If Keir Starmer can't stop the small boat smugglers, how will he ever stop the Russian army?

The Sun

3 days ago

WELL, knock me down with a feather. It turns out that mass illegal immigration isn't a fabulously good thing, after all.
I know, I'm as surprised as you are.
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This will come as shocking news to the chatterati who've been singing the praises of open borders for years, insisting we welcome every Tom, Dick and Mohamed from the Third World who is able to pay a people smuggler a few grand in cash for a dinghy ride from Calais.
But it appears that the arrival of tens of thousands of undocumented men of fighting age from the basket-case countries of the world has proved to be a bit of a problem.
I'm not talking about the multi-billion-pound cost of processing the new arrivals — 18,000 already this year alone, via the Channel — then housing them in asylum hotels and hostels for years on end while paying their legal aid for appeal after appeal against deportation orders.
Or the intimidation of local people and the harassment of young women and girls when the Home Office, in their infinite wisdom, plonks in the middle of our towns and cities hundreds of young men from alien cultures where women are viewed as property rather than equals.
Alleged Iranian spies
And this is quite apart from the many crimes committed by these new arrivals, from burglary and drug-dealing, to child abuse and robbery, and even terror and murder on our streets.
Oh, and then there's the impact on wages for Brits seeking work, as the new arrivals take jobs illegally in the black market as food-delivery workers.
They also pay zero tax from this income, while taxpayers continue to fund their accommodation.
And now, on top of all that, we know the thousands flooding in on small boats are a threat to our national security.
Security sources have told The Sun this week that Russian President Vladimir Putin and other hostile nations' leaders have weaponised the migrant crisis in a bid to destabilise Britain, as part of their strategy of hybrid warfare against the West.
They didn't create the crisis but have acted fast to capitalise on it.
Whether it's cyber-attacks, social-media disinformation campaigns and now helping smuggling gangs to breach our borders, it's all part of Putin's efforts to undermine our defences and stir up division in our country. And, by the looks of it, he's doing a bloody good job of it.
Russia's regime is providing fake travel documents, helping smuggling gangs with military escorts and fomenting civil wars in Africa to drive up the demand for migration to Europe and sow chaos in our democracies.
Meanwhile, only last month three alleged Iranian spies were charged under the National Security Act after arriving by boat and lorry to claim asylum.
All this is happening despite Britain spending billions on security to patrol our coast and carry out surveillance in the Channel.
Yet every day, hundreds more illegal migrants pay the people smugglers to get on dinghies and head to the white cliffs of Dover.
How on earth can anyone trust Sir Keir Starmer to defend our country and our Nato allies from our enemies when, under his premiership, the number of arrivals on dinghies is up by more than 40 per cent this year compared with last.
During this week's Nato summit at The Hague, in the Netherlands, the PM signed up to a pledge for the alliance's members to each spend five per cent of their GDP on defence and security by 2035.
Of that money, 1.5 per cent would be allowed to be spent on things like tackling people-smuggling criminal gangs — a commitment that recognises for the first time the inextricable link between our defence and border control.
There was no mention of where the extra annual £40billion or so will come from, to pay for the new pledge.
But this is at least the first ray of hope that our political leaders, at home and across Europe, have finally woken up to the multi-pronged threat to the West posed by mass illegal immigration.
If we can't stop thousands of men armed only with a mobile phone, life jacket and asylum application from storming our beaches, how do we think we could stop an army of Russian troops from invading Nato members?
If we can't prevent smuggling gangs from defeating our security, what hope can we have of tackling the threats from Russia, China, Iran and anyone else who seeks to harm us?
The first job of any government is the defence of the realm.
If we don't act NOW to secure our borders, soon there might be nothing left to defend.
MINISTERS are looking at a ban on primetime adverts for alcohol to tackle our supposedly problem drinking.
We thought the Tories were bad with their constant nanny-state interference in our lives, but the puritanical streak is even stronger in the Labour Party.
If this lot get their way, we wouldn't be allowed any fun at all.
Whether it's banning ads for booze and fast food, taxing fizzy drinks and cakes and anything else we enjoy, it's all part of their sackcloth-and-ashes approach to EVERYTHING.
And soon it won't just be the adverts they ban, it will be the beer, wine and spirits themselves.
No wonder Labour love Net Zero so much when they can use it to justify forcing us to drive less, fly less, heat our homes less and even use less water. It seems they won't be happy until we're all unhappy, living off gruel in freezing-cold caves and desperately praying to the climate gods for salvation from our miserable existence.
It's enough to turn you to drink.
LABOUR IS LAYABOUTS PARTY
THE Prime Minister is on a Starmer-charmer offensive with his backbench MPs in a bid to get his welfare reforms through the House of Commons next week.
Almost 130 Labour MPs have vowed to block the reforms to sickness and disability benefits, forcing the PM to water them down in a humiliating challenge to his own authority.
No10's handling of the rebellion has been inept, and the planned reforms don't even go far enough to cut the ballooning cost of working age welfare.
But what's most baffling is why so many Labour MPs don't understand the moral case for reform.
It is deeply unfair on the millions of people who get up every morning and go out to work to be forced to pay taxes to fund those who could work but choose not to.
But it is also profoundly immoral to leave millions of people on the scrapheap of life, without the dignity and self-respect of doing an honest day's work.
Labour used to be the party of just that – labour.
But now it's the party of layabouts.