Posted on 03/07/2025 7:13:42 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Former British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has admitted that his government was not in a position to actually fulfil his promise to the public of ending the illegal migrant crisis in the English Channel while expressing regret over the “stop the boats” slogan.
In yet another admission from the so-called Conservative Party of misleading the public on promises to cut immigration, former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak admitted this week that his “stop the boats” pledge was “too stark” and that it couldn’t actually be delivered.
Speaking on the BBC Radio 4’s Political Thinking With Nick Robinson podcast, Sunak appeared to have more regrets over his messaging rather than his failures to deliver on promises, saying of his government’s handing of the boat migrant crisis: “The way it was communicated wasn’t quite right. It was too stark, it was too binary and I probably should have put those priorities, which I still believe were the right priorities, in a better context for exactly how challenging it was.”
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Exactly!
Sunak’s comments at the end of the excerpt read almost like a Kamala Harris word salad.
Anyway, Sunak certainly had the power to stop the invasion. But he did nothing. So either he just wanted to kick the can down the road a bit or he was actually in favor of the invasion.
Take yer pick.
This is why the Tories are dead.
His vocabulary is that of an international technocrat, indistinguishable from a scholar at the Brookings Institution.
Blood is thicker than water.
First, his election campaign.
Second, he could have arrested the boat captains and impounded the boats. No boats? No captains? No boat people.
Third, he could have submitted legislation that would have allowed aggressive prevention of boat people.
Liar, Liar, pants on fire.
If he had been Prime Minister in the 1930s, he would have turned Jewish refugees around and sent them straight back to Hitler.
I thought Sunak was going to succeed and be the British PM for a long while. He was not charismatic, but he seemed stable. I’m not obsessed with news from England, but I keep up somewhat with how their government and society function.
At some point, Sunak suddenly began to lose the support of his own party, even though his intentions sounded correct and of great potential benefit to England. His own party refused to support his goals. It was like an extended version of what happened to his predecessor, Liz Truss.
Her own party disavowed itself from her.
> This is why the Tories are dead. <
Right. But even in their current pathetic state the Tories still have the power to form future ruling coalitions with Labour. That would keep Reform out of power.
The big question is would they? Yeah, probably.
So he is saying they cannot stop Illegals and promising to do so was wrong. Utter failure. You didn’t even try.
Liz Truss was back stabbed by her own party from the start. She never had a chance...
They kept Germans from invading. Maybe they should reopen the Spitfire factories.
He is a paid coward. He lied about keeping out invading criminals — from the first day. Never trust anything this commie trash says.
The 'captains' (the people smugglers) never left the shores of France - they simply loaded the cargo, pointed the boats vaguely north, and left their 'passengers' to their own devices. And the 'boats' themselves were single-use cheap inflatables, of which there was a constant supply.
I will have to research this.
In Florida, immigrant smugglers tow their human cargo up to a couple hundred yards from shore, then cut them loose.
The idea that 150,000 immigrants have crossed at least 20 miles of English Channel, packed into cheap inflatables, without expert navigation, is not credible.
There would have been dozens of mass casualty events - and no future paying customers.
By the way, Nigel Farage is the person who demanded that boat captains be arrested and boats impounded.
Regardless of the actual total figure (disputed), I can assure you there's no doubt that the method I described has been the principal modus operandi of the people smugglers since improved security at the Calais truck terminal cut off the previous main vector.
There's no doubt about this - see the almost daily British press reports in good weather over last few years of the latest incident, often of the overloaded inflatables getting into trouble, with many casualties. They're being launched more or less anywhere from many miles of sandy beaches across the coast of northern France. The rapid 'blink and they're gone' methods of the people smugglers are what's made them so hard for the French police to stop, even with the millions of extra funding given to the French authorities for this purpose by the British government.
bttt
Normandy is almost 100 miles from England. Most of the French coast south of Calais is more than 50 miles.
Cheap inflatables, with cheap outboard motors, and a passenger over load? Sorry, that is not credible.
And they are doing this at night? Not credible.
Most, or all, of these folks, are being towed and released.
I’m sorry if it appears incredible, but there we are. You mention research. It won’t take you more than a few minutes in British (and French) media archives to find what I’ve said is true.
Can the tide turn on the Channel migrant boat crossings?
And this report, from just a couple of days ago, has a photo of a typical boat and load:
Migrant dies during English Channel crossing
And this is a non-sensationalised Europol briefing on the methods and equipment back in 2021, when the trend away from truck stowaways to boats was just getting underway:
Migrant Smuggling: the use of small boats to cross the English Channel
And finally, a startling collection of recent photos:
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