Sir Keir Starmer, Labour Party Leader’s opposition to the PM’s Rwanda plan is unjustified.

On Thursday April 14, 2022, Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, announced a plan to tackle the issue of illegal migration head-on. [You may view my post of November 14, 2021].

It is a fact that illegal migration has been a constant pebble in the shoes of both the Labour and Conservative governments for many years. As the time passed, each government made the laws harsher and harsher, but of no avail. After a protracted negotiations with the government of Rwanda, an accord has been struck to implement a bespoke process being enacted by the government which will come into force in a matter of weeks. Under the new plan, which is not a pipe dream, the asylum seekers would be flown to Rwanda, where they would be accommodated, and their claims processed.

Interestingly, like many lefties, Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour Leader, spurning the Rwanda plan, said:

“a desperate announcement, unworkable, extortionate, by a Prime Minister with no grip, no answers and no shame.”

With due deference to Sir Keir, I am sorry to say that the comments made by him are unfortunate, unfounded, ill-advised, and ill-timed. To be honest it was in conformity with the Corbynism. He is oblivious of the fact that immigration is one of the top issues in the minds of the voters. While in the country there is palpable situation about housing, NHS, social services, and cost of living, to mention a few, it is not advisable to spend billions on the illegal asylum seekers. It is more so when 100% of the applicants have spurious claims. They are economic migrants. Assuredly, the countries they come from are bereft of democracy, but that does not mean it is the fault of other countries. For example, in Iran their fathers/ grandfathers had welcomed the Mullahs to rule their vast country with a lot of natural resources, who would glue to power, come what may, for half a millennium.  Similarly, instead of fighting Taliban, these stalwart migrants handed their beautiful country to them on a plate. They had the most modern equipment free to fight them, but they fled, including their President. They should have fought them just like the Ukrainians, including their President. Other alternative for them is that they should stay in their country with hand in hand with the new rulers. They can assimilate with them easily. They have same religion, same ethnicity, and same language etc. They have beards as well. Just grow them little longer. The same situation is equally true, mutatis mutandis, of the young men coming from Syria, Iraq and many more.

Sir Keir Starmer should have remembered that during the general election in 2010, a woman in Rochdale raised the migration issue with Gordon Brown, who was heard on speaker a few minutes later branding her a bigoted woman. He lost the election.

Concluding, I should refer to the dangers of abiding by the advice of their advisors who are not aware of the public mood. It was due to the advisors Theresa May was at the cusp of shedding tears soon after the general election in 2018. Also, very senior advisors of the Prime Minister, who advised him to attend the parties during the lockdowns, and he has, for the time being, survived just by a whisker.

I beseech Sir Keir to put up before the public an alternative to the Rwanda Plan. It is an axiomatic fact that there is none.

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Ps: Next story will be published at 11 am on Tuesday May 31 2022. It is titled: Airport porter had a thought that my wife was a time traveller.

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