Migrants stunt
LABOUR love to denounce the Tories’ Rwanda migrants scheme as a “gimmick”. Their latest so-called alternative is worse — it is a blatant, cynical stunt.
Keir Starmer knows his party has a void where a plan for stopping the small boats should be . . . and that he needs to sound tougher, especially to voters for whom tackling immigration is crucial.
GettySir Keir Starmer knows Labour has a void where a plan for stopping the small boats should be[/caption]
So, after years of attacking the “cruelty” of deterring illegal migrants with the threat of flying them abroad for processing, Labour now aims to deter illegal migrants by flying them abroad for processing.
The difference with Rishi Sunak’s scheme, Starmer claims, is that Labour would allow some to return to Britain if they pass vetting by our border officials.
In other words, it would legalise some illegal migration. Good luck selling that on the doorsteps. And so much too for Labour’s principles.
The very idea of offshoring “refugees” horrifies the Left. They have attacked it again and again with the usual abuse and sanctimony.
Now they have realised they are wildly out of step with voters and that EU nations they admire have similar plans. So now it’s fine.
The bigger practical problem is Labour has no idea which countries, if any, would agree to host our migrants, nor what it would cost to persuade them.
It claims, without evidence, that its plan would be legally “watertight”.
But it’s not a plan at all.
It’s a whim, a pre-election ruse designed to fool voters that Labour would deter illegal immigration — when history tells us it would do the precise opposite.
Theft plague
THE surrender of some US cities to criminals is a nightmarish warning to Britain.
Who can doubt we are on that slippery slope when shoplifting has exploded specifically because punishments are far too liberal and cops have given up?
More than 200,000 cases went unpunished in the last 12 months.
Even stores whose guards catch thieves in the act find police won’t turn out to nick them.
This is an epidemic, dangerously out of control. Our politicians, courts and cops must end it in 2024.
Stirring, Fry
STEPHEN Fry’s Christmas message on TV was a gem.
A balanced take on Gaza — and an impassioned plea to end the sickening anti-Semitism in Britain since the October 7 atrocities by Hamas.
It was brave, too, to speak proudly of his Jewish heritage given how many on the Left, including in showbiz, evidently consider Jew-hatred the one acceptable form of racism.
Naturally this eloquent call for tolerance met with a barrage of leftist hate.
Rather proves his point, doesn’t it?
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