Welby must go! At last a Church of England priest has stood up and exposed scumbag immigration lawyers, says Kelvin MacKenzie

Why aren’t politicians and the media shouting this stuff from the rooftops? Apart from on GB News and a smallish mention in The Times I haven’t heard it anywhere.

It is surely confirmation that that Abdul Ezedi case , who had successfully challenged his asylum refusal after allegedly converting to Christianity ( would love to know the name of his lawyers) was not alone and that there is a massive legal industry using any trick in the book to get their taxpayer-funded ‘’clients’’ the right to stay in the country.

Am delighted that Ezedi, who threw alkali on his woman friend in Clapham leaving her in agony and scarred for life, is now dead, having drowned in the Thames. But there are thousands who have away with the deception.

Rev Firth was a priest at St. Cuthbert’s in Darlington. He told MPs after joining St Cuthbert’s in 2018 he found a ‘’surprising number’’ of baptisms going forward with asylum seekers and almost all of them during the appeal of the appeal of their rejected claims.

He said that ‘’batches’’ of six to seven were brought to him by a successful asylum claimant every two to three weeks, requesting to convert to Christianity.

However, they ‘’melted away’’ when he insisted on a more rigorous process and asked them to become involved in the church. How come the Archbishop of Canterbury and other senior leaders of the Anglican church have nothing to say about this racket?

Could it be that they are in favour of having open borders for the country? If so they should be honest with the public and say so.

The reason they say nothing is that they know that their congregation would disappear faster than it is already – numbers have halved in a decade.

So Welby is at odds with the people who pay his wages. In any other retail business (and it is his job to put bums on pews) he would be out on his ear.

His attitude to the Channel illegals won’t even help to fill up his church. The vast majority making their way here by boat and lorry are Muslims and they will be heading to the local mosques not to the parishes like St Cuthbert’s.

In fact, Muslims persecute Christians all over the Middle East and Africa. Welby occasionally speaks about that. Does it never occur to him that one day they might be hostile to Anglicans in the UK?

Extraordinary that lawyers would be so brass necked that they would ask Rev Firth to make up evidence.

He said; ‘’ I would get requests from the asylum seekers’ lawyers to say more and I couldn’t say more because there was rarely more to say and on a number of occasions they kind of didn’t take no for an answer.

‘’They were sort of saying ‘oh, could you say that person X does this or that? And I’m thinking well, that’s extraordinary that a solicitor would be sort of asking me to say things in a context where I’d already said I provided all the evidence I could.

‘’I’ve had communications from lawyers where say; Could you say that my client is involved in evangelism?’’

Shocking isn’t it. I presume if Welby was asked the same question he wouldn’t know how to answer. And on that basis he should be gone.

The saints and sinner of the pet world revealed

The saints and sinner of the pet world were revealed yesterday. The saint emerges in the will of TV presenter Paul O’Grady which revealed he was leaving a chunk of his money to animal charities, including £125,000 to look after his five dogs for life.

The sinners are the local vets who are being investigated by the Competition and Markets Authority for overcharging. Running a verts’ practice is a racket.

They dream up the prices for drugs and the work required to look after your beloved dog or cat. Prices have gone off the dial since the charlatans working in private equity have started snapping up your local vets.

Whenever private equity is involved expect prices to go through the roof. They now own 50% of the industry, compared with 10% a decade ago.

CVS, one of the big six players in the business, fell by 25% yesterday and have fallen by 50% since last September as it became clear their price gauging was going to be investigated by the CMA.

I read somewhere that the vets flog something called Meloxicam which, is in effect, ibuprofen but want £56 for it and £48 for a repeat prescription.

Delighted when this racket is smashed.