Sir Keir: Tories Are A Busted Flush.

Sir Keir Starmer came down hard on Kemi Badenoch's Tory Party. Sir Keir aimed his fire at Ms. Badenoch. Saying that the Tory Party was a "busted flush". They had received a good bashing from Reform UK at the other week's local elections, mayoral elections, and by-elections. He described Kemi Badenoch as a leader with no vision. He said the Tories had not learnt the lessons of their loss from last July's general election. They were still going ahead like they had always done, clueless and rudderless. To sum up, the Conservatives are like that steam train in "Back to the Future III" as the train pushes that time car and speeds up to make the jump back to 1985. Except the Tory Party is not the car that goes back to the future, it's the outdated steam train that has blown its boiler and careers off the cliff into oblivion. Oblivion could be a real outcome for the Tories.

Labour did better than the Tories overall in those last elections. However, they were behind Reform UK and lost in many places. Sir Keir has come to the realisation that it's not the Conservatives or Kemi Badenoch who will be his greatest challenge at the next general election. It is the surging Reform UK and, most importantly, Nigel Farage. As things stand now, Reform UK are the greatest challenge to Keir Starmer and Labour. They, instead of the Conservatives on the present trajectory, are the ones who could stop Labour from having a second term.

So Sir Keir knows he has to step up and out-Farage Farage. One of the biggest things concerning people seems to be the endless tide of migrants. People are just coming here, freeloading. Getting a doctor, housing, benefits, etc, while Native Brits are left floundering. This creates anger and resentment in the host population. And when they hear language like Nigel Farage espouses, he is talking their language. Yes, many attracted to Farage's banner are racists, let's make no bones about that. However, many are concerned about the impact of people coming here.

So with or without that in mind, Sir Keir sought to tell the British people that he had heard that message of concern about foreigners. Hence, his speech of "Strangers in a Strange Land". Saying the UK was becoming a land where Native Brits felt lost in a land increasingly becoming unrecognisable as the homogenous UK. Yes, while the majority of the population remains Native Brit, many areas of the UK look, let's be honest, foreign! That's not racist, it's observational and a fact. Many people coming here do work hard and build up Britain, whether they are South Asians or Eastern Europeans. Many 2nd or 3rd generations of foreign descent are also concerned about the number of people coming here alongside their Native compatriots. Would they vote for Reform? Yes, because as British citizens, they have the same right to vote for any party as anyone else does.

In a survey before Sir Keir's "Strangers in a Strange Land" speech, many people said they felt lost. Yes, foreign areas of Britain made them feel like this. Also, post-Brexit and post-COVID, many felt lonely and lost by these events. Many felt worried because of the "cost of living" crisis. Many feel isolated because now many work at home. So immigration is just one concern of a plethora of issues.

Sir Keir has already done something on immigration. He says more people are being flown back than ever, raids on businesses employing migrants as cheap labour, more holding centres for illegal people before being sent back if they have no right to be here. Sir Keir has set up the Border Force Command, a multi-agency group to tackle illegal immigration and migration.

So, in summary, Sir Keir has written off the Tories as the main opposition. He is now focused on the Farage persona and how to overcome it.