Keir Starmer's Plan to Battery-Farm Foreign Criminals

Despite growth projections halving, unexpected borrowing being double the announced cuts to disability benefits, and Britain going from the fastest growing economy in the G7 to 0.1 percent growth last quarter, Labour are set to spend more on illegal migrant accommodation.

As I summarised in a previous essay for Courage Media:

£14.4 billion was spent on these illegal immigrants in 2023. £4.3 billion of that was on accommodation costs alone — 28% of Britain’s annual foreign aid budget. These hotels and private rental properties, leased on five-year contracts, are furnished with satellite televisions. Over £3.7 billion (£3,000 a day) has been spent on clothes for illegal immigrants since 2022.

Data for 2024 has been difficult to procure. Shadow ministers and MPs have been refused answers. But the Labour government is projected to add an additional £17.8 billion to that annual bill, by allowing “Any asylum seekers who are granted asylum [to] have full access to…the welfare system.” These proposed amendments to the previous Conservative government’s Illegal Migration Act (2023) will repeal the ban on processing asylum claims for illegal migrants who cross the English Channel in small boats. It will euphemize illegal immigrants as “unauthorised” or “irregular”, in line with the liberal progressive platitude that “No human is illegal.” Any other view is deemed “right-wing extremism” by the Home Office.

As of the new Spring Statement, we have learned that Labour will portion thousands of the promised 1.5 million new homes built by 2029 as “dispersed accommodation” for the thousands of illegal immigrants crossing the English Channel in small boats.

Over 6,100 illegal migrants have crossed the Channel this year already — a 40 percent increase (30,300) since Starmer took office. A document published by the Treasury’s new Office for Value for Money says some of the promised 1.5 million new homes will be used for “asylum seekers” — costing taxpayers £14 a night, rather than hotels at £145 per night.

This is part of “Operation Scatter”: Angela Rayner’s plan to “equitably” disperse illegal migrants across all the boroughs of Britain. Rather than impose predatory men on local areas to loiter outside school gates, Labour could leave the ECHR, repeal the Human Rights Act (much to Starmer’s chagrin), and deport these dangerous foreign criminals to save the taxpayer billions.

However, as the saying goes, “The purpose of a system is what it does.”

The purpose of the British state appears to be battery-farming foreign criminals at law-abiding taxpayers’ expense.

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Labour’s spring statement went down like a brick in a duck pond yesterday, with MPs, businesses, and financial regulators alike. Growth forecasts are falling faster than Keir Starmer’s popularity, and have seen more revisions than Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ CV. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) halved its projection for GDP growth from 2% to 1% for this fiscal year, in less than six months. Borrowing increased by £15 billion since April 2024; £20 billion more than the OBR forecast in October 2024, and £3.4 billion more since Reeves’ first budget in October 2024. The government will borrow £18 billion more than projected over the next two years: double the £5 billion per year potential savings from cuts to welfare, which Labour’s large socialist cohort has threatened to rebel against. (They insist on having 25% of the working-age population claiming disability benefits, and an ADHD diagnosis qualifying you for a brand new BMW.) Spending continues to rise to £1.3 trillion per year, despite the cost of borrowing increasing by 0.75 percentage points since the election. 10-year GILT rates today are 4.72% — higher than the spike coinciding with Liz Truss’ mini-budget in 2022, which Labour continue to claim “crashed the economy.” Isn’t it odd how nobody is knocking on Downing Street, demanding Starmer and Reeves resign?

Britain is still on track to fall afoul of Ferguson’s Law: that any state which spends more on servicing the interest on its debt (over £100 billion) than on defence (£5 billion, up to 2.5% of GDP from April 2027) will inevitably fail. Signs of that financial Thucydides Trap have long since been written on the Treasury’s wall. The UK was the fastest growing economy in the G7 before Labour won the election; but with GDP growth falling from 0.8% in the first quarter to 0.1% in the last of 2024, we are now projected to be third for 2025. We have the worst real GDP percentage change post-pandemic of any G7 country except Germany, whose economy has shrunk in real terms by 0.1%. While our debt-to-GDP has fallen under 100 percent since August 2024, we have reached debt-to-GDP parity faster than G7 countries like Italy, which have been there for decades.