On the same day that we reported on Labour’s ‘plan’ to stop illegal Channel crossings, one of the party’s mayors led a blockade which forced Home Office officials to abandon attempts to move migrants from a costly hotel to a cheaper accommodation barge. A Labour MP also shared a call for “comrades” to join another similar roadblock, ending in clashes with the police.
So why should voters believe Labour when it says it has what it takes to “remove those with no right to be here?”
Robert Bates, research director at the Centre for Migration Control think tank, said that Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer’s proclamations don’t mean much, given that the parliamentary party is “full of open-border extremists.” He told The European Conservative:
The party has no desire or inclination to clamp down on illegal migration and once in office will start granting asylum, even to the most spurious of applicants, at a rate of knots.
As we saw yesterday, the party’s backbenches are full to the brim with student union politicians who are more likely to glue themselves to the road than to make a meaningful contribution to the debate. Keir Starmer may be trying to present himself as a moderate, but sat behind him are some very dangerous individuals.
Home Office officials were working to move migrants, who are no longer supposed to be housed in hotels, to the Bibby Stockholm barge. Labour Mayor Rob Yates, who was behind the first blockade, has already revealed that “going forwards, we’re ready to do this again.” Labour HQ responded that “we don’t support this protest action. Immigration enforcement staff have a job to do.” It is, however, unclear whether any action is being taken against those involved.
The Centre for Migration Control agrees with the assessment of migration analyst Alp Mehmet, who told The European Conservative that Labour “will put rocket fuel behind illegal immigration.”
Bates added that while the Conservatives have clearly “failed Britain” by “squandering” their opportunity to control Britain’s borders, “those of us who care about the sovereignty of Britain’s borders should feel nothing but dread at the thought of an incoming Labour government,” too.
The frontbenchers are more concerned with vague notions of international law and archaic agreements like the 1952 Refugee Convention than upholding the wishes of the British public.
Approached for comment by this publication on claims Labour cannot be trusted on migration, the party simply repeated its claim that “we don’t support” yesterday’s blockades.
