The number of Channel migrants arriving in Britain in 2024 has surpassed the total for the whole of last year, according to GB News. 55 migrants arrived on the shores of Dover this afternoon, bringing the total illegal crossings for this year to a whopping 29,451. The overall for 2023 was 29,437. So much for smashing the gangs…
Labour is reopening asylum hotels at a staggering cost of £4 million a day. Just a year ago, the Conservatives shut down 150 of these hotels to deter illegal entry. It’s yet another U-turn from Labour. Their manifesto promised to “end asylum hotels, saving the taxpayer billions of pounds”. Now it’s ‘reopen asylum hotels, costing the taxpayer billions of pounds’…
Yvette Cooper’s decision to overturn the law preventing illegal migrants from claiming asylum has sent asylum seeker numbers skyrocketing, so it’s no surprise Labour has opted to reopen hotels to house them. With 27,225 migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats so far—a 5% increase from the same time last year—many of these newcomers will soon find themselves in the very hotels Labour has revived. It’s an open-door policy with the bill landing on the taxpayer. No wonder Channel migrants love Labour…
The row over Taylor Swift’s concert freebies has been hilariously extended for another day. Labour was forced to defend lobbying the police for a motorcade for Swift while accepting freebie tickets from her record label…
The optics weren’t as bad as they could have been yesterday seeing as everyone clarified that Home Secretary Yvette Cooper hadn’t taken freebie tickets to the concert – of the two, only Sadiq Khan had. Sky News’ Sam Coates reported last night that Ed Balls had though – and brought his wife along…
Now it’s clear that both Khan and Cooper received free premium tickets and pressed security services to do Swift a favour. Cooper didn’t declare them at the time as they fell under the threshold, though she now has. Was probably worth fessing up to when the first story broke…
Jonathan Reynolds is up on Good Morning Britain soon to answer an interviewer’s questions. Guido can think of just the man for the job…
UPDATE: Nandy yesterday, of course, was briefed that Cooper “didn’t attend the concerts.” Top quality briefing that…
Ofcom has decided not to investigate the infamous Ed Balls softball interview with Yvette Cooper on Good Morning Britain, after ITV described it as “fair and impartial.” Not the most romantic description of the Coopers’ marriage…
Despite Ofcom receiving nearly 17,000 complaints—nearly double last year’s most complained-about show—the watchdog has decided not to even look into the husband/wife interview. Guido is surprised it decided against an investigation, considering its history of jumping at the opportunity to impose self-righteous rules on other outlets, namely GB News. Here’s a reminder of a few GB News shows that were found in breach of the rules in the past:
And Ofcom is “independent and impartial”…
Labour are continuing to smash new records. Over 10,000 illegal migrants have now crossed the English Channel since they took the keys to Downing Street, bringing the total this year to 23,598. Over 100 more in Starmer’s first 75 days than Boris’ first year in government…
Meanwhile, Home Secretary Cooper still can’t detail a proper plan, refusing to say when the numbers will come down. Empty slogans like “smashing the gangs” clearly aren’t working. Labour’s achievements so far: popularity plummeting in record time, releasing record numbers of criminals from prison early, and now hitting the 10,000 Channel crossings mark…
After another weekend of record-high Channel boat crossings, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper was asked (not by her husband this time) on BBC Breakfast when Labour would bring down the number of illegal (or as Labour calls it, “irregular”) Channel migrant crossings. She couldn’t answer the question…
Asked three times when boat crossings would fall and whether she had a target date, Cooper dodged the question, repeating the empty line: “We need to make progress as fast as possible because no one should be making these dangerous boat crossings.” Meanwhile, Starmer hinted yesterday at sending asylum seekers to a third country, similar to the Rwanda scheme, as he prepares to learn from Italian Prime Minister Meloni’s “strong ideas” today. As expected, the slogan “smashing the gangs” is not deterrent enough…
