The Home Office, under Keir Starmer’s watch, has launched a desperate recruitment drive targeting landlords. Contractors like Serco are offering landlords five-year, taxpayer-guaranteed rent deals to house asylum seekers. Every expense is covered—utilities, council tax, repairs, and full property management—paid for not by the new arrivals, but by you. Elderly citizens, who spent their lives paying into the system, now struggle to find affordable housing in towns they once helped build. Meanwhile, a growing homelessness crisis chokes Britain’s cities, turning parks, high streets, and underpasses into makeshift camps. Local councils, starved for resources, have long warned of an unsustainable tipping point. The government, however, appears to have more pressing priorities.

This is not just a betrayal of voters. It’s an outright assault on national solidarity. The country’s young are locked out of ownership. Families are squeezed into smaller, more expensive spaces. Rough sleeping is at its highest levels in years. Yet while working Britons are told to tighten their belts and be patient, the government is handing out prime real-estate to those who broke the law to enter the country. The numbers are staggering. More than 9,600 people have crossed the Channel illegally so far this year, representing a 44.5% surge over the same period in 2024. Contractors are now responsible for housing over 65,000 asylum seekers, a record high. The sensible solution would be to stop the crossings, restore deterrence, reassert control, and protect the nation’s borders. Instead, this government has chosen the coward’s path: essentially, bribing landlords to cash-in, papering over the crisis, and quietly transforming Britain’s battered housing market into a permanent settlement scheme for those who broke its laws to get here.

Every house handed over to illegal migrants is a house not available for local families. Every taxpayer pound redirected to house those who arrived unlawfully is a pound stolen from school budgets, NHS funding, and community services that have been stripped bare. Worse still, this policy erodes what little remains of Britain’s fragile community cohesion. In towns already stretched by accommodation shortages, rising crime, and strained public services, forcing local populations to compete with new arrivals for basic resources isn’t just reckless. It’s a recipe for resentment, division, and long-term social fracture.

And those fractures will not be easily repaired. Communities built over generations, where people knew their neighbors and trusted their institutions, are being systematically dismantled for quick political wins. In these places, the hidden costs will be devastating: rising alienation, collapsing civic trust, and a generation of young Britons who feel dispossessed in their own homeland. Is it any wonder that so many of Britain’s youngest and brightest are now choosing to call other countries home? Before the end of the decade, 38% of Brits under 35 plan to leave the UK behind, and who can blame them? They feel invisible, unwanted, even unloved in the very nation their ancestors sacrificed to preserve. This is the true cost of the government’s betrayal, and it will be devastating. A nation can survive many things. What it cannot survive for long, however, is the loss of faith between its leaders and its people.

The irony is almost too absurd to absorb. Starmer campaigned as the “steady hand”, the man who would right the ship after years of drift. Instead, he is captaining a vessel already holed below the waterline, full-speed toward the iceberg. The government claims these policies save money, but that is disingenuous. The real costs—social, economic, cultural—are mounting by the day, paid in the slow erosion of stability that once made Britain proud, safe, and strong. Under Starmer’s latest scheme, landlords are promised full rent, paid on-time every month, even if the property sits vacant between tenants. No arrears. No repairs to worry about. No risks. Just a guaranteed taxpayer-funded payday. If you’re a British family struggling to afford rent, you get lectured about budgeting and hard work. If you’re a landlord with a spare flat, you get government-backed profits for helping to house people who should not even be here. The defenders of this scheme insist it’s cheaper than keeping migrants in hotels. Perhaps. But the fact that the previous government’s abysmal mismanagement wasted billions on hotel bills does not make this latest plan any less shameful. Cheaper betrayal is still betrayal.

Nor is this some aberration. It’s a window into the future Starmer envisions. In short, a Britain where native-born citizens are secondary in their own homeland, where illegal entry is rewarded with security and comfort, while the people who play by the rules are punished. There will be a price for this, a price paid not by the wealthy architects of these policies, but by the ordinary people of Britain. The nurse priced out of her local town. The tradesman waiting years for housing. The pensioner witnessing her neighborhood transform beyond recognition. No doubt, left-leaning outlets will rush to frame criticisms like these as evidence of racism or xenophobia. That tired accusation is nothing more than a smokescreen. This isn’t about race. It isn’t about hatred. It’s about leadership. Or, more accurately, the catastrophic lack of it.

This article (BRITAIN FOR SALE: KEIR STARMER’S NATIONAL BETRAYAL) was created and published by Courage Media and is republished here under “Fair Use” with attribution to the author John Mac Ghlionn