Trump’s FAFO spirit

In the book of Galatians, Paul reminds us that most ancient of lessons: “for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” In cruder, modern parlance, this might nowadays be rendered as “FAFO” — Fuck Around and Find Out. I don’t use this bracingly frank acronym to be merely shocking, but to accurately report a retort from the leader of the free world.

Over the weekend, Donald Trump shared an AI-generated image of himself in a gangsterish zoot suit, with FAFO written on a poster beside him. Yes, really. The person to whom Trump intended this taut Anglo-Saxon reminder was the President of Columbia, Gustavo Petro, who really did reap the fire and fury of Trump, and really did Find Out.

In record speed, the new Trump administration is sending federal ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents across America to arrest and deport known foreign criminals. Flights will take off every day, we are promised. 

When Columbia refused to accept an arrival of their countrymen, Trump reacted with more vigour than Joe Biden managed to conjure in his entire Presidency. He immediately brought to bear tariffs, travel bans, economic sanctions and more against the South American state. Six minutes later, President Petro capitulated. He even offered to send his own presidential plane to receive the criminals.

It appears the US might have taken inspiration from Britain’s now-mothballed Rwanda scheme

To understand how exciting this kind of leadership is, I almost asked the reader to consider what a Democrat might do. I nearly suggested the bureaucratic hoops that might have been jumped through and some kind of deal reached, maybe at an intergovernmental panel somewhere.

But I don’t need to ask you to consider the counterfactual, because the counterfactual is merely the factual here in Britain. Dear Blighty is blighted by a great many foreign criminals, including Adil Khan and Qari Abdul Rauf, members of the Rochdale child rape gangs. The state of Pakistan refuses to accept back these pieces of human ordure, and others like them. Understandably, they do not want such effluence in their country. 

But less understandably, Britain refuses to press the issue. In fact, not only do we continue to suffer the presence of this ghastly little creature, but we have sent well over a billion pounds of taxpayers’ cash to Pakistan since their convictions. That’s money that you and I earn, that the Government snatches off us to pay, we are led to believe, for schools or hospitals. Instead, it goes to the country that gave us these foreign paedophile rapists and refuses to take them back.

Britain should emulate the example of Trump’s treatment of these countries and withdraw all aid, travel rights, and other niceties with Pakistan and all other countries under we have cleansed our island of their malign presence. Anything less amounts to national self-cuckoldry.

I am afraid that the hour grows so late that these sorts of harsh measures will soon become matters of national survival, given the numbers of ne’er do wells who are here. Reports from across the country of the behaviour of so-called asylum seekers should crystallise the need for immediate, emergency deportations.

In Northamptonshire, these bogus claimants have been harassing girls in local woods and “hanging around” outside primary schools. I call them bogus because no genuine seeker of asylum from a war-torn hell hole would ever repay the generosity of a host country by attempting to rape or kidnap the children of that society. Enough is enough. They have to go.

The truly remarkable thing about the Trump deportations is that federal officers clearly knew that there were huge numbers of foreign criminals, including those who had committed sex crimes against children, in US cities. Not only that, but officers also knew their exact whereabouts, what their crimes were and where they were from. This means that the Biden administration knew all this and chose to prioritise the freedom to roam of foreign sex criminals over the safety of the American public. This sounds much like the blind eye we have turned for too long to the Pakistani rape gangs. 

No wonder one particularly unpleasant Haitian criminal was recorded, during his arrest, screaming: “Yo, biden forever, bro! Thank Obama for everything he did for me!”. It reminded me of the criminals released early from British prisons cheering on Keir Starmer. Except of course, in Britain we are letting criminals out rather than locking them up and deporting them … 

Incredibly, it even appears that the US might have taken inspiration from Britain’s now-mothballed Rwanda scheme. It is rumoured to be considering a deal with El Salvador to establish an overseas processing centre in the central American republic, which saw itself transformed from the most dangerous country on earth into the safest in the Western hemisphere. How, might you ask? By a radical public policy technique known as “locking up all the criminals and keeping them locked up”.

Some suicidal leftist groups may decry this robust leadership as fascistic or throw about various other meaningless platitudes. But recent Opinium polling suggests strong majorities of support for this decisive leadership here in the UK, as well. 

We ought not be surprised. Every day, more and more fighting age males from totally alien cultures wash up on our shores, and we know that few have love for Britain in their hearts. Kemi Badenoch was completely right at the weekend when she said it was “dangerous” that so many recent arrivals bore no allegiance to this country because their heads and their hearts were elsewhere.

Taking inspiration from Trump’s actions is both popular, and necessary to restore Britain as a safe place to live and prosper. But following JD Vance’s stance in an interview this weekend is also crucial. When the interviewer tried the usual casuistry, he told her: 

“I don’t really care, Margaret. I don’t want that person in my country.”

I agree. I just don’t want these awful criminals in my country anymore.

Anyone who disagrees with that statement is suffering from a terminal case of radical, self-destructive over-empathy. We have a duty to protect them from themselves, and protect civilisation from the consequences of such misplaced empathy.