Well, despite having a bad day at the office with the election, the PM still has a problem with immigration. Since 1998, 200,000 illegal immigrants have entered the UK. Mainly by dinghies and a few by truck from Calias.
Has the PM got off his backside and tried to solve this? Oh yes, he has been bragging about how he is going to smash the gangs. But how many has he smashed, and transparency would be nice.
The Conservatives had set up camps in Rwanda to take illegal immigrants and process them. But the PM cockily turned it down as soon as he got into power, not even giving it a chance it was closed down.
Illegal immigration has been on the rise since Labour got into power. Not the highest, but last year Labour let in 41,472 small boats.
But we have the Home Secretary paying France to help us out, but at £500,000,000, are we getting our money’s worth? The odd dinghy is slashed, but again, the public is not informed where the money is going.
If you look at Australia, they don’t stand for illegal boats landing in their country. The illegal immigrants are intercepted before they get to Australian waters and are turned back. Some people say it’s against human rights. Is Australia bothered?
As for us, we pick these people up and the channel either by border force or RNLI and escort them to the UK, where they are hard to remove and use the ECHR human rights to stay.
But also allowing these people to come here puts a strain on UK finances and leads to overcrowding of NHS services and accommodation problems. You cannot take 200,000 immigrants without any impact.
Other problems have been sexual attacks by illegal immigrants on UK citizens. Some have attacked school children, and all attacks are unacceptable.
What’s the incentive, they say? They get everything: home, food, money, mobile phones, in fact, more than many UK citizens have. Who would not want this from a third-world country?
But imagine if the Rwandan scheme had gone forward. Who would want to come to the UK then? The boats need to stop now.