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The Centre for Migration Control - good old Google AI

People seemed recently to be having trouble finding the Centre for Migration Control on the web, Google AI shows it:-"The Centre for Migration Control (CMC) is a UK-based, right-leaning advocacy group and blog that describes its purpose as "controlling and reducing migration to Britain". It is known for publishing data analyses and reports critical of current immigration levels and their perceived impact on the UK. Key details about the organization:Structure: It operates under the company name Athelney Campaigns Ltd and appears to be largely run by one person, its founder and research director Robert Bates, who is a Reform UK activist.Political Links: The CMC is associated with figures and groups from the pro-Brexit and Reform UK campaigns, including Nigel Farage and Richard Tice. It has been cited by high-profile Conservative and Reform UK politicians.Methodology and Scrutiny: The group primarily uses Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to gather data. However, its analyses and claims have been disputed and fact-checked by media outlets, the Migration Observatory, and other groups for using selective data, muddled statistics, and making potentially misleading claims. The organisation itself has been criticised for a lack of transparency regarding its funding, employees, and research methodology.Activities: The CMC publishes reports and commentary via its website and a Substack blog called "Migration Central". It frequently highlights alleged negative impacts of migration on crime, public services, and the economy. It is an advocacy organization rather than a governmental body, a neutral research institution like the Office for National Statistics Centre for International Migration, or an academic centre like the Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging at the University of East London." And its own website shows up on ordinary Google:-https://centreformigrationcontrol.com/Mr Bates appears on GB News quite often, I think.

David Ainsworth ● 4d1 Comments ● 4d

Reeves On The Brink After Lying About Fiscal Gap In Order To Raise Taxes

Reeves on the brink after 'misleading' public with 'smoke and mirrors' over £20bn Budget black holeThe Chancellor has been accused of using 'smoke and mirrors' to justify tax hikes in her Autumn BudgetRachel Reeves has been accused of giving the public a misleading picture of the nation’s finances while preparing a £30 billion tax increase - to protect herself and the Prime Minister.Tensions escalated between the Chancellor and the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) on Friday night after the watchdog released a detailed account of its conversations with the Treasury ahead of this week’s Budget.The Chancellor had repeatedly talked down the state of the nation's finances in the build-up to her fiscal statement on Wednesday.According to the OBR, recent comments from Reeves and her team overstated the size of the fiscal gap, setting the stage for her planned tax rises and changes to welfare spending.She placed the blame on Brexit, Tory austerity and Donald Trump for a downgrade to the UK's predicted economic productivity, which would therefore make it harder to meet her own spending rules.The positions of both Ms Reeves and Richard Hughes, the OBR chairman, came under scrutiny after the Treasury criticised his decision to reveal the “private space” in which officials discuss forecasts and assess policy impacts.https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/chancellor-rachel-reeves-budget-latest-5HjdNd2_2/

Sue Hammond ● 5d8 Comments ● 4d

Israel - our ally

Extract from Spectator online - "Will no one acknowledge how Mossad helps Britain?"Jake Wallis Simons21 November 2025, 11:24am'Let’s imagine that an international jihadi network, with cells in London and Europe, had just been busted, with dramatic arrests in Britain, Germany and Austria. Let’s imagine that the group had been planning a string of atrocities, with a weapons cache discovered in Vienna.Let’s imagine that security services had unearthed ‘tens of thousands of Euros in cash, numerous data storage devices and mobile phones, gas pistols, firearms, ammunition, knives, and related literature’. You’d have expected such a story to make the news, right?Wrong. On Monday, the Israeli prime minister’s office announced that this precise scenario had unfolded, with Mossad handing intelligence to MI5 and European agencies that enabled them to bring the jihadis to justice and foil their murderous ambitions. The name of the gang? Here’s a clue: it coordinated with leaders in Qatar and Turkey. You guessed it.In a statement that would chill the heart of any Briton or European were they to have heard it reported, Benjamin Netanyahu’s office warned: ‘Since the October 7 massacre, the Hamas terrorist organisation has been working with renewed vigour to build infrastructure and recruit terrorist cells in Europe and other arenas, similar to the Iranian regime and its proxies.’When people talk of Iranian ‘proxies’, they are referring to groups such as Hezbollah, the Houthis and less well-known terrorist gangs in Syria and Iraq. Over the decades, Tehran built these up into a ‘ring of fire’ around Israel, which was only dismantled after the Mossad pager operation last year, followed by Israel’s airborne humiliation of the Iranian regime during those fateful 12 days in June.That is what the Israelis are saying that we are starting to face here. A network of proxies. A nascent ring of fire, preparations for a 7 October of our own, awaiting activation.'Why does our MSM not report this ?Why don't we wake up and smell the coffee (Turkish ?) and be forearmed as well as forewarned.

John Hawkes ● 12d21 Comments ● 5d