A rua com menos ingleses em toda a Inglaterra...

 

Welcome to the road with the fewest English speakers: Residents reveal what they really think of their neighbours... and why some critics are 'unfair'

The long rows of tiny Victorian terraced houses are like hundreds of others around the Midlands, the North and any of the towns and cities whose occupants powered Britain's industrial past.

But Mornington Street, in St Matthew's, Leicester, can 'boast' something the others cannot.

It is, according to official statistics, the road with the lowest proportion of English speakers in the UK. It's hardly a surprise to find that dubious title is claimed by a street in Leicester.

After all, according to the 2021 Census, only 57 per cent of the city's residents were born in England, down from 65 per cent in 2011.

Over the decades, Leicester has been the destination of choice for generations of incoming Bengali, Indian, Pakistani and Somalian migrants, along with many others, each finding groups of their own people, already settled in particular areas of the city.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer rattled many of his own Labour MPs this week with his 'Island of Strangers' speech, compared by many to Enoch Powell's infamous 'Rivers of Blood' oratory, delivered in Birmingham in 1968.

No doubt Starmer had in mind areas like Mornington Street and the pocket of streets around it where the Census found that 43 per cent of the over-16s speak little or no English.

And although he refused to put a cap on the number of migrants coming to Britain, the PM was adamant about the need for those who do come to assimilate.

Acknowledging the 'massive contribution' made by migrants today, he added: 'When people come to our country, they should also commit to integration, to learning our language.

'And our system should actively distinguish between those that do and those that don't. I think that's fair.'

Starmer's new hard line on immigration received a mixed reaction from fellow politicians. Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK taunted him in the Commons: 'You seem to be learning a great deal from us', while it was condemned by left-winger Diane Abbott as 'shameful'.

Yet in Mornington Street and the surrounding area, most people agree that migrants should be encouraged to learn English. This part of Leicester is largely populated by Muslims of Indian origin, mainly from the western state of Gujarat.

Made up of just a dozen roads and around 2,000 people, the pocket of North Evington is home to two mosques and a Hindu temple. The terraced Mornington Street is the main thoroughfare in the community, located just over a mile west of the city centre.

It is at the heart of an enclave of 34 districts, known as LSOAs, stretching through Leicester where at least a fifth of the population speak little to no English.

Many of the non-English speakers are new arrivals or perhaps elderly relatives who depend on younger members of the family to navigate the complexities of the English language.

Walking around the streets, where Palestinian and Indian flags abound, it would be easy to imagine you're in a foreign country. Business is brisk at the Islamabad cash and carry, women in burqas are everywhere you look, and there's a 50 per cent off sale at the Shaikha sari shop.

In some households where up to three generations are living cosily together it is the younger ones who act as translators for their parents and grandparents, local primary school worker Ruki explained.

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PS: Rivers of Blood becoming reality...

 

Multiculturalism at it's best...

 

Algerian asylum seekers who drugged then brutally raped two girls, 14 and 15, in 'unimaginably cruel ways' are sentenced in Austria

A violent pair of Algerian asylum seekers have been sentenced after two young girls were drugged and assaulted in Austria.

The men had lured the teenagers, 14 and 15, into an abandoned building before plying them with ecstasy and holding them at gunpoint.

The younger girl was assaulted so brutally she had bruises along her ribs while the other had her mouth covered as he raped her so she couldn't call out for help during 15 hours of horrifying abuse.

'She cried and prayed during this,' the judge read from her victim statement.

The 32-year-old asylum seeker denied the allegations, saying he did not force the girls to take drugs and that the eldest girl consented to having sex, Austrian media reported.

'We just wanted to have a little fun,' he said, 'we turned on music, danced, and talked.'

'I'm only guilty of taking drugs and not knowing the girls were underage. They said they were 24 and 21.'

But he could not explain why the 15-year-old had strangulation marks, bruises and scratches and was sentenced to five and a half years in prison.

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Falsificação nas cartas de conduzir

 

 

 

Este é apenas um dos inúmeros anúncios que prometem cartas de condução, autorizações de residência, documentos da AIMA, nacionalidade, carta de condução, etc, etc. Neste anúncio, a falsificação é mais do que óbvia. O email indicado aponta para o Instituto da Mobilidade, mas trata-se de um gmail, coisa que não acontece com nenhum serviço público. Todos os emails de serviços públicos terminam em .pt. No caso do Instituto da Mobilidade, o seu email oficial é imtonline@imt-ip.pt.

  

Rivers of Blood

 

Excerpt from Enoch Powell's "Rivers of Blood" speech, delivered on April 20, 1968, in Birmingham:

    "As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman, I seem to see 'the River Tiber foaming with much blood'. That tragic and intractable phenomenon which we watch with horror on the other side of the Atlantic but which there is interwoven with the history and existence of the States itself, is coming upon us here by our own volition and our own neglect. Indeed, it has all but come. In numerical terms, it will be of American proportions long before the end of the century. Only resolute and urgent action will avert it even now. Whether there will be the public will to demand and obtain that action, I do not know. All I know is that to see, and not to speak, would be the great betrayal."

What immigration brought to Europe

 

 

Advogados lucram com o negócio da imigração

 

Governo de Trump proíbe Universidade de Harvard de matricular estudantes estrangeiros

 

O governo de Donald Trump suspendeu a autorização da Universidade de Harvard para matricular estudantes estrangeiros, avança o The New York Times.

“Escrevo-vos para informar que, com efeitos imediatos, a certificação do Programa de Estudantes e Visitantes de Intercâmbio da Universidade de Harvard foi revogada”, escreveu a secretária da Segurança Interna, Kristi Noem, numa carta enviada à universidade.

Segundo o jornal nova-iorquino, os estudantes estrangeiros foram informados pelo Departamento de Segurança Interna, através de um duro comunicado de imprensa, sobre a decisão do Governo: "Isto significa que Harvard já não pode matricular estudantes estrangeiros, e os estudantes estrangeiros existentes devem transferir-se ou perderão o seu estatuto legal."

Esta decisão surge depois de a administração de Donald Trump ter acusado as instituições de ensino superior de permitirem o florescimento do antissemitismo nos seus campus e exigido, numa carta enviada a Harvard no início do último mês, amplas reformas governamentais e de liderança na universidade, bem como mudanças nas suas políticas de admissão, de diversidade no campus e fim do reconhecimento de alguns clubes de estudantes. 

Tal foi recusado pelo presidente de Harvard, Alan Garber, e horas mais tarde o governo congelou milhares de milhões de dólares de financiamentos federais, tendo a Universidade apresentado um processo judicial para impedir o congelamento.

A Universidade de Harvard, que se situa perto de Boston e tem cerca de 30 mil estudantes, está há anos firmemente estabelecida no topo da classificação mundial de Xangai dos estabelecimentos de ensino superior.

Cerca de 6800 estudantes estrangeiros frequentaram Harvard neste ano letivo, o que equivale a aproximadamente 27% do total de alunos matriculados, segundo dados da universidade.

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UK: Chemical castration for sex offenders to be trialled in 20 prisons

 

 

The pilot for the voluntary chemical castration of sex offenders will be extended to 20 prisons in England, the justice secretary has said.

Shabana Mahmood said she would expand a small pilot in south-west England to two regions, after an independent sentencing review recommended it continue.

Mahmood is also exploring a national rollout of voluntary chemical castration for sex offenders, and whether it could be made mandatory. No timeline for this decision has been set.

Forensic psychiatry Prof Don Grubin said he did not think the government would "get the mandatory element of it off the ground" as to "simply make somebody take [the treatment] would be very unethical and...most doctors I know would be resistant to it".

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