Plans for Nigel
IN typically ferocious style, Nigel Farage yesterday laid down the gauntlet to Labour on immigration.
How the Government responds may well end up deciding whether it wins a second term.
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Farage speaks ordinary Brits’ language and understands their “total despair”.
His cure for the crisis was plenty of harsh medicine:
1. Deportation flights starting immediately and ultimately booting out up to 600,000 illegals.
2. Bringing back Rwanda-style deals with third countries — the only proper deterrent to the small boats we ever had, and foolishly scrapped by Labour.
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3. Ripping up European human rights laws and quitting the ECHR, which will also go down well with voters.
Labour will never do it and the Tories have dithered. But can Farage actually deliver it?
How will he achieve returns deals with rogue and failed states such as Iran and Afghanistan?
Many Brits will be wary of his idea of giving taxpayers’ cash to the vile Taliban regime.
The Tories tried for years to bring in a British Bill of Rights and failed.
Where does Northern Ireland and the complicated rules around the Good Friday Agreement fit in?
If he wants to be Prime Minister, Farage will have to provide some serious answers.
In dole-drums
A STAGGERING 6.5million people are now jobless and on benefits.
That’s up 500,000 in just a year since Labour took office.
Numbers of working-age adults on welfare payments have now risen by 79 per cent since 2018.
Unemployment — made worse by the “Jobs Tax Budget” is now on course to be its highest since the Covid pandemic.
Soaring welfare payments are not only totally unaffordable and a drag on growth, it is also morally wrong to demand working people bail out those who cannot or will not work.
Having ditched its modest welfare reforms — and with the Government now paying a “moron premium” on the UK’s debt mountain — what is the plan?
Unsafeguard
VICTIMS of domestic abuse are regularly failed by the system.
More than 100 women a year in England and Wales alone are murdered by current or former partners.
Many were let down by the DASH questionnaire used by police, social services and healthcare workers as an initial assessment of danger.
Minister Jess Phillips says it doesn’t work and is working out how to replace it.
That cannot come soon enough for those suffering now.
But it’s tragically too late for those who have already lost their lives needlessly.
