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…
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.
