Migrants crossing the channel. What could/should be done?

[JohnD]

Whipping up hatred against foreigners and other outsiders has always been popular among a certain class of politicians.

Farage used to have some followers. Conservatives have a long and shameful history in this respect. Conservative Party candidate, Peter Griffiths, won a seat in Smethwick with a notorious racist campaign. Conservative Party candidate John Taylor in Cheltenham failed to win the seat in this Conservative stronghold because the Conservative electors would not vote for him.

Interestingly,

"The Conservative MP for Dover has distanced herself from rhetoric used by fellow Tories in a letter to the home secretary, in which they referred to “invading migrants” amid an increasingly fraught debate over the rise in Channel crossings.

A group of 23 Conservative MPs and two peers on Monday wrote to Priti Patel to demand “stronger enforcement” efforts to combat a “surge in illegal immigration” as the number of arrivals in small boats surpassed the 4,100 mark so far in 2020.

Natalie Elphicke, whose Dover constituency has witnessed a significant proportion of the arrivals, has been pushing for tougher action and improved support from the French government, describing people “who break into our country”.

But appearing on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Tuesday, Elphicke refused to condone the language used by her colleagues

 

[Ryler]

Refugees are the result of right wing governments allowing the sale of arms to dodgy regimes like Saudi.

Refugees in the channel are result of the French not caring since Brexit and smuggling gangs.

 

[Ryler]

Refugees are the result of right wing governments flogging arms around the world

 

[ellal]

Whipping up hatred against foreigners and other outsiders has always been popular among a certain class of politicians.

I wouldn't use the word 'class' in that sentence...

Gutless, prejudiced, narcissistic, sociopathic are just a few alternatives that come to mind...
(but of course we can't use the 'R' word )

 

[Ryler]

Refugees are the result of right wing governments allowing the sale of arms to dodgy regimes like Saudi.

Refugees in the channel are result of the French not caring since Brexit and smuggling gangs.

 

[JohnD]

But appearing on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Tuesday, Elphicke refused to condone the language used by her colleagues

"Asked if she would use the term “invading migrants”, she said: “That’s not my letter I didn’t sign it and I do not use the language you refer to. These are illegal entrants we could and should take action. We are looking to work with France and it’s essential here in Dover we put a stop to these small boat crossings.”

Appearing on the same programme, Lord Ricketts, a former ambassador to France, said the debate underlined the futility of Brexit rhetoric about “taking back control”.

 

[Mottie]

As usual, it’s been turned into a Brexit/Tory hating thread. Anyone care to answer the question posed in the thread title?

 

[EFLImpudence]

Well, the boats are leaving Europe.

 

[Ryler]

Whipping up hatred against

the tories.
Is JD's favourite past time.

 

[Notch7]

As usual, it’s been turned into a Brexit/Tory hating thread. Anyone care to answer the question posed in the thread title?

There weren't any refugees coming here by boat before 2016

Obviously they started due to the outcome of the referendum.

 

[ellal]

As usual, it’s been turned into a Brexit/Tory hating thread. Anyone care to answer the question posed in the thread title?

No, it's reality...

The only way to address the problem is to acknowledge the root causes and cooperate with the relevant countries...

If you haven't noticed, the UK has decided now not to be in a cooperative mode, and has chosen isolation as it's default position...

Something brexiteers and tories have been wanting for a long time...

So it's reap what you sow, and they then blame everyone else for their bad choices!

 

[Notch7]

The only way to address the problem is to acknowledge the root causes and cooperate with the relevant countries..

Yes but right wing politicians are happy to blame brown people in boats.
They prey on people's fear and Ryler is scared of refugees, they are probably better educated.

It keeps their fans like Ryler enraged.

 

[Ryler]

Yes but right wing politicians are happy to blame brown people in boats.
They prey on people's fear and Ryler is scared of refugees, they are probably better educated.

It keeps their fans like Ryler enraged.

same ole hogwash from you...

 

[Ryler]

brown people in boats

The schitt holes a lot of them come from the dogs have to mind their steps to avoid stepping in human faeces.

 

[Mottie]

I think some kind of vigilante action may be needed. Good old UK yobs on jet ski's based just offshore in Calais splashing them and washing them back to France as soon as they attempt to set off. Perhaps get some brown yobs to do it so they can’t play the race card. Yeah, that'd work.