REFORM UK PLEDGES TO REVIEW AND REVOKE 5 YEARS OF ASYLUM GRANTS

This week, Reform UK announced plans to review all asylum grants made in the past five years should the party win the next general election. Around 400,000 people who entered illegally, overstayed visas, or came from countries now deemed safe would be stripped of their status and deported.

We applaud Reform’s ambition. But, we do wonder if this is the way to begin. The time, effort and staff numbers required for the task, not to mention the enforcement teams needed to identify, detain and make removal arrangements, will be enormous. Then there will be the courts with activist lawyers working round the clock to stymie the government at every turn.

The last thing we need is for a future government, one that wants to tackle the serious risks of uncontrolled mass immigration, to fail to achieve its goals. Yes, put an end to illegal immigration and bogus asylum claims; remove those without permission to be here and deport criminals as a matter of course. However, more pressing, and where future policy must focus, is the mind-boggling inflows of nearly a million a year (ten times more than illegal immigration), of whom less than 20% come for work, while population growth is driven almost entirely by immigration. What this means is that the White British proportion of the population continues to shrink and heads remorselessly towards becoming a minority in its own country. What is required is an immigration system that allows in the sustainable numbers and skills we need and excludes those who will contribute little. The British public and taxpayer are not a limitless resource for those looking for a better life.

CARE WORKER ILR COMPLAINTS CONFUSE CAUSE AND EFFECT

Reuters reports that proposed reforms making immigrant care workers wait up to 15 years for permanent residency risk a staffing crisis. But the pro-migration lobby has the cause and effect precisely backwards. Granting ILR to hundreds of thousands of low-paid care workers doesn’t keep them in the sector, it frees them to leave for better-paid work or to access Britain’s generous benefits system. The only long-term fix for the social care sector is to reduce its dependency on immigration altogether.

UK PAYS FRANCE £660 MILLION FOR MORE OF THE SAME ON CHANNEL CROSSINGS

Sir Keir Starmer has agreed to pay France another £660 million over three years to curb Channel crossings. The previous £478 million deal expired in March, having manifestly failed to stop the boats; over 6,000 have arrived already this year. Some £160 million is supposedly contingent on results, but no targets have been set. While the French government strings Sir Keir along, there is growing public and political pressure across Europe for a more sensible stance on mass migration. Here’s what our Chairman, Alp Mehmet, has to say about it.

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