Welsh Labour’s plan to give teenage migrants cash to fight deportation is a misuse of public money
Labour loons
VOTERS don’t need to wonder what Labour would do in power.
They can watch how it governs Wales.
Its new proposal on illegal migrants is one of the maddest we’ve ever seen.
Welsh Labour wants to hand some young asylum-seekers £1,600 a month free — nearly twice the state pension, no work required — AND exempt them from legal fees as they fight deportation.
The Tories are busting a gut to deter migrants crossing the Channel.
Welsh Labour would lure them here with its “Universal Basic Income” experiment while fully funding their battle to stay.
READ MORE ON MIGRATION CRISIS
This insane generosity would apply when those arriving as unaccompanied minors turn 18 and leave care.
Except half those whose ages are disputed by officials prove to have lied about being kids.
And imagine the magnetism to teenage migrants of £19,200 a year to do nothing.
It is all a staggering misuse of public money.
Most read in The Sun
And one which Labour in London will no doubt try to shrink from.
But these are the party’s values and priorities in action.
Who doubts it?
Brecon bad
POLITICAL correctness rightly modernised attitudes on race and sex.
Who, though, does wokery ever help?
Do smokers feel better renamed as “people who smoke”?
Or alcoholics as “people who misuse alcohol”?
No.
Aside from anything else, the latter phrase occasionally applies to most of us.
Yet these are serious guidelines from the Health Department quango Nice.
Meanwhile their woke soulmates over at the Brecon Beacons are pointlessly renaming their Welsh national park Bannau Brycheiniog and scrapping its “flaming brazier” emblem to avoid emitting even any THOUGHTS of carbon.
Will it help the planet? Not one bit.
Will Nice’s nonsense fight prejudice? No.
If these outfits have staff spare to dream up futile virtue-signalling stunts, isn’t it clear — and forgive our fiery language — that they have money to burn?
Critical maths
IT is odd that adults feel no embarrassment saying “my maths is hopeless” when they would if they struggled to read.
Rishi Sunak is right about that — and that such a mindset harms the economy.
If kids need to study maths till 18 to hammer home forever the basic concepts, fine.
But those basics are enough for the vast majority of jobs . . . can they really not be grasped by 16?
What WOULD be useful is for all pupils to learn rudimentary economics.
READ MORE SUN STORIES
At present they vote at 18 without knowing, say, the difference between our annual deficit and the national debt — concepts fundamental to understanding our finances and politics generally.
An electorate should know the limits of what any Government can spend and do.