Britain has the busiest shipping lane in the world on its doorstep, and for eight years the Royal Navy has sat and watched while smugglers ran a ferry service straight through it to bed, board and benefits in Britain. With too many committing horrific acts when here.
Fourteen people have drowned in that water this year. Four in a single day last week. Every one of those deaths happened under arrangements Labour and the Tories defend.
Reform UK’s Operation Fortress ends it.
Spot the boat. Meet the boat. Take everyone off, feed them, patch them up, sail them back to France. No hotel. No lawyer. No life on the taxpayer. Just a return ticket you never paid for.
Australia did this in 2013. Boat arrivals collapsed to near zero and deaths at sea went from 1,200 to none. The lesson isn’t complicated: make the crossing pointless and nobody makes the crossing.
Turns out the answer was never £1 billion handed to the French so their coppers can stand building sand castles and distributing life jackets.
The Channel was meant to be our moat. Labour turned it into a doorbell.
After Australia elected a government that actually wanted to stop the boats, the boats stopped within a month. Leftists who drone on about “complexity”, “international law”, & “push factors” are going to look very stupid when Britain elects a government with a spine.
So is Mr Burnham's plan to let those coming by illegal boat in legally through a safe route to claim he has smashed the gangs? Not what many of his voters want.
As many of us are subject to a hosepipe ban at the moment, farmers are warning of food shortages because of drought, it isn't beyond the wit of man to have started to build a new reservoir or three this year for when the incessant rain starts in October through to May, is it? Surely?
@danwootton The question is, are they worth keeping hold of? I'll be damned if I know what value Suella has brought and Jenrick is a good media performer but what economic ccredibility has he really provided? Let's be honest the defectors have been a flash in the pan in terms of usefulness
What help did Mr Burnham offer the Spanish PM? Does he plan another bad EU deal so we take more migrants? He should have told Spain to reinforce its border and raised concerns about the bad deal the UK government wants to ratify over Gibraltar.
I can't believe what I'm seeing, the UK are offering help to Spain due to the invasion,
However we can't help ourselves with our own invasions?
My blood is boiling this is a DISGRACE! 🇬🇧
Andy Burnham is clueless. “Safe and legal routes” are not the answer.
Not all cultures are equal and I don’t want men from such cultures here. I don’t want another Rhiannon Whyte or Wayne Broadhurst.
Arriving here differently doesn’t solve the problem. Call a General Election!
Andy Burnham says he’ll set up ‘safe and legal routes’ for migrants to come to Britain. If he thinks that’s what the people of Makerfield and elsewhere want, he’s got another thing coming. Britain has had enough. No more.
The Chancellor says he will stop supermarkets ripping us off. He needs to stop the government ripping us off with sky high taxes. Too much tax is taken off working people to pay for a badly run and wasteful public sector. Stop the give aways to France and the people smugglers.
Spain’s laws permit those entering by water to claim asylum. There’s every chance that the Spanish Government allows the 50,000 men that broke into Ceuta to be shipped to the mainland.
Once there, they’ll make their way to the UK.
@andyburnham is silent.
We will not accept this
Please tell us again how we & pensions are the problem
The asylum System:
£41,000 A YEAR PER HEAD
The state pension:
£12,500 A YEAR
For a LIFETIME of paying into the system
THE UK IS BROKEN 🇬🇧
🚨BREAKING
The three women found dead on a small migrant boat are believed to have been raped and murdered during the Channel crossing.
Their killers are now in the UK.
What are you doing about this Burnham?
Until the boats are stopped and immigrants sent back - everything @UKLabour and @andyburnham says and does is utterly irrelevant.
There is NOTHING bigger than that.
Nothing.
It’s now a national emergency.
DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND? The British people are terrified, our country is being invaded whilst you spout rubbish and lies. You absolute clown !!! 🤡 @andyburnham@ShabanaMahmood CLOSE OUR BORDERS and DEPLOY THE ARMY NOW !!!!