£30bn on carbon capture machines!
£35bn on the Chagos deal !
£3bn a year on Ukraine !
£500m to foreign farming !
£15.3bn over 10 years housing asylum seekers & illegal migrants .......
Keir Starmer: "We don't have £4.5 billion for defence."
Keir Starmer the next day: "I’m announcing £4.5 billion for more cycle lanes and zebra crossings."
He’s just reached the point where he’s just laughing at us all now.
You really couldn't make it up.
@RogerHelmetMEP1@Jenny_1884 Yes, we should support Ukraine, but not at the expense of our own country.
If we had £21 billion available to give to Ukraine while knowing that our own defence capabilities were in a poor state, then our priority should have been to bring our own defence up to standards first
UK GOVERNMENT SACKED ITS OWN BORDER WATCHDOG
David Neal was the man the government hired to inspect UK borders and make sure they actually worked. He did exactly that. What he found was not good. He wrote it all up in official reports. The Home Office locked those reports in a drawer.
When he finally went to a newspaper to warn the public that private planes were landing in the UK with almost nobody checking who was on them, the Home Secretary James Cleverly @JamesCleverly fired him.
Here is what Neal actually found.
At London City Airport, only 21% of flights flagged as high risk were checked by immigration officers.
Not some of the time. As a yearly average.
He said it was a scandal and dangerous for the country.
The Home Office said he had the numbers wrong. Then they fired him.
At the moment he was sacked, the @HomeOffice was holding back 15 of his finished inspection reports. Some had been sitting there for 18 months without being shown to the public.
The agreed deadline for publishing them was eight weeks. Not one report met that deadline across his entire three years in the job.
When they finally released 13 of the reports, they chose to do it on the same afternoon that a separate major inquiry published its findings... Draw your own conclusions.
What was actually in those reports? Border control posts left with nobody manning them. Officers at e-passport gates described as distracted and without basic radios. The whole airport border operation rated as neither effective nor efficient.
Neal told MPs directly: I have been sacked for doing my job.
He also told @BBC the Home Office is dysfunctional and described senior officials rolling their eyes when he brought them his findings.
He said the government contacted him three separate times warning him not to speak publicly about the unpublished reports.
He had almost no other way to get the information out.
The people who fired him for raising border security concerns were the same people who spent years promising the public they had taken back control of the borders.
Sources: @BBCNews@guardian@DailyMail@CommonsHomeAffs
I have deliberately kept quiet since leaving politics almost 2 years ago. The parlous state of our defences has forced me to break cover.
The resignation of the admirable John Healey as Secretary of State for Defence shows clearly that the Prime Minister is not a man of his word.
We do not have the ships, tanks or aircraft we need.
The first duty of the Prime Minister is defence of the realm above all else.
KEEP YOUR WORD PRIME MINISTER!
This is madness.
We have ONE MILLION young people who are NEETs, graduates crying out for a job and yet the government wants to pay to bring foreigners here.
Why can’t we invest in our own and put the British people first?
@ArchRose90@esme7475 Unfortunately, played straight into the politicians hands
Gaslighting will be at its best today ..
conversation will be about successful immigration
They don't want to talk about the savages ,unvetted men ,corruption, rapes,
terrified communities
invasion UK is witnessing
@chatswithem WOW
How out of touch can you be
This patronising politician has audacity to be telling people to put a lid on it
communities are being flooded (undocumented men
The violence is on another level
This is not what the people want,we shouldn't have to explain why
This is our home
@BenGrahamUK It appears like someone was almost beheaded
lunatics are on our streets & crossing our borders Murdering ,Maiming ,Raping like never b4!
Treason is the crime of disloyalty against the nation ,
PM
Your job is to keep the people of this country safe !!
We in a state of emergency