Invasion of the do-gooder elite

SO Suella Braverman is now officially Public Enemy Number One – all because she used the Word “invasion” to describe the 40,000 illegal channel migrants who have landed here this year.

Of course, this is only in the eyes of the chattering classes – those people who don’t give a stuff about the actual numbers coming or the chaos they’re causing in communities all over Britain. They don’t care about the problems that housing, clothing and feeding these people are having on our creaking infrastructure, our health service. No, all they care about is the word used to describe their arrival. And it’s this kind of diversionary nonsense that has frustrated every meaningful effort to tackle the problem.

Never mind that much of the electorate agrees with Suella and feels our politicians are putting the needs of illegal economic migrants above theirs.

The fact is we cannot house 40,000 people – it’ll be 50,000 by the end of the year – so why are we allowing those from holiday destinations to claim asylum here? More than 12,000 Albanians have arrived this year – 10,000 of them fit young men. A mayor in one Albanian town admitted this week that these blokes aren’t asylum seekers but have come here because they “want a better life”.

And I get why they do – but it’s not our job to pay for it. It’s costing taxpayers nearly £7million a day to house migrants. Tenants are being chucked out of rented accommodation because landlords are cashing in. Four- and five-star hotels are being commandeered to put them up. And terrified people in communities all over Britain are living in fear of migrant gangs roaming around their towns. In Dover residents have been told to lock their doors and windows.

In Sandiacre, Derbyshire, locals are terrified of migrant gangs who have filled two hotels and are walking around wielding bats and sticks, defecating in local parks and cat-calling girls. THIS HAS TO

STOP. Suella has said excessive use of hotels is unacceptable. So stop it. Knock up some detention centres. It’s not our responsibility to put economic migrants in plush hotels with swimming pools and Jacuzzis.

Not when we have pensioners here living in abject poverty – like Irene in Merseyside who we discovered this week heats her entire house with a one-bar electric fire and lives on toast because that’s all she can afford.Why aren’t the chattering classes fighting for Irene?

Why are pensioners here who can’t afford care or food getting a worse deal than illegal economic migrants?

The emphasis shouldn’t be on housing these people but on turning back the boats before they get here. And we’ve got to stop the Border Force and the RNLI guiding them in. We also have to combat the false narrative that everyone on those boats is a desperate woman or a child. They’re not.

Why not keep them on cruise ships out at sea? Or take them to another country (Paraguay and Peru are the latest suggestions) and make it clear that they will not be allowed to settle here? It’s really not that hard. But this Government has spent too long pandering to the screams of the elitists about how everyone who lands here must be treated like royalty.

YES, we should all be proud of Britain’s reputation for taking in REAL refugees, those who really are fleeing persecution. And we must continue to do that. But we now know that is not the majority on these boats.

It is not our responsibility to look after people who have passed through three or four safe countries to get here.

And, of course, they don’t want to stay in France because they’re living in a tent and peeing in a bucket there. Here they get full board in five-star hotels or nice houses – paid for by us. And they’re certainly not poor – most have paid in excess of £4,000 to get here.

The whole point of Brexit was to stop the free movement of people and cherry-pick skilled people that Britain needs. So now we need to get rid of EU laws that prevent that. We need to get idle Home Office staff, who are STILL working from home and taking 486 days to process every asylum application (it was six months before the pandemic) back to the office.

And we have to stop listening to the BBC and Channel 4’s fake narrative about how everyone on those boats is a desperate asylum seeker – they’re not. Too many are people who are abusing this country’s hospitality at the expense of desperate Brits here!