{"id":532541,"date":"2025-10-28T04:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T04:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/532541\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T04:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T04:46:13","slug":"britains-failing-state-is-handing-farage-win-after-win-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/532541\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s failing state is handing Farage win after win \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Small boats carrying asylum-seekers continue to cross the English Channel, with numbers for this year already surpassing the 2024 total.\u00a0In a farcical twist, one migrant, removed to France with much fanfare under the government\u2019s flagship\u00a0\u201cone in, one out\u201d deterrent scheme, arrived back on U.K. shores by small boat less than a month after being deported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More damaging still, on Friday an asylum-seeker jailed for sexually assaulting a teenager \u2014 and whose crimes sparked a wave of protests in the U.K. over the summer \u2014 was mistakenly released from prison, prompting a weekend manhunt. He was eventually re-arrested on Sunday morning \u2014 but not before torrid headlines and a declaration from Farage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/debate\/article-15226903\/NIGEL-FARAGE-mistaken-release-prison-illegal-migrant-jailed-sexually-assaulting-14-year-old-girl-shocking-indictment-Broken-Britain-Labour-failure-leadership.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that Britain is \u201cbroken<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been \u201cdeeply damaging,\u201d a Labour MP in a marginal seat, who had been door-knocking over the weekend, said of the latest events.<\/p>\n<p>It is \u201cplaying into the hands of Reform that Britain is ungovernable by traditional parties,\u201d the MP, granted anonymity to speak candidly, added. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unlike some of his centrist contemporaries in Europe battling populist insurgents, Starmer should be ascendant. He has a commanding House of Commons majority, and isn\u2019t due to face an election until 2029.<\/p>\n<p>But events\u00a0last week are \u201cgrist to the mill\u201d to Reform\u2019s argument that the British state is \u201ctotally dysfunctional,\u201d\u00a0Reform MP Danny Kruger,\u00a0who defected to Farage\u2019s outfit from the Tories and its leading its preparations for the prisons system, said. Kruger will make a speech Tuesday and told POLITICO he is calling for \u201cserious surgery on the system.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Small boats carrying asylum-seekers continue to cross the English Channel, with numbers for this year already surpassing the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5108,748,6659,33,393,36,4884,40,807,6657,384,1144,15894,5112,712,1199,16,15,1764,3595],"class_list":{"0":"post-532541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-asylum","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-crisis","12":"tag-elections","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-france","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-immigration","17":"tag-keir-starmer","18":"tag-migration","19":"tag-nigel-farage","20":"tag-northern-ireland","21":"tag-racism","22":"tag-rishi-sunak","23":"tag-scotland","24":"tag-services","25":"tag-uk","26":"tag-united-kingdom","27":"tag-wales","28":"tag-wes-streeting"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115449979508747097","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}