Keir Starmer has gone from “we’ll smash the gangs” to “we’ll go into business with the gangs,” says Conservative MP.
Remember when Keir Starmer promised to “smash the gangs” bringing illegal migrants across the Channel? Well now he’s not smashing them — he’s practically going into business with them.
That’s right. The Labour Government, under Starmer’s watch, is now offering landlords five-year taxpayer-backed rental deals to house the ever-growing number of small boat arrivals. You pay the rent. You foot the bill. And they get the homes.
This isn’t just some one-off trial. As revealed in The Telegraph, the Home Office has launched a full-blown drive to enlist landlords for housing asylum seekers. One contractor, Serco, already boasts of managing more than 30,000 asylum seekers in over 7,000 properties… and they want more.
A Sweetheart Deal – For Them
Landlords are being lured with perks most renters could only dream of: full rent paid on time every month, zero arrears, maintenance and repairs covered, utilities and council tax paid. Meanwhile, you struggle to pay your own rising rent or get on the housing ladder.
Serco is even holding landlord recruitment events at four-star hotels, a world away from the crumbling high streets and overcrowded GP surgeries where these decisions land hardest.
And who loses? British families. Young workers. The 1.3 million already on social housing waiting lists. Homeless people desperate for shelter. This is not compassion… it’s displacement.
Conservative MP Nick Timothy was quick to hit the nail on the head saying: “Starmer has gone from ‘we’ll smash the gangs’ to ‘we’ll go into business with the gangs.'”
A Promise Broken, A Crisis Worsening
In the run up to last year’s General Election, Keir Starmer vowed he’d end asylum hotels and “save taxpayers billions”. But now, instead of scrapping the problem, he’s just moved it down the road into YOUR neighbourhood — and called it a “solution.”
The only thing Starmer scrapped was the Rwanda plan which was the only deterrent. Channel crossings are up nearly 45% on last year. That’s 9,638 people so far this year alone. We’ve now hit a 10-year high for asylum accommodation, with 65,700 being housed by contractors. Labour says they’re speeding things up — but the numbers are only speeding in one direction: up.
The Rwanda plan, ridiculed by Labour, was designed as a deterrent. Not a silver bullet, but a clear message: Britain will not be a soft touch. Now, the message is: turn up illegally and we’ll hand you the keys to a taxpayer-funded home.
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp called it what it is: “a better deal for illegal immigrants than for the hard-working, tax-paying Brits who’ve played by the rules all their lives.”
Enough is Enough
This isn’t about turning our backs on the vulnerable. It’s about restoring fairness, control, and sanity. And the current approach fails on all three fronts.
The Government says it has a “statutory duty” to house destitute asylum seekers. Fine. But what about our moral duty to our own citizens? To young people who can’t afford rent, to families crammed into B&Bs, to veterans sleeping rough?
Even Labour’s own candidate in Runcorn wants the local asylum hotel closed. She knows voters are fed up with this madness. She knows it’s not working. So why won’t Starmer listen?
It’s time to bring back the deterrent. Bring back Rwanda. And bring back some backbone.
Until then, Starmer’s Britain is clear: if you arrive here illegally, you’ll be looked after — and if you’ve lived here all your life, you’ll be punished and left behind.
Read the full story in The Telegraph here.
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