Stop the stunts
AFTER years of delighting in legal attacks on Tory plans to stop the boats, Labour ministers yesterday got a taste of their own medicine.
The Government repeatedly insisted its “one-in, one-out” scheme with France wasn’t a gimmick.
Former Home Secretary Yvette Cooper also promised important work had already been done to prevent legal challenges derailing it.
Yet, with depressing inevitability, an Eritrean migrant who claimed he would be “destitute” if sent back across the Channel yesterday had his removal blocked by the High Court.
The desperate deal with France always risked being undermined by the weaponisation of human rights law.
Once again left-wing lawyers have made a mockery of ministers who pathetically trumpeted returning a tiny handful of migrants — even as 31,000 have arrived in one year on their watch.
Just yesterday, Donald Trump hailed another month of ZERO illegal entries into the US.
Meanwhile, Brits have endured 9,909 crossing just since the one-in, one-out “deterrent” was announced.
Having scrapped the Rwanda scheme and presided over record arrivals, the Government cannot delay any longer.
It must ditch the stunts in favour of proper, bold action to end the human rights stranglehold over our borders, and bring this farce to an end.
Labour must ditch stunts in favour of proper, bold action to end the boats crisis and control our bordersGetty
Gloom loop
BRITAIN is now a country where those who work and save are punished while the “sick” and the idle are feather-bedded.
Since last October’s disastrous National Insurance rise, 142,000 jobs have been lost, 90,000 in hospitality and food.
Yet 6.5million people are languishing on benefits and central government staffing is up 95,000 since Labour came to power.
Meanwhile, a tax threshold freeze to pay for all this means OAPs who have worked all their lives now face being taxed on their state pensions.
No wonder global investors yesterday dumped British stocks at the fastest pace in 20 years ahead of next month’s “terrifying” autumn Budget.
Crushing the wealth-creating private sector while letting state debt pile up is the road to ruin.
SAS war hell
TWO SAS heroes were arrested last week over the death of an Afghan in 2009.
Lest anyone forget, that was the deadliest year for UK operations in Afghanistan, with 103 soldiers killed in action.
While the circumstances of Afghan deaths are endlessly investigated, it should be remembered our soldiers were under huge stress — and fighting a war.
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