We must have deterrent against illegal migrants – let’s start by flying all young Albanian men back the moment they land

Asylum lunacy

WE are now in a vortex of madness over migrants.

It’s hard to believe. But Britain may have to pay £6,000 compensation to criminals who landed illegally on our shores.

We feed, clothe and house them even as 1,000 arrive in one day, many with no legitimate asylum claim but hoping to abuse our flawed “modern slavery” law.

Now taxpayers face giving them a six-grand apology over the shortcomings of their state-funded accommodation.

The Tories cop the flak for this fiasco. Fair enough.

But consider the Left’s cowardice.

First they pretend small-boat migrants are all “refugees” when many probably are not.

Then left-wing lawyers help thwart the Rwanda deterrent.

Now Labour obsessively tries to hound Home Secretary Suella Braverman from office because she is unfashionably blunt over this wicked cross-Channel racket and determined to tackle it.

Labour doesn’t want it fixed. It thinks borders are cruel.

Its own safe-route “solutions” are a ludicrous smokescreen.

The chaos at Manston migrant centre is no surprise.

While we feel for those with genuine asylum claims, and kids in tow, how could any country smoothly handle 1,000 new illegal arrivals a day?

Let’s start by flying all young Albanian men back to peaceful Albania the day they land on our beaches.

We MUST have a deterrent.

Guns clamp

THE double killing in a Brixton shootout is the sort of horror we used to hear about only in the most crime-ravaged US cities.

But the explosion of gun violence in our capital should shock image-obsessed Mayor Sadiq Khan and new Met Police chief Mark Rowley.

For nearly nine months it had no gun deaths.

Since mid-July it has had six, plus the young Deliveroo driver killed on his moped.

The city already has an epidemic of gang-related knife crime.

We cannot let those wars erupt into gun battles, as on the streets of Baltimore or St Louis.

Stay put, Rishi

RISHI Sunak will be right if he decides against a virtue-signalling appearance at the COP27 climate summit.

He has a tsunami of problems here. He is already sending his climate chief, Foreign Secretary and Business Secretary.

Only one thing could be gained from him going to Egypt.

He could publicly list the world-leading strides we have taken on emissions and offshore wind.

He could reject claims that we are not doing enough and stress our share of global CO2 is one per cent and falling.

Vital context, in fact, for the hysteria of the eco mob who vastly exaggerate Britain’s climate failings because they do not dare picket the embassy of the planet’s No1 polluter: Communist China.

But then their real target isn’t emissions. It’s capitalism.