Total number of people crossing English Channel in small boats passes 18,000

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  1. Tories doing a great job with stopping the boats then /s. They’ve only had 12 years to tackle the situation.

    “But think of how worse it would be with labour” – some brain washed telegraph reader probably.

  2. The 18K immigrants are just a by product of the Dover grid lock.

    The real scandal is UK tourists now forced to cross to France on these dinghy’s due to the queues at Dover and the Euro tunnel.

  3. It’s OK guys, the Tories are working on making the UK so utterly shit that no one will want to come.

  4. Just send them to rwanda… because sending 18,000 migrants to rwanda surely won’t cost any taxpayer money…

  5. But i thought we took back control of our borders?
    Its like the EU weren’t the problem at all.

    Wonder why the billionaires told us it was. Right befor the EU brought in a raft of tax avoidance laws. Total mystery really.

  6. Just wait till Sunak gets put in power, we’ll see a swift change in numbers then!

    Just hope my boat will be ready in time to beat the rush

  7. What actually is the solution for this do people think? Is there a reason the U.K. and French government haven’t started opening centres along the coasts?

  8. Wtf are we even doing with this half-arsed immigration shit.

    Either intercept them and force them to return or go pick them up on ships and bring them over here. Escorting them across after they get half way is absolutely fucking stupid- risking people’s lives, giving huge sums of money to organized crime and bringing them here anyway.

    Pick one or the other, the current policy is insane.

  9. Why do people in this thread think foreign economic migrants, mostly young men, have any kind of right to live here, simply because they want to? Deliveroo not have enough drivers for you?

  10. Why can’t we just do the Australian thing….. monitor our sea borders and send them back !! That’s it… we our own island now.

  11. Would like to see all the people in favour of uncontrolled immigration, asylum seekers and refugees house them and pay for them. The list of politicians and so called celebrities is endless but Yvette Cooper Gary Lineker Ed Davey Prince Charles The Archbishop of Canterbury etc etc ad nauseam

  12. I’m loving all the people saying that we should just open the gates & let people flood in. With that rationale why do you lock your doors at night then.?
    Surely the world is all fluffy bunnies & rainbows so no need to worry then..🤷‍♂️
    I’m all for controlling numbers & understanding who these people are before they land on our shores.
    Is that not the way to live as safe as possible..?🤷‍♂️

  13. A small town of 20-40 year old blokes. Good job our infrastructure is shit hot and we have loads of spare houses. At least we can make use of the wide range of education and skills they are bringing over

  14. There’s going to be a backlog of legal cases for right to family moving here in the next decade too, especially with the lack of identification that most carry now. All we can do is help the poor buggers the best we can, which would preferebly be stability where many come from, so they can return. The illegal markets, trafficers and exploitation are a big problems.

    One of the big reasons it gets on peoples tits, is all of the coutries passed to come here. Especially neighbouring ones, and the finance which many English do not have, to cover their trip.

    I recently met one of these new arrivals, threatening to stab me up in a park, after going to the aid of a school group he was threatening (I helped on the park with and was with an attendant), needless to say I was less than impressed especially the tirade about hating the country and that he wanted to kill a lot of us. Charming I thought to myself as he was carted off by the fuzz. This sort of thing scews my judgemet, or another time, or that time I was beaten up. I could go on.

    There are people that need genuine help, and whilst we cannot help them all, we can try. But there needs to be some measure of cooperation through neighbouring countries first. A neighbours charter, that should conflict exist as it does in dark times that the first port of call should be your neighbours, supported and not the other side of the planet to an Island of sometimes miserable buggers where it rains all the bloody time and they put Mrs Browns Boys on the telly at Christmas.

    As for the ones that just come for money from the otherside of the world. They can jog on without a foothold, life aint always about that.

  15. Nothing to see here! Stop looking at these numbers! There’s no problem with illegal immigration at all! Nothing to see here!

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