In fairness, the "conservatives" were turned out of office in a gigantic voter revolt due to the economy and due to their complete refusal to even slow the rate of illegal immigration.
Sound familiar?
But, as in the US, the "conservatives" were not acting alone, but with their partners in the Regime, the hard left.
For Keir Starmer to claim that this was something the "conservatives" came up with and implemented is a claim WITHOUT EVIDENCE, as failed reporter Jake Tapper's snarky chyrons would say.
Still, this is a major shift. You don't blame a policy on your opponents unless you're promising -- even if dishonestly -- to change it.
The Trump Tide is sweeping over the whole post-Western Western world.
There's a petition circulating in the UK demanding a new election, one that would sweep the left back out of power. It has almost three million signatures. (I don't believe it has any kind of legal force, it's just an expression of popular will.)
Starmer is looking to defuse that challenge to his power.
Starmer is throwing a Hail Mary here by dropping a (half) truth bomb; Britain is wracked by violence, his approval ratings compete with the Black Plague, and millions of Britons are experiencing so much buyer's remorse that his position at the top of the Labour Party is at risk.
Britons have been going to jail for saying exactly what Starmer is saying--it amounts to, according to the government, hate speech. It also happens to be obviously true that mass immigration is a reality because the elites wanted it to happen.
Konstantin Kisin
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Yesterday, Keir Starmer admitted that Britain has been "running an open border experiment".
A few years ago, you would have been called "far right" and likely fired from your job for saying that.
Unprecedented open border immigration chickens are coming home to roost.
David Strom wrote a couple of weeks ago about what real fascism looks like -- it looks exactly what the UK government is currently doing, arresting citizens for posting their criticisms of the uncontrolled mass immigration policy imposed by the corporate neoliberal Regime without the consent of the people, and in fact, against the clear wishes of the people.
They can't convince the people to accept their policy, so they'll just terrorize them with midnight police raids until they comply.
Now that leftwing PM Starmer is admitting that uncontrolled mass immigration from the Muslim world is resulting in social disruption and out-of-control crime, will it be legal for mere citizens to say the same thing? Or is this a special dispensation permitted only to Regime leaders looking to stave off a new election?
In Italy, PM Georgia Meloni has attempted a kinda-sorta "Remain in Mexico" policy. She's paying Albania to take aboard illegal immigrants and hold them until their fake asylum claims can be judged as fake. This, she hopes, will slow down the invasion.
How long can this go on for?