The government says it will smash the gangs, stop the small boats. It says it understands the public expects it to carry out this promise. They say they get it that taxpayers are fed up with having to pay more and more taxes to house illegal migrants in hotels. So why do they not do whatever it takes to end this vile trade?
Why did the government repeal the important change to the law the last government passed belatedly, to prevent any illegal migrant from claiming asylum in this country? If they had got on and implemented that Act of Parliament the main reason for many coming here by small boat would have been removed. Will they reinstate it?
Will they take up the Conservative amendments to the government’s recent Immigration legislation which would remove European Human Rights and UN Convention considerations from any court case people tried to bring about an immigration matter? We should rely on fair UK law that should be geared to stopping the gangs, not encouraging them.
Why does the government not require the authorities to arrest and interview every illegal arrival, asking them to say who they paid for their journey, how they found out about their trip, which was the boat driver for their passage? That would speed smashing the gangs. The boat drivers should all be prosecuted.
Why does the government not require the confiscation of all mobile phones of the illegal arrivals, so they can be examined to find evidence against the people traffickers?
Why does the government carry on paying large sums to France when they fail to stop small boats leaving their beaches and rivers? It must be easiest to stop the small boats before they are in deep water away from shore. We should not pay for French failure to police these crimes.
Why does the government pay France to facilitate the French sending escort vessels out to help the small boats undertake dangerous crossing instead of stopping them leaving safer coastal waters?
Why does the government let it be known that illegals will be given a place in a good hotel or will be given priority for housing in the community if they arrive here? People are not just cross about the use of hotels as the government admits, but about illegals taking scarce subsidised housing we need for people already legally settled here.
Why does the state order Border Force vessels to meet all the illegal boats mid channel and undertake the dangerous task of transferring their passengers to a Border Force vessel? If we know that much about these journeys why not use the information to help prevent them proceeding with their hazardous crossing?
The country is at boiling point over this failure of the UK state. Labour exploited the issue to get into power. They knew how unpopular the small boats were and promised to smash the gangs. Instead illegal migration has increased rapidly and the changes they have made so far make it less likely they will carry out their promise. They removed the Rwanda scheme to provide a safe place to send people where they should have reinforced the law to make it work. They claimed credit for volunteer returnees, largely possible from the previous government’s agreements with other countries.
September 23, 2025
Sir John, do you really expect a bunch of Marxists in Starmer’s Gang led by a Trotskyite and other Fabians, who do not believe in the nation state and who hate Britain’s history and people, to block the entry into this country of people who share their hatreds and intentions? Marxists have always justified their lying as a means to an end ( words left out ed) Mind you, Putin will be highly amused at the sight of his Western enemies destroying themselves and in somnce cases paying for his pleasure in exchange for a bit of gas and oil.
September 23, 2025
Indeed – net zero is total insanity in energy terms, economic terms and for the defence of the nation. Ed Milibrain is a very dangerous man indeed.
September 23, 2025
Doubtless the support for the Gatwick runway will be killed by the Courts who now seem to decide everything about net zero, bats, newts, work of equal value… It usually takes about 5 years to do this with all the court levels.
Surely a four division footballer is working just as hard as Premier one just is not quite as good. Perhaps you might say v. slightly “disabled” in relative terms so surely he deserves equal pay and reasonable adjustments under our insane disabled and equal pay employments employment laws. Harman was it not? Similarly for women footballers?
Of course 22 people running round a pitch for 90 mins fuelled on Steak and Chips and training all week is rather bad for CO2 should that bother you Ed! Does the new runway bother Ed?
September 23, 2025
” country is at boiling point over this failure of the UK state. Labour exploited the issue to get into power. They knew how unpopular the small boats were and promised to smash the gangs”
All the parties were bad – not just Labour.
Labour got in on ‘anybody but the Conservatives’ and by keeping quiet and not frightening people -or simply by lying.
We have had a succession of clowns in charge for a very long time.
Things will not change until unless it is forced. At the moment that seems unlikely despite talking of civil war.
September 23, 2025
@Peter +1 – so very true. The Collective Responsibility Team, those in Cabinet and in agreement, forced of the wider Conservative Party and Conservative voter is convinced that more of the same, the continuity team with their proven attitude is better than a clean start…. go figure
September 23, 2025
The damage being done must by now be clear to even the dullards of the Labour Party; even they must see it is deliberate. Why? we do not yet know. However, 2TK must also be aware he doesn’t have much more time in office so expect the damage activities to increase. That he now seems to have his own ‘budget team’ in No.10 suggest that’s where he’s planning his next action.
September 23, 2025
Labour regards excessive immigration as a source of their support in the long term. Large numbers of immigrants prefer a sloppy government that enables them to enter and do as they please. When after gaining citizenship near-automatically and becoming entitled to vote, so many vote Labour. They show appreciation of what they have gained, and want the sloppy controls to continue, allowing their family and friends in, rather than being required to contribute themselves as Reform stipulates.
September 23, 2025
@ Bloke “Large numbers of immigrants prefer a sloppy government that enables them to enter and do as they please” – if so they must have been distraught at seeing the last Conservative government kicked out of office then.
September 23, 2025
Conservatives were appalling at control with no grip.
Labour is just the continuity of the bad with less intent, and bugling on virtually all else.
September 23, 2025
Agreed Peter. Sir John’s questions are those the population at large asks each day. The fact the Government doesn’t ask indicates they don’t care about the illegal (or legal) migration and want to flood the UK with these people.
Which leads to the question Sir John doesn’t ask: Why does the Government want to change the mix, values and culture of the UK?
September 23, 2025
My rather weak theory is that 2TK does actually believe in something; a pan European Socialist super-state, run by a cabal of socialist leaders hiding in plane sight among the European states. He is the chosen one from the UK to help bring this fantasy into being. To build anew it is necessary to first tear down what presently exists. Is the next step to destroy the £ so we have to move into the Euro?
September 23, 2025
Interesting hypothesis, although if correct it still begs the question why allow so many people from Africa, the Middle East and Asia into the UK rather than loads more Europeans?
September 23, 2025
EU nations take in far more illegal migrants than we do. Starmer feels we should take ‘our share’ to show solidarity with his EU chums. A growing population means an increase in GDP, (more consumption) so an increase in population is ‘good for growth’, even if it causes higher government borrowing and spending.
September 23, 2025
Well said.
Sir John knows full well why Labour of all people will never cease to encourage and allow huge numbers of people particularly from vastly different cultures etc. to come here and be lauded as our economic and cultural saviours.
There are plenty with the same view within his party, and didn’t we know it!!
September 23, 2025
Yesterday Farage threw a grenade into the immigration debate. He spoke as we do because he knows how we feel.
He highlighted the Boris wave whereby 71% of those let into the country are on benefits and of the remainder working, only10% reachef the threshold of £14k in taxes.
The channel invaders will be allowed to bring in their extended families who for cultural reasons will never work. Then we have the ones going back on holiday to countries they say they risked persecution.
You only have to listen to Sadiq Khan who was slagging off Farage to understand the liebour mentality.
Yes, we’re very angry
September 23, 2025
He does now. Before he was on the side that he thought was the strongest – the loud side.
September 23, 2025
What was Johnson/Sunak’s reason for facilitating it?
September 23, 2025
Peter D G
The Fabian’s believe in open borders…as you say there are apparently a lot of them in government and elsewhere
Peter W
” a pan European Socialist super-state, run by a cabal of socialist leaders hiding in plain sight among the European states”
I’m inclined to think there’s truth in what you say! It would tie in with the WEF desired one world government idea.
September 23, 2025
@Peter D Gardner – yes the same religion as Putin organised to destroy the UK from within.
September 23, 2025
PDG :
Correct.
September 23, 2025
Putin specifically says no western country is an enemy of Russia, just the western elites.
They are our enemy too, as you point out.
September 23, 2025
Indeed we have another sick joke and now evil terrorist appeasing (with the insane Gaza recognition) government. etc ed
Still Kier has come out in favour of another runway at Gatwick about the first sensible thing he has said but it seems the courts now decide these things so we will see. We should have had another runway at both Gatwick and Heathrow with a fast rail link to make a five runway London hub airport. This about 15 years back so at best it will be 20 years too later!
The NHS say Paracetamol does not harm you baby! Are they sure? I assume the Trump regime and their new generally excellent expert medical team has some evidence before claiming this. Anyway the NHS said the Covid “vaccines” were safe and effective and even coerced them into children, the young, pregnant women and those who had already had covid with totally disastrous results. See the stats on heart issues, cancer rates, live births… available in some countries but in the UK they continue to hide the figs broken down by vaccine status – I wonder why?
Never found paracetamol much use as a pain killer myself anyway. True it can bring temperatures down but is the high temperature not your body naturally fighting the infection anyway? Still I am not a medic alas most medics get so much of their info. from Big Pharma so are rather compromised. Big Pharma who, to make most money, want everyone on as many long term for ever drugs as possible + serial vaccines etc.
September 23, 2025
My daughter was forced to have the vaccine to keep her NHS job. It caused a life-changing reaction and means she has to be on medication for the rest of her life. Having completed a yellow card report, she received an email from a neurologist saying they would investigate. This was 5 years ago, and she has heard nothing since. There has been a massive cover-up by the pharmaceutical companies and our government. Let’s hope the USA get to the bottom of this scandal.
September 23, 2025
Indeed very sorry to hear that. The figures on increased Cancers, decreased Live births, increased cardio vascular issues & overall mortality following the covid vaccine time scales are dire!
September 23, 2025
@Lifelogic – how come 2TK wont recognise Taiwan or the rights of the Chagos Islanders, The rights of the UK Citizen. Or for that matter Democracy, the media reports 90% of the UK was against recognising Palestine, I know that’s is said to be a Parliament thing but when does the UK Citizen get a say, non of 2TK’s action were in anyone’s manifestos, These weren’t sudden pop events needing an instant response these were back-door long time planning events kept quiet
September 23, 2025
The answer must be because they want the illegals here. Why?
I guess it is an alignment of interests and desires.
– Business interests wanting cheap labour
– Specific voting groups wanting it (diehard wokes, CoE types, ethnics, Brit-hating Brits…)
– Migrant NGOs and others whi profit from the legal and illegal end of the trade
– the WEF globalists and power-hungry authoritarian elites here who want an unstable society in order to divide and rule
– the EU and its supporters in our elites, that don’t want the UK BRINO to show any benefits
And so on. The big question is how we defeat the above, not how we actually stop small boats traversing the Channel.
September 23, 2025
+++ A good assessment, and I suppose it suits those you mention to keep the public eye on those bobbing up and down in the dinghies, rather than those pulling all the strings.
September 23, 2025
Correct. It starts with UN Policy, disseminated through their institutions like the WEF and EU.
September 23, 2025
Wanderer :
Correct.
September 23, 2025
The Japanese PM (who then promptly resigned) announced that he was opening the borders to Africans and many from the sub-continent ‘to teach the Japanese to be tolerant’.
I believe Blair thought he would teach us too, by ‘rubbing our noses in it’.
September 23, 2025
I would have hoped for some mention of and support for the Reform Party initiatives.
Reply I wrote about those for GB News. They are similar to the February Conservative package which was put into legislative form and voted down by Labour MPs. They wanted to stop Indefinite leave to remain for all not working, on benefits or low pay. Reform go further by wanting to remove the status from those who already have it. Neither party would remove the status from the majority who have it under the EU scheme agreed for Brexit.
September 23, 2025
Reply to John. With Reform we might actually get to leave the EU and cancel these one sided agreements agreed under the TCA sell out by the tories.
Reply Reform has not promised that. I opposed the deal the UK did and made the case to leave with no deal.
September 23, 2025
No deal would have been perfect. Maybe Reform will have to go to No Deal to do what they promise.
Better late than never.
September 23, 2025
The 4.2 million from the EU prove what a massive drain they are on us too.
The EU agreement must be ditched and all rights removed from their citizens.
We also need to remove rights awarded to immigrants under false pretences.
All genuine Asylum seekers, once their home country is deemed safe, must be returned. That would have removed the Rwanda problem in Southport.
September 23, 2025
Legal immigration is just as insidious and impactful as illegal immigration.
Why do student visas allow families to come in and why can students then stay on after their degree is finished.
Why do so many legal and illegal immigrants come from countries with which we have no historical links. (words left out)
Why do legal and illegal immigrants get access to our benefits system? If you come here and can’t support yourself then you have no right here. I understand that once here if they can’t support themselves then the likelihood of criminal activity increases so why are they here?
Finally, if mass immigration is such a benefit then why has our deficit and debt increased throughout the period of mass immigration and why is our productivity down? We have plenty of indigenous problems and dependents without importing more.
September 23, 2025
NS ;
Correct.
September 23, 2025
Why? Because they are implementing UN Agenda 2030 / Agenda 21.
https://migrationnetwork.un.org/about
And the WEF supports it.
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2019/03/migration-myths-vs-economic-facts/
This is not just a problem the current Government refuses to tackle; the previous one also failed to deal with it. It is therefore obvious that it is a Westminster Uni-Party policy. If they wanted to “stop the boats” they would take the actions necessary to do it.
I believe that when we formally left the EU, a secret deal was reached that “we would take our fair share” of the migrants Merkel / the EU had encouraged to flood into Europe and it has been hushed up, possibly with another Super-Injunction like the Afghan-Importation one.
For the sake of appearances, the British Establishment pretends it wants to stop the boats and the French Authorities pretend they are trying. The close co-operation and coordination demonstrates that it is all just theatre.
Our only hope of stopping and reversing the invasion is a Reform Government.
September 23, 2025
Donna :
Correct.
September 23, 2025
Correct Donna ….look no further than the UN and EU
September 23, 2025
Anyone over let’s say 30 years of age, must really need their heads testing if they ever thought Labour would end mass immigration of any kind.
It’s not as if they didn’t signal their intentions enough while in opposition, even leaving aside their record when in office.
I find the whole issue of moving humans around the globe in order to create a new nation/society here (and indeed it seems wherever Europeans are) and to spite the heritage population, evil.
There is no other word for it.
The ‘we care’ faces they pull, and simpering platitudes aplenty are sickening, particularly when there is a tragedy at sea.
While they rage against those of us they call ‘far right’ (and it bothers me not in the slightest to be called such) they calmly allow a vile trade in human stock to continue, all for their own desires.
Rumour has it that under Blair’s tenure someone was heard to say the mass immigration was to ‘rub in the noses of the right’ and that a ‘shopping list’ of people from around the globe was in use.
What sort of people see other people as commodities in such an inhuman way??
September 23, 2025
Michelle:
Correct.
September 23, 2025
Labour was once a great political party ….but then again so was the Conserative party
September 23, 2025
We need to get used to it. Reform would need to go from a handful of MPs to a significant majority at the next election to have any chance of implementing their proposals – which would no doubt be voted down by a combination of Labour, Greens, Corbyn’s party if it still exists, and the House of Lords. More imminently, the bad weather will soon set in with some reduction in the crossings, lowering the heat on Labour. Next Spring the new reality will be over 1000 arrivals per day in ever larger small boats accompanied by Labour trumpeting obscure mildly supportive statistics saying they get it but there’s no silver bullet.
September 23, 2025
“Reform would need to go to significant majority”. Take a look at this polling site (or most others) and you’ll see that is a likely outcome.
https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/prediction_main.html
Reply Which is why there will be no election before 2028/9. We have to deal with the government we have got.
September 23, 2025
“We have to deal with the government we have got.“ how depressing best leave then. Even if we get a sensible government in 2029 they will have huge obstacles to overcome from the blob, the courts, the Lords, judiciary, civil service, Quangos, Int. Quangos…
September 23, 2025
@ Reply – so despite “The country is at boiling point over this failure of the UK state” there will not be a “storming of the Winter Palace” type event then? So we are destined to muddle on!
September 23, 2025
But any government, who felt that they were out of kilter with the people, doing things beyond their manifesto, should with honour call a general election …..a call for confidence
September 23, 2025
MPC : “…..which would no doubt be voted down by a combination of Labour, Greens, Corbyn’s party if it still exists, and the House of Lords.”
To this list you can include the Lib Dems and many from the Conservative Party that still manage to hold their seats.
September 23, 2025
@MPC. I can hear them now, crowing that “fewer boats made the crossing under Labour, than under the Tories”, as ships the size of the QE2 ferry the illegals into Dover harbour.
September 23, 2025
Net migration into the UK dropped significantly in 2024 and despite the boat people, the trend downwards will continue in 2025. The boat people are Macron’s problem. He has millions of unemployed and disaffected migrants from N Africa in vast ghettoes in Marseille etc – which he does not wish to increase. So he lets the boat people happen and his border gendarmes are obviously enjoying the backhanders that come their way on the beaches.
Despite the hype it was government policy 2010 – 2024 to import a million or so economic migrants each year to make up for the falling birth rate here – now at 1:17 per woman of marriageable age.
The commonest boys name registered here last year was Muhammad. Little wonder the British are telling the Labour government that enough is enough
September 23, 2025
SG : “The boat people are Macron’s problem.”
Perhaps we should invite Macron over for a second state visit so that we can view on the BBC a second boatload of migrants stopped on a French beach?
September 23, 2025
That means more British people left.
Is that a cause for celebration?
Net immigration is an irrelevant figure. The ‘replacement’ figure is what matters.
September 23, 2025
In the UK we have an asylum system, but it states that anyone has to reach the UK before claiming. There is no alternative on a visa form to state the purpose of the visit is to claim asylum. Anyone landing up on the UK shores immediately cease being an illegal if they claim asylum, so they do.
So here’s the solution.
Set up an office in Calais where people who want to claim asylum have to register their intent. If a charity can sponsor their application and the UK authorities validate their claim, they will be given a pass to come to the UK and they can board an ordinary ferry (charity pays for the ticket) to make the journey. No cost to the British taxpayer, the charity pays for everything.
Anyone coming across uninvited to be detained in a secure detention camp until they can be returned to their country of origin. They will be treated decently and fed good porridge whilst here, but not be at liberty to roam around town with nothing to do. The only people who can claim asylum when they arrive are those who travel directly from a distressed country.
Once paying people traffickers for a place on a rubber dinghy is seen to be futile, the trade will stop.
And please stop blaming the French when it’s the UK government that entices them in with free everything.
If Europe did the same, they could solve their migrant woes as well.
Reply Still have the issue of where you send illegals as France refuses to take them back. Hence the need for Rwanda or equivalent.
September 23, 2025
Charities are a huge cost to the exchequer. We need an urgent review and a crackdown of these so-called charities, many of which are facilitating illegal immigration.
Allowing asylum claims in France would only increase the number of arrivals, as those who are unsuccessful would still attempt the crossing. Unless we leave all the human rights treaties, the courts won’t let us send them back anywhere.
September 23, 2025
Allowing asylum claims in France would not increase the number of arrivals, if it’s clear that any coming to the UK uninvited would have their asylum claim refused. There would still be the smuggling in the back of lorries just like there is today, but there would be no dinghies in plain sight. Perhaps there would be the occasional night boat trying to run the gauntlet, but the 1,000 a day we currently see would be a thing of the past. Enjoy your liberty in France or go to the UK to rot in a camp, what do you think they will choose?
I fear attitudes are hardening against genuine asylum seekers because of the large number of bogus claims by economic migrants. We have to maintain our sense of compassion, but stipulate asylum is only applicable in a narrow range of cases, one requirement being that the granting of asylum must be seen to be in the interest of the country, and not something that’s claimed by anyone with enough money to pay traffickers.
September 23, 2025
France must be taken to task, they have no right to refuse under the UN Treaties.
September 23, 2025
RtoR if I may.
You don’t send them back to France, the French don’t want them either. Once they’ve had enough of the boredom of a POW style detention camp, they will reconsider their future back in their home countries and volunteer to return. For those who really can’t be sent back, fool them for trying to enter the UK without invitation, let them be a lesson to others. If you can’t be returned, consider you’re better off at liberty in France rather than being confined in the UK.
Rwanda is just a gimmick. How much did that cost, and how much would it cost to get the Royal Engineers to dust off their POW camp plans and erect some Nissen huts? Personally I would be quite happy for each hut to have a stove to keep them warm, but no doubt Milliband will insist we need to save the planet and not burn any coal, so they will freeze in Winter.
September 23, 2025
France hasn’t refused to take back illegals ….we’ve never tried to return them
September 23, 2025
There is a very simple reason.
The members of this Government do not have an issue with these arrivals and are not really that concerned. Nor the Home Office.
September 23, 2025
@Jaycee. +1. I recently came through immigration control at Gatwick airport. The UK/EU processing time was 2 mins, but for other foreigners it was 28 mins. There was a big throng waiting, to produce their visas etc.
What the heck – we give these law abiding visitors a tough time, let welcome illegal entrants with open arms, and bags of goodies!
September 23, 2025
To most of us this problem is fairly straightforward and could be solved by simply not permitting migrants to enter the UK or sending them back when they arrive until they have formally applied for, and been granted, asylum before they come here, and of course making it unattractive by taking away their benefits,hotels,free housing food and clothes, and making our weak judicial system uphold the laws of the UK rather than the European laws of Human Rights.
After all they are “Illegal” immigrants;Does the word ‘Illegal’ not mean anything to our politicians and our Courts anymore.
Other countries have very strict immigration policies where they either return people to where they came from, fine them and return them, interrogate them and at worst jail them.Australia is an example of where the policy on illegal immigration is very clear which is why no-one try’s to enter the country illegally.
So why can’t the UK do the same as everyone else and not hide behind the ECHR. The “one in, one out” policy is nothing short of pathetic when there are 100’s crossing the channel each week and no doubt the one that is returned will be back in the UK before too long.If we can return one illegal migrant why can’t they all be returned.
The conclusion I have reached is that ,for some unknown and inexplicable reason, we just don’t want to.
September 23, 2025
The vacuous slogans of the current and former governments: “smash the gangs” and “stop the boats”. They haven’t and they didn’t.
A new slogan crying out for adoption is “melt down the magnets”, in other words remove the incentives comprised within the package of transportation, hotels/HMOs, benefits and free movement. If the illegals knew that they could expect nothing more than secure tented barracks and basic rations, they would think again.
Which party is most likely to adopt that slogan?
September 23, 2025
Why indeed. Why did they agree to the Chagos giveaway? Why cannot they cut expenditure? Why do they persist with Net Zero, despite most of the world ignoring it?
There is something in the left-wing mindset which holds [distorted] principle above rationality.
September 23, 2025
Agree
September 23, 2025
Yesterday, during the emergency UN Security Council meeting, the representatives of Poland, Estonia, Lithuania and Germany read the riot act to the Russians over their recent, repeated violations of NATO airspace. The Russian representative replied with the usual claptrap that the Ukraine war was forced on Russia by NATO and EU expansion – whilst insulting everyone present.
To the surprise of many, POTUS Trump, when asked whether the USA would defend Poland and the Baltic states, replied that he would.
The die is set. This is now Putin’s decision. If Russian warplanes, drones or missiles again strike NATO territory, they will be shot down. This will inevitably lead to NATO strikes on the Russian launch sites. Like it or not, the Ukraine war may just be about to undertake a very serious escalation.
September 23, 2025
SG :
If you were as worried about Russian aggression as you claim you would not be actively promoting Net Zero with its expensive, unreliable, chaotically intermittent and un-defendable windmills for power and the inevitable consequence, de-industrialisation, leading to our inability to defend ourselves.
September 23, 2025
War generates substantial wealth for a few and brings misery to the many.
September 23, 2025
So, with “Trump, when asked whether the USA would defend Poland and the Baltic states, replied that he would” that lets the U.K. off the hook. Excellent news – were it not for Kier “boots on the ground” Starmer.
September 23, 2025
Kaliningrad is Russian. Look at it on the map.
September 23, 2025
The government are made up of extremists. The civil service has far too many of them as well.
If the British people knew who they were really voting for they would never have let them into power.
That is why the Labour Party mislead us by using terms like “smash the gangs”.
Just as Conservatives will never be trusted again, nor will Labour.
September 23, 2025
Kenneth :
Correct.
September 23, 2025
One assumes all these migrants will be able to vote in future elections?
Just a thought.
September 23, 2025
If they come from Commonwealth countries, they can vote.
September 24, 2025
Seem to remember something about giving anyone with a UK address the right to vote? Maybe in a debate. Still pondering on the “why” successive governments have done nothing about this issue. Even a majority of the legal immigrants are most likely to vote Lab; hopefully am wrong.
September 23, 2025
Non-citizens are able to vote in the USA. Trump trying to remove that remove that right.
September 23, 2025
Vote, get housing benefit & state pension
September 23, 2025
Its more than just the Government it is the will of Parliament to fight the people on this. More than 50% of the UK’s MPs are in full support of criminal activity, of funding people traffickers, of spending other peoples money on give a- way’s. Parliament is using taxpayer money to actively go out and set up business in a foreign land(France) to advice criminals how to enter the UK and get taxpayer funded legal advice on how to stay. The Taxpayer funded Home Office is circulating taxpayer funded advice on how to get into the UK and circumvent deportation.
If just once a boat was turned back in the channel, they would stop coming. But , no the taxpayer is funding the taxi service to enter foreign waters to assist and ease entry.
This is all happening at the behest and approval by more than 50% of Parliament the UK’s Legislators
September 23, 2025
Agree one week of turning the boats back would stop this
September 23, 2025
@majorfrustration – it worked in Greece, and Italy. We have even seen media films of the French ramming and in one instance sink these boat people that tried to enter their territory.
September 23, 2025
Choose your own representatives for every party, take the power from the Party machines. They want compromised people who can be controlled. We DONT.
September 23, 2025
@Lynn Atkinson – that would then make us a Democracy something the majority, particularly the Gang Bosses fear. The find it more in their nature to ‘fight’ those that empower and pay them then take their orders from elswhere
September 24, 2025
Agree with all you say.
Still finding it incomprehensible that no government has seriously addressed this problem.
Stopping & turning the boats before they get into UK waters + starting to repatriate those on land would be a great deterrent.
September 23, 2025
The abuse of this country continues unabated. Starmer is an empty shell with no idea what to do.
We need to assert ourselves by intercepting the boats and returning them to France, regardless of Macron.
September 23, 2025
You are asking all the right questions, but not necessarily in the right order…. 🙂
I was hoping, having read the headline nto the piece there was going to be a reveal and you would have been in a position to let us know exactly why the government lacks the will to control immigration legal and illegal.
Unfortunately you have reflected the position the vast majority of us hold which is, we ask all the right questions but we are completely ignored and never receive any answers.
What exactly is behind the ongoing transfer of people from one part of the world into the previously safe controlled Western societies? Who is so powerful they are able to command whole nation’s government to embrace this disastrous transfer of people across the globe?
September 23, 2025
….. and so it is for so many reasons, but the issues over too many immigrants, especially illegals is a major one.
Starmer has given away so much to the EU, you’d think they would at least oblige him with a little more effort and good PR, but they don’t seem to care – After all it now seems they are laughing at our country as so many others are for our inability to do anything effective.
The bottom line is that HMG is so afraid of the justice system and have not the guile nor the wit to make effective changes in the law to ensure HMG rules the day!
September 23, 2025
An excellent press conference by Reform yesterday with some well-thought-out policies. The ticking time bomb of the Boris Wave will soon be upon us and will bankrupt the nation. Of course, as the election nears, the migrants will stop coming as the writing will be on the wall for them. Labour will take the credit for this, citing that their policies are working. The number of work visas will also reduce as our economy fails and unemployment rises.
September 23, 2025
All excellent questions but why ask them at all? We have seen the established political class will do nothing beyond make promises, either because its does not wish to or because it does not have the gumption.
September 23, 2025
Firstly we should refuse to collect illegal migrants from French waters and refuse to co-operate with the mid Channel hand-over from the French navy when these illegal migrants are clearly not in any danger of drowning. Secondly, any illegal migrants who make it onto UK shores should be housed in tents in a secure encampment and not given 4 star hotels, housing, £50/week pocket money and allowed to roam our streets etc. Thirdly they should be flown to Rwanda for processing. This measure alone will stop the flow and the size of the accommodation in Rwanda does not have to be very extensive as once they know they are not going to stay in the UK forever on benefits then they will simply return home. Then we can start sending past arrivals and visa over-stayers etc either to Rwanda, or if they prefer, a flight back home. The latter is not as difficult as we’re told as I read that some of the 30,000 Afghans we’ve saved from the Taliban have returned home for holidays. BTW, how many more immigrants are there of which we have no knowledge because super injunctions are still preventing our knowing they exist?
September 23, 2025
These points have been raised before and they are entirely appropriate. Starmer’s vindictive decision to cancel Rwanda and the legislation concerning claiming asylum are both acts of reckless political vandalism. It’s clear Border Force and the French Navy work together in shepherding small boats from French into British territorial waters. There appears to be an appalling absence of investigation both by the French and British authorities to establish information and intelligence on the gangs. On boarding Border Force vessels every effort should be made to identify the ‘skipper’ of the small boat who should be arrested and detained on arrival at the UK port. Phones and documents should be seized and everyone interviewed by experienced detectives or immigration officials. Try arriving illegally at Gatwick, Heathrow or any other major UK airport? You would be detained and interrogated by officials. Starmer has misled the British people on the issue of illegal migrants and it’s now escalated into a full blown crisis. He needs to declare a National Emergency and firmly inform Macron they’ll been no more money and every illegal migrant attempting to enter the UK will be returned utilising military force. He also needs to pass legislation making it illegal for anyone attempting to enter UK illegally by any means will never be allowed asylum. He must also ensure applicable sections of the ECHR are not utilised by our Courts.
Reply Agreed
September 23, 2025
Agreement behind closed doors that we must take our share? Wouldn’t surprise me…🙄
September 23, 2025
I can only presume that our government(s) and a great many of MPs are still aligned with the policies of the UN/EU …..and see ‘taking-in’ of illegal migrants as a step closer to returning to the EU
A better question would be ”why is there no UK civil servant willing …” (lets face it, they’re in charge)
September 23, 2025
This Labour Government, and sadly the last Conservative one, have no interest in stopping the boats. They want immigrants, legal or illegal, to change the culture of the UK.
A Government that was serious about stopping illegal immigration would do all the things you suggest. With a strong, determined Government, action would be taken to stop the boats, forcibly return illegal immigrants and cut down on legal immigration. No one, except a minority, is against controlled immigration with numbers we can absorb. The simplest thing to do would be to stop legal aid for illegal migrants. No doubt the charities and Solicitors involved would then keep doing the work on a pro bono basis, but I suspect many would lose interest very quickly.
September 23, 2025
Still waiting for Labour’s move to find a suitably quiet moment to definitively confirm to us the next influx and all its glorious detail, to be the EU’s young under thirties EU passport holders. The EU is still pushing hard on this, insisting, demanding and as usual linking it to something other than what’s relevant. Stats tell us we have 1.2 million young “Brits” unemployed.
I think Facts4eu in its recent report wisely questions : Would it not be better to tell the EU ” Not for the moment, thanks. We have to put our own house in order first ” ? Exactly.
September 23, 2025
POTUS, he speech to the UN as reported on Guido
Trump hit out at London Mayor Sadiq Khan in his speech at the UN General Assembly. Speaking about how illegal immigration is ruining Europe he said:
“Europe is in serious trouble. They have been invaded by a force of illegal aliens like nobody’s ever seen before. I look at London, where you have a terrible mayor, terrible, terrible mayor, and it’s been changed, it’s been so changed. Now they want to go to sharia law. But you are in a different country, you can’t do that.”
Trump for PM
September 23, 2025
Trump’s said that:
– NATO countries who still buy Russian energy are funding the war against themselves, which is embarrassing.
– He’s ended or prevented lots of wars and “It’s too bad I have to do these things instead of the United Nations.”
– Recognising Palestine is rewarding terrorism.
– Sadiq Khan is a terrible, terrible mayor
And he questioned whether the UN could play any productive role in the modern world.
September 23, 2025
Hi sir john
The one out and one in will create a increase in migrants because the one in will be able to have the right to have their eed them family to join them in the UK so for one out we could end up with mom and dad brother’s sisters grandparents of the one in
But they won’t be working so they will be given a house big enough for the family
So again the taxpayers will feed them pay their bills council tax, water, gas electricity, NHS , Dentist, glasses, and education all without paying a penny into the system
and given the money to go about their daily life i have had to work for 60 years for
these benefits glasses dentist hearing aids i have to pay for then if I fall ill I will have to go to the back of the queue while the asylum family get priority
possible for years to get treatment
Thank you sir john
September 23, 2025
” If they had got on and implemented that Act of Parliament the main reason for many coming here by small boat would have been removed. ”
If the pre-July 2024 Tory Government had got on and seen the bill through the House of Lords and made it law, and implemented it, it would have had that benign result. So you have to ask yourself, why did Sunak not do precisely that?
( words deleted as untrue allegation ed)
September 23, 2025
Have you not heard of the United Nations Migration Pact signed into by Theresa May? We gave up control of our borders then.