This is an extract from an essay published on Matt Goodwin’s Substack on 30th September.
Labour’s Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has just set the stage for yet another betrayal of the British people. That’s the only conclusion one can draw after listening to Shabana Mahmood’s speech at the Labour Party conference.
Because what Labour has put into motion is an entirely new wave of immigration that will further undermine our already weak economy, erode trust in our democracy, put British people at risk, and utterly transform what’s left of an already broken nation.
If the Boriswave has become known for imposing a policy of mass migration from outside Europe that nobody voted for, then Shabana Mahmood’s new policy - what we might call the Shabbywave - is about to put all this on steroids.
It will be characterised by a fresh wave of mainly low-skill, low-wage, poorly-educated and Islamic migrants and refugees from radically different cultures who will not only be allowed into Britain but put on a path towards permanent settlement.
That’s right. Despite Britain already giving permanent settlement to roughly 700,000 people since 2021 alone, and about to give it to millions more Boriswave migrants who arrived between 2021 and 2024, Labour will fast-track another wave of migrants from the Third World into receiving Indefinite Leave to Remain.
They will be allowed to stay in Britain permanently and have unfettered access to welfare benefits, housing, education, and more, all of which will be subsidised and paid for by… the British people.
Despite already having to pay roughly £600 billion to cover the costs of the Boriswave, with most of those arrivals being a net fiscal cost to the British state, the hard-working and long-suffering British people will now have to pay who knows how much for yet another wave of migration they never asked for.
My critics will say “the people who come will work, they will contribute”. Well, look at the evidence. When Denmark imported hundreds of Palestinians during the 1990s, the majority soon had at least one criminal conviction and most lived on welfare.
When Denmark then tracked what happened to their children, more than one-third also had at least one criminal conviction, with many more relying on welfare. And, meanwhile, what evidence we have suggests people from Afghanistan are far more likely than everybody else to commit sexual violence against British women.
“But these will be female refugees”, Labour politicians will say. Not quite. Because thanks to this new wave of migration there will now be endless “chain migration” into Britain - another extreme and disastrous policy nobody voted for.
Here’s what nobody in the Labour Party or Shabana Mahmood’s team is telling you.
Inevitably, all those imported into Britain from the likes of Afghanistan and Palestine will bring their relatives, much like one woman from Gaza was recently able, thanks to human rights laws, to bring her parents, brother, his wife, their four children, her sister, her four children, another sister, her husband, and their three children into Britain. All of whom were then immediately able to access public funds and welfare.
This is what will now happen at scale across Britain.
Get ready Britain. You have been warned. The Shabbywave is coming and it will not be good for the country. It will not be good at all.
Subscribe to Matt Goodwin’s Substack here.
Labour’s Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has just set the stage for yet another betrayal of the British people. That’s the only conclusion one can draw after listening to Shabana Mahmood’s speech at the Labour Party conference.
Because what Labour has put into motion is an entirely new wave of immigration that will further undermine our already weak economy, erode trust in our democracy, put British people at risk, and utterly transform what’s left of an already broken nation.
If the Boriswave has become known for imposing a policy of mass migration from outside Europe that nobody voted for, then Shabana Mahmood’s new policy - what we might call the Shabbywave - is about to put all this on steroids.
It will be characterised by a fresh wave of mainly low-skill, low-wage, poorly-educated and Islamic migrants and refugees from radically different cultures who will not only be allowed into Britain but put on a path towards permanent settlement.
That’s right. Despite Britain already giving permanent settlement to roughly 700,000 people since 2021 alone, and about to give it to millions more Boriswave migrants who arrived between 2021 and 2024, Labour will fast-track another wave of migrants from the Third World into receiving Indefinite Leave to Remain.
They will be allowed to stay in Britain permanently and have unfettered access to welfare benefits, housing, education, and more, all of which will be subsidised and paid for by… the British people.
Despite already having to pay roughly £600 billion to cover the costs of the Boriswave, with most of those arrivals being a net fiscal cost to the British state, the hard-working and long-suffering British people will now have to pay who knows how much for yet another wave of migration they never asked for.
My critics will say “the people who come will work, they will contribute”. Well, look at the evidence. When Denmark imported hundreds of Palestinians during the 1990s, the majority soon had at least one criminal conviction and most lived on welfare.
When Denmark then tracked what happened to their children, more than one-third also had at least one criminal conviction, with many more relying on welfare. And, meanwhile, what evidence we have suggests people from Afghanistan are far more likely than everybody else to commit sexual violence against British women.
“But these will be female refugees”, Labour politicians will say. Not quite. Because thanks to this new wave of migration there will now be endless “chain migration” into Britain - another extreme and disastrous policy nobody voted for.
Here’s what nobody in the Labour Party or Shabana Mahmood’s team is telling you.
Inevitably, all those imported into Britain from the likes of Afghanistan and Palestine will bring their relatives, much like one woman from Gaza was recently able, thanks to human rights laws, to bring her parents, brother, his wife, their four children, her sister, her four children, another sister, her husband, and their three children into Britain. All of whom were then immediately able to access public funds and welfare.
This is what will now happen at scale across Britain.
Get ready Britain. You have been warned. The Shabbywave is coming and it will not be good for the country. It will not be good at all.
Subscribe to Matt Goodwin’s Substack here.
