Nigel Farage has once again cut through the political waffle and said what millions of ordinary Britons are screaming at their TVs every night. Enough is enough.
Yesterday, he laid down the marker. If Reform UK enters government, Indefinite Leave to Remain will be scrapped. Gone. Finished. No more automatic permanent residency, no more endless rights handed out like confetti to anyone who manages to stay here for a few years. Instead, people will have to prove themselves, contribute, work hard, and show they deserve to remain.
This is the kind of bold, unapologetic politics Britain has been crying out for decades!
The political class, Labour and the Conservatives, the lot of them, have betrayed the people by opening the floodgates to mass immigration, while pretending to care about border control.
Boris Johnson’s wave of migration has left us with a ticking time bomb. Millions of people are arriving, many with no loyalty to this country, no long-term stake, and far too many seeing Britain as a soft touch for welfare, housing, and public services. Farage has simply put his finger on the rot.
The British public are not stupid, they see what’s happening. Families who have lived here for generations can’t get on the housing ladder, can’t access healthcare without waiting months, and can’t qualify for certain benefits they’ve paid into their whole lives.
Meanwhile, thousands of foreign-born residents are parachuted into our system, granted access to welfare, free housing, and support that our own citizens are denied. Where’s the fairness in that?
There aren’t any. It’s a disgrace, and the anger is fully justified.
Other countries wouldn’t dream of allowing this nonsense. Try rocking up in Spain, jobless and empty-handed, or losing your job there after a couple of years, and demanding welfare benefits. See how far you get.
In the United States, if you can’t support yourself, you’re gone. Even in parts of Europe, there’s a strict rule: you put in before you get anything out. Britain, meanwhile, has been a doormat, and Farage is right to say it’s time to end this gaming of our system.
This isn’t about being cruel, it’s about being fair. It’s about protecting those who actually built this country and ensuring that anyone who comes here genuinely adds to our society, not drains it.
Nigel Farage is right. Mass deportations and roundups are pointless without self-deportation - Adam Brooks | Getty Images
Farage’s plan is clear: scrap ILR and replace it with renewable visas that must be earned. Raise the salary thresholds, tighten the English language requirements, cut off access to welfare for non-citizens, and ensure that people contribute before they receive benefits.
It’s the sort of common sense that career politicians sneer at, but ordinary people cheer. It’s not xenophobia, it’s patriotism. It’s about looking after your own before handing out endless benefits to people who, frankly, shouldn’t be here if they can’t stand on their own two feet.
It won’t just be deportations that bring the numbers down. Once the message is clear that the gravy train is over, that free housing, welfare, and endless handouts are finished, hundreds of thousands will pack up and leave of their own accord. Self-deportation is real. Nigel Farage is right.
When Britain stops being the soft touch of Europe, many will realise that there’s nothing here for them unless they contribute.
That alone will significantly reduce the numbers, eliminating the need for mass roundups and enforcement.
Predictably, the liberal elites, Labour MPs, and left-wing activists are already howling about “rights”, “discrimination” and “international law”. Spare us.
These are the same voices that ignored the real struggles of British families for decades. They don’t care about working-class people who’ve seen their communities transformed beyond recognition, wages undercut, schools bursting, and GP surgeries rammed. They only care about keeping the borders wide open and keeping the cheap labour flowing.
Farage, on the other hand, is speaking directly to the people who’ve had enough. He’s tapping into the righteous anger of millions who feel abandoned.
Reform UK’s promise to scrap ILR is not some technical tweak…it’s a declaration that Britain will no longer be a soft touch. It’s about restoring fairness, pride, and sovereignty to a nation that has been betrayed by its own ruling class.
For once, we’ve got a politician who isn’t afraid to say what needs saying. The days of mass immigration being untouchable are over. Farage has really lit the fuse this time. And if the British people back him, then this time, maybe, just maybe, we’ll finally take our country back.