to the U.K.’s recently implemented Non-Hate Crime Incidents law, which, according to government guidance, mandates that police investigate reported “incidents”...

“Someone who told me - who knows about these things - said ‘Far Right’ prisoners can expect a very ‘cold’ reception in jail” Legacy Sky News basically implying, that if you go to prison for a Facebook meme, there’s a good chance you’re not coming out. This is terrifying.

VIDEOAirstrip One, formerly known as the United Kingdom, has quickly adopted a two tier system of justice under its current ruler, Two-Tier Keir Starmer. Under these rules Christian street preachers are arrested for hate crimes but others who preach or act upon a very different message chock full of hate are absolutely NOT arrested but encouraged as you can see.

London's Metropolitan Police chief warned that officials will not only be cracking down on British citizens for commentary on the riots in the U.K., but on American citizens as well. "We will throw the full force of the law at people. And whether you’re in this country committing crimes on the streets or committing crimes from further afield online, we will come after you," Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley told Sky News. Riots have broken out across the United Kingdom in recent days over false rumors spread online that an asylum seeker was responsible for a mass stabbing at...

He does not rule out Elon Musk.

LONDON — Britain was tense Wednesday as police and anti-racist campaigners, fearing a possible outbreak of the right-wing rioting that erupted across the country in recent days, flooded into several neighborhoods with large immigrant populations. The handful of anti-immigrant demonstrators police encountered in north London neighborhoods like Finchley and Harrow were vastly outnumbered by hundreds of counterprotesters carrying signs that said “Refugees Welcome” and “Racists Out, Refugees In.” And in the east London neighborhood of Walthamstow, an even larger gathering of more than 5,000 anti-right protesters chanted “Love, not hate” while hundreds of police officers kept watch. There were also...

The UK’s top cop seemed unable to control his temper when asked about growing concerns opver two-tier policing in the United Kingdom, lashing out at a journalist on Monday morning. Sir Mark Rowley, the chief of the Metropolitan Police, London’s police force and the most senior in the UK, appeared to lose his temper at a journalist on Monday morning as he was questioned about the quality of response to recent incidents of public unrest including riots in England. The top police officer was pictured stepping out of the Cabinet Office in Westminster, the central convening department of the British...

A near-week of threats hasn’t had the hoped-for impact for Sir Keir Starmer, who on Monday announced a change of tack with the establishment of a “standing army” to crush riots where they appeared. The Prime Minister, a seasoned lawyer with a usually assured and slick style seemed unsure of his words at times and lacked his normal energy as he spoke to journalists on Monday after he stepped out of a government crisis meeting. Speaking at his official residence and office Downing Street, where it appears a certain degree of bunker mentality has set in — the husband of...

Record numbers of children are being reported to the Government's anti-extremism services for expressing 'far right' ideology. More than 2,100 under-15s were referred to Prevent in 2022/23 over fears they were being groomed by extremists or at risk of radicalisation. Of them, 462 expressed 'extreme right wing' ideologies compared with 182 'Islamist' referrals. Eighty-eight were flagged over their interest in school massacres, with six suspected 'incels' also on the list. Prevent, ran by the Home Office, aims to stop terror attacks on British streets. Officials work with local authorities and community organisations to 'support and protect vulnerable people'. But the...

British police have escalated their actions against Christian street preachers in Uxbridge, London, threatening arrests over allegations of hate crimes and violations of anti-social behavior laws. The crackdown follows the enforcement of a Public Spaces Protection Order by the London Borough of Hillingdon, aimed at regulating activities in Uxbridge Town Centre. The Metropolitan Police targeted Christian missionaries, including Pastor Dwayne Lopez, for preaching from the Bible on Uxbridge High Street, the U.K.-based group Christian Concern reported.The incident, captured on video last week, was prompted by a public complaint about the content of their preaching, specifically citing verses from 1 Corinthians...

This is the moment a Met Police officer threatens to arrest a Christian gospel preacher who was accused of a hate crime. In a video posted to YouTube, a group of preachers can be heard protesting their innocence to officers after a member of the public claimed they had made homophobic comments. The person who is videoing the officers says: 'All we're doing is preaching our religion. We've been preaching about the gospel and Jesus Christ [and what] the Bible says in the book of John, chapter three verse 16. 'For God's love of the world he gave his one...

British police come to a man’s home to arrest him for posting a video to Facebook of him criticizing migrants in his area for putting Palestine flags up everywhere in the neighborhood.

Conservatives and free speech activists on Twitter railed against a recent video depicting police interrogating and ultimately arresting a pro-life woman who was silently praying outside a U.K. abortion clinic.Those who watched the woman's arrest after admitting she was "praying in my head" were appalled. Some claimed this was proof that Great Britain had become a dystopia.The woman who was arrested, Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, is the director of the U.K. March for Life.According to Alliance Defending Freedom UK (ADF UK), Vaughan-Spruce "was standing near the BPAS Robert Clinic in Kings Norton, Birmingham in an area ADF UK called a 'censorship zone,'...