Britain’s 7-Step Program to Ruin

Out of about 5,000 seats up for vote in Britain’s recent local council elections, the ruling Labour Party lost 1,100 in its worst-ever result, while the new Reform UK Party gained 1,300. A major factor was migration. Here are seven steps successive governments took that led to that being such an issue.

1. Let mass migration grow faster than the economy.

In the last 30 years, under both Labour and Conservative governments, migration to Britain has been the largest in the country’s history. Unlike prior waves, most of the newest arrivals are not from Europe. The majority are not highly skilled or educated.

In 2023-24, 53% of people in Britain took more in benefits than they paid in taxes. In 2022-23 alone, 51,000 additional foreigners came to the U.K. on “family visas” to join relatives. On average each one will reportedly cost £109,000 pounds ($148,000) more in benefits than each would pay in over their lifetimes. Meanwhile, in the 4th quarter of 2025, the British economy grew only 0.1%.

That “math ain’t mathin here,” to quote Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Mo.

2. Normalize crime and fail to punish offenders.

In response to a teenage mob looting shops, London Mayor Sadiq Khan said the city was safe and that to say otherwise was misinformation. He is right that murder rates are lower than in large U.S. cities, but safety isn’t just about being alive, it’s also about not having your phone or bag snatched or not being menaced by gangs of juvenile thugs.

Khan is trying to pull wool over Londoners’ eyes, but they can see crimes such as phone stealing, sexual assault, and shoplifting have risen dramatically during the same period mass migration brought millions of people from far-flung cultures to Britain. Londoners are meant to just accept that higher street crime is unrelated to the political decisions that radically changed the city’s demography.

In Central London, one used to be able to walk without fear of being mugged or seeing a shoplifter. Things have changed.

In early March, BBC News presenter Ben Thompson was leaving a restaurant in the posh Mayfair district when a group of thieves stole his Rolex. The only two caught were Hocine Boulanouar and Danis Tom-Deter, both from Algeria, whose “gangs have long made London the phone snatch capital of the world,” writes James Fielding in the Daily Mail. Boulanouar already had a criminal conviction for theft. Why was he still in England?

The seaside town of Brighton was as safe a place as I can remember as a child. Last October, Egyptian Ibrahim Alshafe and Iranian Abdulla Ahmadi, 26, allegedly gang-raped a woman on a beach there while another Egyptian, Karin Al-Danasurt, filmed them. All three appear to have been housed at government expense. Al-Danasurt’s asylum claim had been rejected. But he was still in England free to wander the beach because though Britain’s asylum bar is low enough for an ant to get over, even those rejected aren’t deported in a timely manner.

In the northern city of Rotheram, Banaras Hussain was a ringleader of a “grooming gang” of men that raped at least 15 girls as young as 11 years old for over a decade. He was sentenced to 19 years in prison in 2016, yet he has just been allowed out on parole. The rape gangs—primarily men of Pakistani origin targeting indigenous English girls—were a national scandal that most media and politicians suppressed for years, to avoid the politically dangerous connection of crime to migration and culture.

3. Lower the bar for legal entry.

For decades Britain granted tourist, work, and student visas on easy terms. The nation allowed “students” to bring dependent families. Combined with a low bar for asylum applications and lengthy delays, this was a recipe for disaster.

Diploma mills with pathetically low entry standards mushroomed. Low-quality or bogus schools work in partnership with agencies in corrupt countries with an over-supply of young people. Huge numbers of students, particularly from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, and Nigeria, claim asylum—around 15,000 last year.

While some foreign students in the U.K. are talented and genuinely studying, many are there simply to get a work visa. This video from Conservative Member of Parliament Chris Philp shows how the student scam works.

4. Make it easy to enter illegally.

Since 2018, over 200,000 illegal immigrants—mostly young men from Africa and the Middle East—have arrived by small boats. Once they get to the U.K., they claim asylum. However weak their case, they are housed, fed, and taken care of by the British taxpayer while awaiting a decision. Hundreds of aimless young men are placed in hotels, army bases, and makeshift shelters. When locals get angry, the government ignores their complaints or calls them racist for noticing.

While Starmer’s Labour government is feckless, British courts would undermine even a competent effort to crack down. In February, a judge ruled that at least 70 illegal boat migrants should be paid almost $9,000 each because their cellphones were taken from them, allegedly breaching the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). This piece of legislation has been weaponized to assist mass economic migration.

The best proof that the British government has zero confidence in their own system to eject bogus or rejected asylum seekers is its mooted plans to pay illegal aliens up to £40,000 ($55,000) if they leave the country within seven days, instead of going through the asylum process.

5. Fail to deport even the worst criminals.

Between 2018 and 2025, around 96,002 Afghans, Iranians, Iraqis, and Eritreans entered the U.K. via small boats before claiming asylum. In that time, only 495 (0.5%) were deported. Forget about merely bogus claims—even criminal records and terrorism won’t always get you removed from the U.K.

Albanian career criminal Dorian Puka was convicted of burglary back in 2015 and deported. He snuck back in 2020 and lodged an asylum claim, which allows him to remain for a decade. Mocking British authorities, Puka has posted videos to social media drinking champagne, wearing his six Rolex watches, or with his Ferrari, Lamborghini, and other bling.

In April, Essa Suleiman from Somalia was charged with attempted murder after stabbing two Jewish men in London. He came to the U.K. as a child, and despite a history of violence was able to become a “British national,” so he’s going nowhere.

In 2012, Bangladeshi Shah Rahman was one of three Islamists who plotted to blow up the London Stock Exchange. He was prosecuted and jailed in 2012 but released in 2019, then married a woman from Mauritania, who was herself barred from Britain after airport inspectors found terrorist material on her phone. Rahman applied for asylum but was denied—because the 1951 Refugee Convention allows countries to reject terrorists. Yet a judge let him stay in Britain because sending him back to Bangladesh would supposedly breach his rights under the ECHR. Magnify the convoluted path this case took, with multiple appeals and legal hoops, and you see how the U.K. got into its current mess.

6. Pander to immigrants rather than insisting they assimilate.

In 2017, government education inspectors rated the government-supported Al-Hijrah School in Birmingham as “inadequate,” because it segregated children by sex from age 9, a policy which did not “prepare [children] for life in modern Britain,” the chief inspector said. The library also contained books reportedly “normalising domestic violence and marital rape.”

In the port city of Bristol, the local council holds a half-hour meeting every month for public comment and questions. At the session last March, this video purports to show a Muslim councilor from the Green Party chanting the Islamic sunset call to prayer.  

7. Hide the truth.

The British elite is desperate to keep the public quiet, helped by the BBC, the government-owned, left-leaning media network. But as social media finds cracks in the information armor, the government has tried repression as well. In 2023, 12,000 people were arrested for speech or social media posts, and London police have two dozen officers monitoring online speech. 

Britain is on a knife-edge between two futures: One is to end mass migration, do the hard work of absorbing the millions of new arrivals worthy of keeping, and quickly deport the rest.

The second is to surrender national sovereignty, cultural cohesion, and their future to the endless migration appetite of the “global south.”