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Sir Keir Starmer promises small boat migrants will be 'detained and sent back'
Sky News ^ | Saturday 30 August 2025

Posted on 08/30/2025 11:51:35 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Sir Keir Starmer has promised that migrants arriving in the UK on small boats will be "detained and sent back" as the number crossing the English Channel remains at a record high.

The prime minister is facing mounting pressure to show results on tackling Channel crossings and ending the use of asylum hotels, with small-scale protests outside the hotels continuing.

Sir Keir said on X: "I am clear: we will not reward illegal entry. If you cross the Channel unlawfully, you will be detained and sent back."

The UK and France are trialling a scheme to send migrants arriving on small boats back to France in exchange for an asylum seeker being brought to the UK on a legal route.

But the numbers involved in this scheme are likely to represent only a small fraction of those who arrive. So far in 2025, 29,003 migrants crossed the Channel in small boats, a record number for this point in a year.

Sir Keir's promise comes as the government won a Court of Appeal challenge against a temporary injunction, allowing migrants to continue being housed at the Bell Hotel in Epping.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...


TOPICS: United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: dundeestarmer; keirstarmer; twotierkeir
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1 posted on 08/30/2025 11:51:35 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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2 posted on 08/30/2025 11:53:41 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Society has no reward for following the rules any more)
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wow! This really would’ve made a difference 60 years ago


3 posted on 08/30/2025 11:54:35 AM PDT by MarlonRando
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He’s full of crap

its the standard leftist deflection; talk tough for media soundbites and and to give fodder for controlled, statist media. But change nothing on the ground or with government operations.


4 posted on 08/30/2025 11:55:21 AM PDT by PGR88
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Promise them anything…. No need to actually follow up with effective action. That’s one modus operandi of the globalists and neocons.


5 posted on 08/30/2025 11:56:48 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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Yup. Keir Starmer lies. It's election time as well as IMF bailout time, and Reform UK is nipping at 10 Downing.
6 posted on 08/30/2025 11:59:51 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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I am clear: we will not reward illegal entry.

If you cross the Channel unlawfully, you will be detained and sent back. pic.twitter.com/QZID2Y3Eq8— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) August 30, 2025


7 posted on 08/30/2025 12:02:44 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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How about make some serious moves to deporting illegal aliens that have been in Britain for years living off the the taxes of working native Britains.


8 posted on 08/30/2025 12:05:21 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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This is where the migrants say:

“We’re going to need a bigger boat!”


9 posted on 08/30/2025 12:06:46 PM PDT by x
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10 posted on 08/30/2025 12:08:29 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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11 posted on 08/30/2025 12:09:26 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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> Sir Keir Starmer has promised that migrants arriving in the UK on small boats will be "detained and sent back"… <

LOL. That's just a variation of:


12 posted on 08/30/2025 12:10:09 PM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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> So far in 2025, 29,003 migrants crossed the Channel in small boats … <

That number is probably a fantasy. The other day I was watching a video of a British vacation beach. All of a sudden, a boat full of “migrants” appears. The occupants land the boat, then scatter.

Was there a British official on hand ato record these new arrivals? I doubt that very much.

🤔


13 posted on 08/30/2025 12:23:41 PM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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Need a Joe Izuzu meme He's lying
14 posted on 08/30/2025 3:01:20 PM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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Starmer is a communist and one of the lyingest sumbitches I ever saw.


15 posted on 08/30/2025 3:12:15 PM PDT by Quentin Quarantino
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BULLCRAP! From lying ass Starmer.

Turn back the boats instead. Tow the boats back to France and then puncture them. Better yet intercept these asylum fakers boats 5-7 miles out from France. Tow them back and puncture them.


16 posted on 08/30/2025 3:18:56 PM PDT by dennisw (There is no limit to human stupidity)
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I guess he doesn’t have a judge problem.


17 posted on 08/30/2025 3:19:38 PM PDT by Ben Dover (Terrorism is a cancer that can only be cured with massive doses of radiation.)
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On a related note, posted by Elon Musk a few hours ago...

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1961712297681830339

Over 25 million views already.


18 posted on 08/30/2025 3:31:11 PM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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The post Musk replied to, which has over 27 million views now...

Radio Europe
@RadioEuropes

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They drugged and prostituted 30 underage school girls.

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This happened in Leeds UK.

Illegal immigration continues to destroy UK.

4:40 AM · Aug 30, 2025 27.5M Views

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19 posted on 08/30/2025 3:33:18 PM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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Send Starmer to the Tower.
20 posted on 08/30/2025 9:36:38 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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