MIGRATION WATCH UK

The pathetically limp, ‘one in, one out’, Starmer-Macron wheeze got underway this week (5th August). Not only will the scheme not work and not stop the boats but it will have the opposite effect – once its abject failure becomes apparent, for the scheme is utterly unworkable.

How will those to be returned be selected? Will some nationalities be exempted? Will France even have to agree to take them? How will those who want to come here be chosen and who will do the choosing?

We have been given to believe that initially, the aim is to remove 50 per week and gradually increase the number. At such a pace, it will take around 10 years to return the 25,000 or so that has already arrived this year alone. And at the end of it all, we would be left with the same number of migrants as we started with.

Let’s be clear, this plan has about as much chance of working and of stopping the boats as there is of President Trump rolling out the red carpet for Sir Sadiq Khan.

The only plan which will work is one that involves detaining and rapidly processing illegal arrivals and removing them whence they came, returning them to their country of origin or to a safe third country (like Rwanda). This means pulling out of the ECHR and increasing detention capacity.

None of this is about to happen. That’s why the boats will continue coming and the numbers crossing will go on increasing. Meanwhile, legal migration (10 times the number coming illegally) will remain at catastrophic levels, with little in the government’s proposed (weak) white paper likely to bring it down.

Suggested Email to your MP

This week, we suggest you contact your MP to express your personal concern about the ONS reporting excessive levels of net migration into England and Wales. You can write anything you like, but we have provided a template below for your convenience. You can verify your local MP here: https://members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP.

“Dear [NAME OF MP],

I am one of your constituents, living at [YOUR ADDRESS HERE].

Earlier this week, the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, signed a new agreement with France which allows us to send back a small number of Channel migrants each week in exchange for accepting the same number of migrants from France.

This won’t reduce the absolute number of people crossing the Channel at all, and creates additional cost for us, the British taxpayers, as the UK is on the hook for funding the whole scheme.

At the current rate of arrivals, some 50,000 people are expected to cross the Channel in 2025 alone – if we hit the cap of 50 returns/week, it will take about 20 years to send them all back. How is this a practical or affordable solution to the problem?

Please let me know whether you support the Prime Minister’s deal and, if you do, how on earth it represents good value for money for the British taxpayer?

Kind regards,

[YOUR NAME HERE]”

If you receive a response from your MP and are comfortable sharing it, please forward it on to us – we are always interested!

Illegal migration

Small boat crossings continued to rise, with numbers running almost a month ahead of where we were in the worst year to date (2022). Let’s see if Starmer’s deal has any impact over the next week!

X Posts of the Week

Economist Albert Edwards shares a graph showing the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) did not model, and still is not properly modelling, the cost of low-paid migrants to public services.

Emma Schubert has written to the Home Office asking for information on deportation targets and received a response claiming the Home Office doesn’t record that information.

Conservative MP Neil O’Brien has tweeted a video he made with a new mother about the ongoing fertility crisis, caused in part by deeply harmful government economic and social policies which make it increasingly expensive for British-born families to afford children while subsidising immigration

MW in the Media

Our chairman, Alp Mehmet, was quoted in this article by the i paper on taxpayer-funded hotel accommodation for a Singaporean politician who claimed asylum in the UK:

“Alp Mehmet, chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: “The majority of the public would think these hotels are housing people claiming to be fleeing from war-torn countries. If Mr Yeo’s supporters can post a £110,000 surety, they can certainly afford to house him without burdening the British taxpayer.””

Alp was also quoted on the front page of the Sun earlier this week:

”This Starmer/Macron wheeze has zero chance of working. It won’t discourage migrants, while smugglers will be tempted to pile more people into flimsy vessels.”

Alp appeared on GB News with Patrick Christys as well – you can view a clip from his interview here.

And finally, Alp appeared on TalkTV with Mike Graham to discuss small boat crossings.

Our Articles of the Week

Madeline Grant has written a concerning article in the Spectator on how unprecedented migration is causing Britain’s White middle class to become increasingly politically agitated.

Former MP (and current Chair of the think tank Onward) Simon Clarke has produced a report on migration loopholes, giving hundreds of thousands of people from overseas access to the UK and our generous benefits system.

William Yarwood, a researcher at the Taxpayers Alliance, has written an article for GB News on misleading statistics on foreign-born crime rates published by the government

SOURCE: Migration Watch UK newsletter

Starmer’s “Deterrent” Fails as 400 Cross Channel in First Two Days of Migrant Returns Deal with France

WILL JONES

More than 400 small boat migrants have arrived in the first two days of Labour’s returns deal with France, making a mockery of claims it would be a “new deterrent”. The Mail has the story.

The Home Office confirmed 248 migrants were picked up in the Channel yesterday and brought into Dover.

It followed 155 arrivals on Wednesday – the first operational day of the new Anglo-French treaty.

The Government has refused to disclose how many migrants are being detained for removal to France.

The scheme is also highly likely to face long-running legal challenges.

Yesterday Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer was accused of “gaslighting the British public” after he made “grossly exaggerated” claims over the new deal.

On social media he said: “If you break the law to enter this country, you will face being sent back.”

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper also appeared to overstate the likely impact of her scheme, claiming “every migrant” will be “throwing away their money if they get into a small boat”.

In reality, the pilot scheme is only expected to return a tiny percentage of migrants.

It will also expire in just 10 months’ time, with any renewal then in doubt as the next French presidential election campaign will, by then, be gathering pace.

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: “The PM is gaslighting the British public.

“His tweet is a gross exaggeration of what this paltry scheme will do.”

The number of migrants to have reached Britain since the start of the year now stands at 25,839, 46% higher than at the same point last year.

Worth reading in full.

Via The Daily Sceptic

Featured image: The Telegraph 

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