'Can we please get back to some semblance of being a serious, stable, competent Government?' asks Matthew Goodwin

Well, now we’ve discovered that some of them have gone back to Afghanistan on holiday and that they forged their original documents when making their case to come to the UK in the first place.

Meanwhile, Keir Starmer also told President Trump this week that the UK has always had free speech. He says he’s all for free speech at the very same time police visited a stage 4 cancer patient to tell her to apologise for what she wrote on Facebook, or face being hauled off to the local police station.

This week, the Labour Government also voted to change sentencing laws. Rapists and paedophiles, including those who pay children under 13 for sex, who rape children, and who create indecent images of children, will now be released early after serving just one third of their sentence.

A Labour minister even stood up in the House of Commons this week and said Islamic Sharia courts, which directly violate our tradition of separating church and state, are part of what makes us British.

Does the new Secretary of State for Justice recognise Sharia law and Sharia courts in the United Kingdom? Yes or no?

The response: "Sharia law forms no part of the law of England and Wales. But in common with Christian, Jewish and other courts of faith, where people choose to put themselves before those councils, that’s part of religious tolerance. That is an important British value."

Well, there you go then. No problem. Nothing to see here.

We also learned that since April, the Labour Government has spent an eye-watering £50 billion just paying the interest on our country’s out-of-control credit card.

We learned that people not working and on welfare can claim an income of £25,000 a year, more than the post-tax £22,500 earned by workers on the National Living Wage. So why work?

We learned that the average home in London is no longer affordable for any household income group. We learned that net zero lunacy will push up energy bills next year by another £100.

We learned that Sadiq Khan’s Transport for London officials have been suppressing taxpayer-funded research showing that low-traffic neighbourhoods, another extreme net zero measure, do not actually reduce car use.

We also learned that a senior police officer in West Yorkshire deliberately blocked attempts to investigate rape gangs targeting a children’s home in Bradford, while Labour continues to drag its heels on a national inquiry into those hideous gangs.

We learned that British taxpayers are having to cover £252million in unpaid medical costs for foreign citizens. And on the same day, the public discovered that an Egyptian asylum seeker, who raped a woman in Hyde Park, is a convicted Islamist terrorist, living in a four-star Hilton hotel paid for by British taxpayers.

Meanwhile, Labour’s new Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, was posting social media videos as though she’d personally taken out Osama bin Laden, all because she managed to remove two illegal migrants from the country. Two.

All this, in a word, is insane. It’s outrageous. It’s absurd. It’s making a mockery of the British people. It’s making a mockery of our country.

Which is no doubt why, this week, the Reform Party surged to 34 per cent in the national polls, while Labour and the Tories are both down to 16 per cent each, the lowest share of the vote in Labour’s history.

This is why the country is in a mess. This is why Labour is on the verge of collapse. This is why a new political party is now polling at 34 per cent.

A revolution is in the air. Can we please get back to some semblance of being a serious, stable, competent Government, and a country that looks after and prioritises its own people?