Former prime ministers from Poland and the UK, speaking at CPAC, describe pressure from elites to open their borders.
GRAPEVINE, Texas—Europe is going to need a “Trump-style revolution” to turn back the tide of illegal immigration that has changed the face of Europe, according to two former prime ministers.
Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss told those attending the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that an elite class in the UK and Europe wants to destroy Western civilization.
“There has been a globalist movement,” she said. “They captured the institutions, universities, mainstream media, corporate sector, and bureaucracy. They believe in open borders.”
Truss said the conservative party in Britain didn’t do enough to stop the globalists who support illegal immigrants and transgender ideology, and don’t believe that the family is important.
Most of the British people don’t like these policies, she said. They want to live in a Christian country, own homes and cars, and live in freedom.
British conservatives did not reverse the diversity, equity, and inclusion changes made to their constitution, which, Truss said, have enabled Islamism to expand.
“They don’t want their country taken over,” she said of native Britons. “Now I’ve called for a Trump-style revolution,”
Former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said his country has been attacked by the European Union for closing its borders to mass migration.
In 2021, Russian ally Belarus arranged for thousands of migrants from the Middle East and Africa to be transported to Minsk, Belarus. Authorities then forced them toward the Polish and Lithuanian border to create a crisis.
“They tried to push them to Poland,” Morawiecki said. “I decided to build a physical barrier—a wall.”
Adopting a tactic from U.S. President Donald Trump’s playbook enabled Poland to keep illegal immigrants out, Morawiecki said. European bureaucrats want sovereign nations to comply and permit large-scale migration, he said.
The new EU Pact on Migration and Asylum will enter into force this summer. It attempts to make countries in Europe accept up to 30,000 refugees per year; otherwise, they must pay for the relocation of asylum seekers.
Poland has refused to take part in the pact, saying it has already taken in Ukrainian refugees.
Under the Biden administration, the U.S. Agency for International Development provided funding to nongovernmental organizations operating in Poland, including groups advocating migrant rights.
