The Government Hurting Old Ladies: Labour’s Migration Misstep

A frightened Old Lady on illegal migration manhandled by the British Police

The closure of the illegal migrant hotel in Epping has exposed a glaring truth: when faced with choices on how to tackle illegal immigration, Labour picked the worst one.

The options were clear:

Option one: mass deportations.

Option two: admit that they were wrong to dismiss Rwanda, something a number of Labour MPs have now effectively done by calling for a Rwanda-style plan.

Option three: move asylum seekers into HMOs (houses of multiple occupancy).

Option four: confront the public head-on.

And Labour chose option four for their Migration Misstep

It’s hard to see it as anything but absurd. Rather than working with communities, the government decided to fight them. Their migration misstep. A terrible move and one that risks inflaming anger rather than resolving it.

This is exactly the moment when the Home Secretary should have stepped forward. A clear statement, a firm plan, even a public address outside Downing Street would have been the bare minimum. Instead, reports suggest she has been travelling across Europe with her husband, Ed Balls.

To many, that looks less like leadership and more like avoidance. At such a critical moment, it’s fair to call it what it is: pretty pathetic.

Meanwhile, Labour’s confusion deepens. Some of its own MPs are now pushing for the very kind of Rwanda-style system they previously ridiculed. Security Minister Dan Jarvis tried to reassure the public, saying:

“We’ve made a commitment that we will close all of the asylum hotels by the end of this Parliament, but we need to do that in a managed and ordered way.”

But we all know what that means in practice: close hotels, approve the majority of asylum claims, and quietly move people into housing across the country. Communities will still bear the strain, just in a different form.

The public, however, is far from passive. Around 27 protests at the weekend alone shows how angrier the British public are becoming. These demonstrations highlight the growing frustration with a government that appears increasingly disconnected from its own citizens.

And while Labour fumbles, Reform UK has jumped in with its own bold policy announcement.

The Reform Party Plan

The plan? Arrest and detain everyone who enters illegally, hold them in disused military bases until deportation, and strike returns agreements with countries including Afghanistan and Eritrea. They’ve even floated the use of British overseas territories like Ascension Island as holding centres.

The party wants five deportation flights every single day and insists it should be a criminal offence for deported individuals to re-enter Britain, something astonishingly, it is not under current law. It is bizarre that our law makers have not produced such a law.

This is where we are: the British government should be protecting and standing with its own people. Instead, by fighting to keep migrant hotels open, it feels like it has gone to war with them. And the battle lines are only getting clearer.

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