Posted on 08/03/2025 4:58:29 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Labour's £100 million funding boost to combat people smuggling gangs will not stop small boat crossings, opposition parties have warned. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage branded record illegal migration levels a “national security crisis”, while the Tories suggested Labour's latest “gimmick” will not make a significant difference.
The Home Office has announced additional funding to support a pilot scheme of a new “one in, one out” returns agreement with France. Writing in the Daily Express, Mr Farage said: “This is not the first time we have seen a Labour or Conservative government throw taxpayer money at the illegal immigration crisis and hope it will go away.
“After all, we have sent over £800 million to France since this all began, for very little in return. Keir Starmer told us he would smash the gangs — first in opposition, and then continued since entering No 10. In reality, all he has smashed are records on illegal immigration instead. In fact, crossings are up 50% on this time last year.
“Another £100 million here or there won’t move the needle. It won’t stop the boats or the gangs.”
Labour is urgently seeking to deter smuggling gangs in a bid to stop small boat crossings after the number of illegal migrants to cross the Channel topped 25,000 last week - marking a record for this point in the year.
The cash will pay for up to 300 more National Crime Agency (NCA) officers and new technology and equipment to step up intelligence-gathering on smuggling gangs.
There will be more overtime for immigration compliance and enforcement teams as well as funding for interventions in transit countries across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...
Why get on them about it? They’re raw Amateurs.
wy69
I met Nigel Farage, a few years ago, in Washington’s Dulles Airport.
It was not a formal meeting, but a cordial one. We were passing in the terminal.
I recognized him and called, Nigel.” He stopped, shook hands and gave me and my wife a few moments of his time to answer a few questions and agree to our support of his platform that is, “ why are we allowing people, that we have not elected, determine our future?”
I had followed his success in, “BREXIT,” and agree with his politics.
I suppose sinking the boats is out of the question.
Of course it is. You’d need a navy to do something like that.
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Stopping them from coming in is number one.
If you don’t do that, then you’re just wasting money on trying to deal with them once they’re already in.
Starmer is an Obummer stooge.
Now Starmer and Macron want to reward Hamas with a new state.
Two Obummer sycophants that want to reward demon savages who turn hostages into skeletons.
PS
As a retired United Airlines Captain, I was aware that the British Airways flight attendants referred to the pilots as, “the Nigels!” The airline crew’s favorite dinner place was a small restaurant in Narita, Japan Called the “Hungary Beggar.”
Great food and 40 oz beer bottles....
We always ignored the fly traps spinning down from the ceiling.
Pinning your company business card on the wall was a tradition and the very old ones were discolered by the cooking oil present.
The patrons were happy to know that no-one was ever ill after dining there!
That is my Nigel story...
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