A study in idiocy
FOR months, ministers have refused to say where they plan to house illegal immigrants when — or if — they ever end the fiasco of asylum hotels.
Well, now we know why. They have been secretly planning to put them up in university halls of residence. Home Office chiefs want to kick out students to turn accommodation blocks into hostels.
Newsline MediaThe Home Office wants to end the use of migrant hotels like this, by kicking out students from university halls and moving in migrants instead[/caption]
In Leeds, the public are rightly alarmed by Home Office proposals to move 247 undocumented young men close to where teenagers are living, many away from home for the first time.
Students who currently pay up to £119 a week are unlikely to welcome their new neighbours either, if their arrival creates a shortage of affordable rooms.
There is only one way to get to grips with the current asylum crisis — and that’s to stop the small boats.
That means having a proper deterrent and a deportation system which works on behalf of the British public.
Not moving illegal migrants from one type of taxpayer-funded housing to another.
Debate or hate?
THE murder of rising US political star Charlie Kirk is the latest horrifying example of political violence.
The loyal family man and Donald Trump supporter was gunned down doing what he loved most — engaging with the next generation of voters.
Kirk won support for his beliefs the old-fashioned way, through civilised and reasoned debate.
On his visits to high schools and colleges he would invite noisy opponents to challenge his views.
But as a leading light in the Make America Great Again movement he was demonised by Left-wing activists.
Now he has been sickeningly silenced by a single assassin’s bullet which was reportedly inscribed with pro-transgender ideology.
Internet trolls today find it all too easy to whip up hatred by branding all conservatives as fascists who are out to destroy their country.
They even turned the alleged killer of a health insurance boss gunned down in New York into a folk hero.
Kirk’s death is a tragedy. The free speech he fought so hard for must live on.
Keir stumbler
TO the list of five Labour ministers brought down by scandal, Keir Starmer can now add the name of his US Ambassador.
What will most worry Labour MPs is the handling of the last two of these departures.
In the case of ex-Deputy PM Angela Rayner and now Lord Mandelson, the PM defended the indefensible — only to show both the door a day or two later.
Is it really only 15 months since Sir Keir promised to restore integrity and calm to our politics after years of Tory mayhem?
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