Holiday camps
THE Government has announced it is building three new migrant camps on former military bases.
It’s a direct consequence of trying to quell public anger over the shocking waste of .
Migrants board a smuggler’s boat off a beach in northern France Credit: AFP
Migrants at the Crowborough Training Camp, a former military site Credit: Getty
But they will do nothing to ease the whole problem.
Firstly, the camps won’t be secure.
Hundreds of young men, many from cultures very different to our own, will be free to come and go as they please.
Families living near the three sites will immediately feel less safe.
But tens of thousands of other will still be placed in flats or hotels anyway.
Secondly, it will do nothing to stop people getting on boats in the first place.
Migrants will still know they can get free shelter, food and a high chance of their .
Meanwhile, the French Government has realised the with the UK isn’t working.
Rather than renew it in October, it’s expected to pursue an -wide solution to instead.
If had actually stopped the boats — rather than which was the only deterrent we had — they wouldn’t have to dump potentially dangerous migrants in our towns and villages.
Or be forced to rely on the French for help.
Holiday weather
THE response from the authorities to the current 1976-style heatwave has been predictably defeatist.
A hot and bothered public has been subjected to , and hysterical nanny state warnings telling us not to go outside in case of imminent death.
Children have been after the first was imposed by South East Water.
Unions also told members they should walk out en masse rather than deal with a hot summer’s day at work.
Meanwhile, may be melting in the heat but he’s still cracking on.
As ever it’s the public sector snowflakes who are the ones acting like melts.
Holiday tax
apparently wants to make an instant big impact on the .
In that case he should think again before going ahead with the .
What could be less helpful to ordinary folk than hitting them with a cruel tax on their hard-earned breaks?
The would-be PM says he wants his Government to be all about fairness.
Scrapping the unnecessary would be a decent way to show it.
Eze Chidiebere Paul
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