A COUNTRY without secure borders and a national identity is not a country at all.
It is just a land mass inhabited by disconnected groups, devoid of shared values or even a common language.
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Tragically, that is the path that Britain is now following.
Obsessed with cultural diversity, contemptuous of our heritage and seduced by the myth that prosperity can be achieved by the import of cheap labour, the political class opened the floodgates and transformed the fabric of our society, leaving many British citizens feeling like aliens in their own land.
Only this week, official statistics revealed that a third of all babies now born in Britain are to foreign mothers.
This has been a revolution imposed without any democratic mandate.
Miserably inept
Neither of the two main parties ever stood on a platform of open borders and immigration anarchy.
But that is precisely what the politicians have inflicted upon us.
In the Brexit referendum of 2016, the electorate voted decisively to take back control.
Instead the number of new arrivals has continued to spiral out of control as the chaos of the immigration system worsens and our rulers remain impotent.
The depressing reality of the current shambles was spelt out yesterday in a report by the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee into the Skilled Worker Visa, expanded by the last Tory government in 2022 to tackle labour shortages.
The Committee was scathing about the management of the scheme, which had led to an influx of 1.2million people over the past four years, three times more than the Home Office had anticipated.
According to the damning report, this department had failed to gather “basic information” on whether migrants had left the country when their visas expired.
Officials had shown “little curiosity about how the route was operating” and since 2020 had refused to conduct any analysis of the data they held on this type of visa.
The Home Office is clueless about the number of over-stayers here, just as it has no idea how many illegal immigrants there are in Britain.
After a wave of immigration scandals in 2006, the tough-minded Home Secretary John Reid famously described his department as “not fit for purpose”.
Those words are even more appropriate, as the department limps from one controversy to another, too gripped by incompetence and dogma to change course.
The Labour Government has been just as miserably inept over the small boats crossing the Channel.
Starmer’s promise
Sir Keir Starmer came to power last year promising to “smash the gangs” of people smugglers, but all he has smashed are the records for the size of the influx.
So far 20,000 people have made the journey to England in 2025, a 50 per cent rise on 2024 and easily the highest total for the first half of any year.
All Labour’s measures — such as ever- greater payments for the French police or the creation of new bureaucratic agencies — have proved predictably futile.
Yesterday the BBC was exulting over the action of the French in stopping one dinghy by slashing its hull in shallow waters — which proves that the authorities there can act if they really want to.
But at the same time, another five boats made it across the Channel.
The shocking dysfunction of the authorities was also highlighted in an investigation by this newspaper into the creation of a secret kitchen, complete with delivery teams, at the taxpayer-funded Cedar Court asylum hotel in Wakefield.
This hotel belongs to the Monaco-based EC4 Group, which is set to make an astonishing £2.5billion from the public purse over the next ten years through the provision of accommodation for asylum-seekers.
But having received such colossal sums, the hotel is not meant to sublet its premises for burger production or seemingly employ its subsidised residents, who, under current asylum rules, are prohibited from working.
Yet the whole creaking immigration structure is riddled with abuses, which is why it is so easy to exploit.
Vast burdens
The Sun reported this week that a group of migrant delivery riders, staying at the taxpayers’ expense at the Thistle City Barbican hotel in London, were arrested in a raid by immigration officers.
Yet within 24 hours they were back on their delivery bikes.
The unfairness of the system is glaring.
Illegal migrants who have broken the law to reach our shores are treated with a lavish, state-organised generosity that is denied to most law-abiding Brits, who have to pay for the whole racket through their taxes, with the costs now standing at £5million a day.
This is just part of a massive welfare bill for migration, where it is estimated that almost £1billion a month is spent on Universal Credit for households with at least one foreign national.
In addition, there are the vast burdens imposed by uncontrolled migration on the NHS, policing, housing and other parts of our civic infrastructure.
But there is little hope of change under Labour.
All their political instincts are in favour of free movement.
And so the disturbing transformation of our country — for which we never voted — will continue.
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