IF we want to win the next General Election and keep Slippery Starmer out of Downing Street, we’re going to have to pull our finger out.
The British people are demanding action.
They are sick to the back teeth of economic migrants masquerading as refugees pouring into Britain on small boats.
That’s why we’ve made stopping the boats and tackling the scourge of illegal migration one of our top priorities.
Last month I visited a migrant camp in Calais. I did not see one woman or child.
Just young men. And the majority of them see the UK as El Dorado.
Last year 14,000 Albanians arrived here. They are not fleeing a war or persecution.
Albania is a modern country, in the process of joining the EU.
They told us that they wanted to come to the UK for a better life.
I’ve got no problem with that aspiration, but they should try to come here through the proper process.
At home, there are hundreds of Lefty lawyers lining up to stop the Government sending illegal migrants packing.
These are the same human rights lawyers that exploit loopholes to prevent the Government deporting violent, drug-dealing foreign criminals and keeping our people safe.
Instead, their actions allow criminals to continue to live among us, as if they are somehow part of our society.
It means millions of pounds of your money is spent on putting migrants up in four-star hotels rather than on the frontline services Sun readers rely on.
We’ve got to fix the economy, we’ve got to bring inflation down.
But the small boats gravy train is costing this country millions and millions of pounds every day, and we need to halt it in its tracks.
That’s why Rishi Sunak made stopping the boats one of his top five priorities.
Keir Starmer set out his priorities this week, and migration was nowhere to be seen.
This shouldn’t come as a surprise.
Before spending four years in cahoots with Jeremy Corbyn in his Shadow Cabinet, Starmer was another one of those obstructive human rights lawyers.
And Yvette Cooper, his shadow Home Secretary, wants to scrap the Rwanda deal.
She thinks the answer to stopping small boats is “encouraging asylum”.
The message they are sending could not be clearer: Labour has no plan to protect our borders.
It’s little wonder then that Labour and the Lib Dems fight everything the Government is doing to stop illegal migration, as if their lives depend on it.
They are more interested in protecting EU-backed freedom of movement than helping the British people.
Any government they end up leading would be perfectly happy to let everyone and anyone in.
Don’t get me wrong, there’s a hell of a lot of work to do.
But we’ve made a lot of progress.
The Rwanda scheme is the first of its kind here and the British public is overwhelmingly behind it.
Don’t let the chattering classes hear you say this, but other countries are actually jealous.
In December we signed a deal with Albania.
It’s a safe, prosperous European country, and now we can send Albanian asylum seekers back immediately.
And just this week, the Home Office announced a practical solution to cutting the towering asylum claims backlog.
But that must not mean we are opening the floodgates to the people- smugglers.
The PM is clear: if you come illegally, you leave immediately.
And Suella is working day and night fine-tuning new laws to fix the asylum laws and stop the boats.
She won’t stop until every letter of the law is watertight and luvvie lawyers can’t wriggle their way around it.
It’ll be in Parliament as soon as it’s ready.
I’ve been banging on about small boats for three years in the Commons.
Labour MPs call me a fascist, they’ve called me a Nazi, they’ve called me a racist.
But I’m not.
I love my country, and when I go to bed at night all I want is to sleep tight in the knowledge that our borders are secure — just like the millions of you who backed the Tories in 2019.
We should always put the interests of Britain and its citizens first.
I’m happy to say that after years of discussion and debate, we’re finally moving in the right direction and tackling illegal immigration.
You have my word: we WILL end this crisis.
