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Keir Starmer’s Offer to Asylum Seekers Exposed in Fresh Updates  and Britain Is Fed Up with What He Did

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I can’t help but wonder if Keir Starmer and his team have ever heard of the basic idea of supply and demand before deciding on their latest plan.

Imagine if, for the next five years, your rent was completely covered, your council tax was paid, and your gas and electricity bills were also taken care of. Sounds great, right? Well, apparently, there’s a way to make that happen — just be a migrant, and like magic, the Home Office will sort it all out for you.

This surprising situation came to light after Serco, a private company working for the Home Office, published a document asking landlords in places like the North West, the Midlands, and the East of England to rent out their homes to the growing number of asylum seekers.

Normally, many landlords — especially those who own just one or two properties as their small business — would be very hesitant to rent to people without proper documentation. A lot of asylum seekers, when they reach Britain, throw away their passports at sea, which makes it hard to prove their real age or even which country they came from.

Now, instead of paying for expensive hotel rooms for migrants, Starmer’s plan is to house them in private homes, which he believes will save money. Sure, it might be cheaper than hotels — but wouldn’t it be much cheaper if we simply didn’t allow so many migrants in the first place?

In just the first four months of this year, 9,500 migrants have arrived by boat — that’s a 33% increase compared to last year. You don’t hear politicians talking much anymore about stopping the gangs that bring them over. Honestly, it feels like instead of fighting the smugglers, the government is rolling out a red carpet — for the gangs and now for the landlords.

This plan is likely to have serious effects. Thousands of flats and houses will be snapped up for migrants, meaning fewer homes available for local people. And when supply drops but demand stays the same or rises, what happens? Prices go up. That’s basic supply and demand — something Starmer and his team seem to have completely ignored.

What’s even more shocking is that Serco is already managing 7,000 properties, housing around 30,000 migrants. No wonder it’s so hard to find a place to rent or why rents have become unaffordable for so many ordinary people.

Serco says that moving migrants into rented homes would lower the cost per night from £145 to £34. Sure, that’s a big saving on paper — but is this really a sustainable solution for the country?

A few weeks ago, I saw a poll showing that, for the first time, more people in Britain are worried about immigration than they are about problems in the NHS or high energy bills. Yet despite that, we have a Prime Minister with a huge majority who seems completely unconcerned about the number of people arriving here or the frustration it’s causing among the public.

Starmer talks as if he’s serious about solving the migration issue, but when it comes down to action, he delivers nothing meaningful. With parties like Reform and the Greens threatening Labour from both sides in the local elections, Starmer’s team has been telling newspapers that they plan to make it harder for foreign students to stay in Britain by stopping them from taking low-paid jobs like care work.

But really, is that it? The whole country is furious about migration, and all they offer is a small tweak to student visa rules? That’s not a real policy — it’s just something to grab a headline.

I’m certain that in places like Runcorn and Mosely  where a by-election is happening after a drunken Labour MP was convicted of assaulting someone — the Reform party will crush Labour at the polls. Even though it’s one of Labour’s safest seats, people are furious. They’ve had their winter fuel payments taken away, they’re facing massive tax increases, and they feel trapped under incompetent leadership with no real way to change things.

There’s a lot of talk that Wes Streeting could be a better leader for Labour. But honestly, it won’t matter who’s in charge if Labour keeps ignoring the migration crisis. Until they get serious about the problem, they’ll keep losing public support and elections.

The only small bit of good news is that while Labour is busy trying to please landlords instead of the voters, they’re making themselves unelectable.