To all those that welcome/encourage the small boat migrants.

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No, be specific,

What can he ACTUALLY do other than keep saying "no entry"
No idea, I cannot say what he is going to do or how, but the one thing in his favour is he hasn't had a chance to do anything about it like the rest of the showers we have had in doing nothing.
 
No, be specific,

What can he ACTUALLY do other than keep saying "no entry"

Two main things, I suppose.

Make conditions much tougher for those who get here and see if that has a deterrent effect.

Try the pushback scheme and see whether it is safe and if it works.
 
No idea, I cannot say what he is going to do or how, but the one thing in his favour is he hasn't had a chance to do anything about it like the rest of the showers we have had in doing nothing.
So you are backing him and his plan, but with no idea of what it is ?
 
Two main things, I suppose.

Make conditions much tougher for those who get here and see if that has a deterrent effect.

Try the pushback scheme and see whether it is safe and if it works.
And the obvious questions,

Why has no Government (every colour that we've had) managed to do this, or thought of it ?
 
And the obvious questions,

Why has no Government (every colour that we've had) managed to do this, or thought of it ?

I don't know. Maybe they thought the problem would reduce, whereas it just seems to be getting worse. Having said that, numbers entering Europe did drop by 40% last year, so maybe things will start to improve soon.

The Tories did have a plan to use disused airbases etc. as basic accommodation, but there was a lot of local resistance. But that might have been because the asylum seekers were free to leave during the day. Nobody has yet proposed confining them en masse. Maybe that is the next stage to be proposed.

As regards pushback, it has worked for Italy, but only with the full cooperation of the North African countries. France aren't going to assist us in that way.
 
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Personally I'd be asking what his plans actually are. Making sure they aren't just hot air.

But it's your choice.
The other party's all blow hot air as we have found out, I don't see Farage having exclusive rights to that trait.
 
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