Watch: Boris Defends the Boriswave
At the Reform press conference on Monday, Nigel Farage announced a radical new immigration policy primarily, he said, to counteract the problems created by the massive ‘Boriswave’ of immigration that resulted from the open-door approach of Boris Johnson’s Conservative government. Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has been clear that this massive influx of 3.8 million people was a mistake by her party not to be repeated – and even had to slap down Shadow Minister Priti Patel, the home secretary at the time, when she tried to defend it.
However, the man himself has now decided to stage a defence of what most people would agree was a serious error. Asked by the Sun’s Harry Cole, “What do you say to the Boriswave?” Boris said:
BJ: Look at the fall in legal migration that took place in my first year of government – and it went to the lowest level for 40 years – and that was because of Covid. We then had – those figures are wrong, by the way, your graph is rubbish…
HC: This is non-EU migration.
BJ: Okay so who are you going to kick out? The Ukrainians? You want to kick out Ukrainians?
HC: No.
BJ: You want to kick out the Hong Kong Chinese? You want to kick out the nurses? Who do you want to kick out? This is entirely a function of Covid. And what we did was take back legal control. The problems we face now are illegal migration, people coming across the the channel illegally. And you need the Rwanda solution. And the other problem we have on the legal… We have a problem of emigration. We’ve got people fleeing this country at the moment because of the taxes that Starmer is putting in, because of the mess that these guys are making of the UK economy.
Johnson went on to insist that he was “very proud” of his time in government, adding that the Brexit vote delivered “full legal control”. I think by ‘control’ Brexit voters by and large meant ‘cut’, not ‘turn it up to max’. (Transcript courtesy of the Spectator.)
Not exactly on message, Boris. How is Kemi supposed to convince voters the Tories have changed when ex-ministers and prime ministers keep popping up to defend their policy disasters?
Watch here.
Stop Press: Boris also said that it’s time for Britain to leave the European Convention on Human Rights in order to deal with illegal immigration. Shame he didn’t come to that conclusion when he was, er, the Prime Minister.
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The man is a spineless cretin. The reference to kicking out nurses is typical of this lowlife. I suspect nurses and other qualified people are a tiny percentage of the Boriswave. Most will be low or no earners all of whom will be on benefits.
So Harry Cole didn’t ask what proportion of the Boriswave are nurses or Ukrainians or Hong Kongers? Easy ride.
It shouldn’t be a matter of kicking out people who have been let in. The problem occurred when his government set the rules on who was to be admitted.
I could believe that civil servants applied those rules too generously but all that means is that the government did not properly monitor their policy.
Except of course none of it was due to “Covid”
It was all due to his governments awful policies related to “Covid”, but we can’t expect him to accept responsibility for the terrible BoJo government response to a bad case of flu can we?
He will always deflect, its just his nature.
It would of course be all those who have no right being here, and those that don’t know how to behave when a country shows them benevolence and charity!
Johnson has committed treason, he is responsible for thousands of deaths both home and abroad and if he had any sense he would STFU.
A horrible, despicable failure as a man and a politician, a cancerous sore still infecting taxpayers and sucking the lifeblood from England. Spineless, malevolent and dangerously useless. A name only to be mentioned with an F U attached.
I would have given you a million ticks for this description of the t***.
Warmongering bastard who should have the deaths hundreds of thousands of Russian and Ukrainians on his conscience.
Only problem being he’s not got one.
Thank you kindly.
And yet the braindead Dorries thinks Farage should consider teaming up with this lying oaf and many others thin getting rid of him was a mistake. The mistake was the party members voting him in as leader.
The point is not “kicking them out” you
twat, the point is not letting them in to begin with.
Yes.
“BJ: Okay so who are you going to kick out? The Ukrainians? You want to kick out Ukrainians?
HC: No.
BJ: You want to kick out the Hong Kong Chinese? You want to kick out the nurses? Who do you want to kick out?”
YES!
The Ukies should be back home helping the war effort, and not avoiding conscription; “nurses” should be providing their skills in the poor Countries that paid for their education and training but get none of the benefit, instead of the UK getting all the benefit at no cost – immoral. Then more training places for British people and thus more British nurses.
Hong Kong Chinese – they are not an issue, never have been. Mostly rich.
What we do need to kick out is Boris and the whole parasitical, political class that has ruined this Country.
If we only deported Bozo he could consider himself to have got off lightly.
How strange that the Fat Oaf didn’t ask if we wanted to kick out the non-working, welfare-claiming, often criminal imports from Nigeria, Eritrea, the sub-continent and various other countries across the middle east and Africa.
Perhaps he was concerned that the resounding answer would be YES.
Feckless, inbred, spineless grifter.
Boris and any other politician ducking and diving the real issue deliberately fail to acknowledge that most of illegals are coming here from Central Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan, in addition these groups have the lowest level of economic activity beyond claiming benefits. That’s what the public wants to stop.
Whilst successive governments put their heads in the sand, refusing to admit reality, it’ll never get fixed. Labour being the worst blocking appropriate legislation for decades to import voters.
The Fat Oaf is slowly waking up to the fact that, unlike Cincinnatus, he will never be recalled to lead the Not-a-Conservative-Party …. and Nigel is going to win.
Over 3 million non-contributing 3rd world immigrants in just 3 years ….. and he claims it was a good idea and a benefit to this country. The man’s a moron.