Forget paying France to stop migrants – spend it destroying UK black market that lures them here
Migrant millions wasted on French
IN THE last ten years this country has handed the thick end of £1billion to France to stop the boats.
What has it achieved?
Since 2018, more than 150,000 people have made the perilous Channel crossing as French cops watched them go.
This year alone nearly 15,000 have come across in small boats, a 42 per cent increase on the same time last year.
In any other business, investing £800million for such a disastrous return would be seen as a catastrophic failure on all sides.
But the shameless French don’t care when it comes to our taxpayer cash.
Despite their flop they are now demanding even more money to intercept boats in shallow water.
What a disgraceful cheek.
We have no guarantee French cops will approach the task with any more enthusiasm if we fill their pockets yet again.
In fact their police union leader seems to despise migrants so much that he appears happy to see the back of them.
Since removing the Rwanda deterrent, Sir Keir Starmer’s attempts to stop the boats or the gangs have floundered.
But rather than gifting hundreds of millions more to the French, the PM would do better to look in our own backyard.
Spend the money destroying the booming black market that is such a magnet for migrants in the first place.
Without the lure of illegal cash-in-hand jobs thousands would never risk the treacherous crossing in the first place.
Boom & boast
RACHEL REEVES will this week boast of an £86billion investment in Britain’s fastest growing sectors.
The Chancellor’s Spending Review bonanza will focus on tech, sciences and defence.
If it boosts business and creates jobs it is well worth shouting about.
With growth as slow as a snail carrying a sandbag the economy needs help.
But this cash has to come from somewhere.
Spend, spend, spend is all very well.
As long as it isn’t followed in October by tax, tax, tax.
Sprout of order
REMEMBER the struggle to save up cash for last Christmas?
Wouldn’t it have been nice for someone else to have paid the bills.
Which is exactly what happened to Lib Dem MP Sarah Gibson when she got the taxpayer to pay for her £154 festive party.
She should be deeply ashamed for claiming it on her Commons expenses when millions are feeling the pinch.
Give the money back now, Sarah!