I WONDER who told Sir Keir Starmer to announce that Great Britain risks becoming “an island of strangers”, when talking about immigration?

It doesn’t sound much like the kind of thing he’d come up with. He has all the rhetorical flourish of a Chatty Cathy doll whose batteries have run down.

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Sir Keir Starmer recognised that Great Britain has become 'an island of strangers'Credit: Getty

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We have let into this country far, far, far too many peopleCredit: AFP

Maybe it was his clever adviser Boaty McBoatface — or Morgan McSweeney as he’s better known.

Anyhow, it struck a chord with millions of people up and down the country.

All the more so because it contained a deliberate — surely — echo of what Enoch Powell said 57 years ago. Ol’ Knocker said that people felt like strangers in their own country. Couldn’t be more right.

Sir Keir has denied he was channelling Knocker.

But then he would, wouldn’t he? The left of the Labour Party is already ratcheting up the hysteria — screaming “Wacist!” which is what they do every time someone tells the truth about immigration.

And the truth is this — we have let into this country far, far, far too many people.

They have changed the culture of our nation and not entirely for the better. Yes, they have often provided a boost to the economy and some are employed in vital occupations.

But that does not excuse the import of millions and millions of people. Many of whom cannot speak English. Many of whom come from an entirely different culture to ours. 

Some of whom would be delighted to blow us up or stab us for demented religious reasons.

It is not THEIR fault, of course. I don’t blame them for wanting to live somewhere much more congenial than their home countries. Even if sometimes they seem to want to turn the UK into their home countries.

The blame lies with a generation of politicians — Labour, Tory and Lib Dem — who let in so many, so quickly, without a thought for what this might mean for the rest of us.

Political correctness

They never put it in manifestos, did they? They never said: “We’re going to swamp the country with immigrants, mate. Up to 900,000 per year. So vote for us.”

If they’d said that, we wouldn’t have voted for them.

Instead, they usually said exactly the opposite.

But still, in the immigrants came, in their millions.

It is almost incredible to remember that when Powell made his “rivers of blood” speech in 1968 there were just tens of thousands of people from ethnic minorities in the country. Less than one per cent of the population.

Now it’s 18 per cent and Labour has at last cottoned on that people aren’t necessarily happy.

The issue had been buried under political correctness for 25 years — but not any more.

Of course nothing that Sir Keir has suggested will do more than scrape the surface of the numbers coming in every year.

So don't trust him an inch on this issue.

But at least he has recognised the problem and not been afraid to spell it out.

It may be only what we say to each other every day.

But for Sir Keir it’s a big leap forward.

WELL, I NEVER DIDDY

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It never occurred to me for a moment that P Diddy actually might be a drug-addled, violent, sex traffickerCredit: AFP

IT’S all astonishing, isn’t it? Who would have thought it of P Diddy?

I imagined that he spent his evenings at home playing Scrabble with friends.

It never occurred to me for a moment that actually he might be a drug-addled, violent, sex trafficker.

Surely not someone who plays such thoughtful and gentle, music.

With lyrics that reflect how much respect he has for both women and the law.

Yup, you could have knocked me down with a feather.

POLICE CAN’T HACK IT

IT’S now almost a month since Marks & Spencer was hit by a cyber attack. And they’re still not back to normal.

I was in one of their stores yesterday and customers still can’t use their Marks cards.

Now it’s reported that some personal details of shoppers will have been scammed.

Not only that, but the Co-op has been hit, too, causing chaos on our high streets.

I just get the feeling the police are miles behind the curve when it comes to either preventing or prosecuting these sorts of crime.

And that one or two unfriendly nations are looking on with great interest.

I AM trying to convince myself that I should feel sympathy for Brit teenager Bella May Culley.

After going missing in Thailand, she has resurfaced in Georgia where she is being held after being charged with smuggling loads of cannabis into the East European country.

This crime carries a mandatory life sentence in Georgia. 

I’m sure she is frightened as hell. 

But it’s a horrible crime, isn’t it? 

And if she’s guilty it’s not much use whining about it later.

DOWN WITH GEN Z

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A new condition among Gen Zers, Dropped Head Syndrome, occurs when they've been staring at their phones so much they can’t raise their heads anymoreCredit: Getty

IT had to happen.

Doctors have diagnosed a new condition among Gen Zers – Dropped Head Syndrome.

It occurs when these vibrant young people have been staring at their stupid phones so much that they can’t raise their heads any more.

The neck muscles are too weak.

And so we have a generation of zombies, wandering around with their heads nearly touching the floor.

I’d suggest bringing back national service, except this lot would be about as much use as a chocolate teapot.

OH dear – David Lammy is in trouble again.

It is now alleged that on a ski break in the French Alps he refused to pay a whopping fare to a taxi driver, though he denies this.

So the driver has made an official complaint to the police.

He thinks very highly of himself, does our Foreign Secretary. And you’ve got to say, he loves the high life.

Just isn’t keen on paying for it, allegedly.

SLIM’S SHADY

THE headlines all tell me I should be on one of those weight-loss drugs.

The bathroom scales suggest the same.

And these drugs will also stop me getting cancer, heart disease and strokes. So that I will live for ever.

Well, maybe I should sign up with everyone else.

But I just have this nagging doubt in the back of my mind.

We are not terribly sure of the long-term effects of these drugs, are we?

Wouldn’t it be better if I lost weight by stuffing myself like a gannet a little less often?

And took a bit more exercise?

I AM prepared to believe that Gary Lineker didn’t know a cartoon rat was a slur on Jews, after he forwarded a pro-Palestine social-media post with a rat emoji at the top.

The presenter is pig ignorant about almost everything that doesn’t involve football.

Thick as a block of Tesco’s mince.

VIRGIN ON THE RIDICULOUS... AND REVOLTING

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Emma, from Channel 4's Virgin Island, is a very pretty and intelligent kidCredit: Channel 4 / Rob Parfitt

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Show therapists Danielle Harel, left, and Celeste Hirschman, rightCredit: Handout

I DON’T think you will ever see a more revolting bunch of people on TV than the supposed “sex therapists” on Virgin Island.

The virgins themselves seemed fine – all charming, likeable people. 

And Emma is a very pretty, intelligent kid. 

There is nothing wrong with these people. 

It is not a crime not to have sex. 

But it should be a crime to do what those charlatan therapists are doing – uncoupling sex from love and relationships so that it becomes just another recreational pastime like playing ping pong or Grand Theft Auto.

Shame on Channel 4 for giving employment to those smug, haggard, vampires.