Every single sentence in your post is untrue.
Labour’s 2002 ‘deal’ had very little long-term impact on migrants trying to sneak into the UK by lorry/container/vehicles. It simply moved from Sangette to other routes.
Between 2014-2019 55,000 came in that way — an underestimate since many came in undetected and disappeared into society. Unlike boat people, nearly all of whom are counted.
So it’s an obvious nonsense to say people weren’t being sent back because nobody was arriving. Tens of thousands were arriving.
They switched to small boats when major advances in technology, perimeter defence of lorry/container parks and detection made lorries etc too risky to take.
That’s why, from 2018 onwards, the small boat numbers grew fast.
Nothing to do with EU, Brexit, Dublin rules, fairy dust etc. Why do you peddle such falsehoods?
This is the co-leader of the Scottish Greens and a member of the Scottish Parliament. Watch this if you still have any doubts Holyrood should be closed down.
There’s a lot of self-serving spin emanating from the UK government about how virtuous it is re fiscal consolidation.
Here are the facts.
Labour inherited an OBR budget deficit forecast of £87bn (3.1% GDP) for FY2024/25. After R Reeves’ 1st disastrous budget the actual deficit was £153bn (5.2%). Massive jump.
Labour inherited OBR budget deficit of £77bn (2.7%) for FY2025/26. After RR’s disastrous 2nd budget that turned out to be £133bn (4.3%).
So in its first two years it added over £120bn to borrowing/deficit (despite huge increase in taxes).
The OBR forecast it inherited for this FY2026/27 was £69bn (2.3%). It is now forecast to be £116bn (3.3%). That looks like an underestimate. More likely to be closer to £130bn again.
Inherited budget forecast for 2027/28: £51bn (1.6%). Latest forecast: £97bn (2.9%).
Inherited budget forecast for 2028/29: £39bn (1.2%). Latest forecast: £86bn (2.5%).
Far from fiscal consolidation Labour is forecast to borrow an incredible £260bn more over the 5 years from 2024/25 than the forecasts it inherited. Despite the tax rises.
Which will continue. Alone among G7 countries the IMF projects the UK tax burden to rise by 3.7% of GDP 2025-31. The only other country with a rising tax burden is France (0.8%). Italy is static. Rest of G7 have falling tax burden.
And let’s not forget Labour’s so-called ‘fiscal consolidation’ is all backloaded to end-decade. Unlikely to happen. So taxes will have to rise by even more.
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Channel 4 came looking for a scandal. They didn’t expect me to investigate THEM.
I’ve gone through their allegations one by one: the sources, the fundraising, the money trail, the recordings, the witnesses and the evidence they conveniently left out.
They wanted to put me on trial in front of the British public, so I brought the receipts.
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BREAKING:
The Dutch Public Prosecutors Office will seek 8 weeks of prison for the Iraqi asylum seeker Jamal T.
He ran over the 14-year-old Dutch girl Tamar in the summer of 2020 and fled the scene. She died in a nearby ditch.
Initially, the Dutch authorities that it was enough to only serve him a fine of €1500, but the fine remained unpaid as Jamal T. had returned to Germany without leaving an address.
The girl’s mother Trijntje Boes fought for 6 years to get a trial, and hopefully prison time, for the asylum seeker.
She was supported by independent experts and forensic investigators who showed that Tamar's body was moved after the collision.
The police and the Public Prosecutor's Office conducted insufficient investigation.
Trijntje’s niece Melissa, a graduated forensic IT specialist, tracked down the gray Mazda in her own investigation in less than 3 hours. It was a golden tip that the police initially did nothing with.
After nearly 6 years of fighting through her lawyers, the mother finally got the suspect to appear in court. It now remains the be seen whether he will have to serve the full 8 weeks in prison.
The prosecutor has demanded 2 weeks for not paying attention while driving by scrolling on his phone and an additional 6 weeks for fleeing the scene without calling for help.
The case became infamous in the Netherlands after it was revealed that the police had initially told Tamar’s mother that the driver “was from Germany” instead of revealing that it was an Iraqi asylum seeker and that they had later explained their decision by saying that they “didn’t want to create a Geert Wilders moment.”
4 Iraqi asylum seekers were in the car when it hit the young Dutch girl.
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