Why don't we have control of our borders?

We do. Passports were introduced during WW1 and since then you haven't been able to legally enter UK without one.

But people do enter illegally. Or enter legally but then stay longer than permitted.

How can this happen? Here's how...

Because, almost alone in the developed world, we have no system to track people and ensure they're meant to be here.

Labour spent a decade trying to introduce ID cards, and Tories called it "an erosion of civil liberties" and opposed it every step of the way.

Labour had a pilot scheme running in 2009, and although Tories in the Lords watered it down, it would have resolved many of the issues that came after.

UK citizens would have ID, and people entering the country would be given temporary ID for as long as they had leave to stay

And a computer system would check that they left on time, and prevent them accessing services (housing, benefits etc) if they stayed illegally.

But Tories scrapped it in 2011, and then shouted ever since about all the immigrants we couldn't track.

I have no problem with immigration. Humans have always migrated. If we didn't, we'd all still live in Tanzania. It's natural.

But to deliberately destroy the technology that would "control immigration" and then complain immigration is out of control is absolutely bat-shit.

So whenever I hear a Tory banging on about immigration, I think: you did this, you gormless, inept, hypocritical tit.

You're not a government, you're a drunken strop in a golf club. You're a 24/7 campaign against anything you don't understand, which is everything.

I'm pissed off.