Here we go again. Yet another voice from the safety of her ivory tower, telling the rest of us to stop the “demonisation” of migrants, as if the problem is our tone rather than the lived reality in towns and cities across Britain.

This time it’s the chair of the Equalities Commission, Mary Ann-Stephenson, lecturing the public as though we’re too thick to understand what’s happening on our own streets.

Let me be absolutely clear. No one tells me what I can and can’t say; this isn’t about demonising anyone. It’s about telling the truth. And the truth is that mass, uncontrolled immigration is changing Britain, and definitely not for the better.

To stand there and claim that immigration is not putting women and girls at risk, not driving crime, not fuelling fear in communities, is either wilful blindness or outright dishonesty.

Across the country, we have illegal immigrants, rebranded as “asylum seekers”, involved in rape, sexual assault, violent crime and murder.

We’ve had suspected terrorists entering this country illegally. We’ve had drug gangs, knife crime, and whole towns left feeling unsafe after dark. This is not some abstract policy debate; this is real life.

We’ve also had official reports into grooming gangs that explicitly linked these horrific crimes to immigration and failures of integration, failures driven by fear of being labelled “racist”.

White British girls were raped for years while authorities looked the other way. And now, after all that, we’re told not to “demonise” the very system that allowed it to happen.

Lecturing us about the ‘demonisation’ of migrants is a slap in the face to our women and girls – Adam Brooks | 

Some figures circulating suggest that a significant proportion of sexual offences are committed by foreign-born men. Whether it’s one in four or lower, the direction of travel is clear.

To pretend that immigration has no impact on crime is simply not true. It is a lie told by people who do not live in the real world with the consequences.

These people do not live in Epping. They don’t stand in the rain on a Sunday with ordinary residents protesting the housing of hundreds of adult men, many undocumented, just a few hundred metres from a school.

They don’t have to explain to their daughters why they shouldn’t walk home alone. They don’t have to watch their town change beyond recognition while being told they’re bigots for noticing.

I’d invite the chair of the Equalities Commission to come and stand with us, and not for a photo op or for a press release. Come and listen.

Come and look people in the eye and tell them their fears aren’t real. Tell them they’re imagining it. Tell them to wait until it happens in their own street, their own family.

And yes, this leads directly to the ECHR. The European Convention on Human Rights might have been born out of the aftermath of the Second World War, and Churchill may well have helped shape it, but the idea that he would support a system that stops Britain deporting foreign rapists, killers, drug dealers and terrorists is utterly laughable. He’d be disgusted and appalled.

What kind of country cannot remove dangerous foreign criminals because of rulings from overseas courts?… I’ll tell you, it’s Britain.

Human rights matter, but the human rights of British citizens must come first. The idea that leaving the ECHR would turn us into some rogue state is nonsense. We were setting democratic standards before most of Europe had a vote.

Of course, we would replace it with our own robust human rights framework, tailored to this country and to our citizens’ rights.

The claim that the ECHR is protecting us is a disgrace. It is protecting criminals from deportation, not victims from harm.

As for the Conservatives, spare me the tough talk. Kemi Badenoch may sound strong, but her party is riddled with wets who would never defy the establishment. The political class will not allow real change through the Conservatives. The Tories would never allow us to leave the ECHR.

Only Reform is serious about leaving the ECHR, securing the borders, and deporting dangerous foreign criminals. And the longer we delay, the more communities will pay the price.