Keir Starmer and the Preference Cascade

Last week, I wrote in the New York Post that the dam was breaking on Britain’s illegal immigration crisis.

For years the Labour governments in Britain have been deliberately opening borders to turn Britain from a homogeneous to a “truly multicultural” society. As the Telegraph reported in 2009, this was a conspiracy that went back to the 1990s:

The huge increases in migrants over the last decade were partly due to a politically motivated attempt by ministers to radically change the country and "rub the Right's nose in diversity", according to Andrew Neather, a former adviser to Tony Blair, Jack Straw and David Blunkett.

He said Labour's relaxation of controls was a deliberate plan to "open up the UK to mass migration" but that ministers were nervous and reluctant to discuss such a move publicly for fear it would alienate its "core working class vote".

As a result, the public argument for immigration concentrated instead on the economic benefits and need for more migrants.

Critics said the revelations showed a "conspiracy" within Government to impose mass immigration for "cynical" political reasons.

Labour wanted more tractable immigrant voters. It also didn’t want to admit what it was doing because it knew its existing voters would object strenuously. The goal was not to let the cat out of the bag until the existing voters had been replaced by the new ones in sufficient numbers that it didn’t matter.