Let’s face it, we’re such mug punters. Wouldn’t you travel thousands of miles on learning you could stay for free at a £400-a-night hotel with ‘’spectacular views over the Thames’’ and go gambling most nights on the country’s pre-paid card?
Those stories which shock us would be viewed as great adverts for people smugglers with, I imagine, their Channel ‘’customers’’ becoming quite picky, saying they only want to stay at the Britannia, none of that Premier Inn crap. Astonished the whole of Africa isn’t heading here.
Surely, the final straw must be the disclosure by the PoliticsHome website that the pre-paid card (£196.72 goes on every month), which is supposed to be spent on food, travel, non-alcoholic drinks and even toilet paper, has instead been used to punt at bookmakers, casinos and amusement arcades.
You could not make that up. In the last year, the Home Office has confirmed that 6,537 asylum seekers used the card (called an Aspen) at least once for gambling.
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| Free gambling upon arrival? Crossing the Channel has never been a safer bet - Kelvin MacKenzieTreating migrants in this way will simply lead to a new surge. This year, 50 per cent more have arrived than last, with the numbers topping 50,000 – the equivalent of Royal Tunbridge Wells, Altringham or Littlehampton.
Why don’t we do a Greece? Sick of thousands coming from Libya and washing up in Crete, they have announced that any illegal migrant will either a) be shipped back to Libya immediately or b) be slapped into jail.
How can Greece do it when it's a member of the ECHR and is actually in Europe? You tell me. The answer is we need a government which doesn’t give a stuff about the EU, but unfortunately, we have a government which only cares about the EU.
This is Starmer, an establishment lawyer, telling the people I’ve taken your vote by telling you lies and have no intention of embracing your disgusting views. So, we have to continue funding the lives of strangers even when the country is struggling to look after its own.
You can be sure many Labour MPs like the idea that Canary Wharf, a great edifice to the capital, is now going to have hundreds of skint, down-at-heel, unskilled young male migrants wandering around looking for a Ladbrokes betting shop.
What kind of advert are these people for the financial hub of Europe? I know a couple who have just taken a damned expensive one-bedroomed flat only 300 yards from the Britannia. They would never have moved there had they known.
The only hope is keeping up the political pressure against the government. Angela Rayner finally agreed that social cohesion was on the brink of collapsing if something wasn’t done about the migrants.