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Illegal migrants are ferried ashore after being picked-up by a lifeboat in the English Channel

 Introduction – Nov 28, 2028

This will confirm what many Britons have long suspected. Successive governments, both Labour and Conservative, have deliberately misled voters about immigration.

If Britain were a large country like Russia it might not be such a problem. But as a small island nation it is already overcrowded and the continued influx of immigrants puts a strain on every facet of life.

From education and health care to affordable housing and the economy, different areas of life in the UK are all under mounting strain from a seemingly uncontrolled influx of newcomers.

Prime Minister Starmer may exploit these latest figures for his own political ends but he is unlikely to do any better on the issue than the previous government.

As a result we can safely conclude two things from these latest revelations.

First, they spell the death knell for the Tory Party as we know it. “Conservative” in name only, they did nothing during a year that saw nearly a million migrants arrive in the country to be fed, housed and supported at tax payers expense.

In effect, the Tories betrayed the country and their supporters and I anticipate that this will be reflected in the next election when voters will abandon them en masse.

However, Starmer is already one of the most unpopular prime ministers in modern history and he’s only been in office a few months. Moreover, his immigration policies are unlikely to be any better.

So don’t expect a swell of support for the Labour Party either.

Consequently, we may well see a dramatic rise in support for parties opposed to uncontrolled immigration, in particular Nigel Farage’s Reform Party.

Farage has already accomplished one major political upset with Brexit. He could now pull off another with the rise to power of the Reform Party. Ed.

Starmer: record net migration shows Tories ran ‘open borders experiment’

Rajeev Syal – The Guardian Nov 28, 2024

Keir Starmer has accused the Conservatives of running an “open borders experiment” after new figures showed that net migration to the UK hit a record high of nearly 1 million in a period covering Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak’s administrations.

The prime minister announced a deal with Iraq to tackle people-smugglers and a white paper to overhaul the visa system, before demanding “an explanation” from Kemi Badenoch for her party’s decision to “deliberately liberalise immigration” after the Brexit vote.

His accusation followed the release of official figures that showed the number of people entering the UK, minus those leaving, reached 906,000 in the year ending June 2023. The estimates from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) were revised upwards from a previous estimate of 740,000.

At a Downing Street press conference, Starmer said the failure of successive Conservative governments to control the numbers entering the UK was “unforgivable”, adding: “Failure on this scale isn’t just bad luck. This happened by design, not accident.

“Policies were reformed deliberately to liberalise immigration. Brexit was used for that purpose, to turn Britain into a one-nation experiment in open borders.”

His comments came after Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, signed an agreement with Baghdad to ensure close cooperation to tackle organised crime networks, a faster return of refused asylum seekers and the formation of a new taskforce aimed at breaking up migration routes to the UK..

A total of £800,000 of UK money would be spent on training, support for the Kurdistan regional government and on disruption of organised crime, the government said.

Smuggling networks operating out of Iraq and Kurdistan have been responsible for trafficking thousands of people, including across the Channel to the UK, according to the Home Office.

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