Save the Bats, Save the Neighbourhood: The Radioactive Fallout of Mass Immigration and the Only Weapons That Still Work, By Richard Miller (Londonistan)

Welcome to 2025, almost 2026, where the last legal way to stop a UK asylum mega-centre in your backyard is no longer "we don't want 420 strangers dumped on our street." That argument is racist, fascist, and probably illegal to utter in polite German company. Instead, the only acceptable battle cry is: "Think of the bats!"

And it works.

In the leafy, latte-sipping, Green-voting enclave of Berlin-Pankow — where the SPD, Greens, and Left Party just hoovered up 54% of the vote — an administrative court has just slammed the brakes on a 420-bed migrant shelter because the construction would disturb a colony of protected bats and some birds that nobody had ever noticed before. The exemption the district tried to grant? Not "sufficiently specific" about which exact species of winged mammal would be inconvenienced. Case closed (for now).

Translation: When you're a wealthy, Left-wing, White neighborhood that has spent decades voting for open borders, the only way to keep those open borders from opening in your cul-de-sac is to weaponise the very progressive sacred cows you helped create — environmental law, species protection, bureaucratic nitpicking, and lawfare funded by six-figure lawyer salaries.

This is peak late-stage mass-immigration Europe: the radioactive fallout has spread so far that even the people who cheered it on now need imaginative, almost absurdist defences to avoid living with the consequences of their own politics.

The New Arsenal of Resistance: Bats, Beetles, and Byzantine Zoning Codes

Across the continent, the pattern repeats like a bad remix:

Switzerland: A village stops a 500-bed centre because it would disturb a rare beetle.

Austria: Locals save their meadow by discovering a previously unknown hamster migration route.

Netherlands: An asylum hotel is blocked because the planned parking lot would cast shadows on a protected patch of moss.

Sweden: A forest shelter is halted — endangered woodpeckers.

Germany: Bats, bats, everywhere bats.

These are not jokes (well, they are, but they're also winning in court).

Direct opposition — "we don't want this here"— is forbidden by hate-speech laws, social taboo, and the ever-present threat of being labelled a Nazi by people who summer in Tuscany. So, the only remaining legal pathways are the ones the progressive state itself built: environmental impact assessments, EU species-protection directives, historic-preservation statutes, noise ordinances, and endless appeals.

In short, the radioactive fallout from decades of replacement-level immigration can now only be fought with radioactive countermeasures.

The Iron Law of Progressive NIMBYism

There is a universal constant in modern Western politics:

The further Left a neighbourhood votes, the harder it will fight to keep the physical consequences of Left-wing policy out of its postcode.

Pankow, Hampstead, the 16th arrondissement, Georgetown, Marin County, Cambridge Massachusetts — same story every time. They will march for "refugees welcome," put the sticker in the window, and then hire €600-an-hour lawyers the moment the asylum centre is proposed next to their organic farmers' market.

And the beauty (the dark, hilarious beauty) is that the system they built gives them exactly the tools they need: an EU Habitats Directive that treats a bat roost like a UNESCO site, judges terrified of being seen as insufficiently green, and a bureaucracy so labyrinthine that any determined community with money and time can tie a project up for a decade.

Rural villages without lawyers lose. Wealthy urban enclaves with PhDs in administrative law win. The bats are just the messenger.

The Real Radioactive Fallout

The deeper fallout isn't the asylum centres themselves — it's the death of honest debate.

When you criminalise the sentence "I don't want my neighbourhood transformed overnight," people stop saying it. Instead, they become amateur ornithologists, beetle experts, and heritage-preservation activists overnight. The discourse is forced into euphemism and absurdity because the direct path has been mined with legal and social explosives.

The result is a society that lies to itself in real time:

"It's not about the people, it's about the bats."

"We're all for diversity, just not 420 single men in shipping containers 200 metres from the kindergarten."

"Refugees welcome — somewhere else, preferably where there are no rare newts."

The Only Winning Move Left

Until the political class admits that mass immigration at current levels is unsustainable (and that admission is still years away), ordinary people will keep inventing ever more creative ways to slow the bulldozers:

Adopt a bat colony.

Seed your local park with endangered orchids.

Declare your street a historical cobblestone protection zone.

Find a sleepy lizard and name it after Greta Thunberg.

It's ridiculous. It's undignified. It's the only thing that still works.

Pankow just proved the playbook. The rest of Europe is taking notes.

Save the bats. Save yourselves.