Channel boat people taking us for mugs
Biting the hand that feeds them
MEGAN and Harry have splashed out £11million for a mansion in the millionaires’ enclave of Santa Barbara.
The house belonged to a Russian oligarch, nicknamed Scarface, who threatened to chop his wife into little pieces
– a fact that might not go down too well with Meghan’s domestic abuse charities. Still, sacrificing a principle is no big deal when there’s a few mill to be saved (the mansion was originally up for £26million but they did a deal with Scarface).
We’re told the couple, who’ve been freeloading off the royals and their rich friends from day one, are apparently proud that they’ve managed to buy the house without any help. Which brings us to the mystery of how two people who don’t actually have jobs manage to get a mortgage of more than £7million (they’ve paid a deposit of £3.8million) which will cost them about £30,000 a month, plus a yearly property tax of £220,000.
But if they do have all this money sloshing about why haven’t they paid off Frogmore House – the cottage on which they wasted £2.4million of taxpayers’ money and where they’ve never lived. If they can afford a £3milion deposit, they can afford to pay back the British people what they owe them. And if independence is so important to them why is Prince Charles still paying millions for their security?
This pair can kid themselves they’re striking out on their own but the truth is they’re liggers and everything they’ve had is courtesy of their rich friends but particularly the royal family, who they’ve trashed and embarrassed in the biography Finding Freedom. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you… ■
IN THE book, Megan says the reason she didn’t let us see baby Archie was because: “Royal aides abuse me but expect my son to be served up on a silver platter.” So, it was all about taking petty revenge on those aides, which she did by sticking two fingers up at an adoring public who’d done nothing but cheer and support her. Nice…
PRITTI Patel has been accused of “militarising” the migrant crisis by mobilising naval ships to stop the flow of illegal migrants crossing the Channel. Natacha Bouchart, the drama queen that is Calais’ mayor, screams that it’s “a declaration of maritime war”.Well, no, it isn’t actually.We’re just trying to fix a problem that we’ve paid the French £114million to fix – and they haven’t.
So far, more than 4,300 people have arrived here illegally this year as opposed to just 1,850 in the whole of last year and only one in 40 is being sent back. And while the numbers so far aren’t at crisis levels, when people realise that Britain can’t or won’t properly enforce its immigration laws then many more will come. And what is currently a small problem will very quickly become a huge one.
And let’s not kid ourselves that everyone in those boats are genuine refugees. Many are economic migrants chancing their arm because, unlike other European countries, they know the minute they land on British soil they get money, a place to live, free NHS care and their kids get to go to school. One man currently waiting in Calais to make the crossing says he and scores of others will kill themselves if they don’t get to Britain. Kamal Sadeghi, 39, a Christian convert from Iran is determined to get here with his wife Miki, 33, and one-year-old daughter, Sava.
“I’ll throw myself in the water if they turn me back,” he says. And his claim for refugee status is that his wife’s family objected to the marriage. Is that a genuine reason for asylum?
And if Kamal’s so desperate, why hasn’t he applied for asylum in France or Slovenia where he was before? The answer comes from Aziz Jael: “If I make asylum here in France they will not give me anything – no house, no money. In England they do.”
So, while it’s totally understandable that people desperate for a new life want to come here, the sad fact is we cannot accommodate everyone from the developing world.
And we need to be tough about this. Boris keeps saying: “We will send you back.” He says he wants new laws that will make it easier to return illegal migrants – so where are they? Because the current immigration laws are a farce that make it almost impossible to deport those here illegally.
One of the major reasons people voted to leave the EU was to take back control of our borders. We wanted to be able to choose who comes here from the brightest and the best because that’s what will ultimately benefit Britain.
Yes, we are morally obliged to take in genuine refugees – but it has to be controlled and done through the proper channels. And the only way to stop those coming here illegally in boats is to make clear they will be returned and never allowed back.
As for those screaming that turning people away is both racist and inhuman they need to look at what’s happening in Britain. Thanks to the pandemic, unemployment is soaring with worse to come and we’re in the deepest recession for 100 years. So while we might want to take care of people from the poorest and most chaotic parts of the world – we simply can’t!
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YOU’D think people working in the education sector would have to be smart and want young people to prosper. Not so. This year’s results have been a fiasco with predicted A-grade students being marked down to C and D and losing their university places as a result.
The exam boards are bleating that inflated grades don’t help anyone. Ditto Education Secretary Gavin Williamson who says they’d harm their future prospects. What, more than giving them pitifully low grades that cost them their university places along with their confidence and their faith in a system they now believe to be stacked against them?
This crisis is unprecedented so, for one year only, just bloody well inflate the grades and give young people the chance to move on with their careers.
We cannot allow the future of an entire generation to be blighted by the destructive forces of a pandemic, incompetent ministers and exam boards that seem utterly oblivious to the catastrophe they’ve wreaked!