Posted on 05/03/2025 10:33:16 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Keir Starmer is reportedly plotting a tougher crackdown on migrants crossing the English Channel in a bid to see off the growing threat of Nigel Farage's Reform UK. Labour is at risk of losing the next general election if the Government doesn't succeed in stopping asylum seekers arriving on Britain's shores by small boat from France, according to a senior party figure.
The unnamed source told Bloomberg that ministers will have to look at how the European Convention on Human Rights is applied in asylum cases. They said the outcome of such a consideration would have to ensure the UK can deport illegal migrants and foreign criminals. An immigration white paper due to be published in the weeks ahead will show Labour's immigration policy is the most robust out of recent governments, according to the source.
Efforts on such a policy are said to predate the local elections on Thursday (May 1), but will no doubt see fresh impetus after Reform UK made major gains, picking up 10 councils and more than 600 seats.
Mr Farage's party also snatched Runcorn and Helsby from Labour, winning by just six votes and setting a new record for the smallest majority at a parliamentary by-election since the end of World War 2.
This week saw the number of migrants crossing the English Channel so far this year reach 11,000, only days after arrivals passed 10,000.
A triumphant Mr Farage claimed the election results signalled the end of Britain's "two-party politics" and Reform UK was now the main opposition party. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister showed no sign of changing course, saying he would go "further and faster" with his plans.
The Conservatives faced a Reform UK surge in the North and parts of the Midlands...
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Watching a thousand year old nation turn purple with gangrene right before our eyes.
The Left’s absolute insistence on illegal migration is a hallmark of their hate for the UK
Just outlaw the oppostion party.
It’s not rocket surgery.
Hurrying up to pretend to be who they’re not.
Then they can resume wrecking their country without worry
I recently saw off my son at the train station.
Unless this is some weird British idiom I am unaware of, this expression as used here is meaningless.
I can think of countless other more-fitting phrases that could have been used here:
"... in a bid to fend off the growing threat..."
"... in a bid to counter the growing threat..."
"... in a bid to respond to the growing threat..."
Regards,
The Tories said they were going to crackdown on Illegals too.
They never did.
They’re all “asylum seekers”. U.K. being the asylum.
The invader is already out of the barn.
All you EU global Marxists should be expelled along with your fellow Islamists to the furthest corners of the Earth.
Brilliant SCOTUS Brief Destroys Birthright Citizenship Hoax! — https://cdrkerchner.wordpress.com/2025/05/04/brilliant-scotus-brief-destroys-birthright-citizenship-hoax/
Hear, hear! 👍🏻🙂
Very interesting blog - and I had always thought that it is common knowledge that a „citizen by birth“ and a „natural-born citizen“ are not the same, i.e. that the latter term means „born on US soil to two citizen parents“.
After all, the Constitution stipulates that both the President and the Vice President have to be natural-born US citizens. The Founding Fathers were (understandably) very leery of alien influence.
Which section in constitution says that both parents must be citizens to be NBC?
It is not there in constitution. I have evidence. Barack Hussein Obama’s either fathers were never US citizens. One father was from Kenya and other adopted dad was from Indonesia.
I know! Follow Germany’s lead and just ban them and let them eat cake.
Yes, I looked, sorry. I had just been repeating what I had read, which maintained that you have to have two US citizen parents to be a natural born citizen.
It seems that there is a great deal of legal uncertainty about the term…and I am not a lawyer, unfortunately.🙁
The Conservatives had been on track to win in Canada too.
Oh brother! Just waiting on that ferocious white paper. Then the invaders will be shaking.
Clowns to the left of me....
Sink the boats.
BTTT
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