The Labour government is pretending again to take serious action against illegal migration, while at the same time working to undo a real victory for supporters of controlled borders.
Reports this week say that Keir Starmer’s team will next month present plans to overhaul the asylum appeal system used by failed ‘refugees’ to challenge Home Office decisions and replace this with a new ‘fast-track’ system.
The Conservatives have already dismissed the proposal as a way for migrants to be given the green light to stay in the UK even faster than they currently are, although their own shocking record on illegal migration taints the validity of their questioning.
Whether it will be successful or (more likely) not, it is quite obvious that Labour is ‘acting’ out of fear of the rise of Nigel Farage’s Reform party, which recently scored its greatest lead in national opinion polls yet, rather than out of a genuine desire to fix the issue at hand.
➡️ Reform lead by 15%, their largest ever lead in an opinion poll.
Pointing to Labour’s continued attachment to foreign conventions used by illegal migrants to remain in the UK—the European Convention on Human Rights being a prime example—Farage said on Tuesday that Starmer was “on the side of international treaties and foreign courts” rather than that of “the British people.” His party has also begun talking seriously about a “mass deportation plan” to “restore total control over British borders,” one which it is almost impossible to picture Labour talking about, never mind enacting.
Starmer, meanwhile, is working on drafting plans to fast-track asylum decisions while also appealing a court ruling blocking his government from housing migrants in the now much-covered Bell Hotel in Epping. That’s just after council leaders, encouraged by their furious constituents, last week won a temporary injunction to close the hotel.
Ministers said this forced closure could make it difficult to close all the remaining migrant hotels “in a managed and ordered way”—which is another way of saying it was a huge embarrassment.
Michael Curzon is a news writer for europeanconservative.com based in England’s Midlands. He is also Editor of Bournbrook Magazine, which he founded in 2019, and previously wrote for London’s Express Online. His Twitter handle is @MichaelCurzon_.
