IF you ever wanted an example of rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, just look at what the Labour government briefed at the weekend.
Labour , it announced, will “overhaul the asylum system” by introducing a new “fast-track system” to process asylum-seekers and migrants more quickly.
But anybody who knows anything about our borders knows this will make no real difference whatsoever.
Keir Starmer and his Home Secretary Yvette Cooper are gaslighting the British people once again.
Much like when they claimed with much fanfare they would stop the boats by “smashing the gangs” — a strategy that no serious person ever thought would work.
Why do I say this?
Because when Labour say “we will process asylum claims more quickly”, what they mean is they will likely just approve the vast majority of asylum claims.
Labour has utterly lost control
Meanwhile, they will switch the migrants from asylum hotels to HMOs — a house in multiple occupation — keeping them in the heart of our communities, while pretending they are dealing with the issue.
But none of this will stop the boats coming or migrants being housed in our streets up and down the country — nor will it put British people first.
Just look at what has happened since Labour came to power. It has completely and utterly lost control.
As we learned this week, thanks to bombshell new data released quietly by the Home Office , everything is getting worse, not better.
The number of people applying for asylum in this country?
It has surged to 111,000 — the highest figure since records began, higher even than the levels seen during the chaos of the Blair years.
The number of asylum-seekers being housed in hotels ?
More than 32,000, up eight per cent on the figure before Starmer and his hapless government took power.
The number of small boats?
Close to 50,000 in 2024, up 27 per cent on the previous year, and close to 28,000 this year alone, up nearly 50 per cent on the same point last year.
There is, in short, absolutely no evidence whatsoever Labour is “smashing the gangs” and taking back control.
Boats keep coming
All Labour has done is replace what few deterrents we had under the similarly useless Tories with a raft of new incentives to come, which is why the boats keep coming.
And the cost of all this chaos and carnage to the hardworking, law-abiding British taxpayers?
Nearly £5 billion — enough to pay for 86,000 police officers for a year, or 16 million winter fuel payments , including for some 600,000 disabled pensioners who we also learned last week have had these withdrawn.
How is it right, how is it fair that disabled people are going without while the government prioritises migrants who are breaking our laws?
No wonder thousands of ordinary people last weekend protested peacefully against this absurd crisis, taking to the streets in dozens of cities and towns to register their frustration at a Labour government that is completely adrift from them.
The only answer to this spiralling and obscene crisis is to not do what Labour is currently doing — tinkering around the edges — but deal with the crisis head-on, including its root causes.
What does this mean?
It means leaving, not just reforming, the European Convention on Human Rights , which is being used by migrants, activist lawyers and foreign criminals to block their removal from Britain.
It means reforming Tony Blair’s Human Rights Act, which anchors the ECHR into UK law.
And it means immediately detaining and deporting anybody who enters Britain illegally.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage , whose party is some 15 points clear of Labour in the polls, has committed to withdrawing Britain from the ECHR if he wins the next election.
Things could still get even worse
On Friday, he even committed his party to “mass deportations” and immediately detaining and deporting migrants who come here illegally.
And if you believe the rumours in Westminster then Kemi Badenoch and the Tories, also look set to commit to leaving the ECHR this autumn, piling even more pressure on Starmer.
In other words, of the three most popular parties in British politics, I predict Labour will soon be the only one not calling to leave the ECHR.
And make no mistake — things could still get even worse than they are today.
As top policy wonk Karl Williams from the Centre for Policy Studies noted last week, if Labour does not change track, by the time of the next general election, based on current trends, another 181,000 migrants could enter Britain illegally.
The British people never voted for this.
They do not want this.
And they do not deserve to live with this.
What they want and need is a government that will, finally, regain control of the country, regain control of our borders, and regain control of our streets and way of life.
Because the Labour Party, only one year into power, has already made it clear that it is not up to this task — and everybody, everybody that is except Keir Starmer and his incompetent team, can see it.
