The political debate over illegal migration has sharpened. Nigel Farage has proposed the deportation of all who arrived unlawfully, together with scrapping the human rights laws and treaties that block such action. The Conservatives also appear to be moving in that direction.
The Government, meanwhile, seems determined to carry on with minor adjustments. As for Sir Keir Starmer, he appears to be testing how far he can push the people before they rebel.
Yet as politicians weigh votes and treaties, a deeper question arises: What does God require of rulers when their nation’s safety is at stake? Scripture says Government is responsible to God:
Romans 13:1 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
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The Duty of Rulers
The Apostle continues:
Romans 13:4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good… a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
That means King Charles and his ministers are Ministers of God. Maintaining law and order is why we pay them taxes, as Paul reminds us:
Romans 13:6 For this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God’s ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.
Yet many ordinary people doubt whether those in office are truly “attending continually” to the protection of women and girls in particular. The wave of protests, outside hotels housing migrants, free of charge, has been fuelled by reports of tyem committing crime and abuse. Sign our petition for our leaders to remember their God-given duty and honour the Lord:
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Claims, Counterclaims, and the Facts
The Socialist Workers Party and its allies—Stand Up To Racism, Unite Against Fascism, Hope Not Hate and Care4Calais, insist that “most people who come to Britain in a small boat are fleeing for their lives.”
They cite Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, Eritrea and Sudan beset by war. But the reality is different. There is no current war in Afghanistan, Iran or Eritrea. And even if some migrants were fleeing real danger, they were already safe in France. What they sought here was not safety but greater financial reward.
Scripture states the principle of unity under the law, and that law derives from a nation’s religious view, that is, from whatever it holds sacred. In Britain, as we were reminded on 6th May 2023, at His Majesty’s coronation, that is still the Christian faith, despite how far the elite have legislated against it:
Exodus 12:49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.
James 4:12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy:
For a nation to remain united, it must share one law under one God. It cannot stay cohesive if the ‘strangers that sojourneth’ want to impose a different god, a different law and different ‘customs’, for want of a better expression.
In other words, it cannot work in what Sir Keir Starmer described, in an unguarded moment, as ‘An island of strangers’.
A Growing Catalogue of Crime
The public is not blind. The protests began after a series of shocking crimes committed by those housed in asylum hotels.
Ethiopian Hadush Kebatu, staying at the Bell Hotel in Epping, was charged with sexual assault. He has now been convicted. Another Ethiopian, Tadi Alemeyeha, faces similar charges in Manchester.
Two Afghan men are being prosecuted for raping a 12-year-old girl in Nuneaton.
Tory spokesman Chris Philp reminded the House of Commons only last month that Louise, Baroness Casey said in her report on rape gangs that Afghans commit up to 20 times more sex offences than the UK average.
Of illegal immigrants housed in the asylum hotels, Mr Philp said: ‘The Sun found 339 charges in the last six months based on only half the hotels currently operated. The Mail on Sunday found 708 charges based on only a third of those hotels. Those crimes included multiple cases of rape, sexual assault, violence, theft and arson. An illegal immigrant in Oxford has been convicted of raping a 20-year-old woman in a churchyard.’
Mr Philp concluded: ‘A Sudanese man was convicted of strangling and attempting to rape a woman in a nightclub toilet in Wakefield.’
Alkali attacker was convicted criminal
He concentrated on asylum hotels, but Mr Philp could have mentioned migrant Abdul Shokor Ezedi, who perpetrated a horrific alkali attack on a young mother and her three-year-old daughter in south London last year. He had actually been convicted of a sex offence in 2018 but after three attempts was granted asylum.
Another Sudanese migrant was convicted of attempted rape in Wakefield. The figures reported by national newspapers show hundreds of charges in just a few months.
It is small wonder that ordinary people are furious. Yet the Government proposes merely to shift migrants from hotels to houses of multiple occupation, and to arrange a “one-in-one-out” deal with France. The Apostle Peter reinforced Paul’s statement of the duties of rulers to punish evildoers:
1 Peter 2:13-14 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme. Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.
A Nation at the Crossroads
We are faced with two starkly different visions. Sir Keir Starmer sets his hopes on human rights conventions, multiculturalism and globalism.
Nigel Farage proposes deportation and the tearing up of seventy-year-old treaties. Yet even he must overcome the resistance of the civil service, the courts, and the entrenched establishment.
In truth, only God can protect this nation. The psalmist encourages us: Psalm 46:1,7 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.
If our leaders trust him, the Lord will guard the land: Zech 9:8; And I will encamp about mine house because of the army, because of him that passeth by, and because of him that returneth: and no oppressor shall pass through them any more: for now have I seen with mine eyes.
Psalm 127:1 Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
The Islamic influx may in fact be seen as God’s judgment on a nation that has turned away from him. Only repentance and the raising up of God-fearing men will restore our people.
Our Call to Prayer
Britain needs leaders of courage and faith, men willing to confess Christ, proclaim our Christian constitution, and govern with honesty and humility. Government “of the elite, by the elite, for the elite” as currently practised in our land must give way to government under God, for the benefit of the people.
So let us pray that the Lord will have mercy on us, raise up men of God to lead, and turn the tide. Let us resist violence and keep protest at the ballot box.
And let us remember that our hope is not in treaties, nor in politicians, but in Christ the King.
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