OPINION
Yvette Cooper is failing miserably on immigration (Image: PA)
Labour’s failure on is clear for Express readers. Yet, instead of bringing forward any plan to fix the unfolding crisis in the channel, Home Secretary has been busy on other matters — like hanging portraits of herself in Parliament replacing the great British Admiral, Nelson.
Because whilst illegals cross the channel and more and more asylum hotels are used, Labour is focusing on self-glorification and vanity. The numbers we have seen today prove it. More illegals in hotels that Labour pledged to shut. Deportations collapsing. And 96% of illegals crossing by boat, staying in this country indefinitely.
38,079 so-called asylum seekers are currently cosied up at our expense. And that’s been on the rise since Labour took over.And the asylum backlog is up under Labour, with 90,000 cases waiting for a decision.
Deportations of small boat arrivals are at rock bottom, with only 4% of those who waltzed up on our shores unlawfully being kicked out of this country.
Instead of sorting this out, Labour is actively choosing to make it easier for illegals to stay in our country. They’re letting illegals claim asylum despite the Conservative government passing laws stopping it.
They are even fast-tracking a British passport for illegals, debasing the value of our citizenship and as good as stamping on what it means to earn a passport through service.
And they’re watering down age checks, making it easier for illegals to pose as kids so they can skirt our laws and putting fully grown men in classrooms with teenage girls. Labour is rewarding criminality, and taxpayers are left picking up the tab.The Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, should be fixing this crisis, not toasting herself.
Her new portrait in parliament, which replaces that of Admiral Nelson, a national icon who defended Britain, symbolises the vanity, hubris, and ineptitude of this government. Under Yvette, our borders are left defenceless.
Nelson fought to protect Britain’s sovereignty, but Cooper gave it to criminals. And whilst Labour indulges in back-slapping self-congratulation, hardworking Britons are struggling under the weight of this government’s failures.
On every front, they are backing down or screwing up. The UK needs strong leadership and the restoration of control over our borders.
Whilst Labour celebrates itself, the will fight to fix this crisis. Britons deserve so much better, and only the will deliver it.