When it comes to stopping illegal immigration, PM certainly seems to mean business
Border farce
WHEN it comes to stopping illegal immigration, Rishi Sunak certainly seems to mean business.
He even rehired hardliner Suella Braverman as Home Secretary, braving the predictable flak he is copping for it.
But the small boats crisis is urgent and worsening. Some 38,000 people have landed illegally on our beaches this year.
Locals in Dover are reportedly arming themselves against migrants invading their homes to dodge our police.
One found a young Albanian in her living room. It is scandalous and indefensible.
Yesterday Mr Sunak and France’s President Macron agreed the cross-Channel trafficking racket must end.
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Our PM wants new targets for the number of boats stopped by the French.
He rightly wants a huge acceleration here in processing asylum claims . . . their current glacial pace only encourages more to chance their arm.
But such attempted deterrents look like window dressing. It would be far easier, and cheaper for France in the end, for Macron to stop having to patrol his beaches and instead take back every migrant who lands illegally on ours.
Once they realised crossing to Britain was as futile as it is costly and dangerous, the flood would dry to a trickle.
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Tweet and sour
ALL power to Elon Musk in his bid to improve Twitter. It can hardly get worse.
This cesspit site is merely a platform for mainly left-wing no-marks to scream abuse at strangers they disagree with.
Its toxicity is obvious to all except, apparently, the Labour Party which addictively laps up the adulation there.
If Musk’s takeover and his sacking of Twitter’s senior staff ends the woke censorship of almost entirely right-wing voices, and corrects the political bias, good . . . though we doubt it will work.
An equal priority is surely cutting the ceaseless, ignorant bile and hate which repels so many ordinary, sane users.
We don’t think that can be done, either. But Musk should start by banning anonymous accounts and pseudonyms and verifying all IDs.
Making users put their real name to everything they say might just calm down or silence a few of the most obnoxious.
Cry freedom
LET us salute the courage of those rising up against the Islamist tyrants of Iran.
Especially women defying harsh punishment and even the threat of death by tearing off headscarves the so-called morality police make them wear.
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We have a question. Iran is a murderous, evil regime which funds global terror and supplies Putin with kamikaze drones to slaughter Ukrainians.
With respect to Iran’s footballers, drawn in England’s group, why haven’t they been banned from the World Cup as Russia has?