Migrant Channel Crossings Hit 10,000 in Record Time Under Labour Despite Starmer’s “Smash the Gangs” Pledge
The number of migrants crossing the Channel so far this year has hit 10,000 in record time under Labour, as the total runs 40% higher than last year despite Starmer’s pledge to “smash the gangs”. The Telegraph has more.
The figure – more than 40% higher than last year’s total at this point of the year – was reached after 120 people arrived in the UK on Monday.
It comes after 247 migrants came ashore in five boats on Sunday, according to Home Office estimates.
The passing of the 10,000 mark comes a month earlier than in 2024, when 10,170 people were recorded as having reached the UK on small boats by May 24th – the previous fastest start to a year.
In 2023, the milestone was not reached until June 17th, while in 2022 it was passed on June 7th. That year, a total of 45,755 crossings were recorded – the highest annual number.
The early surge this year has been partly fuelled by better weather and calmer seas, as well as by people smugglers cramming more migrants into each dinghy.
A shortage of boats, attributed to police interceptions of many vessels before they reach the northern French coast, has led to people-smuggling gangs cramming more people into fewer craft in order to maintain their profits.
The average number of people per boat has been 55 since Sir Keir Starmer came to power. The figure is considerably higher than the 48 people per boat during Rishi Sunak’s tenure, and more than double the 26 under Boris Johnson.
The Home Office has suggested this is partly because of its success in disrupting the supply chain of rigid-hulled inflatable boats across Europe, as well as police stopping more launches.
There were multiple cases of migrant boats getting into difficulties in the Channel on Sunday.
According to official accounts, one passenger on a vessel that departed from the French coast near Calais requested assistance from the crew of a patrol boat after suffering a medical episode.
The person was safely rescued, but the rest of those on board refused help and attempted to continue their journey to the UK, until they were later rescued and brought back to France. Some 19 people were dropped off at Calais, where they were dealt with by local officials.
A boat in distress was also located north of Calais, with 29 people helped to safety by French search and rescue teams before being taken to the port of Boulogne-sur-mer.
At least eight people have lost their lives while attempting to cross the Channel so far this year.
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Perhaps if Starmer had undertaken to “Tax the Gangs” we mightbe in a better place. HMRC seem more determined to get their man (and woman) business person than Border Patrol.
On 1 April 2024 the total size of the full-time UK armed forces (trained and untrained) was around 148,230 personnel. Over half of personnel were within the Army (56%), with the remainder being equally split between the Royal Navy/Royal Marines (RN/RM) and the Royal Air Force (RAF).
Now if the UK wanted to boost troop numbers and those who volunteered were offered, say, citizenship in return for service, we could dream up a reason behind the floodgates being endlessly left open.
But those “new citizen recruits” would not be targeting any “Enemy” but the helplessly disarmed Indigenous British People.
They will need to be first trained and justified and trained as auxiliaries to support some foreign adventure, to sucker officialdom and the public into supporting plan. Blue helmet UN peace keepers perhaps. Then, when they have got into the swing of, say, shooting unarmed civilians, the home front will open and in they will swing.
I hadn’t thought of that. You have hit the nail on the head!
It’s a state-organised and state-sponsored invasion. And the boats are a small part of it – thousands of legal invaders enter our country every day.
I am far from happy about the position of the RNLI in all this? Are they being paid by the Government to ship these invaders across the Channel? Like many in the UK, I used to have a lot of time for the RNLI and be proud of their heroic part in our life as a maritime nation but now I have grave misgivings and concerns about this once great charitable institution.
Return all their begging letters in the freepost envelope provided, with a suitable message
Absolutely brilliant idea!
Look at that boat. Not one of those boats has crossed the English Channel on its own.
Not one.
They have all been SOUGHT OUT AND BROUGHT HERE by our own treasonous politicians.
The New Muslim Army, housed in comfort, awaiting the signal to attack.
Surely we can expect some Labour lackey to jump up at this week’s PMQ’s to congratulate Kneel on his record smashing achievement.
They’re hanging round schools, loitering in parks filming kids, getting caught trying to meet with kids for sex in a sting, set up by online paedo hunters…If this isn’t full-on predatory behaviour I don’t know what is;
”WARNING to parents and holiday makers in CLEETHORPES
A gang of FOREIGNERS are walking around CLEETHORPES BEACH following KIDS demanding they give them their phone numbers.”
https://x.com/ActivePatriotUK/status/1917191809094070558
FoI request into the Home Office, asking for the number of gangs “smashed”
It seems obvious to me that the British Establishment has a secret agreement with France/the EU that “we’ll take our fair share” of the criminal migrants Merkel encouraged to flood into Europe.
For the sake of appearances “our” governments pretend they want to stop it …. and Macron pretends he’s trying.
It’s all just theatre …. and the scam is wearing thin, which is why Macron has proposed legitimising it with a one-in-one-out policy.
It needs to be a lot more than one out for each one in, just to reduce the numbers to a manageable level. That’s before you start factoring in the birth rate.