Tony Blair hailed the incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights into British law as his ‘proudest moment in politics’.

His serpentine sidekick Peter Mandelson boasted that New Labour would ‘scour the world for immigrants to rub the Right’s noses in diversity’.

In 2004, Blair went far beyond what EU expansion required and opened the floodgates to millions of foreign nationals.

It was all part of the sinister project to transform Britain beyond recognition. Despite their 1997 landslide, Labour no longer trusted the British people, the traditional working class especially.

So they decided to import a whole new electorate from overseas who would return the favour by voting Labour in perpetuity.

Even if that didn’t work out as planned, EU membership, a new breed of Left-wing judges in thrall to the ECHR, and activist lawyers at chambers like Matrix, founded by Blair's wife Cherie, would ensure that the revolution could not be overturned.

Those of us who warned back then (correctly as it has turned out) that the ECHR was a charter for criminals, terrorists and illegal immigrants, as well as a bonanza for Left-wing lawyers, were smeared as scaremongering far-Right racists.

By the time the Tories returned to power, they had accepted the New Labour settlement in full. Call Me Dave and Boy George Osborne even referred to Blair as ‘The Master’.

Despite Brexit, which most of the political class saw as a disastrous aberration and - led by our current Prime Minister – spent four years trying to overturn, the direction of travel never deviated.

Boris, armed with an 80-seat majority, promised to take back control of our borders and then did the opposite, admitting record numbers of migrants. Successive Conservative governments have been complicit in furthering the Blair project.

The final straw came last week when three judges sitting in the Court of Appeal, including a Left-wing alumnus of Cherie Blair’s Matrix Chambers, agreed with the Home Office that our duty to illegals and our obligation to comply with international laws meant the yuman rites of migrants were paramount over those of British citizens.

That’s how we ended up today with a population explosion far beyond anything we could reasonably be expected to absorb and widespread demonstrations on the streets against tens of thousands of illegal immigrants being billeted in four-star hotels around the country.

On Sunday afternoon, one of the ugliest clashes yet saw police pepper spraying women, pensioners and at least one child in an East London shopping centre.

What started as a peaceful protest against a migrant hotel at Canary Wharf was infiltrated by a gang of thugs wearing the kind of full-face skull masks usually associated with South American assassination squads. Shamefully, these masks were adorned with the Union flag.

As the crowd dispersed through the shopping precinct, one officer attempted to force a protester to comply with the law and remove his mask. That’s when the trouble kicked off and a copper was punched in the face.

It’s difficult to know exactly what happened from video footage, just as it was in the notorious recent incident at Manchester airport.

But it appears one female officer feared for her safety and discharged a pepper spray. Instead of disabling her assailant, however, her aim went astray and hit non-combatants including a 70-year-old ‘Pink Lady’ demonstrator and a 12-year-old boy.

The screaming child was carried away, shoulder high, by one of the masked goons. Was this his father? Who knows? If it was, taking a kid to a demo which could turn violent while wearing a Mexican-style ‘Day Of The Dead’ mask is as irresponsible as people smugglers loading a child on to a rickety dinghy being launched from France into the Channel.

For the record, if the police had dragged the masked morons outside and clubbed them like baby seals before dragging them off to jail, there would have been no objection from me. Peaceful demos will always attract an extremist fringe hell-bent on violence.

But most of these protests have been peaceful, dominated by decent people disturbed at having unvetted foreign men of fighting age dumped on their doorstep and incensed at a government and judiciary which puts migrants before the safety of British citizens.

And while those taking to the streets to protest may be fairly small in numbers, back home there are millions quietly fuming with impotent rage.

Their ‘far-Right’ smears having failed miserably to deter the demonstrations, ministers have now been spooked into action.

Home Secretary Pixie-Balls Cooper took to her hind legs in the Commons to promise new measures to tackle migration, both legal and illegal. About the only thing she got right was that the negligent Tories left behind a system in chaos.

What she didn’t acknowledge was that under Labour the crisis has got ten times worse, especially after they scrapped the Rwanda deterrent on day one.

Pixie claims that Labour will stop migrants bringing their extended families with them. Try getting that past the yuman rights courts, let alone our unelected far-Left Attorney General ‘Lord’ Hermer.

‘Stop the families’ will prove to be about as successful as ‘Smash the gangs’.

She said the asylum appeals backlog will be speeded up – which will simply mean that migrants are granted indefinite leave to remain more quickly by sympathetic activist judges.

Asylum hotels will close, but not until 2029. But be careful what you wish for. Migrants will not to be moved to detention centres or deported, they will be transferred to HMOs – houses in multiple occupation. In other words, to a residential street near you.

One minute you’ll be sitting in Mon Repose in Acacia Avenue, the next you’ll find yourself living next door to a dozen young Afghan, Iraqi or Somali men crammed into what used to be a three-bed semi. I bet you’re feeling safer already.

Pixie also claims that the number of small-boat arrivals has fallen under Labour. That’s only because the people smugglers have taken their lead from Chief Brody in Jaws and concluded: ‘We’re gonna need a bigger boat.’

Anyway, the ‘small boats’ tag was never accurate, since most of the illegals arrive in a very big boat belonging to Border Force, which picks them up mid-Channel and ferries them here.

Starmer’s risible ‘one in, one out’ deal with the French is actually ‘3,000 in, none out’.

You couldn’t make it up.

What Pixie didn’t promise was any withdrawal or permanent derogation from the European Convention on Human Rights. That’s because it ain’t gonna happen, not under a Prime Minister and Attorney General who both place international yuman rites treaties above the British people they are paid to protect.

Nigel Farage was right to taunt Starmer, like a Brexity Billy Bragg: ‘Which side are you on, boy?’ Illegals or the British taxpayer and the women and children of Epping and beyond?

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Starmer’s goal is to complete the Blair revolution before Labour is thrown out of office in 2029.

Meanwhile, immigration, legal and illegal, will continue unimpeded and there will be more ugly scenes on the streets.

The immediate cause of the violence on Sunday was the presence of masked agitators at a peaceful protest. But the root causes date back half a century.

As Britain festers with frustration over rampant, uncontrolled immigration, and the Government merely rearranges the lifejackets on the cross-Channel boats, the principal architects of this chaos have walked away from the wreckage and now enjoy lives of great wealth and luxury.

There’ll be no houses in multiple occupation anywhere near Mandelson’s London mansion – bought mysteriously for £8million 14 years ago and probably worth three times that now. Nor near his palatial ambassador’s residence in Washington.

Neither will any illegals be billeted in close proximity to any of the Blair family’s 40-strong portfolio of luxury properties, last valued conservatively at £35million.

As the country teeters on the brink of anarchy, with women and children pepper-sprayed in a shopping centre, does Blair still believe that the incorporation of the pernicious ECHR remains his ‘proudest moment in politics’? 

Very probably, yes.