Whilst I am content to accept that the major offices of State, such as the Treasury, Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Home Office at present have to be fully focussed on Brexit, there is a major and dangerous problem that the Home Secretary Pritti Patel needs to turn her attention to as soon as possible. That problem is the increasing number of illegal migrant invaders who are crossing the English Channel in small boats in order to reach the United Kingdom and falsely claim asylum here.
The use of this method to illegally gain entry to the UK started off back in 2016 as a trickle of boats but has now turned into a flood of illegals entering the UK but who, because of asylum laws and international laws such as the Statelessness Convention, cannot be easily removed. I said on here in 2016 that these illegal entrants who arrive by boat should be treated like burglars and removed from our national property as soon as possible. I said that when there was only a small number of boats crossing the Channel full of illegals but now the problem has got infinitely worse.
I suggested also that the only way to properly deter these boatloads of illegals was for the Border Force and the Royal Navy to follow a policy of hard interdiction when it comes to these illegal entrants. Refusal to bring these migrants to Britain and instead guiding them back to France where they come from with, as a very last resort, the sinking of these boats if they refuse to obey orders. This policy, although it would have been called ‘harsh’ by the middle class Left, would have deterred these illegals from trying to get to the UK and thereby protected British subjects from the potential problems that these illegals bring. This policy was not put in place by the Government’s of Theresa May nor that of David Cameron and the result has been that the number of these unwanted invaders entering Britain has jumped enormously.
According to a link that I found on the Ambush Predator blog, one small section of the Sussex coast has seen over 1,900 illegals arrive there in 2019 alone. These illegals not only put a massive burden on the local authorities there who are being expected to pay for these illegals and house them but also puts a similar burden on the Royal National Lifeboat Institution who have to undertake many launches to ‘rescue’ these illegals when they call for help part way across the English Channel. Mark my words, I predict that soon we will see a genuine maritime emergency involving a legitimate freight ship or a passenger ship that does not get the right assistance quickly enough because the job of ‘rescuing’ the illegals is taking away and tying up so many of the resources of the RNLI.
The situation has not been helped by the craven actions of the Border Force who instead of returning them to France have been acting as a taxi service bringing these illegals to the UK where they falsely claim asylum and are rarely deported. In October 2019, out of the 1400 illegals who the Home Office claim had been brought to the UK only 6% of them, 85 of the 1400 have been removed from the UK.
The former Home Secretary Sajid Javid promised the British people faithfully that these illegals would be deported as swiftly as possible, but this does not seemed to have happened. The Border Force, or should that be ‘Border Farce’, are not taking these invaders back to France but instead bringing them here where they immediately game the asylum system and get to stay. This does not solve the problem of illegal invaders coming across the Channel, it merely encourages more of these invaders to try their luck in small boats.
But Sajid Javid’s time as Home Secretary is over, we now have a new Home Secretary, Pritti Patel the MP for Witham, who has a long record for talking tough on immigration and especially illegal immigration. It’s time now for Ms Patel to put the tough talking into some form of effective action against the maritime illegals as it is plain to see that the time for talking is over, action is now needed to protect Britain from these illegals. In the first instance, those who are piloting these boats full of potentially dangerous and burdensome illegals, need to be contacted either by VHF marine radio and by loudspeaker when they are spotted in the English Channel and told to turn back. If they refuse or make up some excuse about not having enough fuel to make the trip, then they should be towed back to the nearest French port and discharged. I’d discharge them on a deserted French beach if necessary, they are France’s problem after all as the ‘migrant’ camps in Northern France have been allowed to fester and grow by successive French governments.
If these illegals refuse to obey requests to turn back then they should be seen as hostile, which in reality they are and dealt with accordingly, first with a shot across the bows of the illegal migrant boats and finally as a last resort the sinking of these boats with any survivors brought back to France. What should not be happening is these illegals be rewarded by being allowed to set foot on British soil.
As I said at the start of this article, I understand that Brexit is taking up a lot of ministerial time, this is to be expected and accepted, but the Home Secretary should not ignore the problem of maritime illegals. As a British person I expect and should receive, protection from these potentially dangerous illegals because after all, the first duty of any government is to protect the nation and its people from harm. Allowing these illegals to enter the UK is the very opposite of protecting the nation and protecting Britons.
I and many other Britons want to see these invaders stopped, by military force if necessary. Ms Patel may be concerned about the optics of such a policy of hard interdiction and the howls of protest that it will bring out from the middle class Left, but she should ignore such protests whether they come from inside or outside the Home Office and put the security of Britons to the fore. If she did that then she may go down in history as one of the most effective and admired Home Secretaries of recent decades, because she will have acted to solve a problem that many of us urgently want solved. If she does not take this course of action and cave into the Left dominated Home Office civil servants, then she will be seen as yet another political gobshite who talks the talk about defending Britain from unwanted illegal invader migrants, the like of which has too often been the holder of the office of Home Secretary. Yes Brexit is important, but then so also is protecting Britons from the grifters, ponces, rapists and terrorists who may well be playing the ‘poor little desperate asuylum seeker’ card when picked up by the Border Force.
