Government seem utterly incapable of taking back control of our borders
Softest landing
IS anyone surprised that illegal migrants risk their lives sailing across the Channel in record numbers when we kick out hotel guests to put them up?
Or when the sniggering French help them reach our waters and our border patrols tow them safely into our ports?
For all Home Secretary Priti Patel’s tough talk, we simply have no deterrent.
We handed France millions to police their coast properly and stop the boats. Why isn’t Priti now insisting on it?
They have banked the cash and largely given up. So, it seems, have we. How else to explain the eviction of holidaymakers and wedding parties to vacate hotels for illegal arrivals?
No wonder they punch the air with joy as they set foot on our soil.
They know that, even though they failed to claim asylum by legitimate routes, we will still feed and house them and their chances of deportation are virtually nil.
The Tories may think they have problems with Covid, Brexit and our vast debts. This is an issue and an injustice which enrages voters even more.
This Government was elected partly to take back control of our borders. It seems utterly incapable of it.
Deal’s a dud
WE don’t believe the “protocol” governing Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland can be renegotiated.
To avoid food shortages and riots it will need to be binned.
It lets EU customs jobsworths turn back entire trucks of British food over a single typing error on a manifest. The result? Empty shelves. And it will get worse with tougher controls in October.
We don’t blame Boris Johnson for signing it off.
He was desperate to get Brexit through Parliament, as most people were . . . even the many Remainers sick of the paralysis and bickering.
But it is clear that of the protocol’s twin aims — preserving peace and the sanctity of the EU’s single market — Brussels only cares about the latter.
Plus, it is still bent on punishing us for Brexit. Officials allegedly said our “price” would be losing Northern Ireland.
And their feigned commitment to peace there was blown apart in January when, in a tantrum over vaccines, they almost erected a hard border overnight.
Now their aim is clearly for Northern Ireland to ditch UK imports for EU ones.
Brussels says it won’t renegotiate.
So be it. Pull the plug.
Son beams
IN 2013 The Sun did something we’d never done before and will never do again.
When Prince George, our future King, was born we changed our title and “The Son” shone on next day’s news-stands.
Eight years later, the Royals’ popularity — thanks chiefly to Kate, Wills and their kids — is as strong as ever.
So, to Britain’s No1 son, a very happy 8th birthday from Britain’s No1 Sun.
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