Boated out
SUCH is the widespread fury over migration, Labour could be forced out if it doesn’t get a grip.
So far the signs have not been encouraging.
Legal migration has come down, mainly thanks to curbs on visas brought in belatedly by the Tories.
But asylum claims are now at a record 111,000.
And illegal migrants continue to take advantage of our wide open borders, benefits and free accommodation.
Voters are now so sick of this flagrancy that it has become their number one concern — above even our flat-lining economy.
The Government has been tinkering around the edges of the problem.
Neither the one-in-one-out deal with France, nor new plans to speed up asylum claims, will make much difference.
Only a tough plan to stop migrants from coming to Britain in the first place will appease the public.
Today Nigel Farage will announce plans to quit the European Convention on Human Rights.
The Tories are ready to pledge the same.
What will Labour do in response?
Asylum claims are now at a record 111,000 and illegal migrants continue to take advantage[/caption]
Taxing times
DARK warnings from leading economists about a 1970s-style IMF bailout of the UK economy may be overdoing the doom.
But the economic woes are piling up for Rachel Reeves.
Government spending is still soaring.
Debt is ballooning and the markets are fearful about Britain’s ability to pay for it.
On top of that an autumn of strikes beckons as public sector unions — only encouraged by Labour giveaways — again flex their muscles over pay.
The Chancellor is trying to find new ways to whack families with more taxes in her next Budget.
British firms clobbered last October by the National Insurance rise are now also braced for a £2.5billion hit from rising inflation on business rates.
It’s a further hammer blow which will severely damage the Chancellor’s number one priority: growth.
It’s 0% logic
LABOUR has always loved nanny state-style bans — except when they harm its electoral interests.
Just a few weeks ago the party said it would introduce votes for 16-year-olds.
It considers them old and wise (and woke) enough to choose the next Prime Minister — and hopes it will be a Labour one as a result.
But, absurdly, the Government believes they are too immature to buy non-alcoholic drinks and plans to make it as illegal as buying real booze.
Someone make it make sense.