Anicet Mayela’s case exposes the dangerous flaws in the asylum system which still betray us
Court… out
IT’S hard to imagine a more sickening example of Britain’s two-decades-long failure to tackle illegal migration and protect its citizens.
From when he was smuggled here on a lorry in 2004, to his brutal rape of a 15-year-old girl last December, Anicet Mayela’s case exposes the dangerous flaws in the asylum system which still betray us 20 years on.
Labour was in power and failing to tackle rising illegal crossings when Mayela was granted leave to remain after cabin crew refused to fly on his deportation flight.
A soft immigration judge under pressure from human rights lawyers freed him after ruling he was at risk if returned to Congo, in a case supported by deluded charity leaders.
We wonder what the do-gooders now think of their roles in giving freedom to this violent monster?
But the wider point is that this human rights racket is today STILL as active and as dangerous as ever.
An army of left-wing lawyers is poised once again to use rulings from the faceless judges of the ECHR to wreck the Rwanda scheme.
Ex-immigration minister Robert Jenrick says Winston Churchill — one of the architects of the European Convention on Human Rights, before it was warped by judicial activism — would be “aghast” at what it has become.
Jenrick’s view is that the Euro court is beyond redemption.
With every new outrage, the case for quitting altogether grows ever stronger.
Back cabs
THE feeling that HMRC clobbers every aspect of our lives has never been better illustrated than in the case of the “taxi tax”.
Slapping 20 per cent VAT on cabs disproportionately affects the poor, the elderly and the sick.
It is a deeply unpopular policy while also being completely at odds with Conservative values.
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt appears to have got the point and ordered a review.
It would be brainless not to now scrap it entirely.
Rish come true
GOOD news for Rishi Sunak — it seems his plan might just be working.
To listen to the BBC doom-mongers, you’d think that inflation had gone up yesterday.
But it’s now down to 3.2 per cent, the lowest level since September 2021 when it peaked at a punishing 11.1 per cent.
And economists reckon it will return to its two per cent target later this spring.
Which provides some hope for the PM.
He now needs to cut taxes further — and somehow get voters to listen.