Braverman isn’t liked by liberals but her refugees speech was bang on

THAT pitiful whining you can hear, like a spaniel with a thorn in its bum, is lefties complaining about Suella Braverman. What a cheering noise it is.

The Home Secretary isn’t much liked by the liberals, because she speaks sense.

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Her latest speech about refugees was, in my opinion, bang on the money.

A very unusual thing indeed to hear from a Conservative politician.

She has suggested that the UN Refugee Convention — which decides who we can let into the country and who we can keep out — is not fit for purpose.

Legions of lawyers

In particular, she argued that refugees should not be allowed to stay in this country simply because they are gay.

This has been a real problem recently.

The Government wanted to send illegal asylum seekers for processing in the ­African country of Rwanda.

But a judge decided that gay people couldn’t be sent there in case they suffered discrimination.

It was a ludicrous situation — and it continues.

The Refugee Convention was signed in 1951.

But, as Braverman argued, over the years it has morphed from being about those who wish to flee persecution to those who fear some kind of bias in their home country.

This has served, the Home Secretary continued, to expand the number of those who may qualify for asylum, and to lower the threshold for doing so.

Dead right. According to the Centre for Policy Studies, there are a cool 780million people ­eligible to take advantage of our bizarre leniency.

And right now there is virtually no country we can return them to except maybe Denmark.

This is why we have failed to send any but a few back to the countries they come from.

There are legions of lawyers ready to fight their corner under the ­Refugee Convention.

The Labour Party criticised Braverman. Of course it did.

But it has provided not the slightest shred of evidence that it would handle the situation any better than the Tories.

And there is a fairly large proportion of the party which thinks we should open the door and let everybody in.

These deluded maniacs are only a year from taking over our country, by the way.

Labour is lagging behind on this issue. It is on the wrong side of history, as the lefties like to say.

One by one the European countries are taking a much tougher line on illegal financial migrants.

Not least Italy, with its newish very right-wing government.

Even France is getting very concerned — and its president Emmanuel Macron was in Italy to discuss how the migrant crisis can be sorted out.

Control the flow

The Germans, meanwhile, have been pussyfooting over a deal to take migrants from Italy.

One moment the deal was off, the next it was on.

There are plenty of voters in Germany who have had enough of being inundated.

Braverman is on to a winner if she pursues this line.

It strikes a chord with the views of a majority of people in this country.

They don’t “hate” immigrants — they just understand that we need to control the flow over our borders.

Keep this up, Suella — and who knows? The Tories might even have a chance at the next General Election . . . 

MP NO RIGHT TO ACT

I HAD never heard of Caroline Dinenage until last week.

Now I wish I never hear from her again. She’s a Conservative MP and chair of the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport committee.

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She has written to the website Rumbleand asked it to stop allowing Russell Brand to make money from its site.

Listen, I can’t stand Brand. But what right does a politician have to take away someone’s income?

When they haven’t even been CHARGED with any offence?

Resign, Dinenage. And we’ll see if we can stop your income at the next election.

HERE is an interesting statistic.

Over the past year, public sector workers took almost twice as many days in sick leave as their counterparts in the private sector.

(They are also paid better and typically work shorter hours and get longer holidays.)

But why should this be?

My suspicion is that public sector bosses are more indulgent.

Their workers can get away with doing four fifths of naff all.

More than ten days sick leave over the past year, on average.

I haven’t had a day off sick in 30 years.

And I bet there’s a lot of people in the private sector who can say the same thing.

FOOT IN MOUTH

A CONTESTANT on ITV show Tipping Point this week was asked: “Where in the body would you wear dentures?”

The chap replied, with great confidence, “feet”.

I think it was on the same edition of the show in which some woman was asked the name of a Scottish writer who lived between 1771 and 1832.

She said, “William Shakespeare.”

Why would you go on a general knowledge quiz programme when you have the depth of general knowledge of a shrubbery?

And in the case of the dentures chap, genuinely don’t know your arse from your elbow?

WHERE are all the pubs going? A record number of 400 bars have closed in the first half of this year alone.

Of course, the cost-of-living crisis hasn’t helped. Nor the high energy bills and even higher rents the landlords have to pay.

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But the ban on smoking has probably accounted for a large number of pub closures.

And the fact we can now get alcohol delivered to our front door.

It’s a little bit sad, really.

Gradually we’re becoming a much more insular society. We mix with others less often.

We move house more often. And all of this, I reckon, contributes towards an increase in crime.

Pubs were once the hubs of our communities.

What’s the hub these days? The Deliveroo courier?

Wake up to the atrocities on Armenians

WHY are we all turning a blind eye to the atrocities carried out by Azerbaijan?

Thousands of Armenians have been forced to flee their homes in Nagorno-Karabakh.

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Azerbaijan claims the province, despite the fact that the people in it are almost all Armenian.

Now Armenians demanding independence from Azerbaijan have faced a brutal crackdown.

Our government should read the riot act to the government in Baku.

PUSS IN SUITS A RIDDLE

A MATE of mine who owns a coffee shop had his first ever encounter with a “furry”.

These are people who think they are non-human animals.

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And dress accordingly. So, this middle-aged couple come in with what my friend reckoned was a 16-year-old daughter.

She was wearing a cat costume – head, whiskers, tail, the whole works. And spent her time on all fours, skittering around the café. My mate was nonplussed.

He didn’t know what to do. Furries believe they actually ARE animals, you see.

So his correct response would have been to kick her out because no animals are allowed in the café.

I told him that I’d have said to her the following: “If you’re a proper cat, behave like one.

“Go and sit underneath that car out there for an hour. And then dash across the road in front of a lorry.”

SO it’s another incredible triumph for the Scottish National Party, then!

Life expectancy north of the border has fallen for the third successive year.

And it is now on a level with the average ten years ago.

The jocks can expect to live three years less than people south of the border.

It’s almost certainly a consequence of the grotesque mess the SNP has made of managing the NHS.

Why do they keep voting for a party that is dictatorial, utterly incompetent and mired in corruption?

ADVICE IS LATE

THE Covid lockdowns caused “long-lasting and era-defining” harm to the nation’s children, according to a bunch of charities in a new report.

The Children’s Rights Organisations alliance said more could have been done to prevent the damage to kids’ mental health during Covid.

Well, yes – we shouldn’t have locked down.

The schools should have remained open. I don’t remember these charities criticising lockdown at the time, do you?