A couple have been fined £1,500 by the UK’s sad Home Office for “importing” a 16-year-old migrant into Britain.
They had been holidaying in France and a wretched migrant climbed inside a zipped cover of a bike rack on their way back to Calais.
They saw trainers sticking out of the cover and then discovered the youth. They gave him a drink of water and phoned police, who took him into custody.
The couple couldn’t believe it when they got a fine from the bureaucrats at the Home office who I think you could count on one hand the brain cells of all of them!
Have they got no idea that from now on the last thing anyone who finds a stowaway in or on their vehicle will do is phone the police? They will simply let him go to do goodness knows what!
When we return to the UK every year (not from Calais but Dieppe) our vehicle and top box, quite rightly, is inspected. What were the morons at the customs post at Dover doing? Obviously not doing their job properly.
Come on moron bureaucrats at the Home Office – sack the staff at Dover.
We certainly need Trump and Musk in Britain axing all the jobsworths. Bring it on!!
As for the teenager from Sudan – send him packing – no ifs or buts from namby pamby waste of space judges.
INADEQUATE XL BULLY LEGISLATION
Yet again we have heard of another killing by an XL Bully dog in the UK.
This time it was a 19-year-old girl in Bristol, who was set upon and gored to death by yet another of these killer dogs. The owners were arrested for having a dangerous dog not under proper control.
Why on earth is it that Britain’s politicians can never get legislation right and get something done positively without namby pambying about?
After a wave of attacks with people being killed or injured, last year the government made it a criminal offence to own the XL bully breed in England and Wales without an exemption certificate.
Anyone who owned one of the dogs must have had the animal neutered, have it microchipped and keep it muzzled and on a lead in public, among other restrictions.
Not good enough. If the breed is dangerous then they all should go, no ifs and buts to appease the dog lovers who seem quite happy to turn a blind eye to how potentially dangerous they are.
PROTESTERS BLOCK GATWICK’S GROWTH
Britain should toughen up in many other issues too. I have written before about soft touch judges allowing all manner of reasons why an immigrant, legal or illegal, who has committed a criminal offence should be allowed to remain in the UK rather than be instantly deported back to his or her home country.
The government should instantly close all loopholes – no more namby pambying.
And if an airport needs expansion, as does single runway Gatwick, protests by nimbys should be ignored. Gatwick has been an airport for generations, and has attracted thousands of people to live close by.
But what happens. As soon as they get wind of anything that might give them additional noise or damage the value of their homes, up they get in protest.
And no doubt the environmentalists will be out in search of anything they can find at Gatwick, like rare toads, newts or creepy crawlies that no-one actually wants, claiming we cannot harm an “endangered species”. The government is there to govern and should get on with it and totally ignore the endless stream of protesters.
LENIENT SENTENCES BLAMED
I doubt that there are very many people living in the UK today that wouldn’t agree with me that the level of crime is getting worse and more people are living in fear of crime.
We hear more and more cases of random killings – at schools, and other public places. We hear of police increasingly unable to investigate low level crime because of cutbacks. We hear of fewer and fewer community police being employed and ridiculous decisions of shoplifting below a certain amount not even investigated.
And worse still we hear increasingly of magistrates and judges handing out more lenient sentences. Unable to send people to prison because of overcrowding, more wrongdoers are given suspended sentences. Not so long ago the only suspended sentence that would be handed down would be one at the end of a rope!
And there are far too many people in prison today who actually deserve that – or an extremely painful public birching.
But what has got my goat now is that the Sentencing Council – yet another quango – this one comprising soft judges and politicians, has the gall to suggest that courts should take into account whether the defendant is black, what religion he or she has, whether he or she belongs to a sexual minority, or whether the defendant is pregnant or has children.
Opponents are worried that these guidelines will create a two tier justice system, where minority groups will get preferential treatment and more likely to escape jail.
In my book it is more likely that these groups will be tempted to commit a crime if they think they are more likely to be treated leniently.
It all smacks of Britain becoming a namby pamby nation and it’s no wonder that illegal immigrants are pouring into the UK by the boatfull, up to 1,500 per week when the weather is fine.
The chair of the body behind the sentencing reforms has defended the changes by saying a punishment tailored to individual offenders had the “greatest likelihood” of being effective.
Shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick has accused new sentencing guidelines of having “blatant bias” against Christians and straight white men.
Mr Jenrick added it was evidence of “two-tier justice” and will be “very corrosive to public trust and confidence in the criminal justice system”. I couldn’t agree more.
UK’S SUPER-RICH CUT BACK
If you want any more reasons why the Labour government has got it wrong in not increasing tax on the super-rich instead of attacking farmers and depriving people of winter fuel allowance, this is it.
Millionaires are four times less charitable than the average person in the UK, a new study has found.
The Charity Aid Foundation (CAF) found the country’s wealthiest people donated the equivalent of 0.4% of their combined investable assets – £7.96bn.
Meanwhile, the UK public donated the equivalent of 1.6% of their income – £13.9bn.
CAF found that if each of the country’s 536,673 millionaires were to donate 1% of their investible assets, they could give the charity sector a £12bn boost.
The most popular charities supported by the country’s wealthiest were in education, with six in 10 high-net-worth individuals supporting this sector. An example of the rich looking after their own ensuring their children in private education are well looked after.
Only 4% of the rest of the population donated to education.
It’s sad that Labour of all parties are the ones who are no longer the Robin Hoods – taking from the rich with the broadest shoulders to help the much less well off.
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