Boris Johnson’s points-based immigration system will keep us open to the brightest and best
Sense at last
LIFE must be bewildering for Remain diehards still convinced Brexit was a racist vote to keep foreigners out.
Our “Vote Leave” Government won’t follow the script.
Boris Johnson has binned the maximum 100,000-a-year migrant target.
The £30,000 salary requirement looks doomed too. Foreign students will get two years to find a job after graduating.
And a new points-based system will keep us open to the brightest and best.
Unskilled migrants will be filtered out — but they will get more points for working in an industry short of labour.
This is the kind of control The Sun and 17.4million Leavers demanded.
We DO want lower overall migration. The pressure on wages, the NHS, housing and so on is unsustainable.
But it is already sharply down on 2016. And even the prospect of ending free movement has dramatically relegated immigration in the list of the nation’s priorities.
We MUST, though, be far tougher on illegals who reach our shores, and vastly increase the tiny percentage we deport.
That will end the deadly trafficking racket. And none are genuine refugees — or they would stay put in the EU which, as tearful Europhiles will tell you, is a welcoming, safe, liberal paradise.
Britain must continue to rescue real refugees from warzone camps.
Economic migrants from the EU, like everywhere else, can come in on merit.
Rage at US
THE Government is right to condemn America over Harry Dunn.
It is taking our special relationship for granted.
It tries to bully us over taxes on its tech giants, issues threats over Huawei and outrageously hides a death crash driver. Britain is right to push back.
The US insists Anne Sacoolas had diplomatic immunity. But it could rescind that. It simply refuses.
President Trump presumably thinks he must side with US citizens come what may. But most of them also believe Mrs Sacoolas should face justice.
She won’t return voluntarily. She doesn’t want to — and says a potential jail term wouldn’t be “proportional”.
That is for a judge to decide. Mrs Sacoolas’s apparent negligence killed a young man. Even accidents have consequences.
If she or Trump have any sense of right and wrong, she will be flown back.
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Not EU again
THE historic Brexit Bill is signed off. In less than a week we will be out.
It is an extraordinary achievement by Boris Johnson and his team, though trade talks will still be challenging.
One thing bothers us. Why does the EU still let Michel Barnier run the show?
His error, in plotting with Remainers trying to stop us leaving, ultimately triggered the “hard Brexit” they feared.
That same ill-judged pig-headedness now could jeopardise entire industries.
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