UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer admitted what many conservatives have already known for years, which is that Europe’s “open borders” policy was a deliberate “experiment.”
During a Downing Street speech on net migration Thursday, Starmer accused the conservative Tories of using “Brexit” as a tool to enact open borders and allow record-high immigration.
“Time and again the Conservative Party promised they would get the numbers down. Time and again they failed, and now the chorus of excuses has begun,” Starmer said.
“A failure on this scale isn’t just bad luck, it isn’t a global trend or taking your eye off the ball – no, this is a different order of failure. This happened by design, not accident.”
Holy. Shit.
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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer just admitted that Western leaders have been running an “open borders experiment”…
"This happened by design, not accident. Immigration policies were reformed deliberately. It has been a failure. They pretended it wasn’t happening.” pic.twitter.com/vHVibQnG38
“Policies were reformed, deliberately, to liberalize immigration. Brexit was used for that purpose: to turn Britain into a one-nation experiment in open borders,” Starmer said, adding the Tories “pretended it wasn’t happening.”
“Now they [the Conservatives] want to wave it away with a simple ‘We got it wrong.'”
Starmer’s speech is a marked departure from his rhetoric of only just a few months ago when the UK was engulfed in anti-open borders protests in response to the brutal deaths of several young children at the hands of migrants.
Starmer had branded the protesters “Nazis” and vowed to crack down on any dissent against his government’s open borders policy.
Starmer even earned the nickname “Two-Tier Kier” for ignoring the widespread rapes, stabbings and robberies by migrants while simultaneously deploying the police against anti-open borders protesters and online dissidents.
Starmer’s government even threatened to arrest anyone who shared footage online of the unrest sweeping the region sparked by its mass migration policies and two-tiered policing.
It appears Starmer is simply adjusting his government’s stance on migration in response to record low approval ratings and a petition demanding a new general election reaching 3 millions signatures over Labour and Starmer’s “broken promises.”
Notably, a key tenet of Brexit was to take back control of Britain’s borders away from the open-borders agenda of the European Union.
Unfortunately, despite promises to curtail migration over the years, then-UK Prime Ministers Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak appeared aligned with the European elites’ agenda and continued to allow unfettered immigration.
Will Starmer do anything to change that? Given the UK’s history of breaking promises, it’s unlikely.
Watch Starmer’s full speech: