Can Keir Starmer be trusted to control migration?
In a twist few would have expected in recent years, Labour are attempting to position themselves as the party to successfully control migration. Today, the Prime Minister launched his white paper on the topic, promising to ‘take back control of our borders’ and warning that the UK risks becoming an ‘island of strangers’. Labour’s turn on this issue is unsurprising. Having been let down by the Conservatives’ inability to control inward migration and Labour’s historic ambivalence to the issue, many voters are looking to upstarts like Reform UK for solutions. So, Labour have read the room, but are their plans as impressive as their rhetoric?
The problem here is that since the general election, the trust experiment has been running continuously. The unequivocal finding is that Keir Starmer cannot be trusted and neither can his government.
There is no value in volunteering to be deceived again, no point revisiting the trust question. It has been answered.
2 comments:
No. The key test is whether or not there are immediate publications of new ministerial action plans, guidance to NGOs, and a schedule for putting the necessary changes in law before parliament. My expectation is that there will be a lot of factional Labour resistance that will dilute and negate the ‘fine’ words. The labour factions are far more concerned with political jockeying than delivering changes that the electorate approve of.
First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fob you off. Then they do it all over again.
DJ - that's it, we can't expect better. It would take far better people than they have available to even if they were able to recognise their own limitations and step aside.
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