What kind of treatment is good enough for migrants?, asks Esther McVey

The Bibby Stockholm migrant barge (Image: Getty) Radical leftie lawyers and some charity executives – aided and abetted by an unwelcome but growing political overreach by some parts of the judiciary – are making a mockery of our country by seeking to bring down any laws or methods to stop the flow of illegal migration into the UK from France. Between them they have stopped the flights to Rwanda, allowed migrants to falsely remain in the country by tutoring them on what to write and in some cases falsify legal documents, and now they are teaching them what to say not to go on board the Bibby Stockholm barge. Let’s get real, if you want to believe them, these migrants have fled poverty, war torn countries, lived in shocking conditions in Calais camps and yet they now have a problem with the accommodation on offer, and fear being traumatised by living on a newly converted barge, with en-suite bedrooms, a gym and a 24-hour canteen. I don’t think so. In fact some have claimed that they can’t go on the barge because of their fear of water ignoring the fact they came over the channel on a dinghy! It’s laughable. And those who do get to live onboard the barge can apparently take part in activities including cricket, cycling, hiking or tending to allotments; get free buses and taxis into town as well as to the nearby seaside resort and if they miss the last bus back to the barge at 11pm, a free taxi service is available by phoning a special number. That’s on top of free food and accommodation and each migrant given £9.58 a week pocket money. How on earth can these lawyers and charity workers turn their nose up at this saying it’s not good enough. What exactly is good enough and what is it they want ? Do they neither see nor care about the upset they are creating as members of the public watch on, many conscious they might not be able to pay their mortgage in a few months’ time and already struggling to pay for their heating, food and petrol. The path these lawyers and anti-government do-gooders are pursuing is only stoking up division on the ground amongst the general population. They stopped the flights to Rwanda going against the democratic legislative process and they are determined to stop the barges that aim to reduce the £5million per day hotel bills. They seem intent on derailing the country’s solutions to stop illegal migration and in the process to use migrants in their fight to bring down the government. They should beware what they wish for, because unless the government gets its democratic way, this will not end well. We have heard enough from the Care4Calais activist group, it’s a Care4Britain group which the public want to see. General Sir Walter Walker: A civil servant is a missile that doesn’t work and can’t get fired (Image: Getty) It was said many years ago by a military man ‘Britain has invented a new missile. It’s called the civil servant – it doesn’t work and it can’t be fired’ That has never been truer than today when they no longer come into the office, largely live in the London bubble and the numbers of them have ballooned. Latest figures from the Taxpayers Alliance show civil service numbers have increased by over 100,000 since March 2016 to 519,780, a jump of 24.2 per cent and the sharpest increase in at least 50 years. Not bad going when they claim they are under pressure by a government pursuing austerity measures! Yes Minister wasn’t comedy, it was a training manual for the civil service blob. Channel 4’s ‘Made In Chelsea’ is set to become the first UK show in TV history to broadcast a three-way kiss between a male throuple. Is that anything for them to brag about? I don’t think so. It seems like a desperate act to distract from plummeting viewing figures.