Shambolic Home Office shames Britain and betrays terrified Ukrainian refugees in need of a home
Home wreckers
ARROGANT, complacent, lazy, useless. The Home Office shames Britain before the eyes of the world.
Its shambolic failure to green-light more refugees is a betrayal not just of those poor, terrified Ukrainians but of the families who have offered them a home and of Europe’s combined war effort.
No one can fault our Government’s commitment to Ukraine’s forces.
But Priti Patel’s department lags woefully behind on those needing our sanctuary.
Visa applications take an age to process if they are processed at all.
A supposed 24/7 helpline is swamped because just 15 staff are allegedly tasked with handling thousands of calls a day.
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Distressed men and women still in the war zone are just told they must wait.
It is a disgraceful way to handle this emergency, matched for ineptitude only by the Home Office’s simultaneous failure to stop hundreds of illegal migrants arriving daily across the Channel.
One of Whitehall’s key departments is broken.
Its civil servants were already disinclined to make anything succeed for a Brexit-backing Tory Government.
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Covid was an excuse to work even less.
This toxic combination of indolence, intransigence and hapless leadership is blighting lives and letting Britain down.
It must be fixed.
Frack backing
FRACKING is unpopular, argue Friends of the Earth. The Government says the same.
But the tide may at last be turning.
For years eco fanatics sharing conspiracy theories did Putin a favour by turning Britain against extracting our apparently vast quantities of shale gas.
His RT propaganda channel backed them.
The industry looked dead. But it’s been reprieved. And a survey reveals it now has 44 per cent support, a majority for lifting the fracking ban.
Funny how a cost of living crisis focuses minds.
Extinction Rebellion and other face-glueing, nappy-wearing clowns cannot grasp it — but wind and solar will never power Britain alone and new nuclear plants will take a decade.
We need as much cheap gas as possible meantime.
Fracking was the answer in the US.
It would be insane not to find out if it can be here.
Ad enough
THE threat by the tech giants to the future of news outlets is an urgent problem the Government has been too slow to sort.
Google and Facebook snaffle 80 per cent of online ad revenue at a crippling cost to news platforms, especially local ones.
While the Tories have set up a Digital Markets Unit to make them pay a fair price for content, it will have no legal powers for the foreseeable.
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Some publishers are fighting for life.
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How many must go under before Downing Street legislates to give this watchdog some teeth?