Home Office is a dreadful, incompetent mess – Boris will need to personally drive Rwanda plan along
WICKED. Inhumane. Cruel. Evil.
It was as if the Government’s opponents were in competition yesterday to come up with the most hysterical criticism of Boris Johnson’s plan to fly Channel boat migrants to Rwanda if they are ineligible for asylum in the UK.
The BBC lapped it all up — treating the idea like it was mad, in much the same way it sneered at Brexit and the public’s desire to take back control.
What the PM’s critics didn’t have is any workable alternative — beyond flinging our arms in the air, and throwing open our borders to almost anybody who might want to come here.
The British people are compassionate to those in genuine need, as shown by the response to humanitarian crises in Afghanistan, Hong Kong and Ukraine.
But they don’t want that kindness abused by economic migrants with false stories of fleeing persecution.
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Which is precisely the issue the PM’s plan is trying to address.
It will apply mostly to single males and — if it deters them from risking a perilous journey across the Channel in dinghies — it will also save lives.
There is nothing “kind” or “humane” about not at least trying to smash a people-trafficking racket that has already led to dozens of tragic drownings.
While the latest policy is sound — it also includes a dedicated asylum-processing centre in Yorkshire and calling in the Navy to police our waters — implementing it successfully is another matter.
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The Home Office is a dreadful, incompetent mess — and politically motivated human rights lawyers are already queuing up to take a pop.
The PM will need to personally drive the policy along.
Speaking of lawyers, Sir Keir Starmer was in typical blustering mode yesterday, suggesting that instead of the offshoring plan we should be asking France for help instead — something which has already been tried, without success, many times over.
As with so many other issues, Sir Keir is likely to find that his views are very agreeable to noisy Left-wing campaign groups — but they’re desperately out of touch with the silent, fed-up majority.
HELL OF A STRIKE
IF Ukraine’s war with Russia is a David and Goliath battle, then the strike on the Moskva flagship is a rock catapulted square at Vladimir Putin’s face.
The jewel of Russia’s navy sinking after extensive damage dealt by Ukrainian missiles is both strategically significant and a symbolic humiliation for the Russian despot.
Ukraine’s fighters — helped by the UK’s supply of weapons — keep performing miracle after military miracle.
We must keep arming them to the teeth against the Putin regime, which has already paraded on Russian TV the British prisoner Aiden Aslin.
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Putin’s evil knows no limits.
Our support for Ukraine must also be limitless.