... Sue Reid’s brilliant report in Saturday’s Mail on the African migrants heading across Europe. All of them said they wanted to end up in Britain because it is a ‘very rich country’ with a benevolent welfare system.
They will get free housing, medical treatment and receive benefits which are not available elsewhere in Europe. Even those who arrive here illegally know there is little chance of them ever being deported. The Afghans who hijacked a plane and flew it to Stansted in 2000 are all still here.
And who can forget Labour’s then Home Secretary Jack Straw travelling to Dover to welcome foreign nationals climbing out of the back of lorries? Mail.
