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If you want to know what Reform UK mean when we say Britain is broken, just look at the case of Hadush Kebatu.
He was the illegal immigrant from Ethiopia who sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl in Epping, Essex in July, days after arriving in Britain on a small boat.
Kebatu’s arrest sparked mass protests outside the Bell Hotel, where he was housed at taxpayers’ expense, which spread to other hotels filled with asylum seekers.
Now we know that, only four weeks after being jailed for a year, Kebatu was mistakenly released by the prison service back onto the streets of Essex.
Instead of treating him as a foreign offender due for deportation, security officers let him go and even handed him £76. He promptly caught a train to London.
This shocking case shouts loud and clear that the prison service is yet another example of Broken Britain.
And I believe there is an even bigger issue. Why was Kebatu ever able to enter Britain, roam the streets and commit his crime in the first place?
The truth is that all our once-trusted institutions, from the NHS to the police and now our prisons, are disintegrating before our eyes. Across the sector, we see badly-led men and women who no longer seem certain what they are expected to do.
The increase in our population of more than 16 million since 1960 is partly to blame for putting intolerable strain on our society. But things are made far worse by a collective failure of leadership, with the morale of frontline workers at an all-time low, and a distorted set of priorities.
Take Essex Police, which mishandled the recent protests outside the Bell Hotel in Epping, where the Home Office was housing asylum seekers. The same force spends an astonishing £614,000 a year on their Diversity, Equity and Inclusion priorities.
All around us, we see two-tier policing and justice. When the Government appealed against a decision to evict the migrants, Home Office lawyers argued that the rights of asylum seekers must outweigh the concerns of local residents. The court agreed and the migrants stayed.
Former prison governor Vanessa Frake, who is now Reform’s prison policy advisor, has made clear that Kebatu’s mistaken release represents a multiple set of failures.
But there is no evidence that this Labour government understands that decisive leadership is needed to get these institutions back into line and serving the public that actually funds them.
Every week, we hear of more horrific crimes carried out by those who have entered our country illegally. On Friday, as news of Kebatu’s calamitous release broke, another cross-Channel migrant, Deng Chol Majek from Sudan, was convicted of murdering Rhiannon Whyte in Walsall after stabbing the hotel worker 23 times with a screwdriver. It is difficult to get our minds around these levels of barbarity.
The public are rightly furious and increasingly scared, as more hotels in their towns and cities fill with undocumented young men.
Yet if you dare to speak out, you are likely to be met by vile abuse from the online mob, accused of hate speech, and may even get a knock on the door from the thought police. That is how broken and twisted our country has become.
I am strongly of the view that nobody who arrives by small boat should be free to walk our streets. These young men of fighting age who have deliberately discarded their passports and mobile phones should all be detained from the moment they arrive, prior to deportation.
There must be no more rapes, murders or assaults committed by men who have no right to be here. If our gutless establishment is too hidebound by the European Convention on Human Rights and the Left-wing judiciary to do anything about it, then it’s time to get rid of these politicians and laws, and start again.
I have met more of these cross-Channel migrants face-to-face than any other politician. Despite constantly being told by the BBC about poor and desperate people seeking refuge, I can assure you that far too many of them are aggressive men who have no interest in being part of British society.
My greatest fear is that if the Government does not act, there is worse to come, not just from this group of migrants, but from the great British public who have had enough. You only need to look across the Irish Sea at the recent unrest in the Republic as people protest against immigration there to realise that government must get a grip.
The cross-Channel migrant recently given five years in jail for threatening to kill me was also sentenced to eight months for the additional offence of entering the UK illegally.
Why isn’t every illegal immigrant treated equally under the law, and locked up? It can be done, but only if we have leaders with the political will to tackle the problem before it’s too late.