COMMENT: Let’s call this what it is: a backdoor return to free movement, plain and simple.
Keir Starmer has faced widespread fury over his Brexit deal (Image: Getty)
When the good people of Dudley – and millions across the country – voted to leave the European Union, we knew exactly what we were voting for: control of our borders, our laws, and our destiny.
We voted to put British workers first and end the flood of cheap labour that’s held down wages and squeezed our services for decades.
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What is Labour offering us now? A betrayal dressed up as a policy.
Let’s call this what it is: a backdoor return to free movement, plain and simple.
Keir Starmer has tried to reset relations with Europe (Image: Getty)
Keir Starmer and the Labour Party are pushing an “uncapped youth mobility scheme” with the EU — letting in potentially hundreds of thousands of young EU nationals to live and work here for up to four years. No limits. No caps. No serious attempt to control numbers.
That’s not “mobility.” That’s mass immigration — rebranded for Guardian readers.
And what happens when you flood the market with more workers, particularly in lower-skilled sectors? Wages go down. Ask anyone in the Midlands or the North who’s been competing for work or shifts. More cheap labour means more pressure on British pay packets – and that’s before we talk about the impact on housing, schools, GPs, or transport.
Labour knows it. The Conservatives know it too — they just don’t want to admit it.
As if that wasn’t enough, Labour now wants to give EU students the same tuition fees as British students. Not just a betrayal of British taxpayers, but a slap in the face to our own young people, who are already struggling under student debt. Why should families in Dudley or Doncaster subsidise students from Berlin or Bordeaux?
And behind all this is something even worse: the quiet return of EU rule-taking.
Labour’s plan to “align” with EU food and agricultural rules would mean accepting Brussels’ regulations without having any say over them — the very opposite of taking back control. Once again, we’d be told what to do by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels.
But here’s the kicker: doing this wrecks our ability to sign proper trade deals — particularly with countries like Australia, New Zealand, India, and key members of the CPTPP. These nations value sovereignty. They expect their partners to set their own rules — not copy and paste EU diktats.
Under Labour, we risk losing that freedom. Risk losing trade. Risk losing our future.
Let’s not forget: the very people behind these proposals are the same ones who pushed for a second referendum, who spent years trying to overturn your vote, who mocked and sneered at Brexit voters in Dudley and beyond. Now they’re trying to drag us back in bit by bit — hoping we won’t notice.
Well, we’ve noticed. And we won’t stay silent.
Starmer and his backers – cheered on by a few Remainer Tories who’d happily rejoin if they could – are selling out Britain’s working class once again. They talk about fairness and opportunity, but they’re happy to let unlimited foreign workers undercut British labour, all while we foot the bill.
This isn’t just a bad policy. It’s a deliberate betrayal of Brexit – and of the people who made it happen.
We fought for our freedom once. We’ll fight again.
Reform UK is ready. It is the real opposition.
The political establishment may want to go back to Brussels — but we won’t let them.
