One out, how many in. The farce of the UK borders policy

Yesterday an illegal migrant the UK had sent back to France returned on another illegal boat. The UK has to accept another migrant for his original deportation. The government say they will send him back to France again, so presumably the UK has to accept yet another migrant.  There was no limit placed on how many times  you could deport the same person and no limit on how many extra migrants we need take for any yo yo migrant that hops across the Channel several times.

Yesterday we passed the  total of illegal arrivals by boat for the whole of last year. So smashing the gangs hasn’t worked. Only 42 have been sent back to France under one in one out, so thats no kind of deterrent to the thousands coming.

The number coming had been falling under the previous government with the deport to Rwanda scheme beginning to be a deterrent. Cancelling that was stupid as it could well have worked. It was delayed because the government wrongly turned down law changes some of us proposed in Parliament to prevent lawyers and foreign courts delaying it further. The latest Opposition proposals for law change voted down by this government would work. Pity the government won’t  do that.

The government uses the problem as a reason to cosy up more to France and the EU. After more than a year of doing this it should be obvious even to the government that France is not going to turn the boats back or puncture them in shallow water as they could easily do to stop them. So why are we still sending them money? Why do we not complain about the way France escorts these boats safely out of their waters instead of discouraging them leaving? Why can’t France detect and prosecute more of the boat organisers in North France who are openly advertising and collecting money for passage?

This is all a disgrace, a tragi comedy, a set of absurd policies never likely to smash the gangs and stop the illegals.

96 Comments

  1. Piers
    October 23, 2025

    So a £150 fine for pouring a bit of coffee down the drain and £100 for putting a cigarette butt down a drain as no bins around. Yet if your bike is stolen no action if it was left for more than 2 hours or is worth less than £200 from the transport police. It is all about revenue, very inefficient back door tax collecting by councils.

    “Anarcho-tyranny” is a term coined by paleoconservative writer Samuel Francis to describe a state that is both “anarchic” (lacking order) and “tyrannical” (oppressive). In this state, the government is incapable of enforcing laws against violent crime, creating a climate of anarchy and fear, while simultaneously using its power to oppress law-abiding citizens, especially through overreach in other areas. This is exemplified by the government’s failure to protect its citizens from ordinary criminals while aggressively prosecuting and controlling the law-abiding populace.

    1. Lynn Atkinson
      October 23, 2025

      Police need to seriously punished for bullying citizens innocent of any crime, and vexatious claimants of ‘harassment’ should also be punished.
      If they have nothing to lose the public are tortured by ‘process’.

    2. PeteB
      October 23, 2025

      Even the BBC reports today that France is doing a reverse ferret on pulling dinghies back to the shore – an action they had promised to take to earn the millions we hand over.
      I’ve noted before satellites can spot every dinghy leaving the shore and we could use border force boats to intercept the dinghies and return them to France. If the French are saying that is what they will do how can the object to a helping hand?
      Reality is that Starmer is happy to flood the UK with migrants, legal or illegal.

      1. Bloke
        October 23, 2025

        One wonders whether that first-found hokey kokey immigrant paid the people smugglers again for his second trip, or whether it was a free passage under the smugglers’ guarantee.
        With so many smuggler organisations operating, illegal immigrants have a wide choice of attractive purchasing options from a competitive market.
        Next, the EU will enact a law to support them with consumer protection of their purchase.

        1. Mickey Taking
          October 23, 2025

          A sort of Buy ONE get another trip Free deal?

        2. Christine
          October 23, 2025

          He’s probably the driver who now receives a free return trip so he can bring the next boatload across.

    3. Peter
      October 23, 2025

      Correct. Jobsworths harassing an average citizen doing no harm. In addition an elaborate charade set up to give the appearance government is doing something about an issue they have no intention of solving.

    4. Sharon
      October 23, 2025

      I just heard on Talk Radio that since the press got hold of the story of the lady pouring coffee down the drain, Richmond council have refunded the £150 fine!

      1. Lynn Atkinson
        October 23, 2025

        Not good enough.

      2. Mickey Taking
        October 23, 2025

        and why were THREE officers patrolling the street TOGETHER?
        Make TWO redundant immediately.

  2. Piers
    October 23, 2025

    A farce indeed, but the blame surely lies with the contracts agreed with the French. What performance did the French have to deliver for these £ Millions as agreed by the Sunak and Kier governments? Then we have the clearly absurd one in one out agreement.

    1. graham1946
      October 23, 2025

      Problem is that government have no negotiators of talent or even interest in what is best for this country, starting with the PM down (not just this one either, but many since Thatcher). Look what they did to us with Brexit, the worst possible outcome for this country. Do they get sacked or even rebuked? No they end up getting titles or going to the Lords.

      1. Berkshire Alan.
        October 23, 2025

        Graham
        I agree no one in the Cabinet with any, negotiating experience, commercial experience, financial experience, commercial management experience, Commercial purchasing experience, commercial Budgeting, employment skills of hiring and firing.
        In short not a soul with a clue about running anything commercially or sensibly.
        In the meantime we have a lawyer who just wants to legally steal money from more and more people who actually work for a living, or who have retired and saved for their own future, to then redistribute (waste it) at will on many who cannot be bothered to get out of bed !
        Of course the people smugglers will try and try again, in order to protect their own business, simply done by offering a guarantee that if you are returned, we will send you onwards again at no cost, for as many times as it takes.
        Why can our politicians not see what is so obvious to millions of us out here.
        We need a complete clear out of the present lot, as well as the civil service, who seem to do as they like, work from where they like, when they like, and seem to get well rewarded for such.

    2. Berkshire Alan.
      October 23, 2025

      Piers
      But the French, together with the EU, and the Mayor of London, are our “friends”
      Yes they will all pretend to be, whilst we continue to pay them £ Millions.
      Our Government are being taken for the fools that they are.
      Unfortunately all of the above at the taxpayers cost.

  3. IAN WRAGG
    October 23, 2025

    Treacherous May signef us up to th UN migratiom pact stating there was no such thing as illegal migration.
    Liebor likr the tories, limp dumbs and greens, in fsct every party except REFORM are wedded to mass immigration.
    We are told it is necesary to fill the jobs locals won’t do. Only 17% of the Boris wave are in employment and for cultural reasons certain demographics aren’t allowed to work.
    Immigration is bankrupting the country and destroying the very fibre of the country.
    Remigration is the only solution.

    1. Lynn Atkinson
      October 23, 2025

      South Africa unilaterally and overnight left the UN Migration pact, and all similar ‘pacts’. They are now denying legally settled immigrants access to health care.
      Why don’t we?

    2. Berkshire Alan.
      October 23, 2025

      Ian
      The people are getting more and more frustrated and angry John, because they see a complete and utter failure at all levels of Government, the Legal, Tax and Benefit systems, but above all any common-sense or understanding of Human nature or what is required to move sensibly forwards.

  4. Wanderer
    October 23, 2025

    Your last paragraph sums it up. Countries around the world that protect their borders must shake their heads in disbelief.

    Clearly this administrative mess is desired by our “government” (globalist politicians, judiciary, bureaucracy, legacy media, NGOs, CoE etc) for a variety of reasons.

    About 8% of the public support illegal immigration. 66% of us believe it has been bad for the UK and 63% of us would deny illegals citizenship (2025 polling).

    The government reacts by pretending it will “stop the boats” via phoney deportation schemes which are no more than soundbites. These are rightly derided.

    Now the blob’s plan is to convert illegal immigration to legal immigration (PR problem solved!), We rejoined the Erasmus+ scheme in May 2025 and guess what? The EU is now extending the Erasmus+ programme to North Africa/Mid East, so expect us to be welcoming “students and family members” from Syria, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Algeria, Egypt, Libya, and Morocco, Tunisia very soon. I am sure our Universities are eagerly preparing courses for would-be “students”. How many will leave after their “studies”?

    1. Sakara Gold
      October 23, 2025

      @Wanderer
      Your post today is so full of crap that it’s not worth pointing out. Just like the fossil fuel cartel bullshit you post about Net Zero, you need to do some basic research before you comment on this prestigious blog

      1. Lynn Atkinson
        October 23, 2025

        Oh dear SG – self-delusion beyond repair.

      2. Hat man
        October 23, 2025

        Really, fact-checking SG’s verbiage is just getting too easy. Here’s the left-leaning Politico on the Erasmus+ expansion (16/10/25); ‘The inclusion of non-EU students from countries in Africa and the Middle East is part of the “Pact for the Mediterranean”, which also includes a proposal to double the EU’s budget for this region to €42 billion. The bloc’s Mediterranean partners include Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria and Tunisia.’ Our universities are indeed keen to see Britain participate: ‘Higher education stakeholders have given a cautious welcome to an announcement by the United Kingdom government that it is exploring options to rejoin the Erasmus+ student mobility scheme before the end of the current European Union programme, which runs until the beginning of 2028’ (University World News 4/9/25). A few minutes of ‘basic research’ online before commenting would have told SG that Wanderer is quite right.

        1. Wanderer
          October 23, 2025

          @Hat man. Thank you.

          I got my info from a different source (European Conservative) but I’m glad it aligns.

      3. Wanderer
        October 23, 2025

        @SG. If you value this blog, then you really should make the effort to “pointing it (alleged “cr*p) out”. That’s part of the reason this blog is so good. If we all just replied to posts saying they were “full of cr*p”, we’d learn nothing.

  5. Donna
    October 23, 2025

    It’s deliberate, for several reasons, one of which Sir John has identified: to justify the Establishment/Two-Tier dragging us back towards the EU.

    If they wanted to reduce the numbers coming, they could do it. For a start they could stop providing luxury accommodation, “free everything,” unlimited legal aid, pocket money and turning a very blind eye to the illegal working.

    The Government is prioritising “the rights” of these criminals above their duty to defend the nation and protect their own citizens. Fortunately the electorate has woken up to the crime wave being carried out by some (far too many) of the criminal migrants – the murders, rapes, sex attacks, other violent attacks, rampant shop-lifting etc – and they aren’t going to shut up and just put up with it.

    1. Sharon
      October 23, 2025

      That chap who returned, after being told to leave, was paid £2000 to go. Perhaps he thinks he’ll get paid that each time he turns up on the beach?

      1. Lynn Atkinson
        October 23, 2025

        Paying criminals is a novel way of stopping crime.
        This government is full of ideas: you tax what you want (growth, jobs) and pay for what you don’t want.
        Britain leads the world again.

      2. Mickey Taking
        October 23, 2025

        A sort of undercover quality survey?

  6. Sakara Gold
    October 23, 2025

    Yesterday, once again the dreadful Nigel Farage failed to attend PMQ’s, even though he was seen sulking in the public gallery above the chamber sitting next to one of his financial flunkies. Farage’s lackey Richard Tice was in his Commons seat – but the seat next to him was empty

    Speaking to GB News after PMQ’s, Farage said that he is no longer planning to sit in the chamber again for the weekly despatch box showdown

    “I shall listen to Prime Minister’s Questions from the gallery in the future, there is no point in being there. I am on strike. I will continue until I get a question.”

    Of course, the reason Farage does not wish to attend PMQ’s is because of the loud heckling and abuse that he gets as soon as he stands up. He rarely attends the House anyway, he spends most of his time in America checking out health insurance companies and slagging Britain off

    1. IAN WRAGG
      October 23, 2025

      SG. Your petticoat are showing. He gets heckled because he represents the people. The uniparty are afraid of him as he is goung to are their seats.
      2TK is afraid to debate with him because he is a shallow lying member of the legal profession who hate this country.
      We know you support immigration so you can have cheap gardeners, cooks and nannies. We are not so fortunate.

      1. Ian B
        October 23, 2025

        @IAN WRAGG – yes 2TK will go AWOL rather than take responsibility and take responses for his spinless back stabbing that we all know are just lies.

        1. gregory martin
          October 23, 2025

          He (Starmer) is here today because King Charles & Queen Camilla have “his” plane for the trip to Rome.
          G-GBNI

    2. Christine
      October 23, 2025

      1. He isn’t dreadful
      2. He isn’t sulking
      3. On strike – I don’t blame him the way Labour treat him
      4. He rarely attends the House anyway – why should he waste his valuable time there?
      5. He spends most of his time in America checking out health insurance companies and slagging Britain off – No, he doesn’t. He slags off the politicians who have destroyed our country. He attends a few speaking engagements in the USA, as they will be key allies when he becomes Prime Minister. Where is your anger at all the flights abroad taken by Lammy and Starmer, paid for by the British taxpayer, that are of no value to our country?

      1. Ian B
        October 23, 2025

        @Christine +1, and thankyou

      2. Lynn Atkinson
        October 23, 2025

        Anyone who thinks be8ng in the House of Commons is a waste of time should not be an MP.
        What is he doing instead? Still recording personalised birthday greetings @ £75 a throw?

        1. Berkshire Alan.
          October 23, 2025

          Lynn
          I have some sympathy with Farage, if you cannot take part in a debate, or respond to a statement made against you, just to score points, what really is the point.
          Afraid our House of Commons is becoming slowly irrelevant to the real World most of the time.
          Yes we occasionally get real debates, but then the old voting on Party lines, no matter what the individual thinks, destroys that immediately.

          1. Lynn Atkinson
            October 23, 2025

            You HAVE to be present from the start of every debate if you want to be called. If you are not there you will not speak and it’s YOUR fault. If you are there and are never called, it’s the Speaker’s fault.
            Ask JR how you win critical votes against the House Majority. He has done it but not from Stranger’s Gallery.

          2. Berkshire Alan.
            October 23, 2025

            Lynn
            Yes fully aware of the protocols, but fed up with all of the slagging off to try to defect their own incompetence and failure.
            Farage has never been in Government so how can anything in the past or present be his fault, he just says it as many of us see it.
            If his chance ever comes and he gets it wrong, then people will have every reason to criticise his then policies, until then it is all speculation, which really has no place on the HOC.

    3. IanT
      October 23, 2025

      I understand that Farage is making a point SG. Others in the House (including Starmer) feel free to take cheap shots at him and he’s not given the chance to shoot back. We have a Prime Minister who rarely answers the questions put to him at PM’s Question Time and who seems intent on taking obfuscation to a whole new level (even for Westminster).

      It’s a pity that the Commons rules don’t allow immediate right-of-response to any ‘personal’ attacks (perhaps there would be fewer of them if they did) but the sad truth is that Farage doesn’t need a Westminster ‘voice’ to make Starmer (and his fellow travellers) look stupid. They are managing to do that very well themselves.

      1. Lynn Atkinson
        October 23, 2025

        Every time he is attacked and not allowed to respond 500 voters turn from Starmer.
        He should be there every hour God sends.

    4. Mickey Taking
      October 23, 2025

      SG – have you any idea how many MPs miss each session?
      Farage is busy – he can count his party MPs on one hand, until the next election when we all know he will take seats from all parties except Green perhaps, but they are loonies anyway.

      1. Lynn Atkinson
        October 23, 2025

        He can now – started with 6 MPs and lost 1/3rd! Not for the first time either, happened in the EU ‘parliament’ as well.
        Farage certainly achieves what no other political leader can manage, no matter how dire.
        What is Farage busy doing? He has no job, he shadows no department, he has never even had to run a council or indeed a department in a council in his life.
        Is he just busy being important? He says he is ‘somebody’ where Lowe, Habib and the other 200 or so who could not work with him are ‘nobodies’.

  7. Lynn Atkinson
    October 23, 2025

    France is ‘the gang’ and we are funding it rather than ‘smashing it’.
    But the stupid must expect to be taken advantage of, so we have no complaint.
    Imagine paying Epstein to stop p edaphilia ….
    Or Starmer to stop crime …..

    1. Mickey Taking
      October 23, 2025

      or Rachel from Complaints reducing tax and cutting spending.

  8. Lynn Atkinson
    October 23, 2025

    Serious self-harm. Expect energy crisis as the USA and EU ‘impose a ban on the import of liquefied natural gas from Russia.
    ‘The natural gas ban will phase out rather than immediately halt imports.’ – unless Russia simply refuses to supply the EU overnight of course.
    China apparently took Trump by surprise by simply refusing to sell rare earths.

    1. Lynn Atkinson
      October 23, 2025

      Ukraine and Russia have exchanged kia.
      Ukraine received 1,000 dead Ukrainians.
      Russia received 31 dead Russians.

      Ukraine must be winning.

  9. Sakara Gold
    October 23, 2025

    “Why can’t France detect and prosecute more of the boat organisers in North France who are openly advertising and collecting money for passage?”

    The answer is quite simple – the people smugglers are paying huge backhanders to the French authorities on the beaches

    1. Mickey Taking
      October 23, 2025

      any evidence or just a load of ill -informed cr*p as usual?

      1. hefner
        October 23, 2025

        Ill-informed: it has been established by many observers that little money is actually exchanged around the North of France beaches.
        05/08/2025 bbc.com ‘Cross-Channel migrant-smuggling gang exposed by BBC undercover investigation’.
        globalinitiative.net ‘Small boats, big business: the industrialisation of cross-channel migrant smuggling’.
        infomigrants.net 30/10/2024 ‘Channel crossings: Investigation uncovers elaborate supply route across Turkey, Germany and France’.

  10. MPC
    October 23, 2025

    Mr Starmer once labelled all immigration laws as racist so he is not going to change now and imply he’s been wrong all this time. A number of terrible developments now look inevitable: every town to have no go areas including the nicest town centres which become more and more boarded up as female retail owners and staff are assaulted at close of business when leaving work in the dark; assaults on female foreign tourists devastate the English tourist industry; major terrorist atrocities become the norm – mass murder in an English church on a Sunday morning effectively destroys Christian church attendance irrevocably.

    We no longer live in the country we were brought up in. Perhaps the second generation after us will be accepting of this new English way of life.

    1. Lynn Atkinson
      October 23, 2025

      There is no longer an ‘English way of life’. That is our complaint.

      1. Mickey Taking
        October 23, 2025

        changed beyond any imagination in a few decades.

  11. Mick
    October 23, 2025

    I’m sick to the back teeth of hearing every bloody day about these parasites coming across on inflatables to suck us dry with the help of the government and human rights lawyers, I’m in my 70s so the only fighting tool in my box is a pencil which will help to get the Tories/ labour away from power, in the meantime stop these illegals from touching down on OUR soil by using the Army before England isn’t the country I remember from my very early childhood is gone forever

    1. Old Albion
      October 23, 2025

      My sentiments also Mick. I’m in my seventies too, my country has gone. It’s too late to save it.
      We’re infested with Wokery, Far-Left ideology and excessive immigration.
      My only solace comes from knowing my time is running out.

      1. Berkshire Alan.
        October 23, 2025

        OA
        +1 Exactly the same feelings.

      2. Lynn Atkinson
        October 23, 2025

        You had better hope reincarnation is a fallacy. You might be starting again as a baby and wishing the old you had taken better care of our county.

  12. formula57
    October 23, 2025

    The migrant who returned after being the one out displayed a fortitude and determination disappointingly lacking from this government. Would not Sir Kier do well to offer this person a job in the Cabinet?

    1. Mickey Taking
      October 23, 2025

      The best deterrent example is to detain him in solitary for a year and then say they will send him back.

  13. Michael Saxton
    October 23, 2025

    By any measure this is a National Emergency. Illegal entry into our country is out of control, not slightly, totally. Border Force will not deal with it, indeed they operate jointly with French Navy as a marine taxi service! Opposition parties must now exert maximum pressure on Labour to introduce Emergency powers and start using our military, principally Royal Navy, to secure our border. France play us for fools, they pocket our money and do nothing in return. Enough is enough. Unless Starmer gets a grip on this I can see this escalating into civil unrest.

  14. Narrow Shoulders
    October 23, 2025

    The UN Refugee Convention was created in the 50s when potential immigrants were not educated about opportunities in other countries and travel options were more limited. It needs a rewrite.

    We need not leave the ECHR, we need to withdraw from the UN refugee convention until it is updated for modern communications and behaviors. Asylum only being claimable in nearby countries which share culture with the immigrant would be a reasonable change.

    Two Tier Kier or his Foreign Secretary needs to withdraw and then agree return agreements with all countries with the treat of no visas being issues, no aid being forked over and tariffs.

    Remove government funding (and gift aid) from charities that promote the welfare of “refugees” in this country. Let them support “refugees” in far away lands.

    etc ed

    1. Ian B
      October 23, 2025

      @Narrow Shoulders +1, these cowards, are the voice of the majority of Parliament. You have to ask why are they fighting their electorate.

  15. Old Albion
    October 23, 2025

    Illegal immigration carries on un-troubled because we have a class of political donkeys in Westminster. Mainly driven by the Far-left and it’s ‘all immigration is wonderful’ attitude.
    All incapable of taking a sensible decision, just paying lip service to the problem. Dare to complain, beware they’ll label you as Far-Right, Racist, Fascist, Nazi.

  16. IanT
    October 23, 2025

    Clearly a Government determined to solve this problem could do so. The measures required might be harsh and clearly require a reset to our laws. We have to temper “Be Kind” with a realisation that many will take that kindness as weakness and currently they would be right to do so.
    An unfortunate truth is that if you don’t want to get burgled, you have to make your house look less attractive to break into than your neighbours. In terms of mass migration, others seem to be better at this than we are. Time to toughen up!

  17. Ian B
    October 23, 2025

    You forgot the one out, and back on the next boat in. The rewards for being a criminal in the UK are far to great.

  18. Brian Tomkinson
    October 23, 2025

    It should be clear by now that the government has no intention of ‘smashing the gangs’. They are complicit in encouraging those illegal activities by using Border Force and RNLI as ferry services, providing luxury accommodation, free food spending money, access to NHS doctors and dentists…..

  19. Dave Andrews
    October 23, 2025

    Let’s not blame the French for inept British government, both this one and the last. It’s not the French who are enticing irregular migrants with free hotel accommodation, meals included, free healthcare, pocket money, liberty to come and go as they please. Given the sort of places these migrants come from, the UK is Shangri-La. Even UK citizens who have fallen on hard times don’t get this attention.
    As someone above has said, if they wanted to stop it, they could, and they could navigate their way round human rights law to do it.
    Open up an office in Calais where asylum claims can be lodged. Should they be approved and fully funded by a wealthy sponsor they get a ticket to come over on the ferry. Anyone making an irregular journey has their asylum claim rejected and they are put in a detention camp until they can be removed. Job done. Watch the flood turn into a trickle.

  20. Kenneth
    October 23, 2025

    Taking instructions from foreign organisations has lead to this.

    We need to take control of our own law.

    1. Lynn Atkinson
      October 23, 2025

      Our Government has no mandate to ‘take instruction’ from any authority but the British Sovereigns. I.e the voters.

  21. Jim
    October 23, 2025

    We see in the failure of ‘return to France’ exactly what would happen with ‘return to Rwanda’. The only difference being the cycle time. If you think the Rwandans are going to strive keeping migrants in – you have learned nothing.

    You could of course equip Kemi and friends with a speedboat and machine guns. Mid channel slaughter. Go down well in some circles, but in the circles that matter we would find the cost and inconvenience rather too high. A non solution.

    Perhaps a tattoo, a sheet of cardboard and a polythene sheet and no benefits whatever. Might amuse some for a week or two until the obvious consequences come visible. Another non solution.

    Perhaps Nigel has a workable solution – probably not.

    1. Berkshire Alan.
      October 23, 2025

      Your solution Jim?
      Just let anyone in from anywhere, and let the taxpayer fund them forever, and we would all soon be destitute.

  22. iain gill
    October 23, 2025

    put marines in minesweepers, and other vessels, and get them to kick the crap out of any adults attempting a dinghy crossing. tough love which will soon stop any others coming. any that make it across to be put in tents in a remote scottish island.

    but the confetti like printing of work visas to people this country does not and should not need must be stopped too.

    and the public sector needs to be told in no uncertain terms to allow the correct numbers of locals to enter training for medicine and nursing etc at every bottle neck of those career paths, including initial entrance to uni.

    1. Dave Andrews
      October 23, 2025

      Oh really, and you think the marines are going to follow that kind of order? They will be thinking about a human rights violation criminal case down the line, and “We was only following orders” won’t wash with the court.
      Let them cross without incident and then put them into a detention camp pending deportation. It doesn’t have to be remote, but sorry we won’t be able to provide heating because we’re supposed to be saving the planet. Maybe it would be cold in winter, but so it is as well in a tent in Cumbria, and people do that for kicks. All asylum claims rejected, because they should have claimed at the office in Calais under my plan.

      1. iain gill
        October 23, 2025

        Re “a human rights violation” give them exemptions.

        And while doing that listen to the “Are We the Evil?” – SAS Commander Richard Williams on the Legal War Against the Regiment video on YouTube, and invite Richard in to rewrite the laws and policing framework for this kind of thing, and stop the persecution of people who were doing their jobs.

      2. Berkshire Alan.
        October 23, 2025

        SA
        Just look at Northern Ireland for an example that is actually happening, with troops still being taken to Court.
        The IRA of course has a free pass on all of this history..
        Looks like a sensible result in Court today against a British Soldier charged with regards to the above history.

        1. iain gill
          October 23, 2025

          they arrested a SAS Colonel in front of his children, the state has gone mad, there is no chance whatsoever of any conviction, it is simply lefty agitators in the British state pushing this.

        2. Dave Andrews
          October 23, 2025

          Exactly right. Hold Ted Heath or Peter Carington accountable. They were the politicians making the decision to deploy the army.

        3. Lynn Atkinson
          October 23, 2025

          But the IRA k llers have had an office in the Palace of Westminster, a salary and expenses in spite of refusing to enter the Chamber and do their job of representing their electorate all the time these loyal servicemen have been treated like criminals.

  23. majorfrustration
    October 23, 2025

    Parliament is quite unable or more likely unwilling to enforce our borders yet gets hot under the collar about Prince Andrew and calls for an inquiry – not another pointless inquiry surely.

    1. iain gill
      October 24, 2025

      PPE, post office, child abuse, NHS scandals… all inquiries a complete waste of time, and the public sector workers who failed were not sanctioned at all

  24. Michael Saxton
    October 23, 2025

    This has gone way beyond a crisis, this is a National emergency. Measures need to be taken to use military powers to stop illegal entry into UK. The French has played us for fools, enough is enough. Mr Starmer has had plenty of time to prove his ‘smash the gangs’ approach has signally failed. He cynically cancelled Rwanda and associated legislation that could have succeeded. He only has himself to blame. British people cannot tolerate this outrage any longer.

  25. Harry MacMillon
    October 23, 2025

    This is all a disgrace, a tragi comedy, a set of absurd policies never likely to smash the gangs and stop the illegals.

    yes indeed, it’s nothing but ‘theatre’ to keep us entertained and make us imagine HMG is actually serious about stopping the problem.

    As a labour peer said on GBN yesterday, the only solution is to get the Royal Navy to police the Channel and force illegals to turn back.
    But no doubt that would contravene some idiotic international treaty!

    1. Lynn Atkinson
      October 23, 2025

      It doesn’t but they don’t order that because they don’t want these criminals turned back.

  26. glen cullen
    October 23, 2025

    Its self evident that this, and past governments will try every stupid trick, woke tactic and introduce unenforceable laws and spend £billions to stop illegal boat people …..Everything apart from the one thing that will work ie stopping them mid-channel ….we need a government with the bottle to turn them round

  27. Ian B
    October 23, 2025

    The World according to Sir Kier Starmer, the two-tier justice World.

    As reported in the media a Lady receives a fine of £150 for just pouring her excess coffee (just the coffee) down the drain. Yet an undocumented illegal therefore criminal entering the UK is rewarded with more than £200 a month by the taxpayer in spending money, given free accommodation, free food, free health treatment, free mobile phone contracts all at great expense to the UK taxpayer.

    TwoTierKier at his finest a total hypocrite, one goal in mind to continue the Blair doctrine of destroy, destroy, destroy.

  28. Ian B
    October 23, 2025

    Just think! how great and prosperous the UK would be if it was to have a Parliament made up of the majority of 650 MPs that supported their electorate, their constituents, this nation. Just think if the same energy they are putting into destruction and fighting those that empower and pay them went instead to working with and for them.

    What a great place to live this would be.

    Of the 1,400 or so elected and unelected Legislators more than 50% support the Socialist World and more weirdly 2TK’s, power domination through two tier justice. Would we miss any of them?

  29. Rod Evans
    October 23, 2025

    Well Sir John, you again ask some basic questions that deserve some real answers.
    On the issue of why France does not stop the boats while in shallow water, which would be so simple to do, the answer is clear.
    France does not want the migrants to remain in France, because they are an embarrassment. The more they can assist/help to leave by whatever means the migrants choose, the better it is for France.
    The biggest mystery is why do our government and its agencies make crossing the Channel so risk free?
    It is almost as if there is a desire to welcome the unknown Channel migrants? Why they are so desired by the state authorities is the big question we need answers to.
    NB don’t ask how many £hundreds of millions of pounds we the UK taxpayers have given France to stop the boats leaving their shores, the answer is too embarrassing.

    1. Mickey Taking
      October 23, 2025

      The French are being stupid, quelle surprise, helping the migrants leave N.W.France merely encourages more to gain entry to E.France. Engage brain you Frenchies.

  30. Ian B
    October 23, 2025

    Everyone, everywhere sees the problem. There is a refusal by the majority of our elected 650 MPs and their chosen Government to act, to have the ‘Will’ to act. They are ensuring that the next election will be about having anyone in office but them – ‘The Others’ are destined to win without trying, All the UKs situation would be solved in an instance by having a Parliament with the ‘Will’ to act.

    “In the first half of 2025, Germany saw a roughly 50% decline in asylum applications compared to the previous year. ” The German parliament had the ‘Will’ and changed things in an instant, a country that isn’t an Island, doesn’t have the sea as a barrier just did what was right for its people. In the UK its Parliament took the opposite view ‘lets smash the country, its people and its future’ lets promote criminal activity and fund it with taxpayers money. Last year the UK Taxpayer was caned for £4 billion to fund criminal activity promoted by Parliament

    “The Home Office is dysfunctional and beset by a “culture of defeatism” on immigration, a secret report reveals.
    Shabana Mahmood admitted it was “not yet fit for purpose” following the disclosure of the report, which was written by the Tory MP Nick Timothy, who was once an adviser in the department.
    It found an overly “defensive approach” among the Home Office’s lawyers, a reluctance by senior officials to tell “difficult truths” to ministers, an optimism bias that led to wildly inaccurate financial forecasting and a general distrust by other departments that was hampering operational issues such as deportations.”

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/10/22/secret-report-home-office-culture-defeatism-migration/

  31. JP
    October 23, 2025

    Yes I agree the PM is a disgrace

  32. Peter Gardner
    October 23, 2025

    Starmer’s Gang has no intention of stopping illegal immigration. What it intends instead is to demonstrate that the illegals cannot be stopped. It’s like a military false flag operation. Public talk about smashing the gangs while in practice ensuring its sham efforts are ineffective. As a Fabian and human rights lawyer Starmer believes nation states should be abolished and replaced by an international socialist order. The only problem he sees with open borders is that the public think these people should not be allowed into the country. But what does the public know and who cares what they think? Anyway, he’ll prove them wrong: illegal immigration cannot be stopped.

  33. glen cullen
    October 23, 2025

    220 criminals were illicitly shipped, into the UK yesterday on the 22nd October from France…

  34. Ukret123
    October 23, 2025

    Old world countries used Voodoo etc with superstition practices to keep ordinary people confused, in the dark and guessing to stay in control.
    The modern equivalent of achieving the same outcome without any sense of irony is to employ a fictitious and fake moral compass mounted on a high horse, spin some noble manifesto aims to improve things whilst operating in stealth mode contrary to this and actually playing ordinary folk along.

    Yesterday three Labour councillors in Swindon defected to the Greens one saying they hadn’t left the Labour Party but the Labour Party had left them as it was no longer what they had stood for. Many have been appalled by how they no longer recognise Labour nor Conservative parties especially when the track record has been favouring foreigners when “Charity starts at home” .

  35. Keith from Leeds
    October 23, 2025

    If our governments, past Conservative and present Labour, were serious about stopping illegal immigration, they could. But it requires a tough approach, taking the boats back to France, or basic detention camps for a few days, until they are sent back. It does not matter where they come from, just send them back to France, as it is their problem. When the people on every dinghy are consistently returned the problem will stop.
    Our problem is that we have had a series of weak PMs with no intention of solving the problem.

  36. glen cullen
    October 23, 2025

    Government – one out (1) – one in (1)
    Reality – One out (1) – one in (1) plus right to ‘family life’ (10) plus returns (1)
    UK pays for tranfer flights both in and out ….but what else have we agreed to pay france

  37. JP
    October 23, 2025

    Its unbelievable after four years of war Europe fails again to fully support Ukraine with no agreement

  38. glen cullen
    October 23, 2025

    Polls are now closed in the Caerphilly by-election …..and again no-one, and I mean no-one is supporting nor voting for the Green Party ….so why are we doing net-zero against the wishes of the voting public ?

  39. mancunius
    October 24, 2025

    This one-in-one-out system is clearly not working, if the ones-out are simply returning and not being refused re-entry. I know of one man who has left the country 40 times since July 2024 and has simply come back 40 times, unimpeded by the Border Agency, even though the majority of the UK’s citizens simply do not want him here!
    That is of course the PM.

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