On Islamophobia and migration, Labour are asking us to believe the impossible

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04-02-2025

Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'
'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen.
My friend Geoffrey reminded me a few days ago of that glorious exchange between the Red Queen and Alice in Through the Looking Glass. We were discussing the Labour government which, whatever your reservations, is certainly giving us a lot of practice when it comes to believing impossible things. Off the top of my head, a selection of their impossible things:
1) Rachel Reeves insists growth will spring from measures which kill growth.
2) Ed Miliband claims the headlong pursuit of net zero will see energy bills come down and GB Energy will create 1,000 jobs. Unhelpfully, the chairman of GB Energy just admitted that would be over a 20-year period – 50 jobs a year at around 10 million quid each. Impossible to believe? Not if you get enough practice. (The decision to replace an efficient energy system based on carbon with an inefficient renewables one requires vast acres of British farmland to be carpeted with ecologically-disastrous windmills and solar panels.)
3) Sir Keir Starmer thinks that having a voice coach round on Christmas Eve 2020 during the Covid lockdown, when London and the South East were under Tier 4 restrictions (no household mixing, only work from home; some who obeyed the rules suffered the anguish of missing their parent's death), was perfectly fine. Not just 'two-tier' Keir, then, but Tier 4 Keir! The Labour leader still sounds like a Dalek with sinusitis. It casts a certain amount of doubt on the 'voice coach' story. Bear in mind this is the hypocrite who thought Boris should resign over a bit of cake during lockdown.
4) Angela Rayner plans to create a 'council on Islamophobia' to advise on drawing up an official definition for anti-Muslim discrimination. Essentially a de facto blasphemy law which could criminalise white people, black people, Christians, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, atheists and other non-Muslims who don't want a parallel society in their country with Sharia law and attitudes too often hostile to liberal democratic values. Objecting to special treatment for a section of the population with minimal integration, where women and girls are often treated as second-class citizens, is not a 'phobia'. It's a perfectly rational dislike of seeing our once-harmonious society descend into ugly religious separatism and politically-motivated favouritism. Instead of launching an urgent national inquiry into the mainly Pakistani origin child-rape gangs as it should, Labour prefers to come up with a new law which could make commenting on that scandal an imprisonable offence. The majority white population loses its right to object to its own demise. 'Sentence first, verdict afterwards!' Lewis Carroll's Queen would approve of the chillingly authoritarian Starmer Socialists.
Of all the impossible things we have been required to believe since a far-Left government came to power last July, surely the most Alice in Wonderland in its surreal, upended logic, is the bold new plan to tackle the small boats crisis. The key to solving the problem of illegal migrants is, wait for it… to make them legal!
Under a new Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill, the Government will repeal swathes of the Conservatives' Illegal Migration Act (2023) which stipulated that if you entered the country illegally you would never obtain the prize of British citizenship. A major deterrent to those forking out thousands to cross the Channel and tap into the UK's absurd largesse is slyly disappeared. The Act also stated that asylum seekers could be treated as over 18 if they refused to take a scientific age assessment.
Pity the poor foster carers who are obliged to believe an impossible thing: the asylum seeker just delivered to their door is a 'child' when he has a surprisingly vigorous beard and size 11 feet. Yes, that actually happens. Smuggling gangs actively advise their customers to claim they are minors because children are more likely to be granted refugee status: some 1,300 tried to pull that trick in the first half of last year alone. So British youngsters, in dire need of a foster place, have been discriminated against because a fraudulent non-child from a foreign country is considered more deserving. And let's not worry about all those undocumented young males from violent, war-torn countries parachuted into secondary schools where they are free to molest girls who may be 10 years younger – Labour clearly isn't worried. As long as it means 'reducing the number' of illegal migrants while, er, keeping that number exactly the same.
A mere seven months into a Labour government and the public has already had enough of this nonsensical charade, I think. The crazy tax and spend, the wokery, the suicide of net zero, the insult to national identity and free speech that is Islamophobia. Unlike Lewis Carroll's Queen we are no longer prepared to believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Nor do we wish to be helpless spectators as we watch Britain, gradually destroyed by a dim sanctimony of politicians and civil servants, hurtling towards recession while the people whose taxes pay for everything are sent to the back of the queue. By now, it is pretty clear that the mass immigration inflicted upon us, both by the Conservatives, and even worse under Labour, is so ruinous as to amount to treason.
Desperate for hope, former Tory and Labour voters are turning to Reform UK which this week pulled off the historic feat of topping a YouGov poll. Nigel Farage's party is on 25 per cent of the vote while Labour is on 24 per cent (down 3 per cent) with the Conservatives on 21 per cent (down 1 per cent). I wasn't a bit surprised, were you? The establishment's usual trick of threatening to ostracise anyone who dares to vote for racists/populists/Nazis simply doesn't work any more. We are aware we have little left to lose, and not much time to save what is precious and remains.
Only fools and BBC presenters hold to the view that closing the borders is racist. Look at Sweden, a self-styled 'moral superpower' which let in hundreds of thousands of refugees and where foreign-born citizens now account for 20 per cent of the population. Last week, after Salwan Momika, an anti-Islam activist who repeatedly burned the Koran in 2023, was gunned down in Stockholm, its ashen prime minister admitted they had 'lost control', with immigrant gangs exploding 30 bombs since the start of the year.
Today's deadly attack on an adult education centre that offers Swedish classes to immigrants adds to the terrifying cycle of violence. Sweden, where liberal idealism went to die – or be murdered.
Now look at the US, where President Trump's sparky young press secretary told astounded journalists earlier this week that the administration would be deporting illegal migrants whom they regarded as 'criminals' because they 'entered the country illegally'.
'So simple, but so right,' as Farage texted me yesterday. Quite. We have had too much practice believing impossible things. America has rejected delusion and decline. So must we.
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