Labour's cruelty towards grieving parents is totally unforgivable
The cost of housing migrants has tripled to £4m a day as Channel crossings continue to soar.
On top of this, we are giving asylum-seekers taxpayer-funded payment cards for buying essentials such as food – which this week we learnt some were using for gambling.
A Freedom of Information request found that more than 6,500 payments in gambling settings were attempted by those with Aspen cards, given by the Home Office to those awaiting an asylum decision to allow them to buy basic items, with small weekly top-ups.
So we've got migrants attempting to squander our hard-earned cash – and then when British taxpayers need help from the state, they're abandoned.
This week, Labour lords blocked a move to give parents of critically ill children workplace rights and financial support. Currently, only parents of newborn babies who become unwell within the first 28 days of life are entitled to paid leave and job protection to be by their child's bedside.
But if their child is diagnosed with cancer at 29 days old, the parents get no help beyond unpaid Carer's Leave, capped at a week a year.
On Sunday, I spoke to Ceri Menai-Davis on my GB News show. He and his wife, Frances, lost their six-year-old son to cancer in 2021 and are campaigning through their charity, It's Never You, for Hugh's Law, which would give parents 12 weeks statutory paid leave if their child is diagnosed with a critical or terminal illness, up to the age of 16.
But Labour peers blocked it, despite it costing a minimal amount due to the mercifully small number of parents affected (around 4,000 a year).
Surely this is a no-brainer? Your child is dying, you have to be at their bedside, you need help to pay the bills. If this isn't what the welfare state was built for then what is? It certainly wasn't designed for illegal migrants to try to place state-subsidised bets.
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