So they can control our borders after all. After the government presided over a near-record high for small-boats crossings last year, swinging open the doors of the nation’s hotels to anyone who can buy a spot on a dinghy, the British state has banned a Dutch right-wing activist who pals around with Tommy Robinson.

Starmer’s government presides over an illegal migration free-for-all while fussing over a few crankish influencers

Eva Vlaardingerbroek, 29, has had her electronic travel authorisation (ETA) revoked by the Home Office. ‘Your presence in the UK is not considered to be conducive to the public good’, read an email, shared on X by Vlaardingerbroek. ‘You cannot appeal this decision.’ If only the rapists, murderers and terrorists who have slipped through our broken borders unmolested in recent years had been dealt with as firmly.

Vlaardingerbroek serves up hardline stances on immigration glazed in conspiratorial thinking – calling for ‘remigration’ to correct the ‘Great Replacement’ of whites. She came on the scene during the glorious Dutch farmers’ protests against green diktats. A lawyer, born in Amsterdam to parents who worked in classical music, she became the unlikely frontwoman of the Netherlands’ rural revolt – in right-wing American podcastworld, at least.

She joins the Not Conducive To The Public Good club alongside French gay erotic novelist turned hard-right philosopher Renaud Camus, who coined le grand remplacement – the notion that globalist political elites are not simply presiding over a deranged, multiculturalist mass-migration policy, but complicit in a ‘genocide by substitution’ of native populations. He was banned last April, ahead of an appearance at an event organised by the Homeland Party, a descendent of the BNP.

Vlaardingerbroek spoke on stage at Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom rally in September, and was planning to attend his upcoming march in May. The Home Office, under Tory and Labour rule, has been particularly keen to keep his associates out. Canadian Lauren Southern, American Brittany Pettibone and Austrian Martin Sellner were all refused entry in 2018. Vlaardingerbroek, you’ll be unsurprised to learn, is also no fan of Keir Starmer. She called him an ‘evil, despicable man’ on X just three days before her ban, making this a particularly bad look for a government with a well-earned reputation for thin-skinned authoritarianism.

You need not like or agree with any of these people to find their banning troubling. Whatever else might be said about her, Vlaardingerbroek is neither a criminal nor a terrorist. Deeming her a threat to the ‘public good’ betrays a low view of the public, as if we are likely to have our minds mangled by perma-online right-wingers.

Then there’s the spectacular double standards. Just contrast Vlaardingerbroek’s treatment with that of Alaa Abd el-Fattah, the Egyptian activist who wasn’t just welcomed into the UK by Starmer over Christmas, but was granted British citizenship during the Conservative years, despite a long and storied history of violent, anti-white social-media posts.

Do you know what really isn’t ‘conducive to the public good’? A government that presides over a free-for-all in illegal migration while fussing over a few crankish influencers.

Watch Eva Vlaardingerbroek on Spectator TV: