Rt Hon Sir John Redwood MP (Wokingham) (Con): Will the Government introduce urgent legislation to strengthen control of our borders, and could that include a notwithstanding clause to guide the courts against using other laws that undermine the fundamental principle of the Prime Ministerâs policy?
Robert Jenrick, Minister for Immigration: My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister set out last week our intention to bring forward legislation early next year, and at the heart of that legislation will be a simple point of principle that we on this side of the House believe: no one should gain a right to live in this country if they entered illegally. From that, all things will need to flow. Nothing is off the table. We will take our obligations to deliver on that policy very seriously. That is in stark contrast to the Labour party. At the weekend, the shadow Home Secretary, the right hon. Member for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford (Yvette Cooper), could not even say whether illegal entry to this country should be an offence. That says it all. We believe in securing our borders and in controlled migration. The Labour party is the party of mass migration.
December 20, 2022
The number of clandestine immigrants who enter completely normally at our airports on visas, but who then simply melt into the crowd never to leave dwarfs that of those arriving in small boats.
Sir John knows this too, but would rather focus on the visible, which has been proven to set your teeth grinding and eyes bulging yet again.
Unlike most countries, this one does not have a residency register nor ID cards. However, those countries which do also generally have constitutions to protect people from the excesses possible by dint of those.
Until that changes – no chance under the Tories – you don’t stand a chance of controlling this.
They scuppered Labour’s proposals to do this, remember?
December 21, 2022
Any legislation introduced needs to limit the number of legal immigrants as well as stopping the illegal flow.
But the worthy and bleeding hearts will always make a case for those struggling who need our help and the legal trade in cheap labour and refugees will be more difficult to stop than illegal criminals who are demonstrably in the wrong. If 800,000 legal immigrants can arrive then there are evidently already plenty of safe passages into the country that the illegals could use instead of paying to ride in on a dinghy.
December 21, 2022
NLH how do they get work if they can’t prove they are eligible, who is paying them to survive here?
How do they get rentals? Who rents them the properties without proper checks being carried out? If someone is found to be renting illegally what action is taken?
If they try to use the doctors, A&E etc. who checks their eligibility?
December 21, 2022
Anyday now there will be a Ministry for Disadvantaged Immigrants.
Divisions will be Housing, Benefits, Schooling, Health (a private scheme of course), Subsidised Transport, Communications (Translating and Free Courses, Mobiles for all age groups, the latest laptops), Banking services and Form Filling for those where English is not First language.
I kid you not !
December 21, 2022
I read last week about an illegal immigrant that had claimed ÂŁ350,000 of benefits over 8 years! How the heck did that happen. If we import poverty, people arriving with nothing by the million then poverty figures are never going to improve as money is spread too thinly.
December 21, 2022
I believe they are assigned an NHS number, a-tracy. How they get that, whether it’s a GP surgery or some other NHS authority, I don’t know. Illegals who’ve overstayed a student visa will have easily got an NHS number while they were studying.
There are gangmasters employing illegals who may also find them accommodation, or provide them with a reference for it. There seems to be a whole parallel economy in this country which needs investigating. Leicester might be a good place to start, judging from what turned up there last year.
December 20, 2022
Out here in North Cambs, immigration, you might think, was an academic subject.
The town centre of Wisbech and large parts of Peterborough are now dominated by people who often speak in their native languages. It is like being abroad.
White Brits have moved into what were once tiny villages on the outside. Sometimes immigrants appear here – but they do not last long. What is permanent is the building spree where all the old, unused spaces are now full of houses. No new shops, doctors, school improvements, roads…
People do not find it easy to live in a section of towns where thieving is commonplace, where lawless gangs operate or where different religions dominate. Where they feel like an interloper.
Immigration is an undercurrent where people feel very deeply but are afraid to mention. You should be aware of this at the next election. It is a minefield where an accidental remark can cost you a family row.
December 20, 2022
+1
December 20, 2022
Too late.
The Tories are going to have their majority slashed because of failures on this and other things.
The people they suck up to will never vote for them.
December 20, 2022
How do you define “entering the country illegally”?
Every sailing enthusiast, or fisherman, who takes a boat out a few miles and then returns would be guilty of an offence, and there are so many other circumstances that such a law would be almost impossible to draft.
December 20, 2022
codswallop.
December 21, 2022
So draft point of departure into the legislation.
Poor effort Notts chap. Why do you hate your countrymen so?
December 21, 2022
NS, perhaps they’re not NLH countrymen?
December 20, 2022
Typical of what sits at the top table.
Does the minister really thinks we care about what Labour will or will not do.
The problem is now, out of control now, and has been ever since politicians thought that cheap unskilled Labour was the answer to all this countrys problems.. It is not just about stopping them it is getting rid of all those that are costing the tax payer over ÂŁ5m a day to stay here and get services we the majority of taxpayers just dream about.
These people are playing Russian roulette with our future with a fully loaded chamber what with all their globalist ideas and actions.
December 20, 2022
Spot on Sir John but itâs taken years and vast expenditure to get to this dreadful situation. Why didnât Conservatives realise this before? Anyone entering or attempting to enter the UK illegally must not be allowed to reside in the UK. Our Country, our services and our infrastructure is at or beyond breaking point. For godâs sake please legislate.
December 20, 2022
+1
December 20, 2022
12 years, the Conservatives have done nothing. JR must think we are idiots as he pretends now to demand urgent action. The Conservatives have had their chance, Mr Farage is the only man to trust now
December 21, 2022
Farage! Lol, he ran a mile.
I sometimes think he is a Labour stooge used to get Labour into power by weakening the Tory areas. Why on earth would a right of centre party stand in right of centre Tory seats? They wouldn’t.
Why can’t these reform parties ever get more than 3.5% in current elections even though they are supposed to be making a breakthrough? They can’t and won’t; they’re being used to weaken Tory’s full stop.
December 21, 2022
The majority of the electorate will not dwell on what is centre right, left wing, right wing, socialist or ERG!
They will think about the last 14 (?) years, Covid and since, NHS, rampant lies about controlling immigration legal or illegal…money thrown at any conceivable subject yet ignoring hungry schoolchildren, generations in debt and like Italy strikes called most days.
When faced with the privacy of the ballot paper I expect a harsh reaction to what they have been faced with.
December 21, 2022
Covid – Labour would have locked down faster, for longer; we would have been locked down last Christmas, go back and read Starmer; the schools didn’t want to re-open in the New Year. He was right behind their union.
NHS – the government needs to give a more spirited defence of the pay offer this year, the lowest grade 2 got 9.5%, 4% wasn’t enough when the NMW went up nearly 7%, and the government can’t put up the NMW/NLW and not keep up differentials of the higher tiers. Labour would give the money and charge the rest of us more without question.
Controlling immigration, what do you think any other governing party would do? Cooper would give amnesties and even more, people allowed. But I agree they can lock down the whole Country fast enough when they want to but they can’t stop this, ridiculous flim flam.
Hungry schoolchildren, I know many single parents on a good level of universal credits; people using foodbanks with children need more help than free food; they need financial training and their family budgets controlled until they can get them under control themselves. Schools in poor areas have had breakfast clubs for years, and there are free school meals during the school holidays, but this whole area needs more attention.
I want to know if this government is giving these train companies subsidies to ensure they still pay out high salaries to failing executives and big shareholder dividends and if they are we should hold the government to account because they are wasting our money.
December 20, 2022
“We believe in securing our borders and in controlled migration. The Labour party is the party of mass migration.”
Such dishonesty, and coming from you Sir John, makes it doubly offensive. Your party believes in neither, and immigration (both legal and illegal) has been much higher under the CONS than it ever was under Labour. I cannot abide dishonesty and outright lies. This is why nobody trusts this government. To quote your own words, ‘we don’t believe you’. Experience has taught us that your party cannot be trusted, with anything!
December 20, 2022
+1
It is shocking that someone highly regarded like Sir John would make a comment âweâ, meaning his party, when the records and facts are such that the remark is blatantly untrue. 12.5 years of promises to cut to tens of thousands etc etc and immigration at its highest figures ever!
December 20, 2022
Apology, Sir John replicate the Jenrick remark we.
December 20, 2022
@ Shirley M – but those are plainly not Sir John’s words, rather those of one whose presumed effort at stand-up comedy falls flat on a weary public sickened by false promises.
December 20, 2022
SJRâs fine quality work and effort add high value to the Conservative Party. However, so many Conservative MPs neglect, lack will, avoid simple effective solutions to many issues, donât care or actively oppose Conservative values. Continual erosion for years has resulted in damage compounding virtually beyond repair. Few would believe a dead parrot is worth any attempt at reincarnating. Many previously long-supporters are now joining The Reform Party in pursuit of the standard they seek, as well as making substantive contributions in the hope of restoring our nation to better.
December 20, 2022
It was Robert Jenrick who said that, not Sir John!!
But you are right that the government’s attempts to pretend that they are the party of controlled immigration no longer wash. Everybody can see how weak and pathetic they are. They refuse to agree to a ‘notwithstanding’ clause. and nor will they exclude the legislation, or ministerial decisions, from legal review or challenge (which they could also do). Indeed, not a single Conservative MP has suggested that. The Rwanda plan will NOT be put into effect because the Left will continue to challenge it, and all proposed deportations, in the Courts, and the government refuses to deny them the ability to do this. Sunak and Labour are in cahoots. That’s why I say again that the Tories are NO BETTER THAN LABOUR. We can all see that, which is why I have given up on them. I am sick of their lies, of their weakness, and of their betrayal.
December 20, 2022
Yep. Not taken back control 6 years after specific vote means no intention to do so. To be sure Jenrick will be proud of having helped along all the extra houses which have been built to satisfy resultant needs. Charlatan
December 21, 2022
+1
December 21, 2022
Well said.
One millions legal visas issued in one year and 50,000 criminals ferried in for a life of luxury courtesy of British taxpayers, and Jenrick has the gall to say the CONs believe in secure borders and controlled immigration.
I know It’s Pantomime Season but do the CONs really think the audience is laughing at the performance.
December 20, 2022
What the Labour will or will not do is just a transparent attempt at distraction from the point: What is THIS Tory government going to actually do to prevent the hordes of illegal immigrants from crossing the English channel and ending up in 5* hotels for unlimited duration costing tens of millions.
December 20, 2022
Indeed. He’s saying it makes no difference who’s in charge except one party pretends to control borders . Another doesn’t bother. There are other choices.
December 20, 2022
We could change our thinking on all of this and consider that the people who braved thd channel crossing are indeed a special people, I for one would not dare cross it in a small rubber boat, so why do we not harness the power of these people offer them jobs in the NHS, organise them into agricultural groups and fishing, get them into the catering corps in the armed forces to release others for regular soldier duties, pay them well, get them to fill the vacancies in driving. We need cleaners, we need workers in the hotels and hospitality sectors – we must be nuts if we are turning our backs at all of this
December 20, 2022
Granger :
What on earth makes you think these people come here to work?
Quite the reverse. The big attraction of the UK is that once here they know they need never work again. It starts with free 4 star hotel accommodation, free health and social care, ÂŁ40/week pocket money and the complete freedom to roam our streets. Then, later they can get free housing and bring over their entire extended family to live on benefits.
At the same time they can settle down in their own tribal communities without the need for learning the language or even adhering to UK laws.
Forcing them into any sort of job, as youâre suggesting, would be considered slavery. And would they even have the skills?
December 20, 2022
You are advocating Stalinism, you do realise?
December 20, 2022
Granger
Your solution would just lead to more and more coming in via the same route.
A reward the criminal type policy is not the way forward, we know nothing about these people (who have deliberately destroyed any evidence about their previous existence) other than they have paid criminals to get here, and are in debt to them, in one way or another for however long.
Just ask yourself why would you, if you were a genuine refugee, destroy the very evidence of your so called story which would tell the truth of your persecution.
December 20, 2022
NO! NO! NO!They must never profit from their actions Granger
December 20, 2022
Except we have 5 million others and little room left.
December 20, 2022
But they don’t cross in a rubber boat. They get picked up by a ferry service. The boats are a technical ruse and the Tory Government is in on it.
They ARE harnessing the ‘benefits’ of these people (growth, allegedly) and look at the mess we’re in.
December 21, 2022
If these people are such hard workers, then why are they not working hard tro make their own countries wealthy ?
Many do not wish to come here throughout the normal accepted routes because they wish to work in the criminal underworld, not pay taxes, and send money home to build luxury homes.
Did you know the Albanian government is offering its people, no questions asked, bank accounts providing they handover 10% of all deposits ?
Hardly trustworthy people !
December 20, 2022
…..The Labour Party is the Party of mass migration, says the Consocialists who have presided over the most immigration every year on record and does nothing on illegal migration and talks pretend policy on Rwanda instead of just deporting them to their home Countries. It’s just a distraction for fools. Your Party are a bunch of liars. Just go.
December 20, 2022
How many years do the Government need to sort this out?
Net migration is ~500k, where ARE the immigration controls, or indeed where are there the houses/infrastructure etc for all these people?
Wholesale loss of trust imho.
I just don’t believe anyone in Parliament (all sides) wants less immigration, except you Sir J and most of the UK population.
December 20, 2022
OMG, Jenrick again. If ‘nothing is off the table’, does that include his resignation?
December 20, 2022
Indeed. The weasel’s weasel. Who’d employ these types anywhere else?
December 20, 2022
Sir John surely you werenât expecting a straight answer from Robert Jenrick
Immigration Act 1971 is already in place but Government is impotent to act on it because of the ECHR.
Then 08 July 2022, the act was updated but the ECHR remains the arbiter and controller of UK Law, not the UK Parliament or Government â so they actually have no say and it is meaningless.
âEntry without leave is a breach of section 3(1)(a) and therefore constitutes illegal entry as defined by section 33(1) of the Immigration Act 1971 (as amended by the 1996 Asylum and Immigration Act)â
However the Government as it is frightened to make and intact its own laws as with other free World Democracies it has signed up to the ECHR and given them full jurisdiction control over the UK Parliament and itâs Government, which in practice so far has nullified this so-called Sovereign free democratic parliament
The Rule of thumb for a Democracy, âto give someone rights you first must have removed all rights in the first placeâ, so rights have no place. In a Democracy rights are only removed, but can still be amended or repealed when a Parliament deems is necessary.
In other words if the UK was a fully functioning Sovereign Democracy, with a Parliament and Government capable of doing what it is paid for âNoâ further laws would be needed
December 21, 2022
+1
December 20, 2022
More fine words but let’s see if the government is really intent on going from treating channel migrants as VIPs by accommodating them in some of the best English hotels, to offshoring the lot of them. ‘Early next year’ – there’ll be several thousand more of them by then.
December 20, 2022
Here we go again, punch and Judy politics. You asked a question and Jenrick should have just answered with facts, not surmises about what the opposition may or may not propose. The Labour party does not even know what it’s policies are, so how can Jenrick decide what it is? Childish and this is what turns people off. We have a very low level of politicians in this parliament as is proved here. Is this the same Jenrick who was involved in a planning scandal? Why is he even in government?
December 20, 2022
In government to get more immigrants and more houses built for them, which makes the big housebuilders rich. Simple. Who needs real talent?
December 20, 2022
All illegal immigrants should be “exported” the day after they arrive .
December 20, 2022
They should never be allowed into the country without the correct documentation. Other countries manage to turn them away over much bigger stretches of water. Push them back and let the French ‘rescue’ them instead of assisting them.
December 21, 2022
Why would the French do that?
Since 17/11/2022 the French Government has had OQTF (Obligation to leave France âObligation de quitter le territoire françaisâ) for all foreigners in an irregular situation, something that can relatively be easy to figure out as people are supposed to have an ID.
Although the âcarte d’identitĂ©â is not strictly speaking compulsory, such a document is required for practically any type of administrative enquiry, opening a bank account, finding a job, getting a driving licence, getting into the French SĂ©curitĂ© Sociale (health) system, renting or buying a place to live, registering children in school, âŠ
This recent OQTF if anything is even more an incentive for migrants not interested in entering the French system to try to come to Britain.
December 20, 2022
Hello Sir John,
It is good that you focus on this, as it may be the deciding point between the parties at the next election. But why do we have to wait? Parliament has not been doing much in the last few weeks,
so why not get on with it? If one thing marks out the government in the last few years it is constantly saying what they will do but not doing it. Why so slow in dealing with the major problem of illegal immigration? Stop talking about it & get on with doing it!
December 20, 2022
Here’s an interesting article:
https://www.cityam.com/economic-immigration-must-be-presented-as-supplementing-the-uk-workforce/
“Economic immigration must be presented as supplementing the UK workforce”
December 20, 2022
Undercutting the UK workforce lowering productivity, lowering GDP per Cap, lowering tax take increasing benefit, education, police… costs.
500k generally the wealther leave and 1 million arrive.
December 20, 2022
Denis Cooper
All well and good but we need to be selective very selective. We have more than enough wasters who other than the most menial of jobs bring no value as they have to be supported by benefits.
The true blue blood line is well on the wane and can only get worse.
December 20, 2022
Unfortunately it is just more talk with a parting shot at the Labour Party thrown in for good measure.
I donât see any signs of action, nor do I expect any.
December 20, 2022
That yet again is the only thing the Tories will have to stake their survival on, try to make out Labour will be worse.
December 20, 2022
Well I will believe it if and when I see it have any useful effect.
Just too many lies and dishonesty from the tax to death lying Tories – May/Hammond, Boris/Sunak, Cameron/Osborne now Sunak/Hunt. All the big things wrong!
December 20, 2022
+1
December 20, 2022
JR,
No need of ânewâ legislation, we had all that nonsense before, we need to scrap ECHR and scrap trade agreement with EU and thereby scrap N.Ireland Protocol to get N.Ireland back as part of our country. No checks, no borders down Irish Sea.
We were repeatedly told by your dishonest party leadership Brexit meant getting back our laws, borders and money. Annexing N.Ireland is in absolute breach of Brexit. Retaining EU laws and regs is in breach of Brexit. ECHR does not achieve this, remaining in ECJ does not achieve this, level playing fields in: energy, State aid, environment, competition and employment law does not do this. Giving away our military to EU control under PESCO is in absolute breach of Brexit! We are in NATO, Germany failed to pay subs for membership but expected our protection from Russia while making itself dependent on Russian energy! Snake and Hunt now buying US fracked gas as if UK were still in EU energy pact. Once more in absolute breach of Brexit.
JR,
So how about your party and govt. stop lying and being dishonest and actually implement Brexit then the govt would have control over our borders and who we do and do not want to live here!
December 20, 2022
You need to make it financially unattractive for the people traffickers and likewise for the parasitic lawyers.
One aspect I find incredible. The police, border force, MI5, MI6 GCHQ and interpol, not to mention the DSG and Gendarmerie all fInd it impossible to track down the traffikers or the stream of boats coming by container from China apparently. What do they do all day .
December 20, 2022
Don’t forget the welfare system. World famous now.
December 21, 2022
But what happens if you stop benefits to all these thousands of Albanians?
December 20, 2022
âWill the Government introduce urgent legislation to strengthen control of our bordersâ – There have been more than enough laws introduced to solve the issue going back to the âImmigration Act 1971â. The UK Courts the UK Government and the UK Parliament are powerless to act as it is subordinate to the jurisdiction of the ECHR.
The Laws in place that define what can and canât be done, do not come from the UK Parliament, they are not subjected the will of the UK People/Electorate through its Parliament. These laws cannot be amended or repealed by those that suggest they are Part of the UK democratic process. The conclusion the UK Government doesnât want to be held accountable or be responsible what happens inside of the UK.
December 20, 2022
I expect nothing will change. The British public will continue to pay for illegal immigrants while they go to the back of the queue. Your government is an utter disgrace.
December 20, 2022
Undercutting the UK workforce lowering productivity, lowering GDP per Cap, lowering tax take increasing benefit, education, police… costs.
500k generally the wealther leave and 1 million arrive.
December 20, 2022
Still waiting to hear an answer to the question Conservative back bencher Tim Laughton asked at the Home Affairs Select Committee regarding the provision of safe and legal routes for genuine asylum seekers.
December 21, 2022
Hmmm, 4 weeks ago, Tim Loughton asked that question.
Tim Loughton generally voted for stronger enforcement of immigration rules,
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10371/tim_loughton/east_worthing_and_shoreham/divisions?policy=6734
On 20 Apr 2022:
Tim Loughton voted in favour of creating an offence of entering the United Kingdom without a valid entry clearance (if one is required), and against creating an alternative narrower offence of arriving in the United Kingdom in breach of a deportation order. etc
December 21, 2022
I don’t particularly have a problem requiring people to have a valid entry clearance to enter the UK so long as the mechanisms to gain that entry clearance exist, which today they do not. One without the other is not a credible position.
December 21, 2022
Then Braverman needs to tell us what valid entry points there are and how people apply because I donât believe there are none. I thought I read there were camps in Jordan that the UK pays for whilst processing and other areas near Iraq. I will have to investigate.
December 22, 2022
When asked about safe and legal routes by Tim Laughton at the Home Affairs Select Committee, Braverman couldn’t answer the question. The transcript is in Hansard for all to read.
The reason Braverman couldn’t or wouldn’t is that for most genuine asylum seekers, there are no safe and legal routes to apply for asylum in the UK. Claims can only be made once already on UK soil, and therefore, a consequence of current UK government policy is that illegal entry to the UK is a necessary prerequisite to making an asylum claim.
December 22, 2022
The UK currently operates several safe and legal immigration routes:
The UK Resettlement Scheme, Community Sponsorship, and the Mandate Scheme are refugee resettlement programmes.
Refugee family reunion visas are available to people who were immediate relatives of people granted refuge in the UK, before they left their country of origin (known as pre-flight relatives).
Nationality-specific bespoke immigration routes are available to some Afghans, Ukrainians, and people from Hong Kong.
Each route has eligibility criteria and conditions attached to the permission to stay. Not all the routes give beneficiaries refugee status and the associated rights and entitlements specified in the 1951 Refugee Convention.
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9630/
December 20, 2022
Jenrick : âFrom that, all things will need to flow.â
âNeedâ?
He should have said âFrom that, all things will flowâ.
I simply donât believe that any current parliamentary Party wishes to reduce immigration.
They want to change us into a âworld majority countryâ looking like the third world with an abundance of separate tribal communities and with expensive, meagre and intermittent energy from their King Canute energy policy.
December 20, 2022
‘We believe in securing our borders and in controlled migration’
I almost wet myself in shaking with laughter.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
SERIOUSLY how can a Minister get away with these LIES?
The various gangs loading up the dinghies must know we are just a bunch of pathetic fools.
December 20, 2022
We can find ÂŁbillions to defend Ukrain’s border but find it impossible to defend ours.
December 21, 2022
+1
December 20, 2022
Sadly what started as a Christian act of noble charity typical of Britain over the years is now perceived by many as a weakness and is ruthlessly exploited by many countries.
Kindness is seen as a weakness, not to be admired but rather mocked as stupid, naive and deserving contempt. You only need to see how other countries treat unwelcome guests. Sarkozy in Paris over 10years ago lost patience with squatters on the peripherque.
December 21, 2022
Good morning – again
We already have enough laws. What we do NOT have is the will to use them !
December 21, 2022
For Jenrick to say Labour would be worse shows how contemptuous they are of us to think we will swallow that one after what the Conservatives have delivered. Same with claiming they are acting by throwing more money at the French, and whoopee more legislation next year sometime, which probably won’t get on the statute books before the next election. Meanwhile it is said Sunak and Jenrick are implementing an amnesty in all but name to clear the backlog of asylum seekers, after all that is the only way to clear it in the time frame Sunak has given.
The Conservative party leadership don’t seem to be able to comprehend the hole they are in , they have zero credit with the electorate , in fact massively overdrawn, their only salvation is to unequivocally act and act fast. It is not a matter of more legislation but less, less 1951 Convention, less ECHR, less Human Right Act , less Thresa May’s Modern Slavery , less of the stuff obstructing our sovereignty to act in our interests, but they won’t do what is necessary , they think they can con us with the same old, same old, same old which has got us to this disastrous mess. It takes a leader to comprehend the status quo has failed and irreparable so look to implement new structures, a technocratic manager like Sunak doesn’t have it in him.
December 21, 2022
Jenrick’s just rolling the pitch for the next General Election. Here’s the gist of the bovine excrement we’ll be told:
We are the party that believes in strong borders and controlled immigration. After delivering Brexit we introduced a points-based immigration system to control immigration whilst providing the highly-skilled workers we need. All those “students” and their thousands of dependants really were vital and so were the hairdressers, nail-bar staff and cash-in-hand window cleaners.
The UK has a proud history of offering a safe haven to people who are at risk of being persecuted in their own countries. Unfortunately, some people have abused the asylum system and although we’ve tried really hard to deport these criminal migrants we’ve been prevented by left-wing Human Rights lawyers. We came up with the Rwanda PR Stunt, but the ECHR stopped any deportations, so it’s not our fault. We did try (but not too hard).
The Conservative Party can’t possibly support repealing the Human Rights Act or leaving the ECHR since that would give a bad signal to the likes of Russia (and more importantly means we’d have no excuse not to deport the criminal migrants we’ve been ferrying-in as quickly as we can.
We do support a new International Treaty on Asylum and Refugees, which will mean we are forced by the UN to accept tens of thousands of unemployable, welfare-demanding economic migrants (and their extended families) every year who claim to be at risk. On top of the 150,000 we’ve accepted from France in the past 3 years.
Labour wants open borders, so you’d better vote for us. We promise we really will deliver reduced immigration if you vote for us again ….. honest.
If you’re CONNED, it’s your fault.