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Starmer robs the Brits to pay the illegal immigrants

Matt Goodwin | MattGoodwin.org

KEIR Starmer isn’t ‘smashing the gangs’ that are breaking our laws and flooding Britain with illegal immigrants – he’s going into business with them.

Against the backdrop of broken borders, spiralling numbers of illegal immigrants and collapsing public trust in the willingness of the political class to fix this crisis, something else deeply troubling has just bubbled to the surface.

The British state, the ruling class, are using the British people’s own money – taxpayers’ money – to offer far more favourable contracts to private landlords who rent their properties to asylum seekers and illegal immigrants instead of the British people who need them.

That’s right.

Backed by the British state, private companies such as Serco are now proudly boasting about offering landlords five-year deals to encourage them to house 30,000 asylum seekers and illegal immigrants.

Unlike the normal housing market, under these deals landlords are being offered leases with no risk of arrears or non-payment, funding for property repairs and council tax bills, and no fees for letting companies and property managers.

In other words, they are being offered big incentives to house the illegal migrants who are breaking our laws while those migrants, too, are being offered even more incentives to enter Britain in the first place – the prospect of their own home.

What this means is that, today, the British people are being put in the truly absurd position of having their own money being used by the British state to outbid them in the private housing sector so that the state can prioritise people who break the law.

As I said in a video that has got some attention, this is insane.

It is not right. It is not fair. And it is certainly not what the vast majority of people in this country want or voted for.

It’s yet another example of the shocking sense of unfairness that I’ve argued has now become a major theme of Starmer’s Britain – a country in which everybody except the British majority is put first.

In recent years, British workers, British families and British young people have already found themselves squeezed out of an extremely tight housing market, at least partly because of how mass immigration has been fuelling house prices and rents.

And that’s before you look at social housing, much of which, including close to half of it in London and more than 60 per cent across large parts of other major cities such as Birmingham, goes to people who were not even born in Britain.

But now, amid a worsening border crisis, the ruling class and the state are actively choosing to make things worse and fuel this sense of unfairness by giving a large chunk of private housing to people who are openly, flagrantly breaking our laws.

You might as well put a big, a bright, flashing neon sign on the white cliffs of Dover that reads: ‘free housing for illegal migrants’.

While Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper have been gaslighting the country by claiming they are ‘smashing the gangs’, in reality – as everybody can now see – they are strengthening, not smashing, the business model that underpins the gangs.

The Labour government, remember, have scrapped the Conservative Party’s Rwanda plan, which was the only serious deterrent Britain had and one that Labour could not even be bothered to wait and see if it had an effect.

Labour then essentially decriminalised illegal migration into Britain by overturning the Illegal Migration Act, removing age checks, and making it easier, not harder, for people to stay in the country once they make it here.

While maintaining one of the most generous welfare systems for illegal migrants in Europe, Labour have also been approving the vast majority of claims made for asylum, providing yet another incentive for the gangs and migrants to keep coming, knowing full well they have a very good chance of being allowed to stay in Britain, for ever, if they make it.

And now, on TikTok videos that are no doubt being watched from Syria to Iraq, Afghanistan to Eritrea, countless more would-be migrants will be hearing about the apartments and houses that the British state is making available by pushing aside the British people who actually live, work, and pay taxes in this country. And many, I suspect, will simply be laughing at us.

Instead of creating a deterrent, Starmer, Cooper and the Labour government are merely creating more and more incentives for immigrants. Which is why, ever since Labour returned to power, as I warned would happen, the number of small boats has been surging to record heights.

Already, this year, nearly 10,000 illegal migrants have entered Britain on the boats, which is up over 40 per cent on the same time last year, and up over 80 per cent on the same time in 2023. And we’re not even at the long, hot summer months yet.

With 38,000 asylum-seekers already in hotels, according to the latest data, up from 29,000 before last year’s general election, this number will surge even higher as the Labour government continues to lose its grip on the border crisis.

And you know what? That’s not even my biggest concern. My real worry in all this is that Starmer and Labour are now bringing about something much darker and even more sinister in this country – something that could have even more far-reaching and profoundly negative effects.

I’ve written before about the critical importance of the ‘social contract’– about the critical yet delicate relationship between the people and their rulers.

This is a relationship in which the people voluntarily surrender some of their rights and freedoms to their rulers and the state in exchange for protection and to reap the benefits of living in a well-organised and well-managed society.

But just ask yourself, what kind of protection is this – a ruling class and a state that before our very eyes is prioritising foreigners and law-breakers over its own people when distributing what little housing we have in this country?

Ask yourself, too, what kind of organised society is this – one that not only welcomes but rewards those who break our laws while treating the hard-working, law-abiding majority with such contempt, leaving the British taxpayer with a bill of more than £2BILLION a year for these hotel and accommodation costs alone?

And, lastly, ask yourself why should we voluntarily surrender our rights and freedoms to a political class and a state bureaucracy like this, which is at best indifferent and at worst openly hostile toward its own people, who are openly being treated like second-class citizens?

The key point, for me at least, is not just that while Labour promised they would smash the gangs, they’re now going into business with the gangs; it’s that Starmer’s Labour are rapidly eroding that much deeper, foundational social contract that has long maintained and held this country together.

Millions of people out there, having watched their leaders on both the Left and Right mismanage the borders for more than a decade, have already been withdrawing their trust and faith in the system.

But now, in the weeks, months, and years ahead, many of them will be forced to live with one of these ‘houses for multiple occupancy’ in their neighbourhoods and communities, no longer sure of what is happening to the areas they once knew.

It won’t be members of the elite class who have to live this way, much like it is not members of the elite class who are on waiting lists for social housing, having to compete with dozens of others to rent the same flat, or being squeezed out of buying their own home.

No, as usual, it will be the hardworking, tax-paying, law-abiding forgotten majority who have to pay the costs of disastrous policies being pursued by the luxury belief class – the elites who like the idea of open borders so long as they do not have to live with the consequences themselves.

And it’s this dramatic weakening if not looming collapse of the social contract, more than anything, that worries me and indeed should worry us all.

For the first time in my lifetime, as this scandal underlines, when I look out at Westminster I now see a ruling class that clearly does not appear interested at all in maintaining and strengthening this social contract with the people who it was elected to serve. If it really was interested in the British people, it would not be putting them in this absurd position.

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How much more are young people supposed to take?

We’ve done everything society told us to do: studied hard, gone to university, taken on debt, worked long hours, and yet, for our trouble, we are locked out of home ownership, crippled by extortionate rents, and staring down a job market that no longer works for us.

And just when we think things can’t get any worse, Labour brings a fresh betrayal.

Their latest housing plan? Urge landlords to prioritise asylum seekers over young Brits already desperate for a place to live. At a time when four in ten under-30s are spending over 30% of their wages just to keep a roof over their heads, Labour has decided that our needs come second. That we come second.

This isn’t policy. This is a statement. It says: you are no longer a priority in your own country.

Worse still, Labour isn’t even trying to hide it. Of the homes they’ve promised to build, the majority are already projected to go to migrants. So while young British workers delay moving out, delay starting families, delay building their futures,  Labour is busy rolling out the welcome mat for everyone but us.

Where is the fairness in that?

And don’t be fooled into thinking this betrayal ends with housing. Labour’s proposed EU Youth Mobility Scheme will hand thousands of jobs to young Europeans, throwing open our already overstretched job market. At a time when graduates are struggling to land their first real job, Labour’s answer is to flood the system with even more competition. That isn’t opportunity… it’s sabotage.

Add in rising National Insurance costs discouraging employers from hiring inexperienced workers, and student loan repayments that kick in just above minimum wage, and what do you have? A generation that did “everything right”, now punished at every turn.

Where are we supposed to live? Where are we supposed to work? How are we supposed to build a future when every job, every flat, every opportunity is handed to someone else?

We’re told this is all in the name of “compassion.” But there is nothing compassionate about forcing an entire generation of young Brits to carry the burden of policies designed to appease activists, not serve the people. Mass immigration drives up housing demand. It drives down wages. It overwhelms public services. And the people paying the price? Not the wealthy, not the political class. It’s us.

Labour isn’t building a future where young people can thrive. They are constructing a system in which we are permanently trapped: crushed by rent, buried in debt, frozen out of stable jobs, and told to be grateful for it.

And perhaps the most tragic part? My generation is still cheering it on.

Every time we post “refugees welcome” without stopping to ask who pays the price, we’re tightening the chains around our own future. Every vote for Labour is a vote against affordable housing, against fair job opportunities, against a Britain that works for young people.

It’s time we stop pretending.

Immigration comes at a cost. And right now, it’s our generation paying it… every single day.

We didn’t create the housing crisis. We didn’t break the labour market. We didn’t bankrupt public services. But we are the ones being asked to sacrifice our futures to protect the egos of Westminster and the feelings of Twitter.

Labour has betrayed us. They’ve sold us out for applause from the Guardian comment section and dinner party approval in Islington. They’ve made one thing painfully clear: if you’re a young British worker, you are not a priority.

But we don’t have to accept it.

If we want a future, a real one, we must stop voting for those who are systematically destroying our chances. We must stop clapping along to slogans without asking: what’s the cost, and who pays it?

Because if we don’t wake up, the Britain we were promised won’t just be gone for our children or grandchildren.

It will be gone for us.

And by then, we’ll have no one left to blame but ourselves.

Source: https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/the-absurd-reality-of-starmers-britain

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