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UK's Starmer, under pressure from Farage, pledges big drop in immigration
Reuters ^ | May 12 | By William Schomberg and Sarah Young

Posted on 05/12/2025 2:51:56 AM PDT by RandFan

LONDON, May 11 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Keir Starmer promised on Monday to cut net migration to Britain significantly over the next four years, saying greater control was needed to maintain social cohesion and drive investment in the local workforce.

Controlling immigration was a key factor in Britain's 2016 vote to leave the European Union, yet net arrivals have quadrupled since it left the bloc, helping boost the popularity of Nigel Farage's right-wing, anti-immigration Reform UK party.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
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Two tier Keir... He's talking garbage of course he isn't serious
1 posted on 05/12/2025 2:51:56 AM PDT by RandFan
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They’ve already reached critical mass, I’m afraid.


2 posted on 05/12/2025 2:59:08 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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3 posted on 05/12/2025 3:00:32 AM PDT by RandFan
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Look what they’re doing to the old country

It’s criminal!


4 posted on 05/12/2025 3:01:01 AM PDT by RandFan
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I promise to limit my destruction of Britain to less noticeable levels.


5 posted on 05/12/2025 3:05:37 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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We’re doomed with this clown


6 posted on 05/12/2025 3:13:08 AM PDT by RandFan
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I just saw an x that he says 500,000 is the limit every year.


7 posted on 05/12/2025 3:13:18 AM PDT by roving
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No doubt Trump can be counted on to say something provocative to undermine Farage’s election chances, in the same way as he recently sabotaged the election chances of conservatives in Australia and Canada. Let’s see “I think the UK will be better as the 51st state.”


8 posted on 05/12/2025 3:22:41 AM PDT by phil00071
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To: ComputerGuy

And they’re going to crash and burn sooner or later.


9 posted on 05/12/2025 3:35:38 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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Yeah Yeah....British Establishment politicians have been promising this for 60 years and have consistently delivered the exact opposite.

Stopping mass immigration might have been sufficient 25 years ago. Not now. Now they need to stop the inflow and then implement mass deportation - at least 10 million. Britain is a ruined country at this point. Just stopping the inflow and preserving it in its now ruined state is not sufficient. The only way to actually restore Britain is to boot a lot of the 3rd world scum - especially Muslims - O.U.T.


10 posted on 05/12/2025 3:36:05 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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Long Walk. Short Pier Noob. Clown Boy.
11 posted on 05/12/2025 3:38:09 AM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal !!)
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I originally had high hopes for Nigel but I’ve increasingly heard a lot of criticism of him that he’s far too milquetoast and doesn’t go anywhere near far enough. He has pushed several good leaders out of Reform who talked about mass deportation which is what Britain actually needs and what many millions of Brits - especially Englishmen - want.


12 posted on 05/12/2025 3:38:13 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: RandFan

Nothing a few lines of cocaine won’t take care of, *wink, wink*.


13 posted on 05/12/2025 3:43:26 AM PDT by rottweiller_inc (Lupus urbem intravit. Fulminis ictu vultures super turrem exanimat.)
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He’s promising deportations what do the others promise ?


14 posted on 05/12/2025 4:08:13 AM PDT by RandFan
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[I promise to limit my destruction of Britain to less noticeable levels.]

Just don't say "the Great Reset" because that's only a conspiracy theory about the New World Order


15 posted on 05/12/2025 4:24:07 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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Making promises has never been the issue for politicians from the British Establishment. Actually carrying out those promises....indeed not doing the exact opposite of what they promised, has been the issue.


16 posted on 05/12/2025 4:31:52 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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“I promise to limit my destruction of Britain to less noticeable levels”

…until after the next election.


17 posted on 05/12/2025 4:44:33 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, it is near the end of the day.)
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4 years and there won’t be a Britain.


18 posted on 05/12/2025 5:27:41 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. Psalm 33:12)
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Too bad they didn’t have someone in the chamber shouting out, “You lie”....


19 posted on 05/12/2025 5:33:23 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: RandFan

The people who installed Two Tier Free Gear Keir don’t mean it, either.


20 posted on 05/12/2025 5:35:14 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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