Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer is no far-right radical, but he has come close to confirming the strong version of the Great Replacement theory — that white people are being replaced in their homelands not merely due to natural flows; it is deliberate. In a recent speech, he said:
[T]he independent Office of National Statistics has conducted vital work on the state of immigration and found the previous Government were running an open borders experiment.As the ONS sets out, nearly one million people came to Britain in the year ending June 2023. That is four times the migration levels compared with 2019.
Time and again — the Conservative Party promised they would get those numbers down. Time and again — they failed.
And now the chorus of excuses has begun. . . .
But what we didn’t hear what the British people are owed: an explanation.
Because a failure on this scale isn’t just bad luck it isn’t a global trend or taking your eye off the ball.
. . . This happened by design, not accident.
Policies were reformed deliberately to liberalise immigration.
Brexit was used for that purpose to turn Britain into a one-nation experiment in open borders.
Global Britain — remember that slogan. That is what they meant. A policy with no support and which they then pretended wasn’t happening.
And now they want to wave it away with a simple “we got it wrong”.
Well, that’s unforgivable.
Some might fault the prime minister for calling Brexit a “one-nation experiment in open borders.” Most proponents supported it because it would supposedly restore British control over its borders. Instead, Boris Johnson, the second-most important Brexit spokesman, increased immigration. Mr. Starmer’s pledge to reduce immigration has a low bar to clear, but it is more than the Tories managed, despite many promises over many years.
In many countries, mass immigration has been treated like the weather — a natural process that’s futile to oppose — and it is remarkable that a Labour leader should admit that it can be controlled. Mr. Starmer now says that securing borders is “the [emphasis his] issue that matters to working people.” What happens now to the idea that border control is “racist”?
After the Prime Minister’s comments, columnist Josh Glancy in The Times wrote, “Liberals have lost the argument on migration.” After some throat-clearing on the glories of migration, he admitted that “radical and painful decisions need to be made” lest “fascists” be the ones to solve the problem. But if the issue is worthy of consideration by respectable people, it is much harder to deplatform Reform UK and Nigel Farage. The party is already criticizing Labour for failing to stop migrants crossing to the UK on small boats, despite the Prime Minister’s repeated pledges to “smash the gangs” responsible. What grounds are there to censor “far-right” voices who want to punish human smugglers and stop the boats now that Labour’s leader is talking about “smashing” them? What excuses are there for Keir Starmer to fail when he says Conservatives deliberately allowed mass immigration?
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a press conference on migration at 10 Downing Street, London. (Credit Image: © Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire via ZUMA Press)
Renaud Camus, who coined the “Great Replacement” term, says Amazon refused to sell his book on the topic. Amazon now says it is reversing that decision, claiming it was an “error.” That is progress, as is a British publication even covering the reversal.
Some in Labour will try to rebuild the moral cordon sanitaire around immigration. Zarah Sultana, a Labour MP, criticized her leader even for having a chat with Nigel Farage on the floor of Parliament.
Just to be clear: I won’t be having cosy chats with Nigel Farage — who named Enoch Powell his political hero, claimed he “would never say Powell was racist in any way” & allegedly marched through a Sussex village chanting Hitler Youth songs.
No thanks.
pic.twitter.com/Ak8cDLyxm8— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) December 1, 2024
The fact that “Zarah Sultana MP” is lecturing British people on who they should and should not talk to proves that immigration is out of hand. Still, this may be a clever political move. Whites want to believe that they are doing the right thing, even if it hurts our interests. Appeals to tribalism usually don’t work for whites. This is why people who want to keep borders open resort to moral shaming.
However, if even the left-wing party says controlling immigration is a worthy goal, why not vote for the party that will take the hardest line? A general election is probably years away, and it is unlikely that either Labour or the Tories can deliver on immigration — but maybe Keir Starmer will surprise us. He has promised a white paper soon with HM Government’s plan to control migration. Talk is cheap, but he has left himself wide open to charges that any failure to control immigration will be as deliberate as the Conservatives’ failure. For the first time in many years, there is a real opening to stop replacement migration. We have Labour and Two-Tier Keir Starmer to thank.
