'On immigration, Keir Starmer lies out of both sides of his mouth' - Kelvin Mackenzie

That’s the straightforward stuff of politics.

What I do not accept is when Starmer flat-out lies to the whole nation.

And, on the subject of immigration, he’s clearly telling porkies and we won’t know the full extent of his deception until after July 4 and by then it will be far too late.

Nick Timothy, Theresa May’s former Chief of Staff and now the Tory candidate for West Suffolk, highlights in a piece in The Telegraph that Starmer uses the expression ‘’read my lips’’ (stolen from George Bush Senior about no new taxes) as a prelude to his promise to cut immigration.

​It is of course cobblers. It reminds me of the old phrase that you always know when Starmer’s lying as his lips move.

The reality is that unless the UK leaves the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) and is actually prepared to push back the boats, illegal migration will continue to flourish even more so under Labour as they view the incomers as their potential voters for the future.

Mr Timothy sums up the problem for Labour when he fishes out a quote from Barbara Roche, a former Labour MP, who was made Immigration Minister.

She said she was ‘’appalled’’ by the very idea of doing the job, explaining that her political beliefs were built on ‘’campaigning against racism’’.

What on earth was this person, with that attitude, doing being put in charge of immigration? She was an early no-borders halfwit.

The truth about Starmer’s position can be traced back to two letters he put his name to some four years ago.

The first was one he wrote to the Labour Campaign for Free Movement, in which he boasted he had sued the government to increase benefits for asylum seekers.

Further, he said if he were in power, he would close immigration centres, allow asylum seekers to work, liberalise family reunions and give some foreigners the vote. If he announced that lot today, Labour would be out of office for a hundred years.

In a second letter, Starmer sought, along with a number of other Labour MPs, the suspension of ‘’all future charter flights’’ for foreign criminals.

Ludicrously, the Court of Appeal did decide a number of these criminals should stay. They included those with convictions for rape and violence.

So, currently, we have a Prime Minister who, thanks to the courts and the House of Lords, hasn’t been able to stop immigration and on the other side, we have a potential PM who speaks out of two sides of his mouth on the issue.

First Starmer was fighting to give them better pay and conditions, and now he says he will crack down on them. Which version do you believe?

My question is this: I voted for Brexit because I wanted secure borders. The reality, some eight years later, is that they are more insecure than ever before. Who is going to make that essential policy come true?

Actually, things have got worse. With the world being an even more dangerous place today, it means anybody can come here if they can prove they face a problem at home.

Even if they can’t prove it, what are we going to do if the country refuses to have them back?

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The whole world has got us over a barrel.

So, I ask you to remember this piece. The minute that Starmer and his mates win power, expect there to be a sharp increase in immigration. The political effect will be enormous.

I absolutely guarantee that there will be a full-scale political crisis as the immigration numbers go off the dial. Even to the point, with or without his 200-seat majority, I predict Starmer being forced from office.

At least his lies will have come home to haunt him.