Starmer's decision to axe Rwanda migrant scheme has backfired spectacularly leaving us no proper deterrent
THERE was much excitement in Whitehall yesterday that French border cops had managed to enter the water and puncture a single rubber dinghy.
Number Ten went so far as to call it a 'significant moment' — entirely overlooking the fact that at least six more boatloads of illegal immigrants WERE allowed to set sail for Dover.
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In truth, ministers are desperate to cling to any sign of getting value for the £480million gifted to France.
During Labour's first year in office, a staggering 40,000 crossed the Channel.
Meanwhile, a Government promise to cut the number of asylum claims — the highest since records began in 1979 — has stalled with 107,000 waiting to be processed or appealing.
Around 32,000 are in hotels — and plenty of them will be working illegally as delivery drivers.
Given the Home Office has managed to deport just 6,000 so far, most will end up staying and many will eventually get free housing.
The truth is that Sir Keir Starmer's decision to scrap the Rwanda scheme 12 months ago has backfired spectacularly — leaving us with no proper deterrent.
Windy Mili
ECO clown Ed Miliband now wants Brits to put windmills in their back gardens to help him meet his impossible green targets.
The Energy Secretary also wants to build thousands of 850ft-high wind turbines across the countryside.
Miliband clearly doesn't care that that the vast majority of Brits live in tightly packed terraced houses or flats.
Keir Starmer's deranged drive for Net Zero with eco-zealot Ed Miliband is a threat to UK's national security- here's why
Or that tens of thousands of whirling blades will be a massive blight on the beauty of our communities.
Only one thing matters to His Greenness: his legacy as a Net Zero hero.
Meanwhile the rest of us are left whistling in the wind.
Carp-onystas
IT'S a tale of hard-left splitters so bizarre even Monty Python couldn't make up.
Zarah Sultana proudly announced she had quit Labour to set up a new party with Jeremy Corbyn.
Except someone to forget to tell the Magic Grandpa, who promptly threw his toys out of the left side of the pram.
The new group's name has not yet been revealed.
But it's likely to be a toss-up between the People's Front of Sultana and the Sultanan People's Front.
It might even end up being the Sultana Popular Front.
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