It’s time to declare a state of emergency, close our borders and make Britain safe again, says Martin Daubney
This was the week when the Tory government finally and totally lost control – in fact, lost the plot – on illegal immigration. This was the week when the Tory government finally and totally lost control – in fact, lost the plot – on illegal immigration.
Yesterday, Rishi Sunak was acting all tough in an Immigration Control stab-proof vest, bragging about a 50% increase of raids and doubled arrests.
That followed his claim that his Stop The Boats plan had cut crossings by 20%.
Anybody with the ability to say “Alexa, what’s the weather like in Dover?” knew it was high winds, not Tory policy, that was keeping the illegals away.
Rishi Sunak at the immigration raid in HarrowPAPlease write at least 2 paragraphs
But that didn’t stop Rishi. Part King Canute, part Comical Ali, he assured us it was he, and only he, who could stop the tide.
Yet it got worse. Today it emerged the Home Office spent £3.6 billion on asylum support in 2022/23, nearly double the year before.
Astonishingly, Rishi’s made things worse. His pledge to clear a backlog of nearly 100,000 old asylum claims has created a logjam of new claims. Yes, the lunatics have finally taken over the asylum system.
But before you sigh “ah, well, at least things can things get any worse” the answer is: they can - if Labour get into power.
Sir Keir StarmerPALike Rishi, Keir Starmer talks tough on borders. Like Rishi, he’ll be a chocolate teapot. Yvette Cooper, his Shadow Home Secretary, is Gary Lineker in a wig. And most Labour share her RefugeesWelcome stance, too.
In February 2020, 53 bleeding heart MPs, including Labour luminaires Jeremy Corbyn, Dianne Abbot, David Lammy and Nadia Whittome succeeded in grounding a flight loaded with 43 foreign criminals, about to be deported to Jamaica.
Three of those criminals went on to reoffend, including one, Ernesto Elliott, who brutally stabbed a man to death.
Yet Ms Whittome called them “vulnerable people,” adding “Refugees need protection, not deportation.”
Whose side are these people on? Some 9,346 have crossed the Channel illegally this year, including at least 1500 this week - and over 300 today. We have absolutely no idea who any of them are. We now no longer know who walks among us.Of course, they’re not all bad apples.
Some may be genuinely fleeing war zones - but they could have claimed asylum in France. Mind you, have you been to Paris recently..?
But it’s delusional and dangerous for the Linekerites to claim they’re all saints, too.
In April, security sources leaked to the Daily Mail that there are at least 19 terrorists living at full taxpayer’s expense, including ISIS members, who came here in dinghies.
It’s time to cry “enough is enough!” So how can we make Britain safe again?
We could declare a national state of emergency, to stem the tide of illegals arriving here by dinghy. In April, Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni did it. Boats filled with illegals were forced to dock in France.
We could enforce existing UN Convention laws on national security and tow boats back to France. We could hold a referendum on membership of the ECHR, neuter the human rights lawyers and deport all terrorists and foreign criminals. We could arm the police.
But that would take guts. And we don’t have gutsy leaders like Giorgia Meloni. We have spineless Sunak, who shouts at the sea, but cannot stop the tide, and a Parliament, public service, judiciary and mainstream media stuffed with #RefugeesWelcome virtue signallers who are completely out of touch with the public mood.
Today, we say, it’s time to declare a state of emergency. It’s time to close our borders to illegals. It’s time to Make Britain Safe Again.