Burnham’s Plan To Distribute Terror With A Migrant Etiquette Guide For Rape

On Wednesday, Britain’s Home Office (our interior ministry) published a handy nine-page guide for asylum seekers called “Understanding behaviors and expectations in the UK.” It explained to these recent arrivals some of the nuances and faux pas of British life they might not have known prior to breaking into the country.

This advice explained, for example, that rape is a crime, that sex with children is a crime, and that new arrivals should not follow women down the street whistling or making “kissing sounds.”

Somewhere in London, a civil servant was paid to type the sentence “never try to have sex with someone who is asleep, drunk, or unable to consent clearly.”

A companion poster on the age of consent illustrates the rule with a mock-up British passport belonging to: “Janine Cooper” of Manchester, printed date of birth 17 April 2010. This fictional character turned 16 in the spring. So the British Government is essentially advertising that a schoolgirl four months past her 16th birthday is fair game for being propositioned.

The booklet does mention consequences. “Rape is a serious crime in the UK,” it warns. “You could go to prison, lose your support and accommodation, and it will affect your asylum claim.”

But then again, it may not.

It has just been reported that a Jamaican man, jailed in Britain for nine years for rape, has successfully appealed against his deportation. As a teenager he had been in Jamaica’s witness protection program, his mother a police informant whose evidence convicted a gang leader of murder.

But the British tribunal accepted that his criminal record is now so extensive that Jamaica would probably refuse to readmit him to protection, that his life would be at risk, and that deporting him would therefore breach Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). He stays. His criminal record now functions as a green card.

The ECHR is a post-war treaty interpreted by a court in Strasbourg, France, whose rulings Britain’s own domestic judges must apply at home. Article 3, a prohibition on torture, has been stretched by decades of case law into a rule that nobody may be sent anywhere unpleasant, a category that expands with every judgment. This is a totally separate structure from the European Union, so Brexit does not protect us from foreign judges whose rulings keep foreign rapists safe and sound in England.

In that case, perhaps we do need the anti-rape leaflets after all. They might have been useful reading for Bruke Desalagne, 33, an Eritrean who hid in a truck to enter Britain illegally. He claimed asylum and, in 2022, received “Indefinite Leave to Remain,” our version of a green card.

This month a jury convicted him of raping a male pensioner in his 60s outside a church in London. The attack lasted 20 minutes while a double-decker bus rolled past on CCTV. His sentence was obviously delivered via a translator.

And since I began writing this piece this morning, almost unbelievably, two more rapes by illegal migrants have been reported. This morning: a manhunt in Bournemouth, on England’s south coast, after a woman in her 40s reported being raped in a nature reserve near the beach. And this afternoon: two Afghan migrants are in court, accused of raping and assaulting a 14-year-old girl on a train from Kent into London.

You might think that such an acute crisis of illegal immigration would require more than pamphlets and posters. But the new prime minister, Andy Burnham, in one of his first statements since taking office, has said that every community has to take its “fair share” of these third-world barbarians, not just the poorer areas.

He is in effect going to punish the areas of the U.K. that represent the green and pleasant land for which we are known (that is, the areas that don’t vote for the socialist Labour Party) by billeting rapey third-worlders in hotels and houses.

And sadly, there is not yet the evidence that the pamphlets are working.

In undercover footage filmed inside the migrant camps on the French shore, one man bound for Britain puts it more succinctly than any government document: “I’m only interested to f*ck. I need it.”

What Britain needs, however, is to leave the ECHR, the foreign organization that puts the rights of rapists above those of victims and legally hampers our ability to deport our way out of the crisis. Imagine if, above the U.S. Supreme Court, there was a body of Mexican, Canadian, Honduran, Brazilian, and Cuban judges who could overrule the Constitution, all to benefit foreign rapists.

The situation is as absurd as it is tragic. But the tragedy is set to continue until we vote the Left out of power.

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James Price is a former Chief of Staff to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and a senior fellow at the Adam Smith Institute.