Starmer's tough policy on migration is the biggest con since Meg Ryan simulated an orgasm in a diner

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12-05-2025

Does Keir Starmer really want to reduce immigration? Does an alcoholic willingly hand over a vodka bottle? Our Prime Minister has never met an immigrant or asylum seeker he didn't like. The small-boat illegals who break into our country in their tens of thousands are all 'vulnerable people being ruthlessly exploited by vile gangs', as far as this north London human rights lawyer is concerned, no matter the cost to the British people in sexual assaults, acid attacks, diluted national values and culture, increased competition for public services and rental accommodation.
We are supposed to believe the Labour leader who coldly threatened the protestors after the Southport massacre with harsh punishment for their 'far-Right thuggery' has had a Damascene conversion. (Protestors were not 'far-Right' at all, as an official report just concluded, they were simply distraught about what had become of their country now it contained maniacs from places where they machete small children to death.) Suddenly, two-tier Keir can't wait to impose tough new immigration rules: 'Without them, we risk becoming an island of strangers, not a nation that walks forward together,' he intoned in that watery croak.
Oh, please. Pass the sickbag, Marjorie. What a charlatan, what a shameless shape-shifter, what a snake. Keir Starmer is worried that Britain is at 'risk' of becoming 'an island of strangers'. KEIR STARMER!
Keir Starmer, the open-borders champ who loses no opportunity to demonise anyone who dares to express doubts about Labour's beloved 'communities' full of such 'strangers'.
Keir Starmer, who has voted against almost every measure to reduce immigration, opposing any attempt to deter illegal migration by processing arrivals offshore – like the unceremoniously-dumped Rwanda scheme.
Keir Starmer, who won't authorise a national inquiry into the rape gangs lest it reveals the Faustian pact between his party and immigrants who have not only refused to integrate, but have played on liberal idiots like him so skilfully they are apparently able to rape white girls almost with impunity.
Keir Starmer, whose government is drawing up a new definition of Islamophobia that could amount to a de facto blasphemy law – silencing people who would really rather their Christian country was not the Western capital for sharia law courts.
Keir Starmer, the former shadow immigration minister to Jeremy Corbyn, who wrote in 2020: 'Britain is economically, culturally and socially richer as a result of immigration. We should celebrate this and the huge contribution migration has made to our country. If I am elected leader of the Labour Party, I will always defend migrants' rights and make the positive case for immigration. We must never accept the Tory or media narrative that often scapegoats and demonises migrants. Problems of low pay, housing and public services are not caused by migrants…' Of course not, heaven forbid!
Keir Starmer who went on to criticise the Tory 'obsession with chasing arbitrary, unenforceable and unachievable immigration targets. I would never adopt such a target-based approach to immigration'. So it was goodbye to the hostile-environment approach, vowed Starmer. He planned to close 'cruel' immigration detention centres and relax the family reunion rules. Because people fleeing war or persecution 'should not face a lengthy and restrictive' process before they are reunited in the UK with 27 of their closest relatives and three of their wives who can't wait to claim benefits in Hounslow and take a flat from an indigenous family. (OK, he didn't say that last bit, but it's what his attitude means in practice.)
Keir Starmer who, five years ago, said his approach to immigration was 'welcoming and compassionate'. Or soft, deluded, catastrophic and a threat to national security and everything we hold dear as voters who backed Reform UK at the local elections see it.
Ah, yes, Reform. Make no mistake, behind the PM's new, tough-guy stance on immigration lurks the terror of his Government being swept away at the general election by a turquoise tsunami. (Just wait and see what Reform does to Welsh Labour at the Senedd elections next year; I hear that a large number of serving ministers are standing down for fear of Farage.)
'The Tories lost control of our borders and let net migration soar to record levels undercutting hard-working Brits, I won't stand for it,' said the PM in a cringeworthy, try-too-hard tweet. 'I promised to restore control and cut migration, and I'm delivering with tough new measures. British workers – I've got your back!'
Ugh. Can we believe that the arch-globalist kissing cousin of Emmanuel Macron, the EU-philiac who did everything he could to engineer a re-run of the Referendum, is suddenly best mates with the workers who voted in their millions to be an independent, sovereign nation, taking back control of our borders? Don't be ridiculous. Keir Starmer is the biggest fake since Meg Ryan simulated an orgasm in a diner, and at least Ryan's performance hit the entertainment G-spot. Starmer's fills you with a kind of bemused contempt.
Unfortunately for the Conservatives, the Labour leader is right about the scale of their betrayal – the deafening numbers admitted in the so-called Boriswave created vast and permanent demographic change and the Tories were rightly annihilated after letting in almost a million migrants within 12 months. It is all very well for Kemi Badenoch to say, as she did at the weekend, 'Our country is a home, not a hotel' when, in the final years of her party's 14-year rule, the UK was less a precious home and more a sprawling, all-inclusive Butlins. We were promised an Australian points-based system admitting highly-skilled individuals, not a salary threshold for admission so low it let in the (third) world and his wife.
At least with their proposed 'Deportations Bill', the Tories show they realise they are on death row as far as the electorate is concerned. It's deport or die. The bill has provisions for the removal 'of all foreign criminals, mandatory age checks, tougher visa rules'. The Human Rights Act will be disabled for immigration cases, asylum support will be repayable and there is no permanent right to stay in the UK if you rely on benefits. All good, as far as it goes. But still no pledge to leave the European Court of Human Rights, essential if we are serious about controlling our borders and derailing the immigration-lawyers' gravy train. At this rate, Labour will promise to leave the ECHR before the Conservatives!
Do you think I am being a tad harsh, ladies and gents, on the Prime Minister's stirring new stance on immigration? After all, there is more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents etcetera... I really don't think so. It is the work of decades to repair the damage excess immigration has done to our nation, and the longer it's postponed the uglier the reckoning will be. If you look at the Government's new measures, they are pretty paltry. A bit of tinkering with the length of time foreign students can stay without getting a good job, a ban on recruitment of overseas workers (unclear how, or indeed if, this would work), a reduction in the number of work visas that looks a lot better than it actually is, a toughening up of English language requirements which you just know will never be enforced. The NHS has already decided that expecting nurses to speak the language of most patients was 'discriminatory' .
While the Government's white paper does agree that we should have a much more selective system, with far lower levels of net migration, the policies come nowhere near delivering that. Karl Williams, of the Centre for Policy Studies think tank, says it looks like Labour 'are aiming for between 200,000 and 300,000 immigrants per annum', as during the 2010s. 'While that's a two-thirds reduction on recent highs that's still extraordinarily high.'
The Prime Minister has cunningly not set a cap on overall numbers, arguing that the failure of successive Tory governments to meet a series of targets 'undermined trust'. Hmm. Nothing like failing to set a target at all, Sir Keir, to pull the wool over the public's eyes, eh?
The Office for National Statistics has predicted that net migration will settle at 340,000 from 2028, but some experts say that, with more people staying here longer, just over 500,000 is nearer the mark. Yet again, we see how the people are gaslit by their leaders to accept as totally normal levels of immigration which are far greater than at any time in our history, and ruinous for national cohesion and the wellbeing of those who were born here.
Do the British people want an extra half a million foreigners, a city the size of Edinburgh, coming to their knackered, overstretched, increasingly ghettoised country every single year? I make that a resounding No.
That is why Reform's 'net zero immigration' and pledge to deport all illegal arrivals while taking a draconian approach to the small boats is winning so many votes – they scored an astonishing 33 per cent in the most recent poll (Labour on 20 per cent, Tories on life support at 16). On that showing, the only party that can beat Reform is Reform. Starmer will live to regret his grandstanding on immigration as it becomes clear he's all talk and no action.
In private, I'm told that ministers are relying on a significant fall in the legal immigration figures due to measures brought in by the outgoing Tory home secretary James Cleverly. Downing Street will be delighted to take the credit for that decrease and hope it placates the mounting public fury over uncontrolled immigration. Give the voters' little heads a reassuring pat, do next to nothing, quietly park the issue and hope that's enough to get them off your case.
Sir Keir Starmer knows full well why Reform are surging in the polls, but the man has a profound distaste for implementing the measures that could help Labour close the gap. He adores immigration, he abhors borders, and he thinks his is the moral, enlightened view and the rest of us who don't agree are a bunch of bigots. Perhaps we could pay for him to have some of those English lessons so he understands the country he notionally leads?
Instead of having the back of British workers, as he claims, Sir Keir is about to stick a knife between their shoulder blades while claiming to be a brilliant osteopath. It's a con.
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