Stop it, PM
WITH his leadership being questioned, the Prime Minister lashed out yesterday, branding Nigel Farage a “grubby” opportunist peddling “racist and immoral” immigration policies.
The danger for Sir Keir Starmer is that personal attacks can backfire, as the Tories found to their cost with their infamous advert showing Tony Blair with demon eyes in 1997.
The PM’s outburst risks offending thousands of working-class voters who deserted Labour over his failure to tackle illegal migration.
It is not racist to be concerned about large numbers of undocumented young men entering Britain illegally.
Nor to expect migrants to make a positive contribution to British society before they are granted indefinite leave to remain, or British citizenship.
Indeed, Sir Keir’s Home Secretary is HERSELF proposing a much firmer approach on who gets to stay in the UK.
The PM says it dawned on him ten years ago that Labour was squeamish about tackling migration.
After 15 months in power, he’s proved squeamish about doing anything meaningful to tackle it.
If he really wants to stop Farage, it’s time for tough action, not tough words.
Do no Herm
OUR justice system is meant to protect citizens from crime, punish offenders and deliver fair outcomes for all.
Try telling that to Lord Hermer, the smug and hopelessly out of touch Attorney General who thinks it is unacceptable to criticise judges, even when they hand out lenient sentences to terrorists and foreign criminals.
Yesterday he lambasted Tories for daring to condemn a judge who wished the 7/7 London bombing mastermind “all the best” ahead of his release.
Hermer clearly thinks he and his legal chums are a cut above the rest of us.
How much more of this stuck-up, unelected buffoon’s nonsensical outpourings must we suffer before the Prime Minister shows him the door?
Pull finger out
A THUG walks free from court after a brutal attack which left a grandad with life-changing injuries — then defiantly posts online an “Up yours” finger emoji.
Nothing highlights more starkly the soft sentencing regime that allows yobs to escape with a slap on the wrist.
Only one in 200 crimes results in an offender being jailed, according to campaign group Crush Crime.
Successive governments have talked tough. But it will mean nothing until they deliver more prisons and a sentencing regime that teaches vile yobs like Kamran Ahmed the error of their ways.
