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Tell us something we don't know: Starmer admits 'we have no effective deterrent in the Channel' as French police agree to intercept boats in the water - but only if they're empty
The Daily Mail ^ | 28 Nov 2025 | NEIL SEARS

Posted on 11/28/2025 9:59:09 AM PST by MinorityRepublican

FRANCE is belatedly to make limited attempts to stop migrant dinghies at sea – after Keir Starmer privately admitted there was ‘no effective deterrent’.

The astonishing admission has emerged in a leak to a French newspaper, showing the British Prime Minister has begged for action to halt the rising numbers of small boats crossing the Channel.

More than 60,000 migrants have arrived in Britain via dinghy since Labour’s election last year.

One of Sir Keir’s first acts was to abandon the Conservative deterrent plan of flying all small boat arrivals to Rwanda.

His own policy of deporting a small proportion of such illegals back across the Channel has seen only 153 go back - with, farcically, at least two of THEM immediately returning to England. And 134 ‘legitimate’ migrants have been flown here in return.

Crucially, since the small-boat crossings began in 2018, France has refused to intervene against dinghies or migrants in water as little as ankle deep, through fear of drownings.

Only now is action to begin, following Sir Keir’s desperate plea – but safety remains paramount.

Papers leaked to France’s Le Monde newspaper suggest dinghies will only be stopped while relatively empty, and the rubber boats will not be slashed. Neither will they be snagged in nets.

Downing Street added that any action would only take place in the shallows.

And the Daily Mail’s observation of people smugglers’ so-called ‘taxi boats’ shows that there are only moments when fewer than a dozen migrants are aboard.

In the hotspot harbour town of Gravelines, between Calais and Dunkirk, the small boats are typically launched on a canal to the sea, a mile inland, before dawn.

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1 posted on 11/28/2025 9:59:09 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

…well then, empty the boats!


2 posted on 11/28/2025 10:01:43 AM PST by OldCountryBoy (You can't make this stuff up!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Useless politicians and dirty bureaucrats


3 posted on 11/28/2025 10:04:17 AM PST by The Louiswu (USA FIRST...USA FOREVER)
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To: MinorityRepublican

In other news…
Mexico agrees to intercept and stop all drug traffickers from entering the United States. But, only if they are not carrying drugs.


4 posted on 11/28/2025 10:04:40 AM PST by sjmjax
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To: MinorityRepublican

‘no effective deterrent’

Does the UK have no navy? Or are they too busy keeping it around Russian waters because they want to start a war there?


5 posted on 11/28/2025 10:05:58 AM PST by mitchjackson1972
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To: MinorityRepublican

I guess he likes to be buggered by these third-world, 7th century barbarians. Must be the case, and doesn’t mind the women and children of Britain being raped by same. What a miserable excuse for a so-called man in not so great Britain in the 21st century. Pathetic. Tragic, really.


6 posted on 11/28/2025 10:06:33 AM PST by john drake (Lucius Accius-Roman,170 BC - "oderint dum metuant" translated "Let them hate so long as they fear")
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To: MinorityRepublican

OK, then when the criminals land in the UK, sink the empty boats. Prevent their re-use.

Starmer supports the invasion ‘cause he made his legacy on pro-bono defense of pedos in Brit. The invaders include pedo gangs — and he is probably enjoying the sharing possibilities.


7 posted on 11/28/2025 10:10:07 AM PST by bobbo666
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To: MinorityRepublican

A torpedo isn’t an effective deterrent? Sink the boats.


8 posted on 11/28/2025 10:12:35 AM PST by nonliberal (Russia is not my enemy.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

All the Nazis had to do was come over in small boats disguised as migrants. Who knew?


9 posted on 11/28/2025 10:18:14 AM PST by rbg81 (=)
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To: MinorityRepublican

If Starmer was told he’d be chained up in the bilge of one of those boats until he came up with a solution, he’d have a solution in 10 minutes.


10 posted on 11/28/2025 10:18:18 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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Arrest the captains and sink the boats.

The problem would be solved within the hour.

Then spread word that any invader who gets caught will be sent to the most remote islands in the Empire.

11 posted on 11/28/2025 10:20:21 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: MinorityRepublican

Starmer is a deep-state liar, of the Mayorkas variety.


12 posted on 11/28/2025 10:20:32 AM PST by Fido969
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To: MinorityRepublican

The Kriegsmarine knows how to intercept ships headed to Britain. Maybe ask for their help?


13 posted on 11/28/2025 10:21:24 AM PST by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: The Louiswu

“..Useless politicians and dirty bureaucrats...”

Condoning and supporting the very destruction of one’s own country should result the fatal demise of every single one of these traitorious vile basstids.... There, and here.


14 posted on 11/28/2025 10:21:52 AM PST by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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Hungry Orcas.

These refugee boats should be much easier to bring down than private yachts. All we have to do is lead them to the fishing grounds.

15 posted on 11/28/2025 10:31:20 AM PST by ZOOKER
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Won’t send them back to their origin, then you deserve what you get. Afraid of appearing islamaphobic or heartless? What they’re doing to their own people is worse.


16 posted on 11/28/2025 10:35:35 AM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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what utter lying bullkrap

we all know that the British Empire is history

but to claim that little channel sail boats or other water craft can’t be intercepted .... what utter BS! ANY NATION could do this!

UK still has a navy and an air force....and the channel is of very limited scope....what this political hack is saying is that he WANTS more illegals to flood UK.... as part of his, the communist/nazi leftist/labour party’s RPP (replacement population program)


17 posted on 11/28/2025 10:35:49 AM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: mitchjackson1972

Does the UK have no navy?


I believe they do. They also have more admirals than warships.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po9duwvipB0


18 posted on 11/28/2025 10:40:03 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: Fido969

“... of the Mayorkas variety....”

Speaking of that little dick with eyebrows; where’s he hiding these days? Did he self-deport back to Cuba? IF not, why is he not being prosecuted?
Oh...wait. We’d need a real SOB bulldog of an AG for something like that, not a Jeff Sessons in heels...spit.
You can bet your sweet beepy; If the roles were reversed, the communists would have prosecuted him the very first day.


19 posted on 11/28/2025 10:42:04 AM PST by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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To: MinorityRepublican

If only hitler knew all he had to do was dress up his soldiers like muslims and ferry across the channel in small boats.


20 posted on 11/28/2025 10:46:17 AM PST by kvanbrunt2
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