However useless the Tories may be, their hands are tied. The left constantly block attempts to deport illegal immigrants, or people who've overstayed their student visas, etc. I don't have much faith in the Tories, but Labour or the Lib Dems will be much, much worse. Whatever drivel they come out with in front of the cameras, behind the scenes they will make it easier to enter this country. A speechwriter for Tony Blair said he once left a meeting on immigration with the impression that the plan was "to rub the right's nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date." The same thing will happen under Starmer.
Last year, net immigration was 600,000. Let that sink in for a moment. That is the population of Manchester. If this continues, we will have to build a new Manchester on this crowded little island every year. It's insane. We need to have a serious debate about this. Believe me, the migration crisis hasn't even started yet. Africa has the highest birth rate in the world. In some African countries, women still have seven kids, on average, and the African population is going to double by 2050.
Also, who ARE these boatloads of young men who keep landing on Europe's shores? Skilled, educated young men, with families and jobs, don't leave their home country like that. In many cases, I suspect they are criminals, fleeing the authorities back home, or simply rootless drifters. I just cannot trust Labour to deal sensibly with this problem. Instead, we get the usual pledge to build, build, build: more houses, more flats, more cars, more noise. Goodbye greenbelt, goodbye countryside, goodbye peace and quiet. The left seem to think everyone who objects to mass development is a rich, fox-hunting aristocrat. In fact, most so-called NIMBYs are like my sister, who spent 20 years slogging her guts out for the NHS, bought a little house in the country, and then had her dream home ruined by a giant new estate.