Additional spouses ruling just bizarre

A SENSE of betrayal is sweeping the land, fuelled by deepening anger at Labour, which seems to care little about the rights of the public, preferring to promote socialist dogma and reward its favoured client groups.

- Leo McKinstry

As a result of the shambolic Budget, the tax burden and welfare spending will now soar to record levels. In addition, the unsustainable expansion in social security will act as another pull factor for migrants. In the last year, no fewer than 3.4 million people born over seas have claimed benefits.

To bankroll a swelling influx of workless foreign nationals is the politics of the madhouse. Mass immigration was hailed by its supporters as the route to prosperity. Instead it is becoming the path to national bankruptcy. And nothing symbolises this insanity more graphically than our rulers’ outrageous willingness not only to subsidise polygamous marriages — where a husband has several wives — but even to increase taxpayer-funded benefits.