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    Home Secretary Yvette Cooper sets out plan to tackle small boat crossings

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    1. jx45923950 on

      What Labour needs to do is get on quietly and get the number down, both legal and illegal.

      Don’t make the Sunak mistake of putting the issue front and center and relying on a bollocks, performative policy to (fail to) convince people he’s dealing with it.

      If by 2029 immigration has gone down to <=100k, what have Farage or the Tories for that matter got left to run a campaign on?

      Cutting taxes for the rich? Something about trans? They can’t Brexit again.

      In other words, all the weakest ,election-losing, graveyard shift hits of Gbeebies.

    2. west0ne on

      So long as there is demand for people wanting to come to the UK there will be criminals willing to supply their services; assuming the authorities in the countries where the gangs operate from are willing to cooperate it is likely that bringing down one gang will just create an opportunity for the next gang to step up into their place.

    3. fmcae on

      I’m not sure what jurisdiction ‘Border Security Command’ will have considering the gangs operate from abroad.

      We’ll see what happens in France over the next few days but if the Right-Wing parties get in then I’ll certainly be buying a big bag of popcorn while I watch and read about Cooper telling them to stop the boats leaving French territory.

      Feel sorry for her really. She knows she can’t deliver. I give her a year tops.

    4. Upstairs_Carry6947 on

      Figures for net migration (legal) dwarf those of small boat crossings.

    5. Disastrous_Fruit1525 on

      In the meantime she’s praying for stormy weather in the channel. Will her plan work, who knows, will she try to get the tax payer to pay her mortgage again, maybe. Tune in next week….

    7. PsychedelicMagic1840 on

      I saw her on LBC, she was not convincing. Kept going on about stopping the gangs that operate in France and the UK, that do this. Yet, when pressed on how she would do that considering France are not keen on being involved, she just kept on about stopping the gangs and increasing border agent numbers…… And

    8. Johnny-Wilde-Pro on

      You begin by cutting all immigrant funding and doing it on a case by case bases, giving high priority to those that are doing it legally, while sending those that have not back to France and told where to go to be processed, then have them processed as EU citizens, not UK citizens, their identity markers taken incase they try to use fake documents to gain benefits.

      That’s all you have to do. You just need to make the UK not worth the effort of getting in a boat because there is nothing here for them when you do things illegally.

    9. pajamakitten on

      We need to make it easier to claim asylum in these people’s home countries, make it so applications are processed very quickly, and punish those who come across illegally if they have failed to claim asylum in the above manner. People will always see the UK as a utopia to come to for whatever reason, but human rights should not mean we become pushovers either. The fact is that geopolitical instability and climate change will only see more and more people try to enter the UK via boats. We do need to get a handle on them, otherwise we will only see the issue become a crisis as people die trying to flee to what they think is safety.

    10. ICreditReddit on

      There is only one way to lower the amount of small boats etc:

      Lower the amount of English speaking people in the world affected by war/famine/natural disaster/economic ruin etc.

      Two pronged attack –

      One – ban ESL, no more people from this country allowed to go abroad to teach English

      Two – Next time Labour wants to support and join any wars in the Middle East etc, only do so if the country’s most common second language is French.

    11. Most-Cloud-9199 on

      Go after the smugglers rather then the smuggled. Good idea, not like there will be anyone else to replace them 😂
      What nonsense, why not just be honest and say we don’t care

    12. adm010 on

      I’ve asked this a few times, but how exactly? It’s not like all the machinery of govt, policing, national crime, intelligence and coast guard etc etc have been sitting on their hands. I can’t believe they weren’t doing everything possible, including trying to disrupts the gangs all the way from source. I’m glad of a govt change, but this t an area that is going to suddenly change, even in the mid term. A lot of criminals make of lot of money from desperate people.

    13. Silver-Inflation2497 on

      Wouldn’t the UK signing back on the Dublin convention mean those arriving by boat can be sent back? I remember before Brexit, if they found people on lorries at Dover or Calais they’ll just send them back to France.

      Also students should be allowed but there should be no route where being a student means you get permanent residence afterwards.