If Labour win power, they will abandon the chance to control our borders
Choppy waters
BRITAIN wants the small-boats scandal ended. And Rishi Sunak’s radical and robust deterrent is the only game in town.
It’s not just more likely to work than any alternative. It’s that there IS no viable alternative, as the total vacuity of Labour’s response proves.
The Government’s Bill will bar illegal adult arrivals from claiming asylum. It will detain them and remove them to their home country, or a safe one if need be. Legal loopholes will be closed.
Legitimate asylum seekers can come via increased safe routes, subject to an annual limit. Refugees will still be rescued from war zones.
It is uncompromising but fair, including to taxpayers. And it sets up a colossal political and legal war with the Left.
Charities, “lawfare” merchants and Labour were united in choreographed rage over human rights even before Home Secretary Suella Braverman unveiled it.
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Her shadow Yvette Cooper offered plenty of abuse but no solutions except vague ideas of cross-border policing and a new “agreement with France” — as if these had passed the Tories by.
This embarrassing riposte, and the cacophony of blind anger, speak volumes. The open-borders Left do not genuinely want this problem solved.
They cannot shake the liberal delusion that illegal migrants, despite sailing from the safety of France and many originating in safe countries, are needy refugees as deserving as Ukrainians.
They are wildly out of step with voters for whom this is the last chance to control our borders. If Labour win power, they will abandon it.
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From their leader on down, they simply don’t care enough to stop the boats.
Secret police
THE police’s fetish for secrecy since the farcical “Leveson Inquiry” is out of control.
We now know they obsessively hid new revelations about rapist murderer PC Wayne Couzens from the media.
The fact he was in a sick WhatsApp group where cops joked about sex attacks was kept quiet, supposedly to avoid prejudicing his recent trial for indecency. Even innocuous details were purged from the Met’s website.
Why? There’s no hiding Couzens’ identity from a jury. He is serving a whole-life term. His name is infamous to everyone with an internet connection.
Ten years ago Leveson terrified cops into treating the Press as the enemy.
The public interest would be far better served now by more co-operation, not less.
Girl scorers
YOU think England’s Lionesses are good now? Imagine how golden the future will be if ALL schools offer girls football in PE or after classes. And cricket. And rugby.
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Happily, that is just what the Government now intends.
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