'Tens of thousands of illegal immigrants are arriving and Labour’s response is to monitor your social media,' says Patrick Christys

This is part of the new Resist framework, which instructs civil servants to track posts for narratives that could adversely affect certain ethnic groups or new migrants.

One example the framework flags as potentially dangerous is local parents’ groups.

They might “cross the line” from free speech to harmful rhetoric, or express concerns about asylum seekers receiving priority housing or benefits while locals wait years.

Consider today’s report in the Daily Mail. A couple in Newport, Middlesbrough, reportedly Britain’s “poverty capital,” where six out of seven children live in poverty, expressed unhappiness that asylum seekers receive more handouts than them, including free phones, food, and accommodation.

Is it “dangerous” to voice that? Could it stoke community tensions?

Or take the town in Surrey, where local councillors earmarked £5 million to house Afghan migrants while 2,500 people remain on the housing waiting list.

What about posts highlighting the case of an Iranian small boat migrant guilty of raping a 15-year-old girl in Oxford?

Or the story reported by The Telegraph about an asylum caseworker whistleblower told to grant asylum to an Afghan man who had repeatedly exposed himself in a children’s playground?

The Cabinet Office reportedly has a team of 6,000 civil servants working in the Government Communications Service tasked with “stopping online disinformation, producing counter-narratives, and protecting departmental reputation.” And yet, this approach seems deeply sinister.

Local Government Association guidance also advises officials on countering information about asylum seekers being settled in hotels and vacant military bases and the sudden closure of local hotels to accommodate them.

If you move hundreds of Afghans, Eritreans, and Somalis into a small English countryside town, it’s unsurprising that there is a reaction.

These spying revelations come just months after The Daily Telegraph revealed a secret Whitehall unit targeting social media posts critical of migrant hotels and two-tier policing, reportedly run by officials working for Technology Secretary Peter Kyle.

This comes amid news that British nationals are leaving the UK at alarming rates under Labour.

Last year, 257,000 Brits departed, far exceeding the predicted 77,000.

Although 143,000 returned, the net loss was still 114,000 many of them young, ambitious professionals.

For example, yesterday I spoke to a young entrepreneur who moved his family abroad after his daughter’s London school conducted a lockdown drill in preparation for a terror attack.

Meanwhile, the UK is bringing in large numbers of low-skilled migrants, many of whom are likely to end up on benefits.

If this were a football club, losing your most talented youth players every year and replacing them with amateurs would spark outrage from fans.

And yet in Britain, the best and brightest are leaving while tens of thousands of Deliveroo drivers and benefits claimants are arriving and the Government’s response is to monitor your social media to prevent complaints.