Viv needs another day off so you’ve got me today. Here is her usual round up of the front pages and below you will find excerpts of some of the stories.
Illegal migrants
Mail
Rishi Sunak tonight insisted the UK would ‘take back control’ of its borders on his watch as he vowed to halt the flow of small boats carrying migrants across the Channel.
The Prime Minister faced the cameras tonight after unveiling a new law designed to dissuade the thousands of people making the perilous journey every year.
The landmark Illegal Immigration Bill will bar arrivals from staying and applying on refugee, modern slavery or human rights grounds. They will also not be allowed to bring judicial reviews or get bail for at least 28 days.
Only children and the gravely ill will be allowed to remain in Britain while cases are considered.
To avoid creating a dash to reach Britain, the rules will be effective from now even though it could be months before they are on the statute book. They explicitly trump human rights laws and judges in Strasbourg.
Mirror
The Government has been accused of trying to “con” the public with new laws to clamp down on desperate migrants arriving in the UK in small boats.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman unveiled draconian plans to end Channel crossings after years of Tory failure which saw an estimated 45,000 people made the perilous journey last year.
Ms Braverman said those who enter the UK via illegal routes will be detained without bail or judicial review before being deported – and blocked from returning.
She said that the Government would announce safe and legal routes for people fleeing persecution – but only AFTER the crossings stop.
It has been widely condemned, with the UN branding it a clear breach of the Refugee Convention and saying it will prevent people fleeing war and persecution from being granted safe haven in the UK.
ITV News
Today Rishi Sunak has brought in a policy that Enver Solomon – CEO of the Refugee Council – told me was the toughest asylum policy ever brought in for the UK and across western Europe.
Vicky Tennant, from the UN’s refugee agency, told ITV News that it effectively bans asylum in the UK – something she says is in breach of our duties under the Refugee Convention.
But the PM was under huge pressure from Conservative MPs to tackle this problem. And while the UNCHR thinks it all goes too far – some of those politicians think it doesn’t go far enough.
Today a number of them – including Simon Clarke – raised the prospect of us leaving the European Convention on Human Rights after the home secretary made clear on the face of the bill that this policy may not comply with it.
Sun
RISHI Sunak threw down the gauntlet to left-wing lawyers and anti-borders campaigners last night insisting “I am up for the fight” over Small Boats.
As the pro-migration “blob” plotted to torpedo his new Illegal Migration Bill in the courts, the PM insisted “we will win”.
And he vowed to do “whatever is necessary” to end the Channel crisis with illegal arrivals detained for 28 days before being deported.
Mr Sunak insisted Britain will use “every tool at our disposal”, adding his new law “is tough but it is necessary and it is fair” and will end “spurious human rights claims” clogging up the system.
Addressing aspiring migrants directly at a No 10 press conference last night, the PM said: “If you come to the UK illegally, you can’t claim asylum.
“You can’t benefit from our modern slavery protections. You can’t make spurious human rights claims. You can’t stay.”
Independent
Rishi Sunak’s proposals to deport asylum seekers without considering their claims amount to a “clear breach” of international law, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has said.
The government has already admitted that its Illegal Migration Bill may breach human rights law, with the prime minister saying he was “up for the fight” that is predicted to take place over the matter in British courts.
The bill would impose a legal duty on the home secretary to remove anyone who arrives on a small boat, either to Rwanda or another “safe third country”, without hearing their asylum claim.
In a statement issued on Tuesday afternoon, the UNHCR said such legislation would “amount to an asylum ban … no matter how genuine and compelling” individual cases may be.
“The effect of the bill would be to deny protection to many asylum seekers in need of safety and protection, and even deny them the opportunity to put forward their case,” the agency added.
“This would be a clear breach of the Refugee Convention and would undermine a long-standing, humanitarian tradition of which the British people are rightly proud. We urge the government, and all MPs and peers, to reconsider the bill and instead pursue more humane and practical policy solutions.”
BBC News
The government’s proposed asylum law is “very concerning” and would block even those with a compelling claim, the United Nations refugee agency has said.
The UNHCR’s representative to the UK, Vicky Tennant, told the BBC the measure would break international law and was not needed to stop Channel crossings.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said he is “up for the fight” to bring in the law and overcome any legal challenges.
Labour has said the plans risk “making the chaos worse”.
Telegraph
A Labour MP has claimed the Government’s illegal immigration crack down is fuelling “xenophobia and racism”, but the party is yet to say whether it will vote against the Bill.
Khalid Mahmood, a former shadow minister, alleged that the measures were simply designed to retain Tory support in the Red Wall.
He said: “Isn’t the truth this: this is purely to deal with the political agenda that she has, to try and get the Red Wall votes, Red Wall seats, but she’s trying to do that at the expense of xenophobia and racism, and that is not conducive to our constituents and the country.”
The Home Secretary hit back, telling him it was “irresponsible” to suggest that wanting to control our borders is “racist”.
Strikes
Mirror
A deal to settle the NHS industrial dispute for most workers could be reached by Thursday as intensive talks begin.
Sources told the Mirror there is optimism ministers can come up with a pay offer that unions are happy to take back to members by the end of three days of planned negotiations this week.
Health Secretary Steve Barclay and junior minister Will Quince head up the Government’s negotiating team which sat down with the NHS Staff Council from 11am today.
Unions are insisting “nothing is agreed until everything is agreed” and have demanded that all involved refrain from leaking a “running commentary” of talks.
The unions now involved in talks are Unison, the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, GMB, Unite, the Royal College of Midwives and the Royal College of Nursing.
The three days of talks could end with a new offer over improved pay for this year and next for the bulk of staff on the NHS’s main Agenda for Change contract.
If no agreement on a revised pay offer is reached, a decision will be made whether to continue negotiations next week.
ITV News
Planned strike action by thousands of rail workers has been suspended by the RMT union after it said it had received a new offer from the employer.
Members of the union at Network Rail had been due to walk out in the latest round of train strikes on Thursday, March 16, with a ban on overtime to follow.
RMT members are still slated to strike on March 16, 18 and 20, and April 1, at 14 train operators, represented by the Rail Delivery Group.
Plans for a Tube strike by London Underground workers on Wednesday, March 15 also remain unchanged.
In recent months, rail unions have been embroiled in a bitter dispute with the government over pay, conditions and jobs.
Sun
MICK Lynch has called off strikes across Network Rail after receiving a fresh offer from bosses.
Hopes of a breakthrough to months of industrial strife were raised as the RMT hardman blinked and suspended walkouts on the service.
His members had been due to strike on March 16 along with an overtime ban in the latest escalation of their pay row.
But a statement late last night said the RMT National Executive was pausing all strikes on Network Rail “following a receipt of a new offer from the employer”.
It said an update on the bitter dispute with ministers and rail bosses will be made in the coming days.
RMT workers are still due to strike on 14 operators represented by the Rail Delivery Group on March 16, 18, 30 and April 1.
Mirror
Thousands of firefighters will not go on strike after agreeing a new pay deal following months of deadlock.
The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) said members voted “overwhelmingly” to accept a pay settlement of 7% backdated to July 2022, plus an additional 5% from July 2023.
It said 96% of FBU members had voted to accept the deal on an 84% turnout.
In a statement, the union said: “The result makes the Fire and Rescue Service one of the only areas of the public sector to resolve its pay dispute without strike action.
“Collective bargaining was the key to this. Unlike workers in the NHS or teaching, pay is decided in direct negotiations rather than by a so-called ‘independent’ pay review body.”
Climate change
Guardian
Cabinet ministers have been warned by senior civil servants that they face court action because of their catastrophic failure to develop policies for tackling climate change, according to secret documents obtained by the Observer.
The leaked briefings from senior mandarins – marked “official sensitive” and dated 20 February this year – make clear the government as a whole is way behind in spelling out how it will reach its net zero targets and comply with legal duties to save the planet.
The restricted, highly sensitive documents are another severe embarrassment for Rishi Sunak, who originally planned to stay away from last November’s Cop27 climate summit in Egypt, but was shamed into attending after his predecessor but one, Boris Johnson, announced he was going.
Sunak then declared that acting to cut carbon emissions was a moral duty “because if we do not act today, we will risk leaving an ever more desperate inheritance for our children”.
Council tax
Mail
Most English councils plan to use maximum tax hikes alongside cuts in ‘desperate measures’ to avoid bankruptcy.
A report found that nine in ten local authorities will increase council tax, or hike charges on waste or parking.
The majority of councils surveyed will cut spending on services, while 1 in 12 said money troubles risked them going bankrupt.
The report, by the Local Government Information Unit, reveals how families struggling with the cost of living will bear the brunt.
Most councils said they will increase council tax by the largest permissible amount without a referendum – between 2.5 and 3 per cent – and almost every council providing social care will use powers to demand a further 2 per cent increase from April.
Taken together, households living in an average Band D home could face a hike of £98 from April to £2,064.
Covid
Telegraph
The Chief Medical Officer said a Covid vaccine could not be fast-tracked because the virus had a “low mortality rate” in the early days of the pandemic, messages reveal
Prof Sir Chris Whitty told Matt Hancock and others that diseases with a mortality rate in the range of one per cent would need a “very safe” vaccine and that the necessary clinical trials would be a “rate limiting step”.
He was responding to a WhatsApp message from Dominic Cummings, the then chief adviser to Boris Johnson, in February 2020 about a report saying Israeli scientists were weeks away from developing a vaccine.
How quickly vaccine trials could be completed was one of the most important arguments happening in Government during the first months of the pandemic.
Mr Cummings would later claim the Government could “definitely” have started vaccinating the population in September 2020 – three months before the first jabs were given – if it had adopted a bolder approach to vaccine trials.
Weight loss
BBC News
A weight loss jab that has gained popularity in the US has been approved for use by the NHS in England.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) concluded semaglutide, marketed as Wegovy, is safe, effective and affordable.
Delivered via an injection into the skin, the drug makes people feel fuller and more satisfied, so they eat less.
Famous personalities such Elon Musk claim to have used it – with a “craze” allegedly developing in Hollywood.
Based on evidence from clinical trials, NICE says semaglutide could help people reduce their weight by over 10%, if implemented alongside nutrition and lifestyle changes.
It will be recommended for use by people with at least one weight-related health condition, as well as those who have a body mass index (BMI) which puts them near the top of the obese range.
Independent
A “game changer” weight loss injection said to be popular among celebrities is to be made available through the NHS in England for certain people living with obesity, health officials have announced.
Thousands are expected to be offered the appetite suppressant Wegovy on prescription after the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) gave it the green light for NHS use.
Experts described the decision as a “pivotal moment” for the treatment of people living with obesity but others warned that the drug is not a “quick fix”.
A previous study found that people who are given the drug, which comes as a weekly injection, saw their weight drop by 12% on average after 68 weeks.
Nice has issued final guidance recommending semaglutide (also known as Wegovy and made by Novo Nordisk) for adults with at least one weight-related condition and a body mass index (BMI) score of at least 35.
The weight-related conditions that make obese people eligible include type 2 diabetes, prediabetes, high blood pressure, dyslipidaemia (unbalanced or unhealthy cholesterol levels), obstructive sleep apnoea and heart disease.
In some cases, people with a BMI of 30 and over may be able to access the drug, which is given via a pen injector.
Telegraph
Weight loss jabs will be offered to tens of thousands of people a year on the NHS as part of efforts to combat obesity.
Researchers described the drug semaglutide as “game-changing” after studies found that one-third of those put on the treatment lost a fifth of their body weight.
The drug, also known as Wegovy, works by taking over the body’s own appetite-regulating system in the brain, leading to reduced hunger and calorie intake, with experts saying it is able to achieve what was previously only possible through weight-loss surgery.
The recommendation from the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence means the weekly jabs can be prescribed to around 35,000 people a year.
Those eligible for the drugs include those with a BMI of at least 35 and an obesity-related health problem, and some with a BMI of at least 30, where they meet the criteria for specialist treatment.
Mail
Tens of thousands of people will be helped to lose weight with a ‘game-changing’ drug in Britain’s battle against the bulge.
Watchdog NICE has given the green light to the weekly jab in what experts have hailed as a ‘pivotal moment’ in the fight against obesity.
Semaglutide – sold under the brand name Wegovy – works by hijacking the brain to suppress appetite and reduce calorie intake, resulting in substantial weight loss.
Trials found those on it lost around 12 per cent of their body weight – and slashed their chances of type 2 diabetes by more than half.
The drug, which costs £73 a month, has now been given the green light for use on the NHS.
It means patients could be referred for the DIY jabs instead of gastric band or other weight loss surgery, reducing the burden on hospitals and saving the NHS millions.
ITV News
A “game changer” weight loss injection said to be popular among celebrities is to be made available through the NHS in England for certain people living with obesity, health officials have announced.
Thousands are expected to be offered the appetite suppressant Wegovy on prescription after the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) gave it the green light for NHS use.
Experts described the decision as a “pivotal moment” for the treatment of people living with obesity but others warned that the drug is not a “quick fix”.
A previous study found that people who are given the drug, which comes as a weekly injection, saw their weight drop by 12% on average after 68 weeks.
Nice has issued final guidance recommending semaglutide (also known as Wegovy and made by Novo Nordisk) for adults with at least one weight-related condition and a body mass index (BMI) score of at least 35.
BMI is calculated by dividing an adult’s weight in kilograms by the square of their height in meters.
Energy
Telegraph
The race to develop cleaner energy has sent engineers in several directions: out to sea to plant wind turbines, to the desert to plant solar panels, and into the laboratory to try and develop nuclear fusion.
At an industrial site in Cornwall, however, they are looking in another direction: deep underground.
Private company Geothermal Engineering has drilled more than three miles underground near Redruth, tapping into water at temperatures of up to 180 degrees centigrade.
It plans to harness that heat to generate electricity for the national electricity grid and warmth for nearby homes.
It would be the first deep geothermal power plant in the UK, when up and running as planned in 2024.
‘Woman’
Express
NHS staff have demanded the health body brings back the word “woman” on its web pages about cancer and pregnancy. Over 1,000 staff have called for the “disrespectful” censorship of the word to end in an open letter to NHS chiefs. At least 19 female health pages on the NHS.uk website no longer use the word. These pages consist of guidance pages about female-only issues, including ovarian cancer and menopause.
Rather than using the word “woman”, the NHS uses phrases like “anyone with a cervix”, according to the staff.
The letter, seen by Express.co.uk, said: “We call for the reinstatement of sex-based, respectful communication that meets the healthcare needs of women.
“Specifically, the NHS must use women’s words for women’s bodies and women’s health problems.
Interesting that the immigration bill imposes a legal duty on the Home Secretary to do this that and t’other. So it won’t be Sunak, the PM that takes the blame.
Missing you Viv, thanks Debbie and people in the comments section for keeping up the good work.
Anyhiws, thought I’d share this interesting article on immigration to Britain.
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/immigration/2023/03/the-suicide-and-conquest-of-britain-revisited/
Interesting indeed Chris; thank you.
Thank you for your news review Debbie and best wishes to Viv to take a rest from the crazyness all around.
Good morning Debbie. Thanks for todays selection. Hope your own health is holding up. Warmer weather would give us all a boost for the better! Snow in March isn’t my ‘cup of tea’! Please give our continued best wishes to Viv.
It’s a good job I wasn’t holding my coffee cup when I read the ‘Gruaniad’ bit! The Civil Serpents certainly seem to be running this Country on behalf of the ‘globalists’! Looking at the picture of Simon Case on Monday turned my stomach! If ever there was a vacuous, shifty, egomaniac, prepared to use power to the disadvantage of this Country! I suggest he can only be beaten by the equally ‘empty’ head of MI5!
As for the ‘weight loss jabs’! Are there still people out there who will roll up their sleeves for some new and unknown ‘jollop’ to be pumped into their bodies? I guess there are! The only way to lose weight is to eat less of the things that make you fat! Like turning the economy around after politicians have junked it….there is no ‘quick fix’!
Hooray! Some sensible people in the NHS want to call us ‘women’ again! But only for certain illnesses that ‘men’ can’t possibly have regardless of how they might like to think they can ‘be like us’! I keep singing that little ditty from ‘Jungle Book’……I want to be like you!
Happy days!
Good morning Frederica and all readers. I am fine, thank you, and I hope you are too.
I shall pass on your good wishes to Viv.
Hello Frederica. Have you ever heard of Old Age Anorexia? Well I was a bit sceptical about it when I first became seriously underweight in my 70’s. It does exist, I can tell you. It is not the same as anorexia nervosa and it is not an inability to swallow. All I can say by explanation is that even listening to my body I never feel hungry. So it is very difficult to eat anything. No whatever jabs big pharma devise, even if they decided to tackle that one, I shall say no for as long as I am allowed to refuse.
Gruaniad – our legal duties to save the planet? What the hell are they supposed to be? How about the government’s duty to run the country efficiently.
Hello Pauline. I remember us having a conversation before about the ‘will to eat’. I believe I ‘preached’ something to you about making the effort to cook even just for yourself. How pretentious of me. I take it back! Since I lost my other half last November, I have found that it does seem less important to eat when it’s only oneself! Half the reason for cooking was to keep someone else alive as well.
But…..I am following a policy of ‘grazing’. That doesn’t necessarily mean I am eating ‘junk’ or ‘processed food’ (although i do occasionally succumb) but I make meals and freeze them in small portions for one now. And I make a point of eating something at appropriate times and arrange it attractively to tempt me! I am fortunate in that I have a son living nearby. So at least once a week on either side I eat with them and then I cook for them to eat with me. It’s a regime and I’m following it. I will be avoiding anything to do with medics. They are bad for my health!
We have had very different lives Frederica. So land in different situations. I am sure though, we will talk again about these issues.
Illegal migrants:
I simply cannot understand the government position with respect to likely challenge by the UCHR and others. Surely a prerequisite should have been to withdraw from such organisations before setting out that policy? Whilst they are at it de-funding the UN would also be an indication that “our” government is really ours and puts our country and its native people first.
Climate change:
Will government ever accept that this is a madcap, but not amusing, theory that is just another tool of the globalists to exert control with a totalitarian world government in mind? One must hope that they are not planning to give over our country to the globalists but undoubtedly some in government will take the globalists’ shilling.
Energy:
Is some common sense forthcoming at long last?
Jack T, re energy. Maybe there is some common sense forthcoming but it will not be anywhere near fast enough for next winter.
Just watched GB News early morning programme with Eamonn Holmes and Isobel (whatever) interviewing Suella Bravermann about the new legislation to deal with English Channel migrants, and the questions that are asked centre around unfairness to migrants and safe routes etc. In other words the kind of questions BBC journalists ask government ministers over this subject, which gives the impression to the listener/viewer like me that the migrants flooding into our country illegally and without any personal documentation which in many cases has been dumped en route, should be allowed to continue to do so. There was me thinking that GB News was a breath of fresh air when it started who were going to represent an alternative viewpoint. Increasingly I am coming to the conclusion that we are being conned by GB News by what they supposedly represent and are in fact just like all the other ‘woke’ left leaning radio and tv stations in this country. Have never watched the early morning show before and probably wont do so again, but I am gradually tiring of the format Nigel Farage follows as well on his show.
I’ll say it again, that against my expectations, preconceptions, Mogg is actually absolutely up to speed on all the narratives (freedom of speech, lockdowns, climate change, net zero, migrants, digital IDs and currency, ULEZ), and continues to surprise with the positions he takes; more so than Nige who has gone off the boil. Steyn uncharacteristically sneered, on a recent show – yes he”s making two or three a week for his website, unmissable – that how could an ex-head of the Privvy Council take his prime spot on GB News (or indeed how would anyone). But guilt by association is a cheap leftist trope and if he had watched he would know that, with that behind him, he is free to call a spade a spade, and he ever so politely does just that. If he is any kind of establishment plant, it is not working for them.
Yes Phil O’S. I think JRM is one of the very few ‘good guys’.
I have yet to meet an establishment politician who is free to call a spade a spade.
IMHO it is not what Mogg says on GB News that counts it’s what he says and does in the House. He is still a Tory Party man at the end of the day and thus not to be trusted in any way whatsoever.
“Increasingly I am coming to the conclusion that we are being conned by GB News by what they supposedly represent and are in fact just like all the other ‘woke’ left leaning radio and tv stations in this country”. UK Column predicted this right from the start.
Mary, woke? Are you saying the GBN panels and presenters are mainly women, permanently suntanned, homosexuals and / or sweaty? How dare you? It is only 81 pct!
As to news – same as all the other channels.
Moscow surrenders to six attacking Western tanks . . . Give money to Ukraine – the only country in the world building statues and naming streets after holocaust war criminals.
I’m with you on that Mary. I don’t watch GB News anymore preferring UK Column’s podcasts.
Have you found Mark Steyn online Colin? I’ve signed up to receive his daily show prompts and I watch them on the PC. He is as ebullient as ever and doesn’t pull his punches! He gloats over the GB News falling viewing figures! Seems that you’re not the only one to find that the channel isn’t living up to its earlier ‘promises’! I believe the term is “They’ve run home to Momma”!
More promises from the Tories on illegal immigration – the migration lawyers will be quite relaxed about their income stream. Ah! well there are the local elections in May and there are an awful lot of suckers out there to rein in.
Jake…….the only answer to this is withdrawal from ECHR, but Sunak has already indicated that we will not withdraw from it although it might be put in the Conservative manifesto. In other words kicking the can down the road, which seems to be a byword for the Conservative Party’s brand of conservatism. And we all know that the majority of their next manifesto won’t be implemented because the 2019 manifesto or the one before that hasn’t been implemented. These manifesto’s are put together to con the electorate. Well, I think we have all seen through the Conservative Party now, and seen them for what they truly are, a party of absolutely no political conviction or principles, stuffed to the rafters with conmen.
Spot on Colin.
Women who have had a total hysterectomy would not qualify as “anyone with a cervix”. That only 1000 staff out of 1.2 million employees have complained about removal of the word ‘woman’ is the real story.
The civil service, in its net zero zealotry and open borders ideology, are no doubt looking forward to a Labour government, as they fail to fully control Shapps and Braverman et al. Nonetheless, they, the media and parliament, will frustrate and limit the effectiveness of whatever too little, too late measures come to pass. The extent of the religious cult of net zero was emphasised by a talk I attended two weeks ago entitled “The impossibility of net zero”. There were 14 of us including a nuclear engineer, the head of Nissan’s electric battery dividision, some civil servants, and someone from the army. The talk, by a heat pump engineer, was not about whether we should pursue net zero but about cost and technical impossibility. He might as well have walked into a mosque and said Allah does not exist. The reaction from these educated people – at least half a dozen announced PhDs when challenging the increasingly shell shocked speaker – was extraordinary. Thou shalt not question net zero. I got involved – I’m less mild mannered than the speaker and armed with a few facts of my own – and by the end two or three of them looked like they wanted to physically attack me. That thou really, really shall not question net zero was depressing conclusion. I mistakenly though that in the assembled company some debate was going to be possible.
SY- yesterday two coal fired power stations were powered up to provide electricity as the grid was not capable of meeting requirements. Shock, horror, we’re all gonna die cos, cos . . . coal!
Interesting to know what will happen when a couple of milion electric cars will be recharged each day.
Biscotte……..now now, you’ll get your sparring partner Professor HarryAgain Armitage all worked up in a lather about this if you’re not careful. He will be spitting blood that two coal fired power stations have been temporarily brought out of moth balls to produce electricity and all that carbon. He is probably in conference with that very nice man Boris Johnson, hence the reason why he has not posted so far today. Maybe he too is in line for a knighthood, and you could be his batman (laundering shirts, pressing starch collars and trousers and polishing shoes) Might be right up your street. ‘You whatsyername Biscotte get me a large brandy’. Yes Sir, no Sir, three bags full Sir Harry, you will probably say…….
Col Aitch- nice! Harry F Armitrage is probably one of the PhDs that Stout mentions above.
As the french would reply – ‘up yor bum arri’. (wikipedia for reference).
“Net Zero” has become a religion for far too many gullible, unthinking people. I suppose giving them sports, crappy TV drama and the continuing lies of pseudo-scientists is all they need.
Yes Jack, little is needed to quieten the baby! The low life in this country who accept what they are told will not be here to suffer the damage they have allowed to happen. I cannot understand them accepting all without question
And as for that silly little pipsqueak Gary Lineker giving his unwanted opinion on the English Channel migrant crisis and efforts to curtail it, I hope the BBC sack him. That man has gone too far once too often now. When will this over this vastly overpaid and untalented oaf learn that his job is to present football programmes and that he isn’t a politician part time or otherwise. His comments will no doubt appeal to some people but make most rational and sane people boil over with rage. He obviously has no understanding of the consequences of huge numbers of people from different cultures entering the country illegally who require feeding, housing and medical assistance, and that all this requires financing with monies in short supply which grows much larger with each and every migrant that comes here. He doesn’t need speaking to like a quiet word in his shell like, but decisive action and that is of dismissal from his BBC employment. Will they act and get rid of this individual who likes to court controversy once and for all…..