Migrant crisis exposes the ruinous cost of Britain’s kindness

“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.

Limitless generosity

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.