So Gauling
YOU know you’re in trouble when you have to rely on the French.
So it has proved with Britain’s plans to get French cops to intercept illegal migrants in shallow waters before they set sail for the Channel.
Yesterday, France’s Interior Ministry said gendarmes would be wading out within weeks — only for unions to refuse to allow it.
It makes another mockery of our £480million deal with France to tackle Channel crossings which have seen numbers go up.
The time for supine begging is surely now over.
Keir Starmer may have sold out our fishing fleet to the French as part of his Brexit reset deal with the EU.
But why should we let them catch our fish when they do precious little to net the migrant boats?
The PM should now tell President Emanuel Macron to get stuffed.
And ban French trawlers from our waters — until there is visible evidence of them stopping the dinghies.
Britain’s wants to get French cops to intercept illegal migrants in shallow waters before they set sail for the Channel
Winter fools
LABOUR is giving every impression its policy on winter fuel payments to pensioners is being made up on the hoof.
Two weeks of chaos has followed the PM’s U-turn when he said more older folk would have the money restored.
Minister Torsten Bell says there will be NO return to universal payments.
And the Chancellor says the payments will be made in time for this winter — but with no indication of who would qualify, what they would get or, crucially, how much it would cost taxpayers.
One of the main claims against scrapping payments to richer OAPs was that it costs less to pay everyone — even millionaires — than to means-test them.
Will that now be introduced? We still don’t know and Labour is giving the impression it hasn’t yet decided either.
The Government must get its act together and ease anxiety for worried pensioners.
Grim blue line
TOP cops have issued a dire warning that threatened cuts to Government funding mean some crimes will have to be ignored.
To which a weary public may well say: “We thought they already were.”
Burglary and shoplifting cases now have so little prospect of prosecution that they have effectively been decriminalised.
Meanwhile, police chiefs have poured millions into diversity projects and investigating hurt feelings on social media.
Chief constables should know taxpayers’ money needs to be earned.
Ideally, by a major overhaul of their current crime-fighting efforts.
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