Revolting civil servants are undermining elected government to serve woke European Court of Human rights
Revolting Left
THE Left did not waste a second kicking off once the first Rwanda-bound illegal migrants were detained.
Civil servants are in open revolt against the Tories they are supposed to serve but actively despise and undermine.
Their union has cooked up a legal challenge claiming they should prioritise edicts from the ECHR, not our elected Government.
We always knew where their loyalties lay.
They have now said it out loud.
At the same time a masked mob blocked a coach taking migrants to the Bibby barge in Dorset from a London hotel costing taxpayers a nightly fortune.
“No borders, no nations, stop deportations,” chanted the cretins.
And these puerile “no borders” fantasists will only be emboldened by Labour’s staggering new position.
Because not only will they scrap Rwanda even if it DOES stop the boats, they intend to pass a law letting every single illegal arrival enter our asylum system — including the 711 who landed on Wednesday.
“If you can get here, legally or not,” Labour is effectively saying, “you’re in.”
Which looks like a gold-embossed invitation for anyone, anywhere, to risk death in a Channel dinghy for a new life in Britain at taxpayers’ expense.
We know Labour dislikes deterrents. Even we didn’t think they would propose a magnet.
Get tax down
ECONOMIC forecasts are pretty worthless. But the OECD’s wider criticism of Britain that taxes are too high is not.
Growth is bound to be sluggish given the huge burden crushing the economy.
Jeremy Hunt was obviously right to slash National Insurance.
But because income tax brackets are frozen, millions on relatively modest pay are now hammered as high-earners.
That’s wrong.
So was the corporation tax hike from 19 to 25 per cent, as we said at the time.
The Tories’ spending restraint HAS helped get inflation down.
The NI cuts have boosted take-home pay for most.
Interest rate cuts may soon follow.
But the Chancellor badly needs to cut income tax too. And time is very short.
The Swinner is..
ANYONE who thinks plodding SNP lifer John Swinney is the man to lead Scotland to a prosperous, independent future needs their head tested.
It is comforting to imagine Swinney, if handed the job, seeing the error of his old boss Nicola Sturgeon’s ways: That catastrophic further decline is evitable if you obsessively stoke grievances against Westminster instead of governing well.
Sadly we know he won’t.
Swinney is the SNP’s “unifying” candidate.
And united it will be for now — by incompetence and its shared delusion.