Il piano del Ministero degli Interni per rendere più difficile per i migranti stabilirsi nel Regno Unito è sostenuto dagli elettori

Ddn’t she rather bottle it when it came to that grand “crackdown” on student visa abuse? All thunder, no lightning. Curious, isn’t it, how certain nations, hardly strangers to gaming the system, were mysteriously waved through like VIPs at a velvet rope soirée.

These are places not exactly aflame with war, yet somehow producing a steady stream of “persecuted” arrivals, arrivals who, once safely installed, seem in no hurry to shed their old loyalties or embrace their new postcode. Pride in the homeland remains intact, integration optional, and the rest are left to tiptoe around the resulting social awkwardness like guests at a party no one quite organised…

She needs to stop genuflecting before the usual sacred cows and start saying what actually needs saying. Otherwise, what’s the point of all the bluster?

Because as it stands, it looks less like policy and more like preference, a curious selectiveness that does nothing to curb the abuse it claims to tackle, and leaves the taxpayer footing the bill while being told not to notice in the estimations of some – which might drive them into the clutches of snake oil peddlers such as farage or similar.