OPINION:
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer retreated Monday from his cynical decision to cancel upcoming local elections. The Labor Party leader knows his team is about to be clobbered at the ballot box because Britons aren’t happy.
A Gallup survey earlier this month concluded: “The United Kingdom is more likely than any other country in the world to cite immigration as its top national problem.” This awakening has boosted the political fortunes of Reform UK, the alternative right-of-center party committed to making Britain great again.
Led by Nigel Farage, Reform dominated last year’s local contests, racking up 781 wins compared with the paltry 134 council races where Mr. Starmer’s acolytes emerged victorious. Members of Parliament who aren’t afraid of being British have gained traction by spotlighting the nightmare Labor and the Tories created with their open-border policies.
Another conservative faction leader, Restore Britain’s Rupert Lowe, just wrapped up a “rape gang inquiry” that heard from the victims of asylum-seekers. “Meeting these women, and men, listening to how severely they were failed by those tasked to protect them? My views have changed forever. I knew it was bad. I never knew how bad it was,” Mr. Lowe explained on X.
Mr. Lowe intends to release findings that should help bring to justice malefactors let free by cowering officials who refused to apply the law to uninvited foreign nationals lest they be seen as racist. “I started this inquiry because so many others failed. Speaking honestly, I did not understand how deep this evil is rooted in our society,” he wrote.
Last week, the Warwick Crown Court found Ahmad Mulakhil guilty of kidnapping and assaulting a 12-year-old girl playing on a swing in a park in July. A co-conspirator filmed the despicable deed, leaving little doubt in the minds of jurors about the Afghan national’s culpability.
The politically correct police force initially concealed the perpetrator’s identity, lest the public realize that the predator had arrived on a tiny boat four months before the crime. Warwickshire County Council member George Finch, a Reform UK member, tried to warn his constituents.
“I was told that if I released this, I would be in contempt of court, that I cannot release this due to this phrase ‘community cohesion.’ That’s the problem,” Mr. Finch said. Liberals don’t want the public to notice that Mulakhil was living in a taxpayer-funded rental house as part of Labor’s scheme to disperse illegal aliens throughout the nation without the community’s knowledge or consent.
Parliament will soon consider a public petition demanding the publication of court proceedings at no cost to prevent authorities from covering up inconvenient facts. “We must obtain the full horror of the rape gangs from these court transcripts. The British people deserve to know the unredacted brutal truth,” Mr. Lowe said.
Word is getting out. A January Ipsos poll lists Reform as the top political party, beating Labor by 8 percentage points. If so, Reform could secure a parliamentary majority in a coalition with conservative groups.
Unfortunately, that’s not likely to happen for a while. The public handed the keys to 10 Downing St. to Mr. Starmer in 2024, and he doesn’t have to give them back until 2029. Perhaps the growing wave of regret across the Atlantic will inspire Americans to recognize the importance of their civic duty.
What’s happening in once-great Britain also happened on our shores. An unwise public choice in the midterms could stop President Trump’s ongoing effort to reverse the damage.
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