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Sunak under pressure over ‘appalling’ small boat deaths
The Independent ^ | Aug 13 | Story by Adam Forrest

Posted on 08/13/2023 6:23:30 AM PDT by RandFan

Rishi Sunak is under intense pressure to do more to tackle the small boats crisis following the “appalling and preventable” tragedy which saw the deaths of six people when a vessel sank off the coast of France.

Fresh calls for action come as it emerged that another 509 people crossed the English Channel in 10 small boats on Saturday, despite the perilous crossing, bringing the total for the year so far to 16,679.

Senior Conservatives joined Labour in attacking “dysfunctional” Home Office for failing to tackle the “out of control” asylum system – but some Tory MPs appeared to blame the French for Saturday’s tragic deaths.

Tim Loughton, a senior figure on the home affairs select committee, more needed to be done by both the Home Office and the French authorities.

“Without the French actually intercepting and detaining those boats, then we have a problem stopping that,” he told Times Radio. He suggested if the French intervened “it would stop this whole vile trade absolutely overnight”, adding: “What will it take for the French to agree to do that?”

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: barbarianinvasion; barbarians; invasion
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1 posted on 08/13/2023 6:23:30 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Fewer Africans in Europe isn’t a tragedy, it’s a good start.

Send them back, all of them.


2 posted on 08/13/2023 6:29:06 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator

Western civilization being invaded and destoyed is not newsworthy. The deaths of the invaders, however, is.


3 posted on 08/13/2023 6:32:30 AM PDT by drwoof
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To: RandFan

They should send in the RAF to bomb those boats.


4 posted on 08/13/2023 6:33:53 AM PDT by xxqqzz
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To: drwoof

The Camp of the Saints.


5 posted on 08/13/2023 6:36:51 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: RandFan

Sink the boats, or turn over the kingdom.

There’s no in between.


6 posted on 08/13/2023 6:39:51 AM PDT by Jim Noble (He who saves the nation breaks no law)
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To: RandFan

Sink the boats.


7 posted on 08/13/2023 6:39:51 AM PDT by nonliberal (Z.)
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To: RandFan

Labour *wants* the invasion to continue. That’s literally boatloads of new Labour voters getting lost at sea.


8 posted on 08/13/2023 6:40:33 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: RandFan

Where’s the beef?

Perhaps they could follow Texas’ lead and put razor wired buoys and small mines in the Channel or send the Royal Navy out to turn them around or sink the invading crafts. And if Brussels or the commie UN bitches, send out the Royal Air Force and shut those leftard bureaucrats up for good.


9 posted on 08/13/2023 6:40:41 AM PDT by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Live Free!)
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To: RandFan

It’s worth noting that the current UK government is “conservative”. Labor will probably win the next election, which must be held by January 2025 at the latest.

So if you think illegal immigration is bad now, just wait until Labor takes over.


10 posted on 08/13/2023 6:41:20 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: RandFan
He suggested if the French intervened “it would stop this whole vile trade absolutely overnight”, adding: “What will it take for the French to agree to do that?”

The French are taunting them.

11 posted on 08/13/2023 6:46:52 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Labour *wants* the invasion to continue. That’s literally boatloads of new Labour voters getting lost at sea.

And Tories want the cheap labor.

12 posted on 08/13/2023 6:47:44 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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It’s just like here. The names are different.


13 posted on 08/13/2023 6:51:16 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: RandFan

Have them sink closer to their departure point.


14 posted on 08/13/2023 7:24:53 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉)
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To: RandFan

WOW! A whole article and comments and not one mention of “migrants.” We’re getting netter!


15 posted on 08/13/2023 7:30:14 AM PDT by upchuck (EV owners should ONLY be able to charge their cars with wind and solar, otherwise it's just pretend.)
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To: EEGator
The Camp of the Saints

Lefties will scream and shriek that it's racist. But it isn't racist if it's true, is it?

Enoch Powell was right.

Scott Adams is right.

16 posted on 08/13/2023 8:48:15 AM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: EEGator

Sink the damn boats; alert the sharks.


17 posted on 08/13/2023 8:52:55 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Noumenon

Precisely.


18 posted on 08/13/2023 10:06:31 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: drwoof

You nailed it.


19 posted on 08/13/2023 10:30:55 AM PDT by bgill
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To: RandFan

Torpedo practice is what is needed. Just off the coastline of Africa.


20 posted on 08/13/2023 11:35:07 AM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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