Last weekend, more than 950 illegals arrived in Britain. On Monday, 230 of them were on one of the new mega-dinghies, which are a testament to Labour’s abject failure to get to grips with migration. Because while the Government has been faffing about, trotting out manipulated figures about how the numbers are coming down, suddenly they are rocketing – and now it is a big boats’ crisis.
Right under Burnham’s nose, these dinghies have doubled in size and are twice as dangerous. One of them carries the same number of passengers on a jumbo jet. And now one, or more, of those will be arriving here daily, which means hundreds more people will want houses, benefits and healthcare we cannot afford.
As France’s lifeboat service says, there is now no limit to how many people the smugglers will pack onto these new vessels because 230-plus people on board means half a million quid profit for the trafficker.
So, what is our new, touchy-feely Prime Minister – just back from his jolly hols – doing while these illegals are flooding our beaches shouting: “Where’s the free houses?”
Well, Mr “Man of the People” is not actually doing anything. He is going on what his No10 team calls a “Listening Tour of Britain” because he wants to find out what is worrying people.
Has he had his head down a manhole for the past year? He must know Britons’ number one worry is out-of-control illegal immigration. Even this week, a poll said nearly 50 per cent now see immigration as bad for Britain. So why does Andy have to go on this ludicrous tour to find that out when it is staring him in the face>
Or is this just a Selective Listening Tour, meaning he will only go to towns and cities he already knows are on side and where tame, diehard Labour voters will agree with everything he says he wants to do?
Andy Burnham can spout whatever nonsense he likes about what his Government is doing regarding the small boats crisis
What is it going to take to shake this bloke out of his stupefaction so that he actually starts doing something – instead of just talking about it? He has been desperate for the job in Downing Street for two decades. Now he has got it, he seems paralysed and is ducking all the major problems.
Every speech he has ever made has studiously avoided the subject of immigration. He has also avoided the £3trillion debt and the humongous benefits bill.
So why isn’t he using August while Parliament is on holiday to make plans, to get things done? Why is he wasting precious time going on this farcical tour which is nothing but an ego exercise designed to get people saying “what a nice bloke” whilst achieving bugger all for Britain?
Burnham needs to learn being liked is not what being a good prime minister is all about.