Nigel Farage says he’ll deport 600,000 illegal migrants when he gets to be PM. Hurrah! Finally, a politician who has the right idea. Finally, someone who gets the monumental problems caused by uncontrolled immigration and is prepared to do whatever it takes to deal with them. But the most joyous thing to come out of Nigel Farage’s speech this week is that for once a British politician is listening to the needs the wants and the fears of the British people. I’m betting cheers went up all over Britain when the Reform boss was delivering his speech.
Because his rousing words didn’t just show us, he understands exactly the harm that’s happening to this country thanks to uncontrolled immigration. They also showed guts; determination and an iron will to deal with the problem that is eating Britain and all its resources alive – the kind of determination we haven’t seen from any politician for years.
Farage is the first politician to actually have a credible plan. And there’s no tinkering around the edges with his, no sending 50 back here and there, no half-baked promises and policies we know will never materialise.
Farage has made it crystal clear that he’s declaring an all-out war on illegal immigrants with the promise that any who come here will immediately be put into a detention centre and then flown back to wherever it is they’re came from. No ifs no buts!
And this plan won’t just smash the gangs. It’ll smash all those activist judges and human rights lawyers who for years have been working against the British people by allowing people who shouldn’t be here to stay.
It’ll stop them using and abusing existing laws to delay or prevent all removals. Because under Farage those laws won’t exist anymore. We’ll be out of the ECHR.
Tony Blair’s Human Rights Act will be scrapped and replaced by something that will put the rights of the British people first. And Farage says he’ll also suspend the 1951 UN Convention on Refugees for five years.
Just three or four years ago the Reform boss’s speech would have been slated as inhuman, unacceptable, heartless. But today it is being cheered by people who have simply had enough of seeing the fabric of our society changed by the hordes who are arriving here daily.
Britain, once one of the most tolerant and compassionate of nations, has been made a fool of by those who’ve sought to exploit and manipulate our compassion.
The result is that people are no longer willing to tolerate having our national security threatened by the army of single, military age, unvetted men being allowed into this country.
They’re no longer willing to put up with the rising tide of crime – particularly sexual assaults – being perpetrated in our communities by people who shouldn’t be here.
They’ve had enough of seeing illegal migrants being put up in four-star hotels and being treated in a way our homeless, our hard-up, would never be.
They’re sick of hearing spurious excuses from foreign criminals who have committed crimes in the country that gave them shelter and then them being allowed to stay to commit more crimes.
And they’re sick of weaselly Governments telling them how much they want to stop illegal immigration yet doing nothing meaningful to make that happen.
As Farage said this week – there is NO middle way. This is a problem that has to be tackled head-on and he says he’s the man willing to do it.
Even when he was asked if genuine refugees fleeing persecution would be sent back, he was unequivocal. And he must be. It’s actually easy to prove if people are genuine refugees.
The ones who are don’t throw their papers and their passports into the channel on their way here. They don’t lie about their ages and about where they’re from. And the REAL refugees wouldn’t have traipsed their way through three or four safe countries to get to Britain.
The ones who do that just want all the benefits that Britain gives – the hotels, the free houses, the free healthcare, the free education and spending money.
Farage is right. We can’t keep pretending that everyone who comes here is fleeing war and persecution. They’re not. They’re coming in their thousands because this stupid Government – and the previous one – have made Britain a very attractive place to run to.
And that’s not going to change under Labour. Starmer doesn’t have the guts to leave the ECHR. He doesn’t have the guts to scrap the Human Rights Act because he’s too scared of what his own politicians will do to him i.e take his job!
But the fact is Britain can’t keep afford to be taking in the world’s poorest. Not when we have a government that in just over a year has taken us from being the fastest growing country in the G7 to needing a loan from the IMF.
But more than that – we just don’t want it anymore. People have had enough of our hospitality being abused. More importantly they don’t want the social fabric of our country changed by people coming here who don’t respect our culture or our values.
The sad fact is our compassion, and our kindness is fast being snuffed out and replaced by a desire to put Britain first. And we must not be made to feel that is wrong.
It is any Government’s first job to secure its country’s borders and to protect its people. And that isn’t happening under this Government.
Farage is the only politician who is currently in tune with the British people and it’s why his plan is chiming with millions of them.
Yes, it will be hard for him to go as hard and fast as he wants once he’s in power but at least we know that with him he’ll go to Hell and back to make it happen.
