What plan?
THE small boats crisis has reached another grim milestone for those who want to secure our borders.
At least 35,000 people have now broken into the country illegally so far this year.
More than 2,000 migrants crossed the Channel last week — with bad weather proving a stronger deterrent than any tough-talking government crackdown[/caption]
There seems no sign that any are being put off by the Government’s tougher talk in recent months.
More than 2,000 crossed the Channel last week alone.
In fact, the only thing that does seem to stop them is bad weather.
Ministers might as well pray for gale force winds because it’s clear nothing else is truly working.
Just 26 asylum-seekers have so far been sent back under the one-in, one-out agreement with France, with 18 coming the other way.
What a miserable return for a deal that was hailed as a game-changer.
Far from stopping the boats, Labour has presided over a worsening problem with no sign of a significant solution.
Just yesterday, the French head of the Calais region said digital ID cards would do nothing to put migrants off and are probably still years away in any case. He might well be right.
Until a proper deterrent is found, illegal migrants will keep on coming.
Trump triumph
DONALD Trump may just have pulled off the peace deal he promised.
Getting Israel to make significant concessions to bring the bloodshed to an end was no easy task.
Persuading the Hamas terrorist monsters to permanently lay down their arms may well prove more difficult.
For now there is only a ceasefire and a long way to go before Gaza’s future is settled.
But it will be a triumph for the US President — hard as that may be to swallow for the relentlessly anti-Trump BBC — to see the first of the remaining Israeli hostages home, potentially as early as this weekend.
They have suffered unimaginable hell for two years.
Their release comes only as a result of tough negotiation and Israel’s uncompromising punishment of Hamas.
That’s a far cry from the pointless gesture politics we have seen in Britain and elsewhere.
A mum first
SHE may be the Princess of Wales but Kate is also a mum of three.
Like all parents she is worried about the effect of smartphones on children.
She is quite right to warn of the dangers of too much screen-time for young minds.
It’s also true that attention spans are being smashed by addiction to devices.
As a mother who also lives in the public spotlight, the Princess knows how tough modern life can be for parents.
