Giving them each day our daily bread

THE FRIDAY THING: The Tories have, belatedly, decided it might be a good idea if, instead of operating an open house, we actually closed all the gates and doors on the desperate masses intent on helping us to spend our hard-earned cash.

Tourism, even in the back of a lorry, appears to be the transportation of choice to the would-be refugees who come here not because they like us but because they like our money.

Since January 1, around 42,000 Romanians and Bulgarians have gate-crashed. But it is not just the Romanians and Bulgarians who have decided the UK is home sweet home for the world.

We are currently playing host to 61,440 Latvians; 108,710 Lithuanians and 654,010 Poles, along with eye-wateringly large numbers from Slovakia, Estonia, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovenia.

It’s a good job that David Cameron and co shut the gates every now and then or else we would have been really swamped!

And why not? Visitors from Spain, Poland and Bulgaria can draw premium benefits of £164.70, £257.36 and £377.58 but we can’t give our hard working NHS staff a pay rise of 1 per cent!

And just to rub it in, MPs have been told they only have to go to Westminster to work two and a half days a week.

And talk about biting the hand that feeds us, Eastern Europeans say British firms hire foreign staff because workers here are too lazy and find it easier to live on benefits.

But apparently, one of the main issues for sandwich companies is finding people from foreign parts who can make good sandwiches. Even those with a degree can, it is said, earn three times what they could earn at home. Not content with taking our money, they are also eating our daily bread.


FINAL WORD: The Lib-Dems have come up with a ruse that we should all appreciate, especially if we have just had our house or shed broken into.

Nick and his cronies want to scrap all prison sentences of under one year even though that will mean 60,000 villains would avoid going to prison; among them violent thugs, burglars, sex attackers and robbers.

The plan is to halve the current prison population to around 40,000 villains, leaving repeat criminals to be on our streets instead of behind bars. You can, of course, take liberalism too far or, in this case, far too far!