Illegal migrants will stay in resort hotel with a pool – Left dubs this ‘hell’

YOU either have borders or you don’t. And currently this country does not really have a border on our south coast.

How can I say that with confidence?

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Because in recent years, tens of thousands of illegal migrants have crossed the English Channel in boats. Coming from the completely safe country of France.

Many of these migrants have been met at sea by British border officials then ­ferried into this country and put up in hotels in the south of England.

That isn’t a border. It is a ferry service for illegal migrants who end up costing British taxpayers millions of pounds a year. It is a drain on our resources.

And it is a drain on the goodwill of the British people who are generous to those in need but whose goodwill is being taken advantage of.

The political Left seem fine with this. They seem to think that every young man coming to this country from anywhere in the world is both a needy asylum seeker and a great boost for our economy.

But wiser heads know this to be a lie. And that this country needs an actual border at the south coast.

That is why Home Secretary Priti Patel earlier this year announced her plan to “offshore” people who try to enter Britain illegally. She also hopes in the process to smash the illegal smuggling gangs that prey on human misery.

Currently, the illegals come to Britain and, thanks to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), get all the rights that come with being in the country they have broken into.

The Home Secretary’s plan is to send these people to Rwanda, where ­individual cases can be weighed up.

This is not a revolutionary plan. The Australians did something very similar in recent years and dried up their illegal immigration problem immediately.

But Patel is now experiencing some of the same criticism that first came the way of our Australian friends. The Left have accused her of every crime in the book. Including racism, naturally.

They don’t have any plan of their own to stop the illegal migration.

But they always try to halt anything that would stop it.

The first flight of illegals to Rwanda was due to take off next week.

But now a group of activist “charities” and trade unions have asked for an injunction to stop the flight.

They will, of course, argue that the enforcement of our borders goes against the ECHR. And this actually helps address a very overdue point.

Many people in Britain would be surprised to learn that we are still subject to the ECHR.

Wasn’t the whole point of Brexit that we were able to govern ourselves? Not least by being able to make our own laws and not have foreign laws forced upon us?

That is what the British people thought we were going to get when we voted Leave.

The political Left seem fine with this. They seem to think that every young man coming to this country from anywhere in the world is both a needy asylum seeker and a great boost for our economy.

But six years on, this country is still stuck in the ECHR and it isn’t at all clear that we are going to get out of it.

Ministers seem to have kicked the issue down the road or put it in the “too tricky” tray.

But unless the Government addresses the ECHR and the jurisdiction of the European Court*, these issues are going to keep coming up.

ACTIVIST GROUP

Human rights activist lawyers know that with it, they still have a good tool for tying up the British government.

They know that even if Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the Home Secretary want to do something, so long as we are in the ECHR any activist group can have the upper hand.

Sure enough, Home Office insiders have now admitted that the chance of the first flight to Rwanda taking off next week is now “slim”.

That flight is meant to contain the first 130 illegals being taken to the Rwandan capital of Kigali.

They are due to arrive at a resort hotel with a swimming pool. All once again paid for by the British taxpayer.

The open-borders Left portray all this as absolute hell. Which is why they are trying to stop the first flight.

And they know that if they can stop the first flight being allowed to take off then it is likely they will be able to stop other flights too.

They know that there will have to be an awfully large number of planes taking off just to remove the people who have come in so far.

And they know that if they can win this battle, they might win the whole round.

Personally, I hope the Home Secretary wins and that this humane and reasonable answer to the border crisis is allowed to work. But it should also present a reminder to Patel and the PM.

We need borders. But we also need to make our own laws. You can’t do one without the other.

Time to get those ECHR papers out of the “too tricky” tray — and get to work.

*The European Court of Human Rights is separate to the European Court of Justice, which presides over EU edicts and which we have left thanks to Brexit.

OH DEAR, POOR JOHNNY LOOKS A BIT MUGGED OFF

JOHNNY DEPP was spotted in Birmingham this week, being helped out of the Grand Hotel.

A security team supported Depp on his way to the car, claiming that they were protecting him from the large crowds that follow him everywhere.

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I’m not so sure. The star was holding on to a coffee mug with great determination.

Perhaps it was early morning and Depp just badly needed caffeine.

Or perhaps it was the remains of the “mega pint of wine” we heard about in his recent court proceedings.

A FUNNY IDEA OF CULTURE

IN 2025, Bradford is due to become the UK City Of Culture – an award that may have come a little early.

It is true that citizens there have taken an historic interest in culture.

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In 1988, the city became world-famous when local Muslims burned a copy of Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses.

Images of that went around the globe and helped lead the way to the Ayatollah of Iran issuing a death sentence on the British novelist.

This week, local religious leaders showed that not much has changed in the past 34 years. They led protests against a new film called The Lady Of Heaven, which some Muslims accuse of “blasphemy”.

Huge numbers of protesters turned out in Bradford, accusing Cineworld of hosting a “hate movie”, and demanding its removal.

Cineworld has since announced that it has pulled the film across Britain, following similar protests in Birmingham, Sheffield and other cities.

At this point you have to wonder what exactly Bradford is such a leader in? Best book-burning? Fastest film bans?

Are these categories for the coveted City Of Culture title?

IT’S ALL TO POT

THERE are plans to ban smoking in pub gardens.

As The Sun reported yesterday, an independent review led by Dr Javed Khan wants to make smoking impossible.

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That includes raising the legal age to buy cigarettes every year. And making sure pub gardens are cigarette-free zones.

But one thing always puzzles me about such anti-smoking campaigns.

All of them are pushing at an open door. Yet at the same time attempts to legalise cannabis grow and grow.

Politicians like Sadiq Khan compete to look cool by talking about legalising marijuana.

So what’s the deal? Are people going to be penalised for smoking tobacco but patted on the back if they smoke pot?

What weird contradictions our age throws up.

STRIKES ME AS ODIOUS

TRAIN drivers are due to go on strike later this month.

The Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers Union has announced that 50,000 of its members will be bringing the nation to a standstill for three days.

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General Secretary Mick Lynch announced: “Our union will now embark on a sustained campaign of industrial action which will shut down the railway system.”

Could he sound any more proud of himself?

Perhaps he should be.

After all, the transport union bosses keep pulling off an amazing coup.

They portray their members as victims of savage Tory cuts. They pretend that nobody has ever had it so bad.

In fact, train drivers in this country can earn almost twice the average disposable household income. With annual salaries up to £60,000, drivers and their families also get travel perks and more.

I hope people remember this as the country grinds to a halt later this month. As hard-working people are forced to find some route into work.

And the slowly re-emerging tourism trade takes yet another hit.

It would be good if Labour leader Keir Starmer could sense the public rage that will be caused by this.  Perhaps he could even give the unions a stiff talking-to?

But he doesn’t like to annoy his base.

Or his union paymasters.

The train drivers might have decided to put their feet up.

But they are still walking all over Starmer’s Labour Party.