Judge dread
THE mums and dads of Epping have forced the Government to accept that the use of hotels to house asylum seekers is now unsustainable.
Dozens of council leaders rushed forward yesterday to say they would be launching their own legal challenges.
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But the Government remains clueless about where to put asylum seekers.
Home Office minister Dan Jarvis muttered about “appropriate” alternatives yesterday but could not explain what they might be.
They must know that if large groups of young men are placed in blocks of flats and houses among communities that don’t want them, then protests like the one seen in Epping will simply shift there instead.
Labour has no answer to this and remains unwilling to accept the obvious short term solution: building secure detention centres.
It’s also ironic — after years of Labour’s glorying in the Tories’ struggles with activist judges — to see Keir Starmer now blown off course by a High Court decision.
Aside from ending the benefits incentive for asylum seekers, there is only one way out of this for the PM.
Work to reform the European Court of Human Rights and use new laws to deport illegal migrants immediately.
Will he ever do it?
Monster’s ball
WHY are prison chiefs treating the Southport killer like a naughty teenager instead of the sick monster that he is?
Alex Rudakubana threw boiling water over a prison guard in a terrifying pre-planned attack from a landing.
His punishment was to have his “privileges” taken away.
Now the beast has his TV and DVD player back in a desperate bribe by prison governors to get him to behave.
It’s the same soft touch culture that allowed Soham double murderer Ian Huntley to stroll around his prison wing wearing a Manchester United lookalike shirt mocking his victims.
Radicalised, sadistic and highly dangerous, Rudakubana will never change.
Stop indulging him.
Unhappy birthday
WE wonder — as he sipped his bottles of Prosecco on his birthday — if Huw Edwards considered finally doing the right thing and returning the BBC licence-payers’ money he trousered?
The shamed star earned £200,000 in salary AFTER his arrest on child sex offences.
Since pleading guilty and being fired, he has been living off his £300,000-a-year pension.
But Edwards, a narcissist sex offender and bully, has never done anything remotely decent in his life.
No doubt his victims will be hoping he choked on his bubbly.
