Starmer’s appeal to racists and fascists needed a tweak
Keir Starmer’s shameful, racist speech pandering to the worst instincts of small-minded little-Englanders this morning, claiming with utter dishonesty that immigrants have caused ‘incalculable damage’ to the UK. has rightly led to him being compared to Enoch Powell and his 1968 ‘rivers of blood’ anti-immigration speech.
Starmer is evidently not bright enough to realise that even such shameless hate speech won’t persuade the racist and small-minded to vote for him when they have a ‘full-fat’ race-fraud like Farage to opt for, but a little tweak to the subtitling of his speech might at last seem more authentic. Here’s a snippet to give him a steer:
Starmer’s refusal – not failure, wilful refusal – to offer a real vision of how the UK could easily be so much better, in every sense, than it now is after fifteen years of Tory blight (fourteen blue and one red) is sweeping our country into outright fascism. It is unforgivable – one of many unforgivable acts and omissions that mean he belongs more in the dock that in power.
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Here is a transcript of Keir Starmer’s speech.
https://www.ukpol.co.uk/keir-starmer-2025-comments-at-the-immigration-white-paper-press-conference/
Oh Dear “A nation of strangers” when 80% of the UK population is white.
Perhaps we should all do something revolutionary and when you see refugees who are claiming asylum actually talk to them.
We have done in my area and they want to work, they want to contribute & pay tax + rent their own places.
And they say they “Love the area.”
We say let them work & what are refugees but unorganised workers & we should encourage them to join trade unions to build community unity.
Migrant workers are actually 20% of the UK workforce & are over-represented in the NHS, Social Care, Hospitality, ICT. Transport/Storage plus as we sleep they help keep society going by being over-represented in nightshift work.
And migrant workers bring £25b to the UK economy.
They come already educated by their schools etc, healthy thanks to their healthcare systems & even pay their own fare to get here so we get Free Workers!
We should not count international students in immigration figures which would reduce the 650,000 immigration figure to 350,000 + these students enrich the student experience, bring millions to UK universities & local economises + when they go home they are voluntary ambassadors promoting the UK.
Oh and as 2m Brits have homes in Spain a further 2m Brits (50% male, 50% female) follow their dreams & work in other countries around the world!
Oh and the Chief Medical Officer circa 2018 on Health in 2030 said there would be a crisis in Europe/UK “With not enough young to care for the old” so we need migrant workers.
Age UK also says 24,000 older people die each year from neglect so perhaps migrants and refugees could help.
Perhaps Right Wing Lumpen Labour know no better & lack the political bottle to stand up for the democratic control of Labour Supply + lack the political acumen to offer a counter narrative.
Solidarity & Diverse Working Class of the World Unite.
Keir Starmer Good morning.
Today, we publish a White Paper on immigration, a strategy that is absolutely central to my Plan for Change. This strategy will finally take back control of our borders and close the book on a squalid chapter for our politics, our economy, and our country.
“Take back control.” Everyone knows that slogan and what it meant for immigration, or at least that’s what people thought. Because what followed from the previous Government, starting with the people who used that slogan, was the complete opposite. Between 2019 and 2023, even as they were going around our country telling people, with a straight face, they would get immigration down, net migration quadrupled. Until in 2023, it reached nearly 1 million, which is about the population of Birmingham, our second largest city. That’s not control – it’s chaos.
And look, they must answer for themselves, but I don’t think you can do something like that by accident. It was a choice. A choice made even as they told you, told the country, they were doing the opposite. A one-nation experiment in open borders conducted on a country that voted for control. Well, no more. Today, this [political content redacted] Government is shutting down the lab. The experiment is over. We will deliver what you have asked for – time and again – and we will take back control of our borders.
And let me tell you why. Because I know, on a day like today, people who like politics will try to make this all about politics, about this or that strategy, targeting these voters, responding to that party. No. I am doing this because it is right, because it is fair, and because it is what I believe in.
Let me put it this way: Nations depend on rules – fair rules. Sometimes they’re written down, often they’re not, but either way, they give shape to our values. They guide us towards our rights, of course, but also our responsibilities, the obligations we owe to one another. Now, in a diverse nation like ours, and I celebrate that, these rules become even more important. Without them, we risk becoming an island of strangers, not a nation that walks forward together.
So when you have an immigration system that seems almost designed to permit abuse, that encourages some businesses to bring in lower-paid workers rather than invest in our young people, or simply one that is sold by politicians to the British people on an entirely false premise, then you’re not championing growth, you’re not championing justice, or however else people defend the status quo. You’re actually contributing to the forces that are slowly pulling our country apart.
So yes, I believe in this. I believe we need to reduce immigration significantly. That’s why some of the policies in this White Paper go back nearly three years, [political content redacted]. It’s about fairness.
Migration is part of Britain’s national story. We talked last week about the great rebuilding of this country after the war; migrants were part of that, and they make a massive contribution today. You will never hear me denigrate that. But when people come to our country, they should also commit to integration, to learning our language, and our system should actively distinguish between those that do and those that don’t. I think that’s fair.
Equally, Britain must compete for the best talent in the world in science, in technology, in healthcare. You cannot simply pull up a drawbridge, let nobody in, and think that is an economy that would work. That would hurt the pay packets of working people – without question. But at the same time, we do have to ask why parts of our economy seem almost addicted to importing cheap labour rather than investing in the skills of people who are here and want a good job in their community. Sectors like engineering, where visas have rocketed while apprenticeships have plummeted. Is that fair to Britain? Is it fair to young people weighing up their future to miss out on those apprenticeships, to see colleges in their community almost entirely dedicated to one-year courses for overseas students? No, I don’t think it is. And truth be told, I don’t think anyone does. And yet that is the Britain this broken system has created.
So, as this White Paper sets out, every area of the immigration system – work, family, and study – will be tightened up so we have more control. Skill requirements raised to degree level. English language requirements across all routes – including for dependents. The time it takes to acquire settled status extended from five years to ten. And enforcement tougher than ever because fair rules must be followed.
Now, make no mistake – this plan means migration will fall. That’s a promise. But I want to be very clear on this. If we do need to take further steps, if we do need to do more to release pressure on housing and our public services, then mark my words – we will. But it’s not just about numbers. Because the chaos of the previous government also changed the nature of immigration in this country. Fewer people who make a strong economic contribution, more who work in parts of our economy that put downward pressure on wages. So perhaps the biggest shift in this White Paper is that we will finally honour what “take back control” meant and begin to choose who comes here so that migration works for our national interest.
You know, this is where the whole debate is skewed, as if some people think controlling immigration is reigning in a sort of natural freedom rather than a basic and reasonable responsibility of government to make choices that work for a nation’s economy. For years, this seems to have muddled our thinking, but let me be clear – it ends now. We will create a migration system that is controlled, selective, and fair. A clean break with the past that links access to visas directly to investment in homegrown skills so that if a business wants to bring people in from abroad, they must first invest in Britain. But also, so settlement becomes a privilege that is earned, not a right, easier if you make a contribution, if you work, pay in, and help rebuild our country.
Now, some people may even be against that, but I think for the vast majority of people in this country, that is what they have long wanted to see. An immigration system that is fair, that works for our national interest, and that restores common sense and control to our borders. That is what this White Paper will deliver: lower net migration, higher skills, backing British workers, the start of repairing our social contract, which the chaos and cynicism of the last government did so much to undermine.
Thank you.
Remember when keef made them six shit tests about brexit, fuat just about the entire politicalc spectrum said were unrealistic? (That was the polite version)
Remember how he shithoused through his second referendum; going entirely against Labour policy at that time, and subsequently costing labour many thousands of votes as forecast?
And now after selling you down the river on brexit and those tem pledges, and just about everything else, you publish the slimeballs speech in it’s entirety, as if it’s some sort of opus magnum, because you’re an insufferable arselicking hypocritical toady with zero scruples, self-awareness or shame.
Small wonder you’re despised.
Nations depend on rules – fair rules. Sometimes they’re written down, often they’re not, but either way, they give shape to our values. They guide us towards our rights, of course, but also our responsibilities, the obligations we owe to one another.
Shame the arsehole doesn’t think the same applies when it comes to his support for the Zionist state of Israel. Hypocrite.
Oh dear! Reduced to posting the entire transcript of the Dear Leaders speeches.
When’s the petition coming to make September 2nd a compulsory public holiday?
Dave – “Oh dear! Reduced to posting the entire transcript of the Dear Leaders speeches.”
Not at all.
Given that so many are apparently commenting without having read what Keir actually said I thought it was essential that I posted it in full so that everyone on here had easy access to it. 🌞
Anyone wishing to read the White Paper can find it here:
Restoring Control over the Immigration System – May 2025
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6821aec3f16c0654b19060ac/restoring-control-over-the-immigration-system-white-paper.pdf
Toffee – I’ve had a very enjoyable day thanks, how’s your day gone?
“apparently”
That’s an assumption on your part, Billy. Have you any actual evidence to substantiate that claim?
Thought not.
Dave – Or maybe I just couldn’t be bothered, I’ve got better things to do than pandering to your silly vendetta. 🌞
From Mike at Vox Political:
Labour’s immigration crackdown is an attack on the vulnerable disguised as Reform
The Labour government’s upcoming immigration White Paper has been trailed as a tough, technocratic attempt to “fix” a “broken” migration system.
But peel away the headlines, and this is not a rational plan for reform but a calculated assault on the UK’s most vulnerable people — the sick, the elderly, the disabled — wrapped in the populist rhetoric of border control.
From longer settlement routes to tougher English language tests, from visa restrictions targeting specific nationalities to new curbs on family rights under the European Convention on Human Rights, Labour’s proposals are not just draconian — they are deeply regressive, echoing the very far-right ideologies the party claims to oppose.
But nowhere is the cruelty and incoherence more blatant than in the plans to restrict care worker migration.
Here, the government isn’t simply failing to support a collapsing care system — it is actively helping to dismantle it.
The UK’s social care sector is not overwhelmed by migrants.
It is overwhelmed by decades of political neglect, privatisation, and underfunding.
Staff shortages have reached catastrophic levels, with an estimated 150,000 vacancies across England alone.
Most care providers now say they simply cannot operate without migrant labour.
And yet Labour’s new policy will ban the recruitment of care workers from overseas, requiring care homes to “prioritise” British workers — despite offering no wage increases, no improved working conditions, and no national recruitment strategy.
Let’s be clear: this is not a practical plan.
This is sabotage.
https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2025/05/12/labours-immigration-crackdown-is-an-attack-on-the-vulnerable-disguised-as-reform/
From Dorset Eye:
Keir Starmers Announcement On Immigration Should Finally Kill Off The Neoliberal Labour Party
(a) Starmer’s abrupt interest in immigration is based on the fundamental lie touted by grifters like Farage that bashing immigrants will help the British working class and restore some twisted sense of British identity…
(b) The word ‘significantly’ is deployed often by politicians because it commits them to nothing specific…
(c) If you look at Labour’s 69-page white paper on immigration, what IS significant is that it contains no actual plans, just a lot of media soundbites stolen from Trump and Farage…
(d) The only idea they seem to have is to attack immigrant care workers. How reflexively TYPICAL of this abomination of a Labour government that they would attack some of the lowest-paid workers in the land and the vulnerable people that rely on them…
(e) As a gambit, this is all bullshit anyway, because it won’t work. Clearly Starmer’s team thinks people are both utterly stupid and desperate to find reasons to vote Labour.
As Labour tries to reinvent itself as Reform just a matter of months after selling out all its principles to get elected as the old Tories, it will only highlight to people how utterly vacuous and amoral they truly are. A jaundiced electorate will see that Labour stands for NOTHING…
Those minded to buy into Farage’s rhetoric will simply be affirmed in their racist logic. What Starmer is doing is clearing the way for Reform, because nobody in Labour will now make ANY moral or political argument against them. Pathetic…
https://dorseteye.com/keir-starmers-announcement-on-immigration-should-finally-kill-off-the-neoliberal-labour-party/
If Stammer thinks he’s going to attract the hard right, this video might give some pause for thought. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoD4gbslKiA
Somewhere in the Caribbean (supposedly) there’s some furniture being chewed into matchsticks, just now…
Pity the goats… 😒
Toffee – See my response above 🌞
https://skwawkbox.org/2025/05/12/video-we-fixed-the-subtitles-for-are-racist-pms-rivers-of-blood-speech/#comment-267362
This puts me in mind of the
New Testament and Jesus
parable about “who is our Neighbour” .
This parable reflects some passages in the
Old Testament – which most do in fact.
Well the lovely people who own many
of our Local Shops these days are – whereas
Keir Starmer is NOT
Some argue it is likely that circa 2019 Starmer, Blair & Mandelson met in a plush London restaurant to decide that the only way to get rid of Jeremy Corbyn & his Left Wing Democratic Socialist IDEAS was to ensure Labour lost, their nuclear option?
Hence despite 66% of Labour seats being Pro Brexit they imposed a 2nd People’s Vote on Labour and we were later to learn there was The Ergon House Project (2017) with some funding (Labour & trade union members money) directed to support Right Wing Lab candidates & diverted from Left Wing Lab candidates) plus as The Forde Report showed we also had sabotage against Corbyn’s campaign by some Right Wing members of Labour staff.
This all resulted along with sabotage from many Right Wing Lab MPs (who publicly slagged JC off) in millions of working class people suffering under Johnson’s Tories.
So the Labour Right didn’t give a damn about the w class then and still don’t but let’s look at the last 3 election results and if not for Right Wing Labour sabotage Corbyn could have got over the line:
2015 Miliband/Reeves 9.6m
2017 Corbyn 12.8m.
2019 Corbyn 10.2m
2024 Starmer 9.6m.
I heard JC speak on Saturday & he was excellent + spoke to another of the Independent MPs who was with him.
He said forming a new Left Party is more difficult than people think & he was concerned about people in this jockeying for positions (as they do in bourgeois political parties like Labour) but we would hope in such a Left Wing Democratic Socialist Party we would ALL be there for altruistic reasons to transform society for the benefit of the diverse w class & others & if people advanced it was only because of their record in being very good working class fighters.
It was difficult when Labour was set up in the 1900’s but they did it.
And the reality staring us in the face is that if we don’t do it then in 2029 we’ll have the most extreme Right Wing Govt (Reform/Tory) ever.
So it’s not a case of IF but Must and Corbyn would give it name recognition.
Starmer was very enthusiastic about a second Brexit vote
during the 2019 Election lead-up in spite of it being obvious
that this would alienate Labour voters in red wall seats.
He was told this .. but ignored it ..
In discussions during the Tory regime after the election he
refused to argue for closer links with the EU (eg
Single Market, Customs Union) and then alienated some in NI
where by necessity (Border problems) the country belonged
to both ..
His recent speech was an utter disgrace *** and totally
impractical as pointed out by comments on it by others
on this site and by employers in both the Care and Hospitality
Industries ..
*** It reminded me of Margaret Thatchers speech about us
being “swamped” by immigrants.
Most people here appear to believe that Starmer is making a genuine mistake. The cynic in me believes that Starmer like in 2018 and 2019 “people’s vote” “constructive ambiguity” is following his own personal agenda.
Starmer’s agenda from 2018 onwards was to facilitate a Tory victory at the new GE never mind, hand in hand it would usher a hard Brexit, despite his protestations of love for the EU.
I maybe wrong but, the right of the Labour Party got it wrong with Starmer too, because, I believe that Starmer’s Agenda at the present time is to ensure that the next GE is won by Reform.
Starmer as a former UK PM will get police protection for the rest of his life. Ushering fascism in the UK will open a hell of a lot of opportunities for him to make money by joining the highly paid lectures circuit, TV interviews and of course going back to practice law for high payment.
Rivers of coke would be more apt.
You do realise that social housing is being swallowed up by immigration? Cardiff gas works site is a great example.
Then there’s other things. Why is conscription talked of, yet Muslim folks get to choose? Why are UK homeless not given a hotel room?
Maybe some of these answers are in the UN migration report? Maybe the plan is (was?) to increase the population to around 140 million?
Who knows…
Their is plenty of empty housing in London and Greater London. The problem is wealthy foreigners are able to buy domestic dwellings as an investment and then let them empty.
People from overseas are coming to the UK because successive British governments are exporting arm conflict to other countries.
Take Ukraine for example, the whole thing could have been sorted back in 2022 when Russia was willing to seek agreement with Ukraine in Turkey.
Three years on, thousands of young Ukrainian killed and nothing has changed: back to have talks in Turkey between Ukraine and Russia.
The UK government and the opposition supported Ukraine no to agree to negotiate with Russia and both government and opposition welcomed Ukrainians to migrate to the UK.
Hence, rather than blame desperate emigrants blame the government from exporting violence and instability all over the world.
British homeless should be housed, nobody deserve to live without secure accommodation. But, you are falling into the government strategy of divide and rule. Migrants are not the enemy our government that represent the best interest of the elite establishment is the real enemy of the people.
I afraid Farage isn’t going to be better. he isn’t better than an oil snake salesman.
It’s not the government, it’s the people telling government what to do.
You saw this clearly displayed after Brexit. Government was rudderless, awaiting instructions.
Starmer gets his before the weekend. Same as Sunak, and same for whoever comes next.
As for London houses, property confiscation is a slippery slope.
“property confiscation is a slippery slope.”
Depends on how it’s done.
It is certainly widely accepted for those gaming a predatory and parasitic FIRE orientated economy which provides nothing of value to be able to effectively confiscate the commons and public goods such a housing leaving many sleeping on the streets or in substandard accommodation just so that a few can make a few million sitting on empty property and/or land waiting for the price to rise, no questions asked.
As a slippery slope, that seems to be acceptable for far too many. Never gets questioned, never mind challenged in the minds of some. At least until it is they who find themselves shivering every night in a thin sleeping bag on hard concrete under a cold bridge or shop doorway and having to crap on the pavement.