The payouts for migrant phone seizures should be offset against the cost of housing them - Kelvin MacKenzie

The payouts for migrant phone seizures should be offset against the cost of housing them - Kelvin MacKenzie
Henry Bolton reacts to illegal migrants being given compensation for phone seizures |

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Kelvin Mackenzie

By Kelvin Mackenzie


Published: 16/02/2026

- 16:14

Updated: 16/02/2026

- 16:23

On this basis alone, Keir Starmer should be forced out of office, writes the former editor of The Sun

What on earth is happening to our nation? On the one hand, a High Court judge rules that 70 Channel migrants can pick up £6,500 each because they were forced to hand over their mobiles (diddums) when landing at Dover and on the other the White House is so concerned at the lack of free speech under Starmer that they will help a man who burned the Koran come and live in America.

Almost every day, there’s some kind of court action or an outpouring from a Labour Minister that makes you think I must get the hell out of here.


But you can’t do that because if you have a house worth more than fourpence to sell and you can’t find a buyer, as nobody has any confidence in Britain’s future.

All this plus Starmer constantly playing the damned class card. Only the other day, he said: ‘’I’ve got the most working-class Cabinet in the history of this country, and I’m really proud of that.’’

Is he equally proud of their stupidity and inefficiency? Mind you, thanks to Lord Ali, they are the best-dressed.

Starmer has made it clear that he wants us to be closer to Europe, which means there is no possibility of us getting out of the ECHR until a Reform-Tory administration runs the country.

So, we are going to be handed more shocking judgments like the daft one handed down by Lord Justice Edis and Mr Justice Lane, who ruled it was illegal to take away the phones.

How can damages be awarded? We are doing these people a favour coming from their skint nations. We should put any award against the cost of putting them up.

And it looks like another 1,323 fresh asylum seekers could also apply for compensation, pushing the bill up from £500,000 to £8million. Makes you weep, doesn’t it?

What is just as bad as the money is that we have a Prime Minister who sees nothing wrong in these payouts.

He views it as quite normal that somebody from thousands of miles away, without a job, with no money and with a culture completely different, is allowed to pocket £6,500 tax-free of our money.

On that basis alone, Starmer should be forced out of office. Is there anybody in that Cabinet who feels like we do? Clearly not.

Free speech is another area where you know Labour is not on the same page as you.

The Telegraph is reporting that the White House is in talks to accept Hamit Coskun, who burnt a Koran, as a refugee from Britain if he loses a ‘’blasphemy’’ case this week. How incredible.

Kelvin MacKenzie (left), migrant on phone (right)The payout to migrants for seized phones should be offset against the cost of housing them - Kelvin MacKenzie |

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Mr Coskun overturned a conviction for a religiously aggravated public order offence after he burnt the Koran outside the Turkish embassy in London.

However, the CPS is contesting the decision at the High Court tomorrow. Mr Coskun sought asylum in the UK from his homeland of Turkey, saying Islamic terrorists had destroyed his family life.

The Trump people are seriously thinking of giving him refuge if he were to lose the case. Another example of Starmer being outside the thinking of ordinary people.

He talks about the working class. He wouldn’t know one if he tripped over them as he got out of his chauffeur-driven Range Rover to check that his £2million house hadn’t been burned down by the Russians.

The man is a total fraud. But what do you expect from a lawyer who greased up to Corbyn for years?

I despair for the future of our country, but I reassure myself that we now have only 36 months to go before he is turfed out in the biggest political swing in history.

The first sign of the tsunami will come at Gorton and Denton on February 26. Labour will finish third with the Greens romping home.

Come May, Labour will finish third or fourth in Wales and Scotland. Something similar will happen in England.

It will be the beginning of the end for Labour. We just have to be strong and hang on. A nightmare, but we have no choice.

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