Keir Starmer ‘loses control of border' as over 1,000 migrants cross Channel in single day
Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of having "lost control" of Britain's borders after more than 1,000 migrants crossed the Channel in a single day - the highest total so far this year. The latest crossings forced British and French rescue services to deploy 11 vessels and two aircraft to deal with the surge...
In one case, Coastguard officers were forced to issue a radio appeal asking fishing boats to assist with a yacht and several kayaks in distress, as every available Border Force and RNLI vessel was already occupied with rescuing migrants from the 18 dinghies in the Channel.
It's hardly worth pointing out that a chap can't lose what he never had.
Hollow laughter from Nemesis.
A Home Office spokesperson said: "We all want to end dangerous small boat crossings, which threaten lives and undermine our border security.
"The people-smuggling gangs do not care if the vulnerable people they exploit live or die, as long as they pay, and we will stop at nothing to dismantle their business models and bring them to justice.
"That is why this Government has put together a serious plan to take down these networks at every stage - through intelligence-sharing under our Border Security Command, enhanced operations in northern France, and tougher legislation in the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill."
A Home Office spokesperson said: "We all want to end dangerous small boat crossings, which threaten lives and undermine our border security.
"The people-smuggling gangs do not care if the vulnerable people they exploit live or die, as long as they pay, and we will stop at nothing to dismantle their business models and bring them to justice.
"That is why this Government has put together a serious plan to take down these networks at every stage - through intelligence-sharing under our Border Security Command, enhanced operations in northern France, and tougher legislation in the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill."
Ah, a "serious plan" sounds like a Starmer plan, it has his stamp on it.
Nemesis laughs louder.
8 comments:
Starmer's anti-Midas touch in operation again.
"We will stop at nothing " has a different meaning from what you think. Remember, he is a lawyer. Thus -
We are doing nothing. And...
Now we have stopped.
Always, from the government, the emphasis is on "smashing the gangs"; we must at all costs prevent evil capitalist criminals from endangering the lives of hard-working refugees who are down on their luck. If only we could offer a better alternative - ferries, say, with free passage across the channel for anyone who can't speak English and is a fighting-age male - then they would be perfectly fine with that. OK, the refugees would then face the evil "far right", once they had made it past Dover, but we can deal with them by jailing them as necessary and criminalising talking about it.
DJ - some people must be hoping he doesn't join Reform.
Doonhamer - yes, furtively misleading language seems to be one of the lawyer's habits he has retained, although it does seem to come naturally to him.
Sam - and those hard-working refugees will ensure we win many rowing medals for Britain in the next Olympic Games.
I have often wondered why it’s called Border Force. Wouldn’t Border Assistance be a better name?
Peter - or Welcoming Committee?
Why not pick them up and then just dump them back on a French beach? That is where they came from. Australia stopped the same problem by plonking all the invading boat people on a remote island and telling them they were all at the back of a very long queue.
John - I reckon Rwanda was a sound idea, at least in principle.
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