As Homeland Party gets back to business after our rapturous annual general meeting, figures have duly been released showing that one in one hundred of the population is in the UK illegally. As regrettable as this is, it perfectly encapsulates our raison d’etre.
Let’s examine these figures more closely. The research, led by University of Oxford experts, shows that up to 745,000 illegal migrants, or one in one hundred, live in the UK.
To put the UK’s woes into perspective, this is more than double the 300,000 in France and even ahead of the estimate of 700,000 in Germany, which has the second-largest population of illegal migrants in Europe. In other words, we are the worst-hit country in Europe.
Trends show that this will only continue to get worse. The total number of people crossing in 2024 is 26,612, up five per cent from 2023 at the same stage. Meanwhile, the Home Office admitted that 973 migrants in 17 small boats crossed the English Channel on Saturday, the biggest daily number this year.
The estimated 745,000 illegal migrants – equivalent to a city the size of Leeds – include foreign arrivals who have overstayed their visas, failed asylum seekers who have disappeared and some migrants who have crossed the Channel in small boats.
This is doing untold damage to our country’s demographics. Perhaps the problem wouldn’t be so bad if our “guests” represented the cream of their troubled nations’ society. Unfortunately, this isn’t the case.
Although it’s deliberately been made virtually impossible to obtain migrant crime data in the UK, we can certainly read between the lines. As just one example, one in 50 Albanians in the UK is in jail, while nearly 80% of all charges related to terrorism in the UK since 2001 were connected to a group or ideology based outside of the country.
Data taken from Scandinavian crime rates show that certain demographics display higher criminal activity.
This illegal migration and associated criminal activity also contributed to the UK’s bigger black economy compared to other countries, where illicit transactions have become a hotbed. This isn’t exclusive to the more sordid type of criminality, such as narcotics or trafficking, but everyday, transactional activity which is not declared and therefore untaxed.
This is not conjecture. Leaked internal Home Office estimates five years ago suggested that at least 150,000 foreign nationals entered the UK illegally each year and then disappeared into the black economy.
So, what is to be done?
Don’t trust Labour. Like the Tory government before him, Keir Starmer has rejected calls to quit the European Court of Human Rights to help tackle the crisis, arguing that Britain would only get an EU deal to send Channel migrants back to France if it remained in the ECHR.
He has also scrapped a scheme in which asylum seekers would have been sent to Rwanda while they were processed.
This brings us back to why the Homeland Party exists. We are the only political party in the UK serious about reversing this problem.
Judging by Nigel Farage’s gutless entrée into Westminster and recent nonchalant rhetoric regarding changing demographics, Reform UK can now join the long list of establishment parties happy with the status quo.
On the other hand, we demand a binding referendum on mass migration, as polling shows that people don’t want it. We would also legislate to deport all migrants who commit crimes back to their country of origin without exception and use whatever resources necessary to end migration across the Channel and by other routes.
If that sounds like sensible policy, join us and get involved. There are simply no other options.
