The slur of racism has power. This week, the Labour Party conference went ahead but they were obsessed with Nigel Farage, highlighting what they believed to be a racist policy. This was clearly their new tactic.
Nigel Farage read aloud his policy a few weeks ago, he said: “Ultimately, what this comes down to is prioritising British people for British jobs, ensuring that our welfare system is for UK citizens and UK citizens only, and addressing the Boris wave of enormous numbers millions, in fact.
"Around 3.8 million people would be considered part of that Boris wave, with around 800,000 of them potentially receiving ILR.”
What’s racist about that?
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Labour then went on to roll out a policy not dissimilar. Shabana Mahmood’s plans were to “increase the time in which someone must have lived in this country to earn indefinite leave to remain from five years to ten.
I will also be proposing a series of new tests, such as being in work, making National Insurance contributions, not taking a penny in benefits, and learning English to a high standard.”
Members of the Labour Party then, in my view, went on to misrepresent Reform UK’s policy.
Within an hour or so of the proposal being set out, they claimed it had “fallen apart” saying the details hadn’t been thought through.
One Labour member said “Let’s be really clear what their policy would mean.
"It would mean that people who are in Britain, who maybe have family here, who’ve been working for many years, perhaps set up a business, and are part of the community, would be taken out of that community and not allowed to continue as part of our country.”
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That’s not true. That’s not what Reform UK said.
Members of the Labour Party continued to denigrate Nigel Farage and his policy, calling it racist which implied he is a racist, and that those who support him are racist too.
David Lammy said; “He must call his scheme to round up and deport our French, Indian or Caribbean neighbours who already have indefinite leave to remain what it is: it is racist. I say not in our country, not in our name, not in our time.
“Well, I do think that it’s a racist policy. I do think it’s immoral. It needs to be called out for what it is."
David Lammy even went as far as to say this: “I will leave it for the public to come to their own judgments about someone who once flirted with Hitler Youth when he was younger.”
He later retracted that comment.
The timing, however, was off — as one of the biggest ever race and religion rows culminated in the death of two innocent Jewish men protecting their community from an Islamist threat. The shooting took place on Yom Kippur. The perpetrator was a Syrian-born British national wearing a dummy suicide belt
Now, I’m not saying I lay any blame on Keir Starmer or his party for the synagogue attack, and some might argue that Labour was justified in labelling Nigel Farage’s policy racist. But the accusation of racism is a serious one — and it can have devastating consequences.
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The synagogue attack, in my view, was a racist-fuelled terrorist attack.
What’s happening here in the UK regarding Reform UK’s immigration policy, in my view, is not racism. What is happening is reasonable outrage.
Outrage from people who see those arriving illegally, and even some legally, taking from the economy without putting anything in. That’s what Nigel Farage is talking about.
Racism is often exacerbated by mass migration when governments fail to protect borders, a culture of anger and resentment grows.
It leads to frustration among those who work hard, pay taxes, and see their money spent unwisely, while people who arrived illegally live rent-free for years.
You could argue that Nigel’s policies would help prevent racism. I know what racism is, I know it is a form of hate, and I know what it can cause. We saw that first-hand the other day.
So instead of calling policies that ensure people who come to this country pay their way “racist,” instead of exacerbating the problem with slurs against those brave enough to address it, how about those in power quit the distractions, stop the name-calling, and get on with the job of securing our borders.