In an act of naked treason to the British people, the Government confirmed a cap on National Health Service spending as news emerged that the failure to deport failed asylum seekers is costing Britain £600 million a year.

Liam Byrne, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, has confirmed that big cuts are coming in NHS funding, saying that “Alistair Darling has been really clear that there are going to be some pretty tough choices to be made.

“There are going to be conditions of constraint and there are going to be difficult decisions on, for example, tax,” Mr Byrne said, implying that tax increases are on the way as well.

Meanwhile, a report due out by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) this week says that the government’s inability to deport failed asylum seekers is costing Britain £600 million a year.

In addition, the PAC report says that thousands of failed asylum seekers are escaping deportation because the Government has not built enough immigration detention centres.

Actually, there should be no asylum seekers at all in Britain, as they all pass through dozens of safe countries to reach the United Kingdom and therefore have no claim on asylum here.

The UK Border Agency has just 2,600 spaces to detain suspected failed asylum seekers and foreign prisoners who have served their jail terms.

Officials admit they will not meet their target of 4,000 spaces until 2013 even if things go well.

Evidence submitted to the PAC suggests deportations are unlikely to be successful unless candidates have already been detained.

The committee also heard that the backlog of asylum cases has started to grow again, partly because of the time taken to deport people. Official figures say that the number of people claiming asylum last year rose by 10 percent to 25,670.

* Leftists are launching what they call ‘Refugee Week’ over the next few days, claiming that there are 300,000 ‘refugees’ living in the UK – substantially more than what the official figures claim.