Labour MUST understand that voters are not anti-immigration – they simply want our borders to be properly controlled
Boats farce
FOR the first time since the Brexit vote in 2016, immigration has overtaken the economy to become the public’s top concern.
Britain has a chronic shortage of housing.
Public services, particularly the NHS, are struggling to cope with unprecedented demand.
Small boats packed with illegal immigrants continue to sail across the Channel — with 12,000 already this year, headed for taxpayer-funded hotels.
But what are left-wing Labour MPs getting upset about? None of the above.
Instead, they are in a state of outrage that the PM dared to suggest that — unless something is done to curb migration — we could become an “island of strangers”.
They scream of betrayal, accusing him of “shameful and dangerous” behaviour, pandering to the far right and “taking our country down a very dark path”.
Some of this gang of hardliners are so incensed they’re even comparing Sir Keir Starmer’s speech to Enoch Powell and his “rivers of blood”.
Not only is this ridiculous, given the PM was simply articulating fears shared by millions that the pace of change in this country is just too rapid.
It also shows they are hopelessly out of touch with an electorate that has had enough of broken promises or simply being ignored by the Westminster elite.
Most voters are not anti-immigration.
But they want our borders to be properly controlled, and the boats stopped.
If Labour MPs cannot understand this, the only dark path they will soon be marching down is the path to opposition.
Hire and ire
LABOUR’S top priority is economic growth, we’ve repeatedly been told.
But hard-working Brits haven’t been feeling much growth in their pay packets, figures showed yesterday.
Wage rises continue to slow and 100,000 jobs have been axed since Rachel Reeves’s October Budget.
Hiring has hit a record low, as businesses feel the pain of the Chancellor’s £25billion National Insurance tax raid.
Now the Government is to inflict a second heavy blow by pressing ahead with a shake-up of employment law.
We’ve warned many times that you don’t get growth through eye-wateringly high taxes, mass immigration and giving more power to militant union paymasters.
The chickens are coming home to roost.
There’s a catch
BRITISH fishermen fear they are being sold out to “reset” relations with the EU.
Cocky Eurocrats, demanding long-term access to British waters, boast a deal has already been clinched.
We already grant foreign trawlers enough licence to plunder our seas.
But they are demanding more in return for a new agreement to co-operate on defence and security. Enough.
The rights of our fishing crews must not be used as a bargaining chip for Sir Keir Starmer to cosy up to Brussels.