At Breaking Point
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Breaking Point
It is of course not the new Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s fault that the illegal immigration crisis has reached such disturbing levels.
She has inherited a situation that has got steadily more out of control for a number of years now. I have been highlighting the dire situation for a while over on my YouTube Channel.
The British Government have been far too soft. Giving the French authorities tens of millions of pounds and hoping they would stop the boats is not really a strategy. And it has been proven that this simply won’t work.
Instead we should have long ago looked at revoking French fishing licences, issued fines for each boat they fail to stop and ultimately taken the boats back to France, embarrassing Macron’s Government.
But instead we are in 2022 facing a situation that is far worse now than it was the year before. A letter issued by the Leaders of various Kent Councils to Suella Braverman really has further exposed just how desperate the situation now is.
Part of the letter reads:
“Put simply, Kent is at breaking point. Our public services including health social care and schools are already under extreme pressure from surging local demand and the cost-of-living crisis. We have approaching 20,000 households on the waiting list for social housing, soaring costs and limited availability of private-rented sector and temporary accommodation, all fuelled by being in the expensive south-east London periphery whilst having pockets of severe deprivation and low average earnings.
“Maidstone alone has seen Housing Register applications increase by 37% in one year and those seeking help from homeless service rising to 2,230 during 2021/22. Data so far for 2022/23 indicates a further inexorable increase. Maidstone’s ability to access the private rented sector has been further severely curtailed by an increase in the number of placements from other local authority areas, and various services commissioned by Probation and Home Office to provide housing for asylum seekers and ex-offenders from out of area.”
It goes on to read:
“Kent’s housing sector cannot absorb further asylum placements on top of these existing burdens over and above local demand. Secondary Schools in Canterbury and Ashford currently have no year 7 and year 9 places for local children due to the unexpected and therefore unplanned for arrivals of refugee children disproportionately placed by the Home Office in these two local authority areas.
“Local children are having to travel to other towns to access their education, placing further financial burden on Kent County Council who have to fund their home to school transport as a result.”
How did it come to this? A lack of Government action over a number of years. Even the Rwanda policy, announced back in April, shows absolutely no sign of happening anytime soon.
Suella Braverman has been clear that the UK must leave the ECHR to take back control. Will she be allowed to get on and do that or is this madness going to continue? That is the choice.
Third Party
The national polls are showing the same trend: an extremely interesting development when it comes to Richard Tice’s Reform UK, who I know many readers are considering voting for next time round.
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