When did defending your country’s borders become right-wing? When did suggesting that mass migration serves Capital rather than the common people become unspeakable in polite progressive company? And when, precisely, did the British left decide that working-class communities must simply absorb unprecedented demographic change while being called bigots for noticing?
These questions cut to the heart of what socialism means. Because if socialism is not about protecting the material interests of working people, the security of their communities, and their democratic right to determine who enters their country, then it is not socialism at all. It is bourgeois liberalism with a red flag draped over it.
Britain has experienced a demographic transformation without precedent in peacetime. Net migration peaked at 944,000 in the year to March 2023, a figure so staggering that the ONS initially underestimated it. It has since fallen sharply to 345,000 by the end of 2024, and further to 204,000 by June 2025. Yet even this “lower” figure remains historically elevated, and the cumulative impact of the Boris-era surge has fundamentally altered the country.
Labour Heartlands defends controlled borders, not because we hate foreigners but because we understand class. Mass migration is a tool of Capital, used to depress wages, weaken unions, and fragment working-class solidarity.
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