Starmer Changes Tune: Mass Immigration Is Failed Experiment

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Keir Starmer, the British Prime Minister, dropped a political bombshell a couple of days ago.

He didn't just admit that mass immigration was a terrible idea, but one that was part of plan to flood Great Britain with immigrants. Watch:

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Starmer is throwing a Hail Mary here by dropping a (half) truth bomb; Britain is wracked by violence, his approval ratings compete with the Black Plague, and millions of Britons are experiencing so much buyer's remorse that his position at the top of the Labour Party is at risk. 

Britons have been going to jail for saying exactly what Starmer is saying--it amounts to, according to the government, hate speech. It also happens to be obviously true that mass immigration is a reality because the elites wanted it to happen. 

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But it isn't Brexit's fault; it became a reality because it was the only path citizens saw to stop the inflow of migrants. It didn't work because the Establishment--Tories, in this case--wanted the inflow to continue. That is why the Tories lost and deserved to. 

The elite consensus supporting mass migration included Tories and Labor members. The policy began in the 90s under Labour, accelerated over the 2010s under the Tories, and has reached crisis proportions over the past few years. Tories who opposed mass migration were shoved aside, and Labour was 100% committed to the policy. 

Britons hated the policy, but the transnational elite were so committed to it that ordinary citizens were put in jail for objecting to it. 

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We often complain--rightly--about a Uniparty in the US, but Great Britain has been worse. The Tories are, at best, Obama Democrats aside from some backbenchers. Labour, unfortunately, are Biden Democrats, meaning even worse. 

The good thing is that Starmer's parlous position at the top of the political pyramid has forced him to admit the obvious: the elite have been experimenting on the ordinary Briton and the experiment has failed. 

If it takes Starmer's panic to begin the reversal of a decades-long policy of open borders, so be it. I retain a fondness for the UK and hate seeing what the current Establishment has done to the country of Churchill and Thatcher. 

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At the very least, Starmer has finally admitted what we all knew and what we have been attacked for saying: all this has been a massive social experiment intentionally foisted upon us. It hasn't been a "one-country" experiment, of course--it has been imposed upon every population in the Western world, especially Americans. 

Are the architects ready to admit the experiment has failed? Tony Blair has, and perhaps he suggested Starmer's new strategy of running away from the policy. 

Or, perhaps, both are putting their fingers to the wind and adjusting their views to reflect the population more closely. It's hard to say. Not that long ago--a few weeks or months ago--Starmer was viciously attacking others for what he is saying now. 

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Of course, if these admissions lead to better policies, then the insincerity itself doesn't matter. Pursuing better policies for bad reasons is better than following bad policies with good intentions. 

It is important, though, to remember who caused all this chaos and heartbreak and not be taken in by their sudden about-face. They did this to us, they are not sorry, and they will continue to ruin our society until we throw them all out. Stopping a bad policy is better than not, but it doesn't absolve the elite from responsibility for their actions, and it doesn't hide the fact that they are indifferent to the suffering of ordinary people until it threatens their power. 

Every Western country needs a disruptor like Trump. Perhaps in Great Britain, it is Suella Braverman or Nigel Farage. A populist leader is what all these countries need, not because populists are always right but because the current crop of political elites are killing our countries. 

I have mixed feelings about populism; on the one hand, populists are, by their very nature, not very nuanced, and the world often needs a sense of nuance. On the other hand, when your "expert" class is corrupt and has contempt for the populace, populism is the only force that will toss them out. 

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Western "experts" have become so divorced from the realities of everyday life that they reject any feedback about the effects of their policies on the rest of us. We tell them the economy is terrible for us, and they point at statistics to refute us. 

We don't eat statistics or pay our mortgages with them, and declining crime stats don't refute our personal experience with crime and the declining quality of life. 

When things get so out of whack that "experts" only care to please each other and not the populace, it's time for a housecleaning. 

That time is now. 

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