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“TRUST me” honked Keir Starmer on repeat mode through the election campaign. “We will smash the gangs.”
He doubled up as Prime Minister in a vow to Interpol: “It is my personal mission to smash the people-smuggling gangs.”
Well, he ain’t saying it any more. “Sir Shifty” was fibbing in Opposition and he was fibbing again in No10.
With jolly boating weather luring more illegal migrants than ever before, the PM has gone silent over the tsunami reaching our shores since he took office.
More than 20,000 illegals arrived during Labour’s first six months — 15 per cent up on the same period the previous year.
Figures now show another 6,406 mostly young men have landed on our beaches so far this year, breaking all records for a three-month period.
Far from being “smashed”, these ruthless gangsters are operating as full-blown travel agents.
Few if any arriving include genuine refugees fleeing for their lives. They are comparatively well-heeled economic opportunists determined to walk Britain’s streets of welfare gold.
Officially, up to 850,000 people are here illegally. But that number could be doubled or trebled as far as the dozy Home Office is aware.
As for the billions required to support them, it all comes out of the pockets of hard-working Brits targeted by smash & grab Chancellor Rachel Reeves.
Plus all the old folk robbed by Rachel of their precious £300 annual winter fuel allowance.
It is now clear Britain is paying a terrifying price for electing the worst possible government at the worst possible moment.
And there are four more years to go! By the next election it will be impossible to undo the damage inflicted on the fabric of society by these woke, race and diversity obsessed fanatics.
Keir Starmer’s words are false. This former Human Rights Lawyer of the Year will never overrule immigration judges who put rights of foreign criminals above those of law-abiding citizens.
He won’t sack best pal Lord Hermer, the maverick Attorney General who has spent his career defending evil monsters with a grudge against Britain.
Immigration — both legal and illegal — is totally out of control. This is not just a farce. It is a calculated insult to the 17,410,742 Brits who voted Brexit so we could “control our borders”.
“BRITAIN is kind. The Government is nice.”
A small boat migrant explains why he’s chosen our country over any other to enter illegally, risking his life to do so.
The magnetism of soft-touch Britain, summarised in seven words.
The liberal-Left will be overjoyed to be seen as so welcoming and generous.
Thrilled that our nation is known for “kindness, tolerance, integration and acceptance” . . . the supposed values — quoted by some idiot judge this week — of Paddington Bear.
That really is where their thinking ends. They don’t care what illegal migration costs us financially or socially. They are mostly comfortably off and they love being Paddingtons.
Millions living harder lives in the real world see a Government saying: No, we cannot afford to cut the taxes crushing your family or bankrupting your business.
And no, we cannot afford your winter fuel allowance or benefits.
But we CAN afford billions for ideological indulgences like Net Zero, and billions more to feather-bed small boat migrants we are too incompetent and liberal to stop.
Indeed we will let thousands more arrive each week — 1,722 in the last seven days alone — and house, clothe and feed them at a cost of millions per day, forever if need be.
This is what migrants think of as British kindness: Limitless “generosity” with taxpayers’ money.
They break the law, enter unfairly and illegally — and we merely hand them a new life courtesy of a public buckling under the heaviest tax burden in our history.
Virtually none are ever deported. Indeed judges on the Sentencing Council intend to go softer on them to render automatic deportation impossible.
If ever there IS cause to kick one out, an army of left-wing lawyers stands ready to block it using a Human Rights Act which is now interpreted so loosely by judges that almost anyone gets to stay for any reason.
Long gone is the Tory strategy which barred illegals from making a life here while also threatening to fly them out to Rwanda.
The fear of it was already beginning to deter, only for Labour to scrap it out of pure ideology.
It never had any effective alternative.
It pledged to “smash” the traffickers. Arrivals soared by 31 per cent. It bunged yet more cash at French police to stop boats setting sail.
Instead, as we reveal, they merely tell migrants mid-Channel to hang on for the Brits to rescue them.
The liberal fantasy of Britain as a welcome hub for all-comers with a hard-luck story has become a fast track to our ruin. Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement proved how dangerously broke we are.
Taxpayers facing ever higher bills cannot fund the thousands newly arriving illegally each week. Nor will they.
This crisis alone could sink this Government, as it helped sink the last.
DARTITIS is a cruel psychological condition that has left many darting stars helpless at the oche.
Called the ‘yips’ or ‘jitters’ in other sports, darts players can be affected by a psychological issue that results in the loss of fine motor skills, muscle memory and severely damage their performance.
High profile players have been on the end of it and have been left in tears on stage – or unable to play at all.
Nathan Aspinall appeared to struggle with the condition when he faced Luke Littler in the World Darts Championship on New Year’s Day.
SunSport brings you all the information on the psychological effect dartitis can have on players.
Dartitis is a mental condition in which the brain stops a player from releasing a dart.
The name is a portmanteau and was coined by Darts World editor Tony Wood in 1981.
This condition sees darts players of all levels struggle psychologically – and it is suggested it comes from a fear of missing.
At the highest level, dartitis has affected many of the sport’s best players, including five-time world champion Eric Bristow, who said he suffered with the condition for a decade.
Women’s star Beau Greaves, Kevin Painter and Mark Webster have also been on the end of the condition, while one of the most high-profile episode affected Berry van Peer.
During the 2017 Grand Slam of Darts, the Dutchman was left unable to throw his darts in a match against Gary Anderson.
Van Peer was in tears while on stage, with the crowd throwing their support behind him and Anderson and referee Russ Bray among those to console him on stage.
During the World Darts Championship in 2023, Van Peer revealed all about his condition and how he deals with it.
On his road to recovery, he said: “Getting over dartitis was mostly just practising, keeping all the positives thoughts, like results from years ago, and removing the negatives thoughts.
“I found a way of visualising what I’m going to hit. So if I have a 76 checkout to go for, I’ll visualise that I’m going for treble 20, double 18. That helped me a lot.
“Breathing patterns have helped a little bit too. Confidence is a lot, especially mentally.
“Practice was hell really. Me and my brother always practice together. He just stood there waiting for me to finish my throw, he couldn’t care less.
“He was like ‘I will just wait’. Sometimes it took so long.
“People would say to him ‘you practice with Berry all the time, isn’t that annoying?’ And he’d be like ‘why, I had all the time in the world, I don’t care if he takes an hour to throw the dart or 10 seconds, it doesn’t matter’.
“He’s always supported me and has played a very important part in my life.”
On what caused his dartitis, Van Peer explained: “It’s a strange story. I was over alert so I would get scared from everything around me.
“If you just walked by me and said ‘hey’, I would be like ‘oh Jesus, where did you come from?’
“Once that started, it was hard to tell my brain it was nothing.”
Nathan Aspinall, who is currently ranked 12 in the world, revealed he first started having these problems during a Premier League darts match back in 2023.
He blew a 4-0 lead against Peter Wright and could be seen struggling on stage.
Aspinall, 33, revealed he has since used a sports psychologist and now has techniques which help him overcome the condition.
In Sky Sports documentary ‘Game of Throws’, Aspinall said his issue with the condition would reduce him to tears.
He said: “All of a sudden out of nowhere I couldn’t throw my effing dart.
“I just couldn’t let it go. It ended up getting worse and worse and worse to the point where I was in tears.
“Because I knew what it was. The dreaded D-word that no darts player ever wants to hear or get. Something called dartitis.
“It’s basically the fear of missing. There’s somewhere deep in the back of your head saying ‘you’re going to miss this’ so you stop.
“I lost the game 6-5, I went upstairs after the game and I was in the toilet and I was absolutely smashing ten lumps of s*** out of the hand dryer. I lost my head.”
Aspinall also appeared to be suffering with the condition during his quarter-final clash with Luke Littler on New Year’s Day.
The Asp could be frequently seen pulling out of his throw and taking a deep breath to compose himself.
SMALL boat crossings are on course for the worst year on record — with 1,722 migrants arriving in Britain in the last week alone.
Channel arrivals are up 31 per cent since Labour came to power last summer, despite the party’s election pledge to smash the criminal smuggling gangs.
The continuing influx will only add to the huge burden on taxpayers to house and process illegal migrants.
This comes as a Sun investigation shows French police are allegedly enabling illegal migration by leaving overcrowded boats in the Channel.
Last year the government spent £5.38billion on asylum seeker accommodation and support — and 8,000 more migrants are in hotels since Sir Keir Starmer became PM.
Since January, 6,406 people have made the journey from France across the busy shipping lane.
It far exceeds the 4,644 who had arrived by the same point last year, and the 3,683 who crossed in 2023.
The official 2025 total will rise again today after around 400 migrants were seen being picked up by Border Force yesterday on another day of sunny weather — known as “red days”.
Home Office sources blamed the weather for the surge, saying there had been 42 red days so far this year, compared to 17 in the same period in 2024.
By Jack Elsom
A STAGGERING 153,194 migrants have arrived in the UK in dinghies since 2018, when the crossings began.
It is the equivalent to York’s population.
Once here, they are free to claim asylum — unlocking taxpayer support, including free accommodation.
Each boat could potentially cost the public millions of pounds. Last year, research by a think tank found the average annual cost of housing and supporting an asylum seeker rose from £17,000 per person in 2019/20 to £41,000 in 2023/24.
The IPPR said the huge increase was “primarily down to reliance on hotels”.
Currently, there are 112,187 asylum seekers who receive government support.
A Home Office source said: “We had the lowest number of crossings for at least three years in January and February.
“But March has seen an unprecedented number of calm weather days in the Channel, and that has inevitably driven up numbers.”
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is now in a race against time to prove her decision to axe the Rwanda deterrent and create a Border Security Command is working.
Since Labour came to power in July last year, 29,648 migrants have come to Britain, which is more than the 22,648 in the same eight-month period under the Tories.
The Sun understands that Ms Cooper is lining up a series of announcements on organised immigration crime next week.
Home Office insiders are describing the blitz as “Hell Week” — a reference to the most intensive week in Navy Seals’ training.
The Government boasts of ramping up deportations to the tune of 19,000 since coming to office, with enforced returns up 24 per cent.
Yet critics say the majority of those are voluntary returns, where foreign offenders are given assistance to return home.
Since the Channel crisis erupted in 2018, just three per cent of the 153,000 small boat migrants have been deported.
As of December, 112,187 asylum seekers were taking some form of government accommodation and subsistence. Some 38,079 of these are in taxpayer-funded hotels, up from 29,585 in June and costing around £4.5million every day.
The number of asylum claims last year rose 18 per cent to 108,000, the highest since records began. However the proportion that were granted fell from 67 per cent in 2023 to 47 per cent.
Rob Bates, from the Centre of Migration Control, said last night: “There must be no more asylum applications processed, the system must be frozen and the backlog cleared by removing every single individual who entered our country illegally, without exception.”
France has long been accused of not doing enough to stop small boat crossings despite being given £500million since 2023.
Last month Ms Cooper hailed an agreement directing £7million of existing funds to stronger law enforcement in France. Her French counterpart Bruno Retailleau also pledged to begin intercepting small boats in shallow waters.
The best deterrent is preventing people from making these life-threatening journeys in the first place.
Sir Keir's spokesman
Currently French police use knives to deflate the dinghies when they are on the beaches, but lack capacity to detain migrants.
Ms Cooper’s Borders Bill will give authorities powers to arrest migrants who refused to be rescued by the French.
She will also give police “counter-terror style” powers to seize laptops, mobile phones and financial assets from suspected people smugglers.
Ministers are also considering the possibility of processing asylum claims in one of the Balkan states.
Sir Keir’s spokesman said last night: “There isn’t a silver bullet to solve this problem.
“The best deterrent is preventing people from making these life-threatening journeys in the first place, while sending a clear message to anyone arriving here illegally that you’ll be processed and returned quickly.”
“TRUST me” honked Keir Starmer on repeat mode through the election campaign. “We will smash the gangs.”
He doubled up as Prime Minister in a vow to Interpol: “It is my personal mission to smash the people-smuggling gangs.”
Well, he ain’t saying it any more. “Sir Shifty” was fibbing in Opposition and he was fibbing again in No10.
With jolly boating weather luring more illegal migrants than ever before, the PM has gone silent over the tsunami reaching our shores since he took office.
More than 20,000 illegals arrived during Labour’s first six months — 15 per cent up on the same period the previous year.
Figures now show another 6,406 mostly young men have landed on our beaches so far this year, breaking all records for a three-month period.
Far from being “smashed”, these ruthless gangsters are operating as full-blown travel agents. Few if any arriving include genuine refugees fleeing for their lives. They are comparatively well-heeled economic opportunists determined to walk Britain’s streets of welfare gold.
Officially, up to 850,000 people are here illegally. But that number could be doubled or trebled as far as the dozy Home Office is aware.
As for the billions required to support them, it all comes out of the pockets of hard-working Brits targeted by smash & grab Chancellor Rachel Reeves.
Plus all the old folk robbed by Rachel of their precious £300 annual winter fuel allowance.
It is now clear Britain is paying a terrifying price for electing the worst possible government at the worst possible moment.
And there are four more years to go! By the next election it will be impossible to undo the damage inflicted on the fabric of society by these woke, race and diversity obsessed fanatics.
Keir Starmer’s words are false. This former Human Rights Lawyer of the Year will never overrule immigration judges who put rights of foreign criminals above those of law-abiding citizens.
He won’t sack best pal Lord Hermer, the maverick Attorney General who has spent his career defending evil monsters with a grudge against Britain.
Immigration — both legal and illegal — is totally out of control. This is not just a farce. It is a calculated insult to the 17,410,742 Brits who voted Brexit so we could “control our borders”.