Hidden terrorists hell-bent on attacking Britain will exploit our broken borders
Peril on sea
AS the terror threat rises, it has never seemed more insane that our borders are wide open to small boats pouring across the Channel.
MI5 yesterday issued a major warning that al-Qaeda and IS are resurgent despite their many defeats.
The biggest danger is the increasing number of “lone wolves” they inspire.
Many are already here.
Some will be British.
Some will be among the legion of convicted terrorists being released from prison this year.
But spooks also fear it is inevitable that killers bent on attacking Britain will exploit our broken borders and arrive on the small boats.
So far this year 13,000 migrants have landed illegally.
Hundreds have vanished.
How could MI5 track them?
It is impossible to keep us entirely safe even from solo terrorists they DO know of.
The Left still sees only “refugees” on those boats.
It is delusional.
The new Bill to stop them must be made to work.
And the Rwanda deterrent must get the Supreme Court’s nod.
No BBC tax
WHAT possesses anyone to think a new broadband tax is the solution for the BBC’s future funding?
The objection to the licence fee is not only its cost, exorbitant though it is for the low-paid.
It’s the principle of forcing millions of TV owners to fund a broadcaster they don’t watch and which has such open disdain for them and their beliefs, as its coverage of the Tories or Brexit proves.
And yet a broadband levy is apparently a possible replacement.
What’s the difference — except that it would be even LESS fair?
Why should the BBC add to your internet bill?
Sell subscriptions.
Sell ads.
Whatever the answer, it cannot be a mandatory tax extracted under threat of prosecution.
Labour pains
WHEN his own MPs ask what the point of Labour now is, Keir Starmer has far worse problems than his poll leads indicate.
Starmer is right to pledge not to lift the two-child benefit cap.
Not only would he have no money, but voters overwhelmingly dislike claimants having several kids they need taxpayers to feed.
His own frontbenchers of course think any limit is “heinous”.
Labour MPs, scenting power, instinctively want to dish out more dole money immediately.
It’s what they’re in politics for.
So when Starmer says there will be no cash, nor borrowing, and that taxes must FALL, they are entitled to wonder what he would do with power, if anything.
He may yet become PM simply by not being the Tories.
But he would not be the new Tony Blair, inheriting a boom.
Starmer could find himself in existential trouble days after setting foot in No10.