Britain Has Given Up Trying to Solve Illegal Migration

Why should Starmer care? The children of these illegals will be a solid Labour voting bloc in years to come, under the orders of the Imams.

From The European Conservative

By Michael Curzon 

Lavish summits and snappy soundbites do nothing to cover up Keir Starmer’s terrible record on Channel crossings.

At the ‘Organised Immigration Crime Summit’ in London on Monday, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said it was time to crack down on people smugglers “once and for all.” On the same day, a report pointed to the case of an Afghan who allegedly smuggled thousands of migrants into the UK but cannot now be extradited to Belgium because there are mosquitoes in prison there. Could the state be any more soft?

This particular ruling—like so many others—can be pinned on Britain’s membership of the European Convention on Human Rights, from which Starmer insists “we will never withdraw.” That’s not exactly the best start.

Worse still, Major General Duncan Capps—who is in charge of Britain’s ‘operational response’ to Channel crossings—said this week that while it might be possible to “significantly reduce” the number of small boats, it is unrealistic to these will stop altogether.

Of course, under the nation’s current leadership, Capps is right that crossings will not stop. Rather, as Migration Watch UK Chairman Alp Mehmet told europeanconservative.com, Britain could see “over 60,000 arrivals” by the end of the year “if the current pace continues.”

All in all, the establishment has simply “given up trying to solve this problem,” according to Robert Bates of the Centre for Migration Control. He also told this publication that state officials view crossings—which government figures suggest reached 36,816 last year alone—as “an embarrassment that they would rather not have to deal with,” as shown by their “defeatist attitude.”

Politicians and their advisors should be bending over backwards to implement policies that not only reduce illegal channel crossings to zero but also identify and remove every single illegal migrant in the country. Anything less than this course of action is a betrayal of Britain.

Simply saying that it is too difficult, or not realistic, is an abandonment of their responsibilities, and to hang the British public out to dry. We deserve much better from our political class.

Given that polling persistently puts migration—both legal and illegal—as one of the top issues of national interest, Starmer, like those who failed before him, has made countless efforts to sound tough on Channel crossings. Yet his small-boats record is now said to be the worst of all the recent prime ministers.

More than 6,600 migrants were detected in the Channel in small boats in the first three months of this year alone, which is more than in the same period during previous years. Far from “smashing the gangs,” Starmer—as Reform UK leader Nigel Farage put it—is succeeding only in “smashing [former PM] Rishi Sunak’s record instead.”

Pictured: Sir Keir Starmer, KCB, KC, MP