The longer Sir Keir Starmer refuses to address the issue of Channel migrants the more certain I am that he will be thrown out in exactly the same way he was thrown in. And it will be Reform, not the Tories, who will be the benefactors.
My view has been endorsed by a new poll which shows that the flames of wrath coming from his voters in the North and Midlands are destroying Labour. The facts are simple. Back in the General Election these Red Wall seat voted 18 per cent for Nigel Farage.
Today that number is 30 per cent while Labour’s traditional strongholds have collapsed from 39 per cent to 27 per cent. And with only two weeks to go to the council elections there is no way they can recover.
In the long term there might be one-way Starmer would recover. By promising to literally turn back the migrants at Calais. You know and I know that is never going to happen.
It’s clear he doesn’t want to turn the migrants back, in fact he doesn’t want to speak about the problem at all. Last November he gave a big speech saying he would "smash the gangs". Since then not a peep.
While Starmer ignores the one issue that matters, Reform is raiding his backyard - Kelvin MacKenzie
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He’ll talk about tariffs, talk about steel even talk about the Netflix drama Adolescence. But migrants and the effect it is having on the cohesion and economy of our country, no thank you because he hasn’t got a solution. Nor does he want to find one. Keep schtum and the problem will go away is his answer.
Six months from that speech rather than "smashing" them he has encouraged them with 8,064 migrants arriving this year, up 46 per cent on 2024 and up 65 per cent on 2023.
I did a piece bag of the fag packet maths and worked out that if he continued his refusal to do something by the time he was kicked out of Downing Street 175,000 migrants would have arrived.
That would be a town the size of York. Bigger than Bournemouth or Brighton. Made up exclusively of migrants. Did you vote for that? Did anybody vote for that? I certainly didn’t.
In the deep dive of the polling the residents said that Britain was broken. They didn’t have to explain too much, everybody understands what it means. Prices going up, potholes and more migrants than we either want or can afford.
Cost of living was regarded as the most important at 53 per cent but what heartened me (and must have dispirited Starmer) is that immigration was next at 35 per-cent. Ahead of the NHS and even the economy. That would have been a bullet in the heart of those so-clever advisors surrounding Starmer.
It's early days but Nigel Farage is the frontrunner to be the next Prime Minister.
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I can’t remember a time when immigration would have been ahead of the NHS in such a poll although it doesn’t surprise me. Many of the northern and midland towns have undergone rapid demographic change.
Mainstream media like the BBC and The Guardian would run a mile than report the fears of the white population. And if they did would be from the position that whites were racists.
I leave you with the thoughts of JD Vance in a decent interview which he gave to UnHeard. This is what he said about illegal migration and would have had the United Kingdom in mind when he said it; "The entire democratic project of the West falls apart when people keep on asking for less migration, and they keep on being rewarded by their leaders with more migration."
Nicely put. It’s exactly that point which has put Reform on 30 per cent. I know it’s early days but as long as he keeps his health Nigel Farage should start getting measured up for a suit to wear when he sees the King.
At least Lord Ali wouldn’t have paid for it.
