What has it achieved?<\/p>\n
1<\/p>\n In the last ten years this country has handed the thick end of \u00a31billion to France to stop the boatsCredit: AFP<\/p>\n Since 2018, more than 150,000 people have made the perilous Channel crossing<\/a> as French cops watched them go<\/a>.<\/p>\n This year alone nearly 15,000 have come across in small boats<\/a>, a 42 per cent increase on the same time last year.<\/p>\n In any other business, investing \u00a3800million for such a disastrous return would be seen as a catastrophic failure on all sides.<\/p>\n But the shameless French don\u2019t care when it comes to our taxpayer cash. <\/p>\n Despite their flop they are now demanding even more money to intercept boats in shallow water. <\/p>\n What a disgraceful cheek.<\/p>\n We have no guarantee French cops will approach the task with any more enthusiasm if we fill their pockets yet again. <\/p>\n In fact their police<\/a> union leader seems to despise migrants so much that he appears happy to see the back of them.<\/p>\n Since removing the Rwanda<\/a> deterrent, Sir Keir Starmer\u2019s<\/a> attempts to stop the boats or the gangs have floundered. <\/p>\n But rather than gifting hundreds of \u00admillions more to the French, the PM would do better to look in our own backyard.<\/p>\n Fury as hotel firm housing asylum seekers in ‘all-inclusive resorts’ paid \u00a3700M a year of YOUR money<\/p>\n Spend the money destroying the booming black market that is such a magnet for migrants in the first place.<\/p>\n Without the lure of illegal cash-in-hand jobs thousands would never risk the treacherous crossing in the first place.<\/strong><\/p>\n Boom & boast<\/p>\n RACHEL REEVES<\/a> will this week boast of an \u00a386billion investment in Britain\u2019s fastest growing sectors.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Chancellor\u2019s Spending Review bonanza will focus on tech, sciences and defence. <\/p>\n If it boosts business and creates jobs it is well worth shouting about.<\/p>\n With growth as slow as a snail carrying a sandbag the economy<\/a> needs help. <\/p>\n But this cash has to come from somewhere. <\/p>\n Spend, spend, spend is all very well.<\/p>\n As long as it isn\u2019t followed in October by tax, tax, tax.<\/strong><\/p>\n Sprout of order<\/p>\n REMEMBER the struggle to save up cash for last Christmas<\/a>?<\/strong><\/p>\n Wouldn\u2019t it have been nice for someone else to have paid the bills<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"Migrants](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1cc38191-b6aa-4728-89c9-5e9ac1182dff.jpg\")
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