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Labour’s latest anti-immigration stunt is racist reality TV for the far-right. Literally.

The Labour Party just ramped up its racist political theatre for the far-right with another disgusting anti-immigration stunt.

As first reported in the Times, it seems that Keir Starmer is taking the fight right to Reform and Nigel Farage’s front door. Like some grim reality TV show, the government is planning to:

publish a series of videos showing the “journey” of an illegal immigrant, from detention in early morning raids to transfer from bleak immigration removal centres to waiting planes and — subject to approval — footage aboard flights out of the country

Politicians from the Green Party pointed out the similarities to Reform policies:

It’s obvious this is Labour continuing its lurch to the right, all in a gross bid to win-over racist Reform voters.

Labour seem to be having a bit of an identify crisis.

Of course, in reality, this is the Labour right to a Tory ‘T’. They’ll be cracking out the Miliband “Controls on Immigration” mugs any day now. So no “change” there then:

Jeremy Corbyn highlighted that its all about demonising migrants making dangerous journeys to reach the UK. Political scapegoating like this will put more lives at risk:

Of course, the stunt will do nothing to stop people making these fatal journeys. To do that, the government needs to expand safe routes to asylum in the UK – something which doesn’t fit Labour’s narrative of being tough on immigration.

Ultimately though, the point isn’t to save migrant lives. It’s to bolster Labour’s popularity with the racist voters it now sees as its base:

What kind of dystopian shit is this? Oh wait, it’s the Labour right

Labour’s Clive Lewis was quick to point out a potential new revenue stream. Seeing as though Labour are not usually afraid of making money from people suffering, it doesn’t even seem as far-fetched as his sarcasm intended:

Vilifying migrants for ratings from racists like is some Hunger Games-like dystopian shit if ever there was some:


Very ‘Tory DWP minister donning a stab vest and swaggering about in a dawn benefit raid‘ video. A poster on X pitched that maybe Labour could roll out a whole series:

Pandering to far-right fascist shitheads

Ultimately though, it won’t end well for Labour. Pandering to Reform will only fuel the rise of the far right. However, it’s going to end worst of all for asylum seekers – because that’s who its racist showboating will continue to harm.

Because when it comes down to it, Labour is using the same, racist, “hostile environment” playbook that’s continued to devastate migrant lives. And when it inevitably does fail, Reform will be grinning gormlessly and spewing its fascist plans to finally put a stop to immigration – which also wouldn’t work obviously – but that won’t matter. Come the next election, Labour’s vote will collapse much like the Tories’ did.

Instead of making a show out of migrants suffering, the government should treat migrants with the dignity and respect they deserve, and open up safe passage to them. Migrants lives should never be a political football – least of all to win-over the far-right fascist shitheads fawning over Farage’s racist vanity show-turned-political party. The return of the Labour right nasty party is sure giving it a run for its money on that front though.

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By HG

This post was originally published on Canary.