It'd be ironic if the UK -- now far more infiltrated with "woke" -- gets all illegal immigrants out before America does.
Like the US, the presence of "woke" is by and large just a result of all the wrong people being in all the right places and NGOs that are helping facilitate the illusion of such policies being far more popular than they actually are.
We have a not-so-well-known group with a lot of institutional support called "Unite Against Fascism", who spun off a group called "Stand up to Racism" specifically to bus people out to the hotel protests occurring across the UK all over 2025. They didn't even hide it the intent to bus people out to protests, and I go into detail in this
post, but you wouldn't know Stand up to Racism was just an affiliate with this covert socialist group because they made sure to hide the connection, otherwise it'd be a clear astroturf given Unite against Fascism has the backing of:
1) The leader of the largest union group in the UK
2) The Muslim council of Britain
3) Labour party politicians.
Regardless the counter protests were pathetic in turnout. Using them an example, whenever you see protests with similarly identical and professional looking signs, it's
very likely the people holding those signs paid not only for the signs, but also paid to participate in the protest.
EDIT: Oh, the only reason the UK would do it faster than the US is simply because there's fewer of them. Being a lot smaller than the US in surface area, Brits naturally have more friction with immigrants, legal or illegal, due to there being less room. You can't as easily move away from the problem like you could in the US (Cali to Texas or something), and given Brits chafe under fewer free speech liberties, have no prospect of "armed uprising" due to inhibited gun rights, and there's been no pressure release on the issue in over a decade, there's certainly a lot of enthusiasm for the prospect of getting them all out post-haste.
not entirely true
reform didn't just come out of nothing, they're Reform UK (formerly Brexit Party (formerly UKIP))
their boss farage has been at it for a long time, well over a decade, he was the biggest pro brexit voice long before the tory government even considered holding that referendum.
Not from nothing, true, but Reform went from getting 3 or 5 seats and barely making double digits in the polls to being above every other party. Farage has a lot of fame but he still wasn't enough to get UKIP, Brexit party, and Reform to make any major gains. It wasn't until summer 2024 - after the election unfortunately - that some sort of reaction occurred to vault Reform into 1st place polling-wise and achieve a ton of local election gains the subsequent year.
Of course my theory is largely on Labour being in power + energisation of the online right + proliferation of the migrant hotel news all contributed significantly to the jump.
If the online right are energised behind Lowe, I'm interested to see if that actually manifests something significant or it'll ultimately be impotent, but we won't know until a month or so goes past. Old people less familiar with tech seem more enthused with Farage but anyone terminally online will likely get behind Lowe, and if their volume somehow forces the MSM into covering it, then you could potentially convert the boomers. But who knows.
