Keir Starmer Just Got Hit With a Brutal Reality Check on Migrant Crackdown

Keir Starmer was dealt a stinging blow when GB News interrupted its programming with a breaking update on migrants — and the reaction was anything but polite.

The big announcement revealed a new government push to crack down on social media content promoting dangerous small boat crossings across the English Channel. Under the new laws, anyone advertising transport in one of these boats could face up to five years in prison.

Some are calling it a step forward. Others? Not so much. GB News presenter Ben Leo wasn’t holding back.

“The issue with this story is, we are going to be jailing these people in the UK as if we have so many free prison spaces anyway,” he said, clearly frustrated. “We are literally letting paedophiles and child abusers walk free from sentencing because there’s no space”, reported the Express.

American broadcaster Lewis Schaffer wasn’t impressed either, slamming the government for dodging responsibility. “They say people have been forced to come because there’s some trafficker who’s been offered money and if we get rid of the trafficker then no one will want to come to the country. It’s a huge plot to bring people to the country.”

But former Labour special adviser Paul Richards jumped in to defend the move, saying critics can’t have it both ways.

“Week after week you’re saying we need to do more to crack down so Yvette Cooper comes out with something which is cracking down and putting these people where they belong, behind bars,” Richards said. “I think it’s a good idea. It’s another step forward in breaking this business model.”

Leo shot back, making his stance crystal clear. “Let me be clear, I don’t want these people in the country in the first place, let alone in our prisons.”

Richards didn’t flinch. “Good, well lock up the people who are trying to get them here.”

Schaffer wasn’t convinced the law would actually do anything, insisting no one would serve real time. “It doesn’t matter because it’s just a small number of people you’re pinning the blame on.”

Then former police officer Peter Bleksley landed what many saw as the most brutal blow to the Prime Minister yet.

“It’s a very clear sign that when it comes to ‘smashing the gangs,’ which your almighty leader promised us, they’re making it up as they go along,” Bleksley declared. He claimed the government probably just saw an ad for illegal crossings and decided to pass a law about it on the spot.

“It shows they’re doing it on the hoof,” he said. “They haven’t really strategised this. They don’t have an actual solution to stop people coming into the country. We all see through it, Paul.”

Schaffer agreed, calling it a scam. “It’s so fraudulent. That’s the problem with the government, they’re all fraudulent. Just put a boat between here and France.”