Local authorities which have collectively seen a 344% increase in the number of housed illegal migrants in recent years—nearly twice the national average—have taken up Labour’s anti-democratic election cancellation offer, designed to shift power out of Parliament. That is according to new research.
This includes a 712% increase in Essex (from 307 asylum seekers receiving support in December 2021 to 2,186 last year), a 460% increase in West Sussex and 401% increase in Warwickshire.
These figures have been revealed by the Centre for Migration Control think tank. Robert Bates, its research director, told europeanconservative.com:
It says a lot about the quality of the politicians we have in our country that, rather than face the consequences of their failure, elected representatives choose to hide from the electorate.
Bates added that “illegal migration is destroying towns and threatening the security of people across the country,” so “voters have every right to confine responsible politicians to the electoral scrap heap, whether at a local or national level.”
While the cancelling of local elections in order to push forward the government’s devolution plans will delay the ability of voters to make clear their frustrations, Gawain Towler, former communications lead for Reform UK, stressed that eventually “the electoral whirlwind will come, and when it does it will sweep them away.”
Essex County Council has dismissed “any allegation of a link between asylum numbers and a request to postpone elections” as “complete and utter nonsense.” Reform leader Nigel Farage and MP James McMurdock have written to officials there, noting “a significant departure from democratic norms.”
Criticism of illegal migrant numbers in individual authorities follows Labour’s decision last year to scatter groups of arrivals across the country in order to “cut [or, more correctly, spread] pressure on local services.”
