'The Tories and Labour blaming migrant crossings on the weather is all nonsense,' says Nigel Farage

In fact, the numbers that came on Saturday, just shy of 1,200, were the second biggest day ever in all of this.

Normally, you would expect the biggest days to be August, September into October, especially when not just calm weather, but when sea temperatures are higher.

If I was paying a trafficker to cross the Channel, I'd want to come when the sea was warmer and not colder.

But I find it pretty extraordinary, this whole saga, that No 10 say it's because of the number of red days, the number of days when people are able to cross, and that's why the numbers are up.

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And yet, the Conservatives tried the same trick a couple of Christmases back.

James Cleverly said: "this is the first Christmas in years that people have not crossed the Channel."

Leading me to retort: "you may be called Cleverly, but you're clearly a moron. I'm close to Dover now. The wind has been gusting at 50 miles an hour. That is why there are no migrant crossings. You're all charlatans and liars, and all deserve to lose your seats at the election."

Well, it was Christmas time. Perhaps I was refreshed, I don't know, but it was blowing at 50 miles an hour. But there were the Conservatives claiming credit, when the truth was, the bad weather meant they couldn't cross.

Following all of that, the former Labour leader, Neil Kinnock, said that after the drop in crossings last year, Sunak took credit and claimed it had nothing to do with the weather. Now numbers are up, he blames the weather.

Time to replace Tory boats chaos with Labour's cross-border police unit and 1,000 new immigration enforcement officers.

And here we are with Labour doing it again.

So both sides try to pretend that it's all because of the weather.

But the truth is, are Labour credible when they say things like this?

I think it's all nonsense.