Posted on 12/14/2025 7:54:16 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
More than 700 migrants crossed the Channel on Saturday after a four-week gap in small boat crossings, according to the latest Home Office figures.
The arrival in Dover of 737 migrants on 11 boats marked the end of the longest period without any small boat crossings in seven years.
It brings the total number of people making the Channel crossing so far this year to 40,029, surpassing 2024, when there were 36,816 for the entire year.
The last recorded arrivals before Saturday were on 14 November, marking the longest uninterrupted stretch since 2018.
December is typically a quieter month for crossings due to adverse weather conditions and this is thought to have contributed to the lull.
In recent months, the UK government has ramped up efforts to tackle small boat crossings but the measures are not expected to have an immediate impact.
Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy met ministers from other European nations last week to discuss reforms to the European Convention on Human Rights that would make it easier to deport illegal migrants.
In November, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announced asylum changes that include making refugee status in the UK temporary and subject to review every 30 months.
The changes would also see refugees sent home if their country is deemed safe.
The UK government's "one in, one out" agreement with France began in August and as of 27 November 2025, 153 people had been returned through the scheme.
A Home Office spokesperson said previously the "number of small boat crossings are shameful and the British people deserve better".
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Are the French loading them on the boats at gunpoint?
Are the People of the UK comatose? What do they think is happening?
It seems Britannia doesn’t rule the waves after all.
All those doctors and engineers.
The UK government’s “one in, one out” agreement with France began in August and as of 27 November 2025, 153 people had been returned through the scheme.
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Okay, so that’s 40,029 in and 153 out.
Seems like the ‘out’ part needs some work.
> Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announced asylum changes… <
Given that her parents were born in Pakistan, I wonder how vigorously Ms. Mahmood will enforce those changes.
Today’s UK sure is a wacky place.
700 migrants crossed channel on Saturday
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700 migrants applied for welfare on Monday
Quick addition to my post #7. Out of curiosity, I checked her bio. Home Secretary Mahmood describes herself as a “devout Muslim”.
How willing would a devout Muslim be to actually restrict more Muslim immigration, legal or illegal?
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Quick addition to my post #7. Out of curiosity, I checked her bio. Home Secretary Mahmood describes herself as a “devout Muslim”.
How willing would a devout Muslim be to actually restrict more Muslim immigration, legal or illegal?
Fox, meet henhouse.
As Starmer and Macron both get fat on WEF/NWO payoffs.
I wonder how many have dope in their rectums???
They get a free hotel room, free healthcare and free money every month... But if you can add to that a small fortune in illegal drug sales... Life is going to be much better for them. Wild guess... Each and everyone of them will be antisemitic. So antisemitism just went up by 700.
I wonder how any young girls have to be gang raped before the British people actually do what needs to be done. Maybe it’s already too late.
Destroy
The
Boats
All of them
Burn them.
Ship everyone back.
This has to stop already.
Sink the damned boats and let the UN stamp their feet. It will stop. Just like the narco boats. They will get the idea.
As Starmer and Macron both get fat on WEF/NWO payoffs.
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When citizens in those countries were civilized, they used guillotines and scaffolds to deal with such heads of state.
Burn them.
Ship everyone back.
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Ship everyone back? Get real for God’s sake!
UK government has ramped up efforts
You guys quit it out go home.
That should have been 700 sharks that were no longer hungry.....
And 0 were turned back.
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