Let our shocking investigation bring some much-needed sense to the ludicrous debate over illegal migrants
LET our shocking investigation on Pages 8 and 9 bring much-needed sense to the ludicrous debate over the illegal migrants arriving on small boats.
Time and again the Left’s hand-wringers have attacked anyone daring to criticise not just the wicked people-smuggling racket, but those using it.
“These are all desperate refugees,” they bleat.
“Have you no pity?”
Well, those fleeing war and brutal regimes certainly deserve sympathy.
But many of the tens of thousands arriving each year are, in reality, economic migrants exploiting a broken asylum system.
Many now claiming asylum on farcically spurious human rights grounds, their legal cases funded by taxpayers,
An Albanian wife murderer is running a Midlands car wash. An Iraqi paedophile is found in Surrey, targeting kids.
An Islamic State terrorist is seized, strolling armed around London.
It gives us no pleasure to be proved right about the public safety risk of killers and rapists walking unhindered into Britain from our beaches.
The fact nearly 1,000 are being monitored on orders from Home Secretary Suella Braverman is no great comfort.
A Government hamstrung by the European Convention on Human Rights ensures that very few will be kicked out.
Some even claim a “human right” to free NHS treatment as their reason to remain.
Labour MPs are the most spineless on this outrage.
But it is the Tories who will pay the price if they cannot end it.
If that means leaving the ECHR, they had better prepare to do so.
HUNT’S MISSION
INFLATION is our economy’s No1 enemy.
It eats wages and savings.
It causes chaos as workers strike over pay demands that cannot be met.
It may have peaked, but it is still sky-high and must remain Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s focus even at the March Budget.
When it falls significantly, though, he simply MUST cut taxes.
They are strangling growth and the recovery we desperately need.
BOTTLE BATTLE
NO ONE will be happier than us to see a nationwide deposit-return scheme for old bottles and cans make a comeback.
Britain had one in the 1960s. And by 2025 we will once again get paid (up to 20p a go) for recycling containers.
It’s a brilliant idea, championed by our Show Some Bottle campaign, to help stop millions of plastic bottles ending up in landfill, our rivers, or as litter.
Forgive our enthusiasm. We’re trying to keep a lid on it.