Get a grip
WHEN will politicians realise that the public are fed up with platitudes about the need to avoid “division and hate”?
What they want are solutions to illegal migration — and a meaningful response to the series of migrant murders and rapes horrifying the nation.
The public deserve a meaningful response to the series of migrant murders and rapes horrifying the nation Credit: Alamy
Violence on the streets of Belfast broke out in response to a horrific crime by a Sudanese man Credit: PA
Confecting outrage about debate on social media is a deliberate distraction from our broken asylum system.
The of — committed in the wake of an — was utterly unacceptable.
But it’s clearly easier for Labour MPs to attack social media platforms than to sort out our shambolic borders.
None of the footling schemes over the last two years that followed have done anything to stop the boats.
They will do nothing to close the to travel from Paris via .
How much more violence, pain and heartbreak must the country endure before the Government finally gets a grip?
Armed farces
LABOUR’S shambles on defence has descended into farce.
Ministers are STILL wrangling over cash, leading to a planned announcement for tomorrow of the being scrapped at the last minute.
insists defending the nation is his number one priority.
Yet, shamefully, ministers are offering military chiefs under £13billion extra — less than HALF the £28billion they say is the bare minimum needed to keep our running for the next four years.
What Top Brass actually want is defence spending at five per cent of GDP — a key target — or around £60billion extra.
Worse, is warning darkly that the only way to fund even Labour’s deeply underwhelming £13billion offer is to squeeze families and business for MORE tax rises.
Such is the fear of a backlash from their own left-wing backbenchers, the Welfare Party won’t even TRY to cut the ballooning bill first.
In effect, Starmer and Reeves are handing defence chiefs a gun but withholding the bullets.
Their moral cowardice is leaving us all less safe.
Footie & Sweep
It’s enough to make you weep into your sweep.
Even the harmless fun of an office World Cup sweepstake isn’t safe from
Commission busybodies warning petty rules MUST be followed.
Is there no part of our lives that the nanny state won’t interfere with?



