We must curb our reliance on migrant labour and get far more Brits off benefits and into work
Boom or doom
AN economy propped up by low-wage immigration is on a long road to ruin.
That is the inescapable conclusion from the OBR’s chilling assessment of our future.
Only migrants paid almost a third more than the UK average are a net gain to Britain.
The rest will take more from public services and welfare over the years than they will ever contribute.
This is partly why our national debt is forecast to triple in 50 years.
That is also down to us all living longer — and the insane cost of the dash to Net Zero.
And only yet more tax hikes raising £40billion per decade can save us, this dismal report claims.
But Britain will NEVER prosper under an ever higher tax burden.
We must curb our reliance on migrant labour, get far more Brits off benefits and into work, slash the welfare bill and rapidly improve public sector productivity.
And the Government’s stated drive for growth is not just desirable. It is existential.
Bag blagged
AS a reminder of the brazen criminality rife across Britain it is hard to beat.
Policing Minister Diana Johnson’s bag is snatched at a hotel jam-packed with top cops there for a conference.
Labour’s goal, says Dame Diana, “is to restore respect for the rule of law, including respect for the police”.
Fair enough. How’s that going so far?
And forgive us for stating the obvious:
But springing thousands of convicts early from jail will not help . . .
Hidey hole
WHY is Labour hiding how it calculated the £22billion “Tory black hole”?
This oddly precise statistic, recited 24/7, underpins every “difficult decision” the Government alleges it is being forced to make. But the Treasury refuses to give details.
Labour also refuses to publish a forecast of how many pensioners will die of cold without their winter fuel payment.
Why so coy? Could it be that the black hole does not actually exist beyond the ceaseless Tory-bashing rhetoric?
And that the predicted OAP death toll from its cruel cut is simply too damaging?
A fine legacy
CONGRATULATIONS to Figen Murray as her Martyn’s Law starts its long-awaited progress through Parliament, after being given priority by PM Keir Starmer.
It will oblige concert halls and other public venues to have anti-terror measures and training in place just as they do with ordinary health and safety.
Figen’s son Martyn was murdered in the 2017 Manchester Arena atrocity.
Thanks to her, his death may yet save many others.