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“Britain’s lost control of its borders,” UK Defence Secretary John Healey announced on television as around 1,200 invaders, many wearing keffiyahs and other clothes related to Islamic terrorism, swarmed across the English Channel, and promptly blamed everyone else.

The UK did not “lose control” over its borders. No more than the Biden administration had lost control over our border with Mexico.

The David Horowitz Freedom Center recently reported that the UK’s Starmer government arrests over 1,000 people a month for social media posts. Is the same government capable of tracking down every Twitter and Facebook post really incapable of stopping a mass invasion happening in plain sight? The Royal Navy has two aircraft carriers, nine submarines, six destroyers and over 30,000 personnel, but can’t figure out how to stop kayaks and rafts?

Nearly 15,000 migrants already invaded the UK this year, but the same British police forces that arrest 12,000 people a year for saying the wrong things online (like migrants shouldn’t be able to overrun England) can’t handle the problem. Arresting Mohammed and his boys for showing up on the beach waving terrorist flags isn’t like hounding some elderly pensioner tweeting about migrant hostels. And your average woke flying squad of secret speech police isn’t interested.

157,000 migrant invaders have entered the UK on these vessels in the last 7 years. The vast majority of them are from Iraq, Sudan, Afghanistan, Syria and other enemy Muslim nations.

Over 7 years, British governments have claimed that they are utterly helpless to stop them.

400 years ago, Englishmen stopped the Spanish Armada while armed with matchlocks and cannons, yet today the entire British Navy, the Army and the rest of the Armed Forces with technology Queen Liz couldn’t have dreamed of, can’t stop Muslim migrants on rafts in shallow water. While over 1,000 invaders swarmed the UK in one day, the Royal Navy was off on Operation Highmast on an eight month mission with a dozen nations showing its “commitment to the security of the Mediterranean and Indo-Pacific region”. And what of England’s security?

The UK outsourced its border security to France. The French get half a million pounds a day to stop the invaders, but since it’s in France’s interest to rid themselves of the invaders as soon as possible before they burn down Paris or run another truck over a crowd celebrating Bastille Day, they allow the vast majority of them through. 10 Downing Street blames the Élysée. The French blame the Italians or the Greeks and then they blame Israel, Global Warming or ‘Root Causes’.

And the great invasion continues.

A major purpose of Brexit was to allow the UK to reclaim control over its own borders, but the dirty secret was that the establishment did not want that control and surrendered it as quickly as possible. D.C. and No. 10 both pretend that they can’t stop the mass invasion that they encouraged and subsidized, and then start mumbling about collective security and root causes.

But the root cause is that the border is open. And it’s open by political design.

We know how and why this got started.

Over a decade ago, an adviser to British Labour leaders, including former Prime Minister Tony Blair, admitted that the government had deliberately set out to “open up the UK to mass migration”, that a cut line argued that “mass immigration was the way that the Government was going to make the UK truly multicultural” and that “the policy was intended – even if this wasn’t its main purpose – to rub the Right’s nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date.”

British authorities lied to the public about their real agenda. “Ministers wouldn’t talk about it. In part they probably realised the conservatism of their core voters: while ministers might have been passionately in favour of a more diverse society, it wasn’t necessarily a debate they wanted to have in working men’s clubs in Sheffield or Sunderland.” And they’re still lying.

The UK has not lost control of its borders. Try to bring too much champagne through customs and you’ll be caught. Hundreds of millions of pounds worth of goods are confiscated or discarded annually at airports and border crossings. But that’s for Europeans. If however your name is Mohammed and you’re coming across in an inflatable dinghy, the same authorities eager to scan every Briton’s possessions throw up their hands and claim impotence.

That’s not what losing control of borders looks like: it’s what ceding control of borders looks like.

After pleading with France to stop the invaders, the Starmer regime will go back to making the argument that the only way to fix the invasion is to crawl back to the EU. Only the protective umbrella of the European Union will finally bring the invasion to an end, they’ll assure the public.

And then they’ll start talking about root causes, middle eastern wars and climate change.

Why do the invaders keep coming? The answer is so simple that it would take a politician to miss it. Statistics show that 93% of the invaders demanded ‘asylum.’ As of last March, 77% got it. Much as under the Biden administration, the invasion grew because it worked.

What began with a few hundred invaders, turned into thousands and then tens of thousands.

Would all the Mohammeds of Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan set out to row across the English Channel if the only thing waiting for them on the other end was a hot towel and a map of the sea routes back to France or better yet Qatar? Obviously not. This isn’t a loss of control, it’s a surrender. It’s not an invasion when you pretend to be upset, but then welcome in the invaders.

Had Churchill resisted the Nazis the way that Starmer resisted the Jihadis, the Luftwaffe could have just come in for a landing at Heathrow and then the authorities would have shrugged and explained to the public that nothing could be done about it because they were already here.

Starmer’s defeatism is not incompetence or ineptitude, it’s a strategy. The same strategy that Labour was following a generation ago to fundamentally transform the UK by making it more “diverse” and thus more likely to elect Labour candidates and the occasional Caliphate fanboy.

The same faux helpless authorities who can’t do anything about the population of an Iraqi town showing up in one year can zoom in on a single critic who complains about the invaders, and have two vans, six policemen and a 6-month investigation waiting for them in an hour or less.

They’re not helpless, they’re collaborators. The invasion isn’t happening despite their efforts, but because of their efforts, because it suits their agenda for the transformation of the UK.

Britain hasn’t lost control of its borders, but it still hasn’t regained control of its government.