{"id":481883,"date":"2026-03-18T09:05:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/481883\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T09:05:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:05:20","slug":"keir-starmer-is-leading-labour-to-oblivion-hes-got-1-move-from-merkels-playbook-left-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/481883\/","title":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer is leading Labour to oblivion &#8211; he&#8217;s got 1 move from Merkel&#8217;s playbook left | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"withoutCaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/6806210.jpg\" class=\"zoomEnabled\" data-img=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/1\/1200x712\/secondary\/6806210.jpg?r=1773816244076\" alt=\"Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer\" title=\"Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Starmer and Labour have been an unmitigated disaster on migration (Image: Getty)<\/p>\n<p>Germany has given Britain a glimpse into the not-so-distant future in the form of an utterance from one disastrous leader, which will surely be repeated by another.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, former Chancellor Angela Merkel opened the door to more than 1 million refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war and in doing so sparked a migrant crisis from which Europe has never recovered.<\/p>\n<p>Now, more than a decade later, she has told those who settled in Germany to vote against politicians who want to stop others from following in their footsteps.<\/p>\n<p>She urged people with a \u201cmigration background\u201d to join forces with those who do not align themselves with the country\u2019s hard-Right party AfD and \u201cstand together\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It is a call that is certain to be reheated and repeated by Labour in a desperate and likely final bid to derail <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/nigel-farage\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nigel Farage<\/a> and the apparently unstoppable march of Reform UK before the 2029 General Election.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Merkel said: \u201cWhether a German citizen has been a German citizen for two years or for four days, or the entire family for three generations, it doesn&#8217;t matter. We are the German people. We must also stick together when we have to take action against people who have completely different ideas about our future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was not long ago that Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood sought to strike a hardline on illegal immigration, admitting it is \u201ctearing our country apart\u201d. It was an honest assessment and, naturally, did not go down well among Labour hand-wringers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"withoutCaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/6806212.jpg\" class=\"zoomEnabled\" data-img=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/1\/1200x712\/secondary\/6806212.jpg?r=1773816244086\" alt=\"Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel\" title=\"Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ms Merkel is blamed for causing the European migrant crisis (Image: Getty)<\/p>\n<p>It was also meaningless. Despite public anger reaching a boiling point, Labour has done nothing to address the migrant crisis.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, it has made it worse.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, around 41,472 illegal migrants made it across the Channel in small boats &#8211; the second-highest year on record.<\/p>\n<p>And in one staggering operational blunder, Ethiopian national and asylum seeker Hadush Kebatu, jailed after sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and a woman while living in an asylum hotel in Epping, was mistakenly freed.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Sir <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/keir-starmer\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keir Starmer<\/a> has, inevitably, branded Mr Farage, quite possibly his successor, \u201cracist\u201d for suggesting that axing a right to indefinite leave to remain is \u201cimmoral\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Why? It could effectively lead to hundreds of thousands of people who are here legally being deported from the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Politics is so often about how things look.<\/p>\n<p>And many law-abiding and hard-working people are sick and fed up at how it appears the red carpet continues to be rolled out for those who have entered the UK illegally.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Farage should not be accused of racism for suggesting a scorched Earth policy to tackle the deepening crisis, even though a great many reasonable Britons would disagree.<\/p>\n<p>The UK is, and always has been, a welcoming country which for decades has provided sanctuary, safety, and security for those in genuine need.<\/p>\n<p>But a great many ordinary folk feel they are being taken for an enormous ride.<\/p>\n<p>Shameless Labour campaigned on a manifesto pledge to scrap the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/conservative-party\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Conservatives<\/a>\u2019 Rwanda deportation scheme and, in its very first act after winning the General Election, the \u201cgimmick\u201d was declared &#8220;dead and buried\u201d. Instead, Sir Keir promised a more effective approach to tackling illegal immigration. Quite what that is is anyone&#8217;s guess.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda is now seeking \u00a3100m that it claims is owed under the axed agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Laughably, the Prime Minister&#8217;s official spokesperson said: &#8220;The Rwanda scheme was a complete disaster. It wasted \u00a3700m of taxpayer cash to return just four volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will robustly defend our position to protect British taxpayers, and we&#8217;re getting on with the job of focusing on effective ways to stamp out illegal migration, not costly gimmicks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sir Keir and Labour are stuck in a doom loop of perpetual crisis, having failed repeatedly on a promise to stop the small boat crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Chastened by its humiliating defeat at the Gorton and Denton by-election, expect words similar to those of Ms Merkel when General Election campaigning starts, and Labour plunges to new depths of desperation.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all they have got left.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starmer and Labour have been an unmitigated disaster on migration (Image: Getty) Germany has given Britain a glimpse&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[30392,59,57,58,420,2053,285,47154,50,633,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-481883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-angela-merkel","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-keir-starmer","tag-labour-party","tag-migrant-crisis","tag-migration-crisis","tag-news","tag-nigel-farage","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}