For years, Britons were promised legal migration numbers in the “tens of thousands.” Instead, in just 75 days of Labour prime minister Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership, more than 10,000 illegal migrants have entered the country via the dangerous Channel route.
That’s the equivalent of 135 unlawful arrivals every day. It is also over 100 more than arrived in former Tory PM Boris Johnson’s first year in office.
Political blog Guido Fawkes jibed that the figure can be added to Starmer’s other “achievements” of releasing record numbers of prisoners early and seeing his popularity “plummeting in record time.”
When Starmer took office in July, he straight away scrapped the previous Tory government’s ‘Rwanda plan’—to deter Channel crossings by sending migrants to the African nation for processing—and said he would focus on “smashing” the smuggling gangs instead.
Responding to the speedy arrival of 10,000 illegals, Migration Watch chairman Alp Mehmet said that while “‘smash the gangs’ may have been a catchy election slogan, it was never going to work or frighten off traffickers.” He told The European Conservative:
Starmer must have known this.
The boats will continue to stream across the Channel. That’s why the PM is now turning to Italy for inspiration. How ironic that they are succeeding in reducing illegal entrants with a version of the Rwanda plan, which he rashly abandoned.
Conservative commentator Benedict Spence added that the figures mean the term “mass deportations” must now be “on the table” for Starmer’s team.
Far from this being the case, Labour home secretary Yvette Cooper—whose department has taken to labelling illegal migrants as “irregular,” instead—has refused to say when crossing numbers will begin to come down.
Get set for Labour to break many more unwanted records.
