Masked men were still roaming the streets of Nottingham on Tuesday despite a ban on balaclavas coming into force.
Terrified locals welcomed the new rules but questioned how they would be enforced claiming they rarely saw any police in the city.
The Daily Mail watched on as several men on bikes rode through Nottingham’s Market Square with their faces covered.
Private security guards carried out their first patrol in Essex on Monday after male migrants have left women scared to go out alone.
The Reform-led county council has hired contractors to monitor migrants on the streets of Colchester, Braintree and Chelmsford – with the first walkabouts starting this week.
Locals in Colchester say that on days when asylum seekers are brought into the city from MDP Wethersfield – a former RAF base in the Essex countryside – the atmosphere can feel very different.
Migrants in Piddington – the village today holding an independence referendum in protest at a proposed asylum-seekers’ camp – will be given high-visibility vests to stop them getting knocked down by cars on ‘death trap’ roads nearby.
The move comes as the Government prepares to house 1,250 male migrants at a former Ministry of Defence garrison on the outskirts of the Oxfordshire village.
Locals are fighting back against the plans, which they say will dwarf their village of just 350 residents – and today’s vote will decide whether Piddington should remain part of the UK.
The British state is facilitating the rape of British women. There is no other way to put it now. Consider the case of Radiet Meles, the Eritrean illegal immigrant who has carried out two vicious sexual assaults since arriving here on the back of a lorry in 2015. It was the state’s failure to deport him, or even to monitor him, that gave him free rein to inflict such misogynistic sadism on the women of Britain. It’s that simple.
An illegal immigrant raped a woman on a night out after being freed from prison for a previous sex attack.
Radiet Meles, 35, an ex-soldier from Eritrea, was expected to be deported after finishing his sentence for a horrific sexual assault in 2019.
However he was allowed to stay in Britain after serving a five-year sentence for the attempted rape of an unconscious woman at a house party in Newport, South Wales.
You don’t have to be an open-borders fanatic to want writers and others to be able to cross frontiers to exchange views with like-minded people abroad. Unfortunately, this is not the view of the UK Home Office, which increasingly prefers to keep out anyone whose views offend the progressive establishment.
Women in the village of Piddington have demanded answers from female MPs in an open letter, amid fears of being outnumbered ten to one by asylum seekers.
Labour is said to have drawn up plans to house up to 3,500 single male asylum seekers at a former military site near the Oxfordshire village, which is home to just 350.
Early reports suggested the Home Office had deemed a former Ministry of Defence site near Piddington and Upper Arncott could house around 1,250 migrants.
🚨NEW: Women in Piddington, a village of just 350 people where the government plans to put 1,250-3,500 illegal migrants, have released a video begging female MPs to speak out for them in Parliament pic.twitter.com/IG2jiPNbyG
— GB Politics (@GBPolitcs) September 10, 2026
At a packed village hall meeting in picturesque Piddington, parish council leader Tim McNally railed against the British state. “The Government has stacked all of the odds against us,” he said: “They won’t let us see content. They made that content illegal. They won’t let us oppose them. And if they do, the stakes to try and take it are so high, they want to exhaust you, bankrupt you, so you don’t even attempt it.” The fact is, McNally added, standing in front of the Piddington Home Guard Centre sign, “We’re in a political structure which is not healthy right now. Let’s go for the political jugular because that’s really what counts. That’s the thing where pain can be felt and the embarrassment is felt.” Tiny Piddington is “the seed, it’s the soil, it’s the fertilizer” for a “Battle of Britain”, he told the audience, before asking them if they still wanted to proceed with their referendum on seceding from the United Kingdom. They did, and they cheered and clapped as they said so. If the delivery was polite and matter of fact, the rhetoric was revolutionary.
Police have arrested three men, including one for wearing a face covering, after the gathering of hundreds of anti-migrant protestors in Portsmouth on Saturday ended in violence.
After a march through the city, skirmishes took place as around 400 protesters and activists from a rival demonstration organised by Stand Up To Racism left Guildhall Square.
Though originally claimed to be a peaceful protest, anti-migrant protesters were filmed shouting ‘scum’ before scuffles broke out as officers sought to prevent them breaking through police lines.
@fancypants_s How long before cops start arresting people for not being real Muslims? https://t.co/XQGW2lJyFh
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) September 12, 2026
h/t Patti Jo
“Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith,” Winston Churchill wrote of Islam in the late 1890s when he was still a young man.
“It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science — the science against which it had vainly struggled — the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.”
It now reads like a prophecy about the current fate of the country he led. Britain is falling – hard. Worse, the British government appears to be facilitating its fall.
In August of 2011, the British government—a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition led by David Cameron—discovered just how tenuous its grasp on law and order really was.
The most serious urban riots in a generation were kicked off by the death of a mixed-race man called Mark Duggan on August 4 in Tottenham, north London. Armed police intercepted the car Duggan was traveling in and shot him. The officers said they believed he had been carrying a gun, and a converted pistol was found at the scene; tight gun laws in the UK mean criminals often convert deactivated pistols and starter guns into live weapons. Initial reports claimed there was an exchange of gunfire, but the story quickly changed. Duggan wasn’t holding the gun at the time he was killed. It took until 2014, and a full judicial inquest, to establish that Duggan had indeed been lawfully killed.
Balaclava-clad anti-migrant activists led by convicted criminal ‘Danny Tommo’ staged their latest protest today outside the Daily Mail’s office.
The rabble-rouser, real name Daniel Thomas, organised protests that saw hundreds of masked men descend on Dover and Portsmouth over the weekend.
On Sunday, demonstrators shouting ‘stop the boats’ blockaded the Port of Dover, leading to roads becoming gridlocked and holidaymakers missing ferry crossings.
🚨NEWS: Nottingham Council have enacted a ban balaclavas to stop protestors hiding their faces but will still allow burqas
Patriots on social media have already suggested they will just wear them instead
— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) September 9, 2026
I claim no particular gift of prophecy, but it’s almost exactly a year since I wrote in this column about John, the lovely man who comes to help me with all the jobs I can’t manage in the garden. With more than 1,200 illegal migrants billeted in a former military base in our county and bussed regularly into nearby towns, John was worried about the safety of his teenage daughter. Like a lot of fathers, he despaired of the failure of successive governments to stop the boats.
“We were talking in the pub the other night,” John said to me, “and we decided that, in the end, it’s men like us who will have to go down and defend our southern border.”
At around eight on Saturday evening a friend called and told me to switch on Sky News to watch its coverage of the demonstration in Dover, where more than 100 men – dressed in black and wearing balaclavas – could be seen marching through the streets to protest against illegal migration, the only sound an occasional chant of ‘Stop the boats’.
As it happens, I had already seen the footage she was referring to but I was shocked by her reaction to it: ‘At last, someone is finally speaking out for us.’
The reason I was taken aback is that she’s a mum of three in her fifties who runs her own successful hair salon – someone I’d never describe as a Right-wing head banger, or a racist, or any of the other terms the Left uses to condemn anyone who supports such protests.
A teenager has recalled the terrifying moment she was dragged into the woods and raped by a Nigerian migrant who dodged deportation because it would ‘breach his human rights’.
Gift Oladele, 24, targeted the 19-year-old as she walked home on an isolated footpath in Wrexham, Wales, after a night out on September 7 last year.
The teenager has now revealed that after the attack, Oladele said to her: ‘I think you’ve had enough now. At least you have been raped by someone good-looking.’
