Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Conservative\nParty decisively won the United Kingdom\u2019s December 12 election. The Tories not\nonly increased their parliamentary contingent but gained an outright majority\nof seats. This was a major victory for the cause of national sovereignty and showed\nthat many Britons do not wish to lose control over the UK\u2019s borders and\nimmigration policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Conservatives won 43.6 percent of the vote, up from\n42.4 in 2017, but increased their seats from 317 to 365 (in a 650-member\nparliament). The Labour Party, led by radical leftist Jeremy Corbyn, lost 8\npercentage points \u2013 gaining 32 percent of the vote, down from 40 percent two\nyears ago \u2013 and suffered a major loss of 60 parliamentary seats (from 262 to\n202).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For the Tories, this is the greatest<\/a> victory since the days of Margret Thatcher during the 1980s. The Labour Party, in turn, has not held fewer seats in the House of Commons since 1935. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Commentators have provided several reasons for the Conservative win. These include accusations of anti-Semitism<\/a> levied at Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, as well as his pronounced economic and social radicalism<\/a>. Brexit and immigration \u2013 both of which are indisputably related to national sovereignty \u2013 also undoubtedly played a role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Prime Minister Johnson told his supporters: \u201cI will\nput an end to all that nonsense, and we will get Brexit done on time by the\nJanuary 31 [2020] \u2013 no ifs, no buts, no maybes, (\u2026). Leaving the European Union\nas one United Kingdom, taking back control of our laws, borders, money, our\ntrade, immigration system, delivering on the democratic mandate of the people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Johnson also support a merit-based points system for immigration and threatened<\/a> to send migrants attempting to cross the English Channel illegally into the UK on boats back to continental Europe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n One article<\/a> points out just how interconnected the issues of Brexit and immigration are in the UK: \u201cJohnson owes his success, in part, to traditionally Labour-voting working class constituencies in northern England that backed the Conservatives because of the party\u2019s promise to deliver Brexit. During the 2016 referendum, many of the communities voted to leave the EU because of concerns that immigrants were taking their jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Corbyn and his Labour Party, on the other hand, were running on a pro-mass-immigration, pro-open-borders platform<\/a>, in addition to a \u201cneutral\u201d<\/a> stance on Brexit and a second referendum (proposing to retain \u201cfreedom of movement\u201d<\/a> even if Brexit occurs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n If Americans following British and European politics\nget the impression that they have seen this scenario play out somewhere before\n\u2013 and much closer to home \u2013 they are probably right. Much like in the United\nStates three years ago, British voters sent a clear message to a political\nestablishment that condescendingly wishes to circumvent the democratic will of\nthe people whenever it goes against said establishment\u2019s globalist, pro-mass-immigration,\nand pro-open-borders proclivities. It also shows that being bold, clear, and\ndecisive on issues of national sovereignty and immigration \u2013 rather than\nwishy-washy and equivocal \u2013 can be a winning political strategy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Conservative Party decisively won the United Kingdom\u2019s December 12 election. The Tories not only increased their parliamentary contingent but gained an outright majority of seats. This was a major victory for the cause of national sovereignty and showed that many Britons do not wish to lose control over the<\/p>\n