ONE of the biggest issues at the General Election is also one that nobody in the ruling class wants to talk about: Britain’s intensifying immigration crisis. Across the country, ordinary people tell me it is their third top issue, behind the economy and the NHS, while those who are Conservative inclined tell me this crisis is the most important issue of all. It is the number one reason why many people who voted Conservative in 2019 are refusing to vote at all, or are switching to Nigel Farage and Reform.
But you would not know any of this were you to listen to the two main parties. Why? Because in both Labour and the Conservatives there is a strange conspiracy of silence — a point-blank refusal to go near this issue in case it throws light on their utterly dismal record or, instead, unleashes something in our politics they simply cannot control. Just look at what they’ve done to the country.
Whether this is about the shockingly high rates of legal immigration, which since 2019 alone have brought some four million people into Britain, or the utterly chaotic illegal migration crisis on our southern border, where the small boat invasion has brought more than 125,000 illegal migrants, this crisis has spiralled completely out of control. It is making a total mockery of our claim to be a self-governing, independent nation which can control who comes in and out of the country. It is alienating millions of ordinary Brits, eight in ten of whom say they want immigration to be sha.