Andy Burnham would rather accept illegal immigrants than fight backbenchers, writes Esther, left (Image: Tim Merry; Getty)
British billionaire Jim Ratcliffe is right when he says the country is “on the slide”. Just take a look at our squalid city centres where shoplifters steal with impunity; and the hotels, hostels and HMOs housing increasing numbers of illegal immigrants and tell me Ratcliffe is wrong. Even the sleepy village of Piddington in Oxfordshire has risen from its slumber and given the Government a two-fingered salute.
This Lib Dem enclave, that recently voted to become a ‘Council of Sanctuary’ for immigrants, has changed its tune – voting to become an independent state and take a Judicial Review in order to stop the former Bicester Garrison site being used to house 1,256 illegal immigrants – all adult men – next to their village of 358 people.
Labour hasn’t smashed the gangs – both Starmer and Burnham have concluded it’s easier to allow illegal immigrants in the UK than pick a fight with their liberal backbenchers. They would sooner smash local communities across our country than stop illegal immigration.
As Burnham said, everyone has to take their “fair share”, and wealthier areas have to step up and take more.
Labour is reconfiguring our country as it expands the dependent classes – those they hope will vote for them – and pushes away the wealth creators through their politics of envy.
No wonder 16,000 millionaires left the UK last year, including Chris Rokos, the third highest taxpayer in the UK who paid £350million in tax annually – the equivalent of 20,000 average taxpayers. And Fred Done, the UK’s highest taxpayer at £400million a year, at 83 says he’s too old to leave the country, but he wouldn’t stop his children, and as for those with the broadest shoulders paying, he reasonably asks: “How broad do my shoulders need to be?”
As the serial entrepreneur, former Chairman of Pizza Express and founder of Gail’s Bakery, Luke Johnson, observed, Britain’s most persecuted minority is multi-millionaires. This Government has created an abusive relationship towards the nation’s wealthy, who incidentally do pay substantially more. In fact, the top 1% pay 30% of the country’s total income tax bill, and the top 10% pay almost 60% of it.
But it’s not just the tax squeeze that is forcing the wealthy out, and the sneery disdain in which the government holds entrepreneurs. It’s also the insane, self-harming energy policies that are destroying their businesses; the lawlessness on the streets, the socialist dogma that is shutting down private schools whilst the government are content to pay £8billion a year for illegal immigrants who have paid nothing into our system yet look to remove money from our pensioners who have. It’s the ballooning of the benefits bill – up nearly £38bn in just two years – when many should be working, and it is the draining of our defence budget where we once ruled the waves and when the world is becoming more dangerous.
Labour is slowly but surely destroying everything that is great about our country and forcing successful people away. If it goes on much longer, I fear the country will never recover from this scorched-earth policy.
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Migrants just received £11.9bn of Universal Credit – that’s not even most shocking thing
Migrant households have been handed more than £10bn in Universal Credit, Aaron Newbury reveals how Andy Burnham could turn that to his advantage.
Andy Burnham (Image: Getty)
How long can a state last when the number of those financially dependent on it exceeds the number contributing to its coffers? Such a question surely must not be far from the minds of our political leaders. After all, the data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) reports make it seem as if the cliff’s edge is fast approaching.
Earlier this year, the scale of the benefits crisis was laid bare when statistics revealed that about 53.3% of the population take away more than they pay in. Yet as ever, it appears misery begets misery, and for the boffins of Whitehall, the latest development in that miserable state of affairs only deepens the challenges they must overcome.
Now, Daily Express readers are faced with the stark reality that the amount of British taxpayers’ cash handed out to foreign nationals in Universal Credit has broken £10billion. That means around one in every six households that received the handout are foreign nationals, which has predictably sparked fury from the Conservative benches, and sent Reform UK’s contingent into a tizzy.
If those on the Labour side cannot fathom why this might be, they might want to head to their constituencies and ask their voters what they make of it. Those Britons might make note of the fact that the bill has soared by some £4.4bn in just two years – something which leaves many questions yet to be answered. It’s shocking.
Even as rumours swirl in Westminster that the Treasury is greedily eyeing further ways to improve its finances at the expense of our own, we are being told that billions are being spent on those born on other shores.
Few in the UK believe a safety net for the unfortunate should be removed. But many will baulk at the idea that those born overseas should benefit from the work and taxation of working Britons.
We are hardly a country that can boast of a vastly productive economy, coffers overflowing with rivulets of wealth, and all the domestic ills put soundly to bed. Speak to anyone, and they can tell you of lacklustre transport, underfunded local services and an NHS ever hungry for further investment. That’s not to mention the black hole in the national defence budget, which has led to alarm bells from former defence chiefs warning that the country is defenceless.
Before contemplating which other taxes to increase, Andy Burnham and his newly minted Chancellor, John Healey, would do well to take even a cursory look at the excessive abuse of the benefits system. While that goes against the natural instinct of the socialist, who are ever loath to suggest that the instruments of government may well be out of tune with the rest of us, it would serve them well.
Yes, a broader sweep through the ruinously expensive welfare state, the seeds of which were planted and watered by successive Labour governments, is needed. But I fear it would be foolish to think Eyelashes Andy is the man to do it.
His own particular brand of popularity, which, like most socialist operators, consists of taking from the productive to fund ever-growing handouts, prohibits a more constructive look at the system. He still has an easy win before him.
At the stroke of a pen, Mr Burnham could command that foreign nationals cannot receive Universal Credit. Undoubtedly, this would agitate the London lawyers, who would swiftly tut and huff dissapointedly, but it would be well received by the millions of hard-working Britons who struggle with the question: Why should my taxes be handed to foreign recipients?