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Introduction – Aug 21, 2024

In answer to public concern the new Labour government has promised to launch a spate of schemes to contain illegal immigration.

Call me a cynic but over the past half-century successive governments, both Labour and Conservative, have announced similar measures to contain illegal immigration.

In 1979, as part of her election manifesto Margaret Thatcher promised to take” firm action against illegal immigrants”. Since then only more migrants have arrived to claim sanctuary and welfare payments.

In fact, in 2009 Andrew Neather, a little known speechwriter for Blair, Straw and Blunkett, wrote:

Immigration, ‘didn’t just happen; the deliberate policy of Ministers from late 2000…was to open up the UK to mass immigration’.

The objective was to “socially re-engineer” the country, he claimed.

Now in the wake of rising public anger and recent riots the new Starmer government has pledged to deal with the issue:

Ministers pledge to return more illegal migrants

BBC Online – Aug 21, 2024

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Home secretary to recruit 100 specialists to target people-smuggling gangs

Yvette Cooper also plans to increase deportations for refused asylum seekers as part of illegal migration clampdown

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Yvette Cooper: I’ll lock up and deport more migrants

Home Secretary vows to increase removals to levels not seen since Theresa May’s government

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Immigration detention centres to re-open in removals drive

The new Labour government wants to achieve the highest rate of removals since Theresa May’s premiership in 2018.

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Comment – Aug 21, 2024

What’s the betting that this will all amount to nothing and the above reports are simply an attempt to allay public concern over migration?

The new Starmer government is in trouble. The recent riots have exposed mounting public anger and the government must be seen to be doing something to deal with the problem.

Will this be sufficient to address mounting concern over immigration? We think not. After nearly half-a-century of unfulfilled promises, we suspect that the public will finally realize that they are being deliberately misled over immigration.