Getting shunted out of Britain without paying for the crime is an insult to every rape victim - Carole Malone

She also says that for too long foreign offenders have been allowed to escape deportation by manipulating and abusing human rights laws. And we all know that to be true.

We’ve heard the ludicrous examples of violent criminals; sex abusers, and paedophiles being allowed to stay here because their child can’t eat foreign chicken nuggets. Or because they’ll face danger in their own country if they are returned.

So yes, on the face of its Cooper’s deport now, appeal later plan sounds like a ripping idea – kick ‘em out, get rid and be done with them.

But hang on, what if their conviction is for rape? What if some toerag from Sudan or Afghanistan has come here illegally and is convicted of raping a child or a young woman?

Are we seriously saying he gets shunted out of Britain without ever having had to pay for his heinous crime?

Because what that would be saying to this monster’s victim is “You don’t matter”.

And of course she does. Justice has to be seen to be done.

But with this plan, it won’t be.

As Reform’s Sarah Pochin said today: “How many rapes is too many? How many sexual assaults is too many? When is this Government going to wake up to the reality of what so many women and girls are experiencing?”

Quite! When are they? When are they going to stop piddling around with these half-baked, unworkable plans and deal with illegal immigration and the heinous crimes we’re seeing as a result of it?

As Pochin says, neither Starmer nor Cooper has grasped that what we’re seeing on our streets every day is now a national emergency.

We’ve let in and are still letting in people who could be rapists, robbers, murderers, and they are being parachuted into decent, law-abiding communities and doing their worst. And we’re now seeing that in our crime figures.

But Cooper’s answer to all that is this ridiculous scheme, which is an insult to every person who has been a victim of crime by foreign nationals.

And worse, many of the countries on Cooper’s list, where she says offenders convicted here will be deported to don’t have Prisoner Transfer Schemes.

So that means those convicted of hideous crimes won’t serve their sentences in their own country either. They’ll just walk free.

So, just think about that. Under Labour’s mad plan, illegals can come here, do what the hell they like, knowing they’ll never go to jail and the worst that will happen to them is they’ll be put on a plane home – paid for by British taxpayers, obviously.

And of course, once home, there’s absolutely nothing to stop them paying some trafficker to get them back into Britain, and if they do, they’ll never be held responsible for the crime they originally committed because it’ll have been wiped off the slate.

What the hell kind of justice is that for the raped women, the children who have been mauled by paedophiles, the people who have been hurt or robbed?

It should also be pointed out that the list of countries criminals can be sent back to under this scheme is incredibly small and the ones Cooper has just added are countries like Australia, Latvia, and Brunei.

Are these really the places the violent criminals are coming from? I don’t think so. Why isn’t Afghanistan, Sudan or Eritrea on that list, because many of them are fuelling the rocketing crime rate.

So, there you have it - yet another useless, half-baked, totally ineffective immigration policy from Labour.

That’s why it’s so refreshing to hear Nigel Farage at Reform’s recent press conferences talking about what he’d do about illegal.

He’s made it clear that nothing this Government does regarding immigration is going to work – not more Border Officers in the Channel, not more drones, not speeding up asylum claims because all that means is letting everyone through.

He says there is only one way to stop illegal immigration, and that’s to leave the ECHR, which Reform would do.

He also rightly says countries all over the world can deport people who arrive illegally: “It's normal practice,” he says, adding: "But here in Britain we have surrendered normality.

“It’s really simple. If you come here illegally under Reform, you will be deported.”

And that’s what British people want to hear. Farage is currently the only party leader in Britain with his finger on the national pulse.

He gets that people are frightened, particularly women. He gets that people worry about living in a country that’s being invaded daily by hordes of young migrant men from different cultures who have no respect for our values, our customs, our laws or our women.

He understands why people feel Britain is lawless - and the police, the Government or the judiciary are not doing anything to tackle it.

He recognises there is a two-tier justice system operating in this country and that we have a judiciary, great swathes of which seem to be on the side of the people who are harming us.

In just seven months, this hopeless Government has flooded Britain’s streets by releasing more than 26,000 serious criminals – that’s 3,500 a month - many of whom were handed more than a decade behind bars but have been freed in a fraction of that time.

This, at a time when surveys show that nearly three-quarters of the public already believe sentences are too lenient. But under this Government, they’ve gone way beyond lenient - they’re pitifully soft.

And all that does is breed lawlessness, mistrust and civil unrest, which we’re now seeing every day on our streets thanks to this Government’s lies and incompetence.