Chameleon Magazine

From where I stand, the government is only now waking up to the damage caused by years of uncontrolled and barely monitored immigration. The country has slipped into a mindset where too many people believe you can get something for nothing. When those struggling on low incomes watch migrants receiving accommodation, support, and services they themselves cannot access, it is no wonder they ask: why should we be the ones working?

As this attitude spreads, more people decide that exploiting the system is easier than contributing to it. They see others living comfortably in hotels, fully supported, while they themselves are expected to work, pay taxes, and somehow stay afloat. This entitlement culture doesn’t take decades to grow — it spreads like wildfire.

Meanwhile, the government is draining the middle class dry to pay for it all. Hard-working people watch their money handed out as if Keir Starmer were Britain’s personal Santa Claus. And when taxpayers finally snap and look for ways to avoid these endless levies, who can blame them? The system punishes effort and rewards avoidance.

This same warped incentive structure is pushing thousands into long-term sickness and disability claims, not because they cannot work, but because they realise the benefits can match a working wage — without the work. These individuals aren’t naive. In many ways, they are more aware than anyone around them. They see the system exactly as it is, not through the delusional lens of politicians who still pretend their policies are working.

Politicians themselves look completely lost. Day after day they appear in newspapers and online articles, baffled by a crisis they engineered. They now face an impossible task: taking back benefits they spent years handing out to everyone, without upsetting the very groups they empowered. They won’t succeed. They cannot succeed. They are paralysed by ECHR rules and outdated regulations that belonged to a different age entirely. They built a trap and walked straight into it.

The public, meanwhile, is scrambling from one political party to another, hoping for something different. But every party looks stuck in the same tired loop — old rhetoric, old promises, old lies. They promise the world knowing they cannot deliver a fraction of it. People have heard it all before, and now they either tune it out or simply do not care.

The future, as I see it, will be uncomfortable. A party like Reform may be the only force capable of shaking the political system out of its delusion. Yes, it will upset people — especially those who refuse to face hard truths or accept real change. But perhaps that is exactly what is needed. The country may have to walk through political and social hell before it finally learns, resets, and starts building a system that works for everyone instead of protecting a select few.