After all the noise about Reform slipping in the polls, and a Green surge, it turns out that the British electorate really, really care about immigration. That’s the only sensible conclusion to draw from the local election results. With high turnout nationwide, including the highest ever for the Welsh Senedd (which Labour have conceded they’ve lost), Reform have surged, and Labour have collapsed. In some ways the results are even flattering Labour. In Wigan, for example, they’ve retained control of the council despite losing all 22 seats which were voted on yesterday, because two-thirds of the seats weren’t up for grabs this time. The British electorate soundly rejected the Tories two years ago, and now it is clear they’re also done with Labour. With bleak irony, today is the day Britain passes a grim milestone: 200,000 illegal migrants have now crossed the Channel since 2018.
The British people are sick of it, they’re sick of Labour and they’re sick of Starmer
According to analysis by Migration Watch, of those 200,000, fewer than 8,000 have been removed. The 192,000 who remain could cost us as much as £65 billion over their lifetimes, Migration Watch say, based on a study of the long-term fiscal cost of asylum seekers carried out in the Netherlands. That would be enough to build 76 new hospitals, or repair every pothole in England and Wales three times over. And that’s before considering the pressure on scarce housing and infrastructure, the damage to our social fabric, and the very great harms of the migrant crime wave.
So this election was about migration. The British people have had enough of open borders, of strange, dangerous men being housed amongst our families. They have had enough of the petty crime, the killings and rapes these men commit. They are done with the vast costs of our destructive mass migration system. And they are voting, en masse, for the party which is serious about ending that disaster.
This is obvious to everyone, except, it seems, the Prime Minister. Speaking this morning, Starmer laid bare the scale of his delusion. After acknowledging ‘these are really tough results… I’m not going to sugarcoat it’, for a moment I thought our Prime Minister had got it, when he said ‘the voters have sent a message about the pace of change’. Was he about to speak again of an ‘island of strangers’? But no. What this grey man, utterly unfit for the office he holds, thinks voters want is more of Labour’s agenda, faster.
It’s astonishing how blind and deaf the PM is. Even more laughably, he said that he wouldn’t ‘walk away’ because to do so would ‘plunge the country in to chaos’. Perhaps, in Starmer’s mind, he is Atlas, holding off disaster, keeping our nation safe.
In reality, the British people want to be governed by politicians who like them, love this country, and act in the interests of the people of this country. They want secure borders, and instead, as Alp Mehmet, Chairman of Migration Watch said, ‘over 73,000’ illegal migrants have arrived since the PM ‘promised to end the chaos and smash the gangs’. And as I wrote yesterday, in many cases those illegal arrivals will never be removed from the country.
Britain is being run as a welfare state for the world. Turn up here, live off the sweat of British taxpayers, even commit horrendous crimes, and the state will still pay for you, house you and care for you.
The British people are sick of it, they’re sick of Labour and they’re sick of Starmer. And no matter how much the PM might insist that ‘I led our party to that victory, that is a five-year mandate to change the country’, the truth is that his government is dead and his majority is useless, with the parliamentary Labour party blocking key government legislation. The nation is ready for change, and it’s time for the PM to go. The British people are demanding a government which will solve migration. They’ve been voting for it, in one way or another, for decades, and ever more loudly since the Brexit referendum a decade ago. Politicians can either listen, and act, or face oblivion.
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