UK immigration: ‘This is who to blame for rising numbers’

WATCHING Keir Starmer laying out his plan to solve the immigration crisis it was virtually word for word as every other speech he has made about it.

Lie after lie and back to blaming the Conservatives so nothing new there.

Has he got the intelligence to go back further and realise this crisis was caused by Tony Blair taking us into two illegal wars and creating one of the biggest refugee crisis in history and then saying but you will be OK, come to Britain.

Keir Starmer has not got a clue what to do but blame someone else.

He has proved time and time again that he is the worst Prime Minister this country has ever seen and is definitely not a Labour politician.

Will he take us out of the ECHR? No chance, this would stop the legal eagles getting rich out of the public purse defending illegal immigrants.

Be a man Keir – step up and admit you are wrong and resign while you have a bit of credibility left.

T J Ryder,

Acomb,

York

… TYPICAL, a politician makes a statement “stranger in our own country” to which two thirds of the indigenous population show empathy through their own real life experiences.

A combination of the far left and liberal wokeists throw their arms in the air in disgust and have the effrontery to call us racist.

Utter bunkum; multiculturalism is an ideological concept extremely difficult to achieve particularly when a high percentage of those expected to fully participate have no intention of doing so – and that applies to both sides of the divide.

Peter Rickaby,

West Park,

Selby

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We should thank fortune for these ‘strangers’

SHOULD I need care either in hospital or a nursing home I wouldn’t think of the person looking after me as a “stranger”. No, I would thank fortune that they were there.

The “strangers” speech was a dog-whistle to those who blame our inequalities on immigrants, not on those who want far more than their fair share of earth’s resources.

Rose Berl,

De Little Court,

Vine Street,

York

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Trade deal is shameful

THE Labour Government’s recent decision to prostrate itself before Trump, rather than rebuilding our economic ties with the EU, is shameful.

Aside from the fact that any trade deal with Trump is not worth the paper it’s written on, the Government are selling the UK – including farmers and our creative industries – down the river.

Firstly, the lack of clarity over whether the UK will allow chlorinated chicken and hormone injected beef to be sold in the UK. The British public has no appetite for low quality meat from US megafarms. Surveys have shown the vast majority of British people value the environmental and welfare standards we gained as a result of our membership of the EU. Why undermine UK farming?

Secondly, we learn the Government is set to destroy our creative industries to placate AI companies, that principally originate in the US. These companies steal the copyright material of artists across the world, destroying livelihoods and and undermining the creative output of the UK. Why is the Government ignoring: writers, musicians, production companies, publishers, record labels, visual artists, designers? Why undermine UK culture?

Tech companies should be obliged to disclose their use of copyright material. End of.

Christian Vassie,

Blake Court,

Wheldrake, York