MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Alarming proof that these ‘do-gooders’ are simply deluded fools

Supporters of uncontrolled immigration love to pose as moral superiors.

In 2018, self-admiring passengers on a Turkish Airlines plane due to leave Heathrow prevented the deportation of Somali gang rapist Yaqub Ahmed. 

They made no effort to find out why he was being deported and so prolonged his stay in this country for five years.

You might think that such people would learn from this experience. 

But now full details have emerged of a similar virtue-signalling revolt last November, in which the ‘do-gooding’ mutineers – led by a Cambridge graduate – prevented the wholly justified removal of a gangster gunman.

The thug they ‘saved’ from being sent back to Jamaica on a BA flight from Gatwick is Lawrence Morgan, 27. 

Morgan must be one of the least desirable individuals now living in this country – for, thanks to his vain and misguided rescuers, he is still here.

It did not perhaps occur to them that he was being deported for very good reasons. 

They are so assured of their goodness and rightness that they cannot imagine anybody deserves to be sent home.

Well, let us hope that those involved will read today’s Mail on Sunday, where they will learn that the object of their compassion took part in a gun battle with other criminals on a busy Birmingham street. CCTV film confirms this. 

If this were all, it would be enough. But it is not. He has twice been sent to prison for drug and firearms offences. 

He is associated with the gangs in Birmingham whose moronic street battles led to the wholly inexcusable deaths of two innocent young women, Letisha Shakespeare, 17, and Charlene Ellis, 18.

Letisha’s mother, Dr Marcia Shakespeare, has a simple message to those who prevent such deportations: ‘If someone has committed a crime they should be punished.’

Of course, it was not only passengers who delayed Morgan’s departure. The usual battalions of lawyers argued that he could not be deported because… he was at risk in Jamaica from criminal gangs. 

It would take a heart of stone not to laugh at such pleas, but there is a significant group in this country that thinks it is morally wrong for the people of Britain, through their elected Government, to choose who may live here.

They should look carefully at this case and ask themselves: who was on the side of good and who was on the side of evil when these deluded fools stepped in to save a convicted gunman from justice?

No time to change

With impressive speed, Rishi Sunak has taken on the burden of foreign policy that always faces a British Prime Minister.

Some leaders have a few years in which to accustom themselves to these heavy responsibilities. 

Mr Sunak had to engage in the Ukrainian war from the moment of his arrival in No 10 and is now faced with the worst crisis in the Middle East since the 1970s.

After the hideous massacre of October 7 and the increasingly controversial Israeli response, he then faced the Houthi threat in the Red Sea. 

He did so while travelling to Ukraine to reassure President Zelensky that Britain remains firmly beside him in his battle against Russian invasion.

Mr Sunak has handled these crises with calmness and decisiveness, deploying our strength and staying close to our allies.

Does anyone really believe that Sir Keir Starmer, the man who served under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, could perform so well?

This is no time for the country to consider changing its government.