I WONDER who told Sir Keir Starmer to announce that Great Britain risks becoming “an island of strangers”;;, when talking about immigration?
It doesn’t sound much like the kind of thing he’d come up with. He has all the rhetorical flourish of a Chatty Cathy doll whose batteries have run down.
Maybe it was his cleveradviserBoaty McBoatface—or as he’s better known.
Anyhow, it struck a chord with millions of people up and down the country.
All the more so because it contained a deliberate— surely — echo of whatsaid 57 years ago.Ol’ Knocker said that people felt like strangers in their own country.Couldn’t be more right.
Sir Keirhasdenied he was channelling Knocker.
But then he would, wouldn’t he? The left of the is already ratcheting up the hysteria—screaming “Wacist!”;;which is what they do every time someone tells the truth about .
And the truth is this—we have let into this country .
They have changed the culture of our nation and not entirely for the better.Yes, they have often provided a boost to the economy and some are employed in vital occupations.
But that does not excuse the import of of people.Many of whom cannot speak English.Many of whom come from an entirely different culture to ours.
Some of whom would be delighted to blow us up or stab us for demented religious reasons.
It is not THEIR fault, of course. I don’t blame them for wanting to live somewhere much more congenial than their home countries. Even if sometimes they seem to want to turn the UK into their home countries.
The blame lies with a generation of politicians — Labour, and — who let in so many, so quickly, without a thought for what this might mean for the rest of us.
Political correctness
They never put it inmanifestos, did they?They never said: “We’re going to swamp the country with , mate.Up to 900,000 per year.So vote for us.”;;
If they’d said that, we wouldn’t have voted for them.
Instead, they usually said exactly the opposite.
But still, in the immigrants came, in their millions.
It is almost incredible to remember that when Powell made his “rivers of blood”;; speech in 1968 there were just tens of thousands ofpeople fromethnic minorities in the country.Less than one per cent of the population.
Now it’s 18 per cent and Labour has at last cottoned on that people aren’t necessarily happy.
The issue had been buried under political correctness for 25 years—but not any more.
Of course nothing that will do more than scrape the surface of the numbers coming in every year.
The percentage of our population which is ethnic minority will continue to rise, then. So don’t trust him an inch on this issue.
But at least he has recognised the problem and not been afraid to spell it out. It may be only what we say to each other every day.
But for Sir Keir it’s a big leap forward.
WELL, I NEVER DIDDY
IT’S all astonishing, isn’t it? Who would have thought it of P ?
I imagined that he spent his evenings at home playing Scrabble with friends.
It never occurred to me for a moment that actually he might be a .
Surely not someone who plays such thoughtful and gentle, .
With lyrics that reflect how much respect he has for both women and the law.
Yup, you could have knocked me down with a feather.
POLICE CAN’T HACK IT
IT’S now almost a month since was hit by a . And they’re still not back to normal.
I was in one of their stores yesterday and customers still can’t use their Marks cards.
Now it’s reported that will have been scammed.
Not only that, but the , too, causing chaos on our high streets.
I just get the feeling the police are miles behind the curve when it comes to either preventing or prosecuting these sorts of crime.
And that one or two unfriendly nations are looking on with great interest.
I AM trying to convince myself that I should feel sympathy for Brit teenager
After going missing in , she has resurfaced in where she is being held afterbeing charged with smuggling loads of cannabisinto the East European country.
This crime carries a mandatory life sentence in Georgia.I’m sure she is frightened as hell.But it’s a horrible crime, isn’t it?Andif she’s guiltyit’s not much use whining about it later.
DOWN WITH GEN Z
IT had to happen. Doctors have diagnosed a new condition among – Dropped Head Syndrome.
It occurs when these vibrant young people have been staring at their stupid phones so much that they can’t raise their heads any more.
The neck muscles are too weak.
And so we have a generation of zombies, wandering around with their heads nearly touching the floor.
I’d suggest bringing back national service, except this lot would be about as much use as a chocolate teapot.
OH dear – is in trouble again.
It is now alleged that on a he refused to pay a whopping fare to a taxi driver, though he denies this.
So the driver has made an official complaint to the police.
He thinks very highly of himself, does our Foreign Secretary. And you’ve got to say, he loves the high life.
Just isn’t keen on paying for it, allegedly.
SLIM’S SHADY
THE headlines all tell me I should be on one of those .
The bathroom scales suggest the same.
And these drugs will also stop me getting cancer, heart disease and strokes. So that I will live for ever.
Well, maybe I should sign up with everyone else. But I just have this nagging doubt in the back of my mind.
We are not terribly sure of the long-term effects of these drugs, are we?
Wouldn’t it be better if I lost weight by stuffing myself like a gannet a little less often?
And took a bit more ?
I AM prepared to believe that didn’t know a cartoon rat was a slur on Jews, after he forwarded a with a rat emoji at the top.
The presenter is pig ignorant about almost everything that doesn’t involve football.
Thick as a block of Tesco’s mince.
VIRGIN ON THE RIDICULOUS... AND REVOLTING
I DON’T think you will ever see a more revolting bunch of people on TV than the supposed “sex therapists”;; on
The virgins themselves seemed fine – all charming, likeable people.And Emma is a very pretty, intelligent kid.
There is nothing wrong with these people.It is not a crime not to have sex.
Butit should be a crime to do what thosecharlatantherapists are doing –uncouplingsex from love and so that it becomes just another recreationalpastimelike playing ping pong or .
Shame on for giving to those smug, haggard, vampires.
