Labour’s Race to the Bottom

The extent to which Liberal England has collapsed, alongside and connected to the complete disintegration of British identity should be watched closely. This is not a partisan attack on the Labour government, but a close examination of the rise of right-wing populism which is infecting the political culture of the West, and specifically here in ‘Britain’. The essential alarm at the coup happening in the USA mustn’t blind us to the profound changes happening under the Labour government.

After the announcement that immigration raids would be televised, in a move that was part Priti Patel / part V for Vendetta, now the BBC tell us that “Benefit fraudsters are to be identified publicly”.

This isn’t new, though the public shaming is. We featured it last year, at that time disability activist Dr Jay Watts commented: “The idea that we should be suspicious of benefits claimants for ‘fleecing the system’ has been erroneously sold as fact for the past decades, with devastating effects on hearts, bodies, and minds. Ideas of moral worth get inside us. Starmer’s words are violent and dangerous.” She’s absolutely right. This remains true today.

Starmer has commandeered the narrative of the tabloid right.

Watts continues: “Starmer is to announce a new fraud, error and debt bill to ‘modernise the DWP’. This is already covered by existing legislation. It will terrify people and perpetuate the public’s misperception benefits fraud is a huge problem in this country. Reminder: PIP fraud rate is 0%.”

The plan of public shaming ‘benefit fraudsters’ and ‘illegal immigrants’ runs in parallel. They represent a race to the bottom as Labour runs for its electoral life from the clutches of Reform UK. Today’s PMQs was dominated by Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch debating which of them will be toughest on refugees and migrants, while Starmer accuses the Conservatives of having an “open borders” policy.

Apparently, Kemi Badenoch had another terrible performance at Prime Minister’s Questions. She could be given the heave in Spring. But that isn’t really the point. Badenoch and Starmer agree on the terrible prospect of offering a family of six from Gaza refuge in the UK:

Kemi Badenoch begins PMQs by asking Keir Starmer about a family of six from Gaza, who have been given refuge in the UK, through the Ukraine Family Scheme.

The Prime Minister replied saying he ‘does not agree with the decision’https://t.co/al7j1cCtic

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— Sky News (@SkyNews) February 12, 2025

As Andrew Fisher, the former Labour Executive Director of Policy, and now a sort of freelance conscience for the Labour Party said:

“Explicit racism openly argued by our politicians. What a depressing spectacle. We set up the Ukrainian scheme for Ukrainians who have had their country invaded and bombed. We welcomed 200,000 We can’t have 6 Gazans who have had their country invaded and razed to the ground.”

The top two UK political parties are now competing with each other to be as hostile as they possibly can to anyone wishing to come to this country. Adam Bienkov, Political Editor of Byline Times adds: “The news that the Home Office has issued new guidance, all but forbidding any refugee who arrives in the UK via a “dangerous” route from ever being granted citizenship, is just the latest depressing example of this trend.”

[ see ‘New change to Home Office policy permanently blocks refugees from citizenship‘ – Ed]

“The guidance, which is an even more restrictive version of guidelines issued to enforce the Conservative Government’s unlawful Rwanda scheme, is also a potential breach of the UN Refugee Convention. Under the convention, which the UK helped to found, states must not penalise anyone seeking asylum, even if they do so by entering the country illegally.”

And you are surprised when younger people think Britain is a racist country?

The permanently excluded ex Labour MP for Coventry South, Zara Sultana: said “The UK welcomes Ukrainians but shuts out Palestinians — even as UK-made weapons fuel their genocide. Safe routes for some; moral panic and cruelty for others. There’s a name for that: anti-Palestinian racism.”

You wonder where this will end? At what point do the remnant Left in Britain break from the Labour Party?