Keir Starmer ‘loses control of border’ as over 1,000 migrants cross Channel in single day
Chris Philp said the news showed “Labour has completely lost control of our borders” adding: “Their pledge to smash gangs in tatters”.
Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of having “lost control” of Britain’s borders after more than 1,000 migrants crossed the Channel in a single day – the highest total so far this year. The latest crossings forced British and French rescue services to deploy 11 vessels and two aircraft to deal with the surge.
A minimum of 18 boats launched from the French coast carrying migrants set off on the perilous voyage, pushing the number of arrivals on Saturday above the previous 2025 record of 825 set which was earlier this month, reported the Telegraph. The sharp rise meant more than 14,600 people have made the crossing so far this year – a rise of more than 30% compared with the same point in 2024, and the highest figure for the first five months of any year since small boat crossings began in 2018. The highest daily total on record is 1,305 people on September 3, 2022, in the last few days of Tory Boris Johnson‘s tenure as Prime Minister.
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: “Over a thousand illegal immigrants in a single day, boats flooding the Channel, Border Force stretched beyond breaking point, and even fishing vessels drafted in because our maritime rescue services are overwhelmed. A nation reduced to chaos on the high seas while Keir Starmer hides behind platitudes and process.
“Labour has completely lost control of our borders. Their pledge to smash gangs in tatters. They scrapped the Rwanda deterrent before it even began and now the boats won’t stop coming. So far, this is already the worst year on record.
‘Labour have failed on every front, and Britain is paying the price. This is a day of shame for Labour.”
Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick, added: “Starmer promised to smash the gangs, but they’re smashing him.”
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Immigration: losing control
RICHARD NORTH
It is highly symbolic that, on a day when over 1,200 illegal immigrants made their way across the Channel in dinghies to these shore, the Telegraph pronounced that Starmer “loses control”.
It was equally symbolic that Border Force and RNLI vessels were so busy recovering these dregs from the sea that the Coastguard was forced to call on fishing boats to assist a yacht and a number of kayaks which were in trouble.
The state, charged with the duty of protecting its citizens, chose instead to direct its resources to aid a band of alien criminals, leaving private sector vessels to step in and fill the gaps
In accepting these criminals, with very little chance of their being deported soon, if at all, the state is also committing taxpayers to approximately £60 million in accommodation costs for a full year, and lifetime support costs for unemployed individuals who are allowed to stay, which may reach anything between £900,000 and £1 million (at today’s prices).
And yesterday’s figure is not even a record for illegal crossings by boat, that standing at 1,305 criminals who successfully completed the crossing on 3 September 2022. However, the record for the first four months of a year has already been broken and the indications are that we will see a new annual record for 2025, to add to the 150,243 already recorded up to the end of 2024.
Furthermore, that is by no means the full extent of it. Aggregated figures, taking in other routes and legal visa overstayers, give a total in the order of 548,000 between 2018 and 2024, including the estimated dependents as well as the main applicants. And that doesn’t account for the undetected illegals over the period, which could range from another 600,000 to 1.2 million.
Any which way you put it, that means that there are well over a million people in the UK who sought illegal means of securing residence here, and who by any sensible reckoning, have no right to be here, should not be here and should either be returned to the countries of origin, or detained indefinitely or until they can find a new home outside this country.
By contrast, the latest available figures as of December 2024 indicate that there are at least 354,000 people homeless in England (as reported by Shelter), which included 3,900 people sleeping rough on any given night, 326,000 in temporary accommodation (including 161,500 children), and 16,600 in hostels or other supported accommodation.
Although there is undoubtedly some double counting here, as some migrants who have been given leave to remain are now homeless, it is indisputably the case that, with only a fraction of the resource devoted to illegals, the homelessness problem (some call it a crisis) could be solved overnight.
Despite this, we are not yet seeing rioting in the streets (although migrant hotels were the subject of attacks during the so-called Southport Riots), or any other form of direct action, although it must surely only be a matter of time that patience snaps and we see serious disturbances.
The alacrity with which the Merseyside police disclosed the ethnicity of the driver in the Liverpool people-crunching episode does suggest that there is an official awareness that public sentiment is raw and its would only take one more migrant-related outrage to trigger an unstoppable reaction.
Interestingly, the “lessons learned” about the disclosure of ethnicity don’t seem to have carried over to Leicester where, in the early hours of Saturday morning, a car “collided” with several pedestrians in the city centre, sending four of them to hospital, three of them with serious injuries.
The driver, described only as “a 31-year-old man from Leicester”, has since been arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm with intent and causing serious injury by dangerous driving. He remains in custody, where detectives continue to question him, but no further details have been released.
Such omissions don’t go unnoticed and the intent, as they say, “keeps receipts”. Even a relatively small reversion to form like this adds to the growing gulf of mistrust between the police, officialdom in general, and the public. A larger incident where there is no disclosure with invite the conclusion that “no description is a full description”, leaving the police flat-footed once more as emotions erupt into violence.
Sentiment is not at all improved by the unctuous and essentially facile commentary coming out of the Home Office, with the spokesman responding to yesterday’s record figure for the year, with the statement: “We all want to end dangerous small boat crossings, which threaten lives and undermine our border security”.
He goes on to say: “The people-smuggling gangs do not care if the vulnerable people they exploit live or die, as long as they pay, and we will stop at nothing to dismantle their business models and bring them to justice”, adding that this is “why this government has put together a serious plan to take down these networks at every stage”.
There is incidentally in this statement a revealing choice of language where the aliens I – and many others – describe as “illegal immigrants”, are labelled by the Home Office as “vulnerable people” and, rather than being deemed co-conspirators in a criminal enterprise, are regarded as being “exploited”. With that characterisation, it is unsurprising that the government seems reluctant to take robust action against them.
With dwindling confidence in the government’s ability – or even commitment – to “smash the gangs” – much less handle the growing burden of illegal immigrants, people are looking elsewhere for solutions.
In the days of Ben Habib, Reform’s favoured option was to turn back the boats at the median line between France and the UK, but for legal and practical reasons, that was never a viable option.
Undeterred, Muhammad Ziauddin Yusuf promised on 26 April – just before the local government and the Runcorn elections – that, “As prime minister, Nigel Farage will ensure the deportation of all illegal immigrants in this country within 5 years”.
Reform UK’s policy team, we were told, has drafted a comprehensive strategy to deport all illegal immigrants currently in the UK within 5 years. The plan, Mr Muhammad claimed, “is bold but actionable, firm but fair”, with Farage ensuring that “our country operates a zero-tolerance policy for illegal residence”.
The full policy document and detailed plan, we were assured, “will be published next month” – i.e., May. We were led to expect that all measures would be “legally robust under UK law and administratively feasible”. The strategy would employ special legislative provisions to overcome legal barriers but would do so by explicitly changing the law rather than operating outside it.
However, it is now June and we’ve not had sight of this strategy, so officially Reform does not have a policy on illegal immigrants. However, we are advised that key elements of this elusive strategy will include a robust new legal framework.
Firstly, Mr Muhammad tells us, “we will leave (sic) the European Convention on Human Rights and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. Secondly, we have drafted legislation to disapply certain articles of other international treaties which have been used to frustrate attempts to deport those here illegally.
This latter provision, of course, is not an option, if Reform is to operate within the framework of international law. Largely, treaties and other agreements must be taken as a whole. There are no general mechanisms to pick and choose individual elements. Yet the complications of denouncing a wide range of instruments are profound, possibly requiring more than one parliamentary session to complete.
Mr Muhammad, though, thinks Reform can get away with drafting “specific clauses will ensure that no asylum or human rights legal claim can delay removals, and that UK courts cannot halt deportations by reference to international treaties that work against the interests of the British people”.
Methinks that he is being a tad optimistic here, underestimating the determination and inventiveness of the open borders lobby. Not least, by invoking the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights as “customary law”, the lawyers could have a field day.
Similarly, it is rather optimistic to believe, as does Mr Muhammad, that enforcement capacity can be rapidly scaled up, and that enforcement agencies can be “expanded and empowered to conduct nationwide identification and removal operations”. Once the illegals go to ground, they will not be that easy to find.
Before this there are the legal issues to resolve, and they are formidable. With Lord Hermer having started the debate, we desperately need to see it though to its conclusion in order to draft a viable plan.
The fear, though, is that events will force the issue and open the gates to chaos. It is unlikely that public opinion will tolerate many more days like yesterday.
This article (Immigration: losing control) was created and published by Turbulent Times and is republished here under “Fair Use” with attribution to the author Richard North
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The monthly bill for each tax payer for illegal migrants SHOCKING!
When you break down how much it costs per person the numbers are mind boggling
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