Anyone worried about migrants was called racist – but we’ve just got proof we were right_t

For years Labour, the soft Left, and pearl-clutchers dismissed fears about immigration – illegal or otherwise – as racist.

It was, they said, classic scaremongering from those who wanted to pull the drawbridge up.

And, anyway, most of those desperate enough to want to traverse the Channel must be in genuine danger, of persecution or fleeing war.

It was then as it is now a pyramid of piffle.

Since Tony Blair opened our doors to the world Britain has been on the downslope.

Initially the crisis was batted away. Migrants mainly smuggling themselves into the UK in the back of cargo lorries was considered a mild inconvenience. Not any longer.

Last year 41,472 pitched up here on dinghies – 34,201 of them men – and most went on to claim asylum.

And remember, these are the ones known to the authorities.

The true number here – and goodness only knows where – is anyone’s guess.

We have seen panic in Epping, Thetford, Crowborough, Piddington, and a hundred other places aside, riots in Northern Ireland, and still the Government shrugs its shoulders as a liberal elite typified by bleeding hearts like Jolyon Maugham and his ilk who regularly cry foul and label genuine concern as to who comes here as the wolf whistle of the Right.

But now we know the worries that started to gather pace 20 or so years ago were with reason.

In a sign of just how far Britain has been run into the ground asylum seekers – those who have entered the UK illegally – have been told by our actual government not to rape, beat, or attempt to subjugate our women.

A Home Office guidebook lays bare the “rules and expectations” of living in Britain. And everyone who pitches up will be handed one, along with gold-plated taxpayer support.

It is likely to be the final straw for a country that has become a pale imitation of itself and its people, the vast majority of whom have been convinced for many years that the place is full up and fed up.

The pamphlet – presumably translated into a raft of different languages – warns: “If you have sex with someone without their consent, this is called rape. Rape is a serious crime in the UK.”

It has been published in the wake of a series of appalling attacks by asylum seekers which, in many areas, has sparked revulsion as well as panic.

It is a grim acceptance of what life has become on the streets of the UK and warns those unfamiliar with life here that it is illegal to have sex with someone under the age of 16, adding: “There are no exceptions to this rule. Even if they say yes, it is still illegal.”

It also warns how physical violence, threats and controlling behaviour are forms of domestic abuse and amount to a serious crime. It is the first official admission – in hard form – that those who arrive here illegally come from societies and cultures completely at odds with ours.

The document released by the Home Office – run by Shabana Mahmood who earlier this year said “illegal migration has been placing immense pressure on communities” – says: “We understand that coming to a new country can be difficult, and that laws and customs here may be different from your home country.

“This booklet will help you understand what is expected of you when living in the UK.

“These rules and expectations are not just for people seeking asylum, they apply to everyone living here.”

The largest nationalities among Channel migrant arrivals last year were Eritreans with just over 7,600, Afghans (4,800), Iranians (4,400), Sudanese (4,400) and Somalis (3,800).

Last week a record 230 turned up on a single dinghy.

In October last year Abdulla Ahmadi and Ibrahim Alshafe, both 26, along with Karin Al-Danasurt, 21, attacked a woman on Brighton beach. All were living in a Home Office hotel in Horsham, West Sussex, having crossed the Channel illegally.

In January, Ahmadi, from Iran, and Alshafe, from Egypt, were jailed for 21 years for rape. Convicted murderer Al-Danasurt, 21, also from Egypt, entered Britain in 2024. He was convicted of rape for filming the attack and was jailed for 18 years.

Judge Christine Henson KC called them all “entirely predatory, callous and contemptuous”.

The publication of the document – at vast expense to taxpayers – will deepen anger not least because the public has been repeatedly told men coming here illegally pose no imminent danger to British women and girls.

This categorically proves otherwise.

And it will send a shiver down the spine of every husband, father, and parent in the land.