Rwanda policy is a brave move by Patel
WELL done, Priti Patel, for at last grasping the nettle over Britain’s asylum crisis. I’m sure, as are a majority of Britons according to the polls, that it will eventually be a worthwhile cost.
The French have pocketed billions of our taxes under false pretences of stopping illegal boat crossings from their coast and must be laughing all the way to the Banque de France.
Our Border Agency is not fit for purpose and has been acting more like an escort service so, yes, it’s time for the Royal Navy to be handed the job. Evidently, if the polls are correct, a majority of Labour voters are right behind Ms Patel on this one. Sir Keir Starmer and co should take note of this, as Labour have no workable alternative to Priti Patel’s brave move except opposition for the sake of it.
The lefty lawyers who have driven a coach and horses through Mr Blair’s loosely worded, out of date Human Rights Act are not really interested in their clients’ rights to fight extradition with the Home Secretary’s plan and the forthcoming Borders and Nationality Bill, but are more upset by their loss of taxpayerfunded pay packets with appeal after appeal.
Illegal immigrants who can obviously afford to jump the queue over the thousands waiting patiently in refugee camps all over the Middle East are costing our population billions a year in taxpayer-funded hand-outs. There is a multitude of poor and homeless people in this country who are bearing the brunt of funding these queue-jumping, cross-Channel illegals, so it must be particularly galling to hear the likes of the Archbishop of Canterbury and a multitude of pious top earners, including many MPs, bleat on about the injustices of the Government’s latest suggestion to tackle the crisis in hand from their ivory towers of righteousness, whilst ignoring the plight of those who can ill-afford to subsidise those who are jumping the queue. Housing these illegal asylum seekers in hotels and camps in the leafy suburbs of some of the ‘posh areas’, instead of in run-down hotels in poorer parts of the country, might sharpen their senses to the reality of life at the ‘Sharp End’.
Funding for the Home Secretary’s plan should come out of the bloated Foreign Aid budget and not from general taxation, as it is at present.
At least this money will be going to a good foreign cause and not into the pockets of a multitude of crooked foreign despots, as seems the case at the moment.
Edward Kynaston Lydney, Gloucestershire