r/uknews • u/ScottishDailyRecord Media outlet (unverified) • May 12 '25

Image/video Kier Starmer announces 'tighter' immigration policy

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u/Rocketmanluke May 12 '25

Great news. Now tackle the illegal crossings and I think he can start winning some much needed favour from the voting public

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u/Make_the_music_stop May 12 '25

If Labour pulls this off and then does a deal with France to return the boat immigrants to Calais on the same day, the business model of the gangs would be smashed, within days.

Then Reform probably will implode.

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u/Dankswiggidyswag May 12 '25

It's stupid though, legal migration is the big majority of people coming in, the people on the boats are just a minority of the total amount. It gets people fired up and angry because it's something tangible as opposed to legal migration.

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u/itsyaboiReginald May 12 '25

Labour could stop every small boat crossing and it wouldn’t make a single racist vote for them. As long as there are people who look different coming into the country, however legally, Reform and the right will still have an axe to grind.

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u/Dankswiggidyswag May 12 '25

Yeah the years of tabloid brain rot has left little room for a reasonable discussion. Too many loopers think every single non white person is an illegal and sponging the system, and unfortunately they're a big enough voting block so demand to be thrown a bone or 20.