Bossing it
FAIR play to new Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood. She has hit the ground running.
The Sun has been demanding military-style detention camps for illegal migrants to end the madness of spending billions on asylum hotels.
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Finally, the Army has been put on standby to build them.
A plan to end the automatic right for small boat migrants to settle here and bring over family members will also reduce Britain’s pull factor.
It has never made sense that illegal arrivals had more rights than those who came legally.
But the new measures still lack the robustness of a Rwanda-style deterrent.
The Government also needs to go much further on untangling the removals process for failed claimants.
Ministers are planning to look at some limited changes to Articles 3 and 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
What fed-up voters want is for us to leave altogether.
We wish Ms Mahmood every luck in sorting all this out. Not least in getting the woke-infested ranks of useless civil servants in her department to pull their fingers out.
For years, officialdom and the human rights industry have worked in tandem to thwart Government attempts to tackle illegal migration.
It’s time we had a Home Secretary who can show them who is boss.
Fracking up
PERHAPS unlike anyone relying on one of his beloved heat pumps this winter, Ed Miliband is clearly feeling the heat.
Yesterday’s swivel-eyed rant at Elon Musk — telling the boss of X to “get the hell out of our politics and our country” — was juvenile and downright weird.
More serious, though, was his call to ban fracking, thus ending any hope of getting cheaper electricity from Britain’s vast reserves of shale gas.
But it’s good news Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is today pledging to scrap the Climate Change Act, which gave us the economically suicidal target — to which Miliband is relentlessly wedded — of turning Britain carbon-free by 2050.
We can only pray the fanaticism of His Greenness doesn’t in the meantime leave us all freezing and broke.
Unwelfare
DUMPING hundreds of thousands of young people on the scrapheap by allowing them to claim mental health benefits is morally indefensible.
So Keir Starmer says he is prepared to look at treatment for conditions like anxiety and depression rather than just dole out billions in handouts.
The PM knows Britain cannot afford to let benefits pay better than work does for school leavers.
It’s no life for youngsters — and is totally unaffordable for everyone else.
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