Keir Starmer's Labour government has presided over a staggering immigration surge, with net migration hitting 906,000 in the year ending June 2023—largely non-EU arrivals, including thousands of unvetted young men crossing the Channel in small boats.
By 2024, figures dipped to 431,000, but the damage lingers: strained housing, overburdened services, and rising public anxiety over unchecked inflows of fighting-age males fuelling crime and social tensions.
Starmer, who once decried Tory laxity, scrapped the Rwanda deterrent on day one, exacerbating the chaos he now claims to fix. Enter his "solution": mandatory digital IDs for all working adults by 2029, stored on phones and checked against a central database to verify right-to-work status.
This isn't bold reform—it's a cynical pivot, outsourcing border failure to tech surveillance that risks hacking nightmares and civil liberties erosion. Starmer admits past "squeamishness" on migration, yet this Big Brother card won't deter boats; it'll just tag Brits while migrants slip through.
Worse, too many UK residents remain willfully blind. Over 1.6 million have signed petitions against it, branding it a "dystopian nightmare," and polls show 32% outright opposed.
But millions more lounge in apathy, too lazy to protest beyond grumbles, letting politicians erode freedoms unchallenged. Wake up, Britain—this isn't security; it's surrender. Demand real borders, not digital shackles.