Jake Munro spent eight days in the south of Ireland with his girlfriend and their 6 year-old son. On the way home, four Welsh police officers pulled him out of the ferry queue at Pembroke Dock and took his fingerprints.
Munro streams under the name Goth Daddy, is based in Northern Ireland, and has appeared on Tim Pool’s Culture War Podcast. He talks about wokeism and migration as much as he does goth and metal subculture. He worries about the future of the UK, for the same reason a lot of ordinary people are worried, which is the strain a sudden influx of military-age men is putting on European countries, represented most recently by these terrifying government pamphlets produced for them.
Munro arrived at Pembroke Dock with his family at half one in the afternoon, booked on the 2:45pm ferry to Rosslare. He showed his ticket, got waved to a new lane, and then, in his own words, noticed “a growing amount of police officers, security, congregating outside my car.” A mountainous policeman knocked on his window and suggested they take a stroll. Inside the security hut, four officers told him he was being detained for “suspected right-wing ideologies” and would be questioned. After the questioning, he was told, depending on how it went, he might be arrested.
He wasn’t questioned about a specific crime, or a specific threat, or a plot. This was a survey. Was he affiliated with any right-wing nationalist or patriot groups? Was he agitating the British public to take things into their own hands? What did he think about Muslims? What did he think about migration? What did he think about trans people, and did he consider himself an active threat to them? What did he think was the biggest problem revolving around Jews?
He was fingerprinted. Photographed. Held for four hours. At the end of it, an officer told him they had no grounds to hold him for terrorism, incitement, or anything else, and drove him back to an empty car. His phone had been cloned, which is presumably where the four hours went. He missed his ferry and paid for a hotel he hadn’t planned on, finally rejoining his girlfriend who had been ‘beside herself’, not knowing if the father of her son had been arrested. Back home and about to go live on the stream he’d been away from for a week, he found a second strike waiting on his YouTube channel, for a clip that was months old. Whatever the machinations were behind the ban, it landed the moment he had an audience again.
This, of course, is all very familiar to me. I was arrested at Heathrow in 2025 for objecting to men in women’s private spaces. Held, questioned, and eventually paid compensation by the Met, because even they could see how it looked once it made the papers. That case matters here because the police learned the wrong lesson from it. They didn’t stop policing opinion. They stopped arresting people for it. An arrest leaves a record, a complaint, a lawyer, a headline, maybe even a payout. A four-hour ‘detention’ at a port with no charge leaves none of that. The UK plod are still acting as thought police, but leaving no paper trail.
Look at the shape of the questionnaire: Muslims, migration, nationalist groups, incitement. It’s a checklist of the opinions the modern British left is afraid ordinary people are starting to hold, dressed up as a threat assessment. And in the middle of that list, an officer asks a man whether he’s a threat to ‘trans people.’
Nobody in that hut could have defined the term with any precision. There’s no settled meaning of it at all. And yet British police training has slotted ‘transphobia’ in as a category of concern sitting next to jihadism and far-right extremism. Once a man can be detained over his opinion on something nobody can define, there’s no principled reason he couldn’t be detained over his opinion on anything else you’d care to invent. Orcs. Unicorns. Star signs.
A missed ferry, a terrified partner, his fingerprints on file, and a ban that landed the moment he was free to talk about it. No charge. Just a checklist of phobias drawn up by the lanyard class, and four hours spent on a fishing expedition before they had to throw him back. That’s the UK in 2026, and I’m glad I’m out of it.
Can they even legally fingerprint you when they are only "detaining" you? I thought you had to be arrested for them to do that, even if they end up not charging you with anything. Can you imagine anyone being detained for "suspected LEFT-WING ideologies"?
A job for the FSU maybe? It certainly sounds like he should get some compensation for his missed ferry and having to pay for a hotel.
Is the Youtube second strike or ban you mentioned the reason I can't play the media inside the @JakeMunro post at the bottom of this article?
Thanks for explaining to us what's going on. For one thing, "detention" is a giant legal loophole the police use to arrest our freedom. And it's terrifying to see the West give itself away to Islamic and "trans" ideologies. I was surprised antisemitism is on the UK's list of concerns.