Stop the boats... stop the deaths
NOTHING highlights the vital need to stop the small boats more powerfully than yesterday’s tragic deaths of migrants in the Channel.
The monsters who cram dozens on to flimsy inflatables for cash are nothing less than callous murderers.
Their business model must urgently be destroyed.
But, make no mistake, these traffickers are not just a handful of opportunistic conmen operating from the Continent.
They are vicious organised crime gangs with deadly tentacles all across this country.
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That is clear from their brazen break-in at Lydd airport in Kent to steal vital evidence such as drone footage of recent Channel crossings that could put ringleaders behind bars.
And their business is booming. Around 500 migrants crossed the Channel yesterday, following the 750 on Friday.
The only credible way to break this lucrative trade in misery is to deter migrants from risking the treacherous crossing in the first place.
That is why it is more urgent than ever to get the Rwanda plan up and running.
Left-wing critics are quick to say the Government has blood on its hands.
But the lawyers who have blocked every attempt to get Rwanda off the ground must take their share of the blame.
Their tactics only encourage the trafficking fiends behind these tragedies.
Wait on his shoulders
SIR Keir Starmer is happy to lambast the Government over failings in the English NHS.
But waiting times in the Labour-runhealth service in Wales are so dire that Health Secretary Steve Barclay is offering to help out.
Under his proposals, Welsh and Scottish patients stuck in long queues would come over the border for treatment if there are free beds in England. At their governments’ expense.
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The SNP have held power in Scotland since 2007, but despite a population a tenth of the size of England’s, Scotland now has three times more patients waiting 78 weeks or more for treatment.
Meanwhile Labour has run NHS Wales for a staggering 23 years — ten more than the Tories have been in power in England.
Yet a staggering 73,000 people have been waiting more than 77 weeks for treatment.
You are still more likely to die from a treatable disease in Wales than England, despite the fact 20 per cent MORE is spent there on health per head of population.
So the next time you hear Sir Keir attacking the Government’s record, remember this:
Where Labour actually runs the NHS, it is a disaster zone.