Stop the money, spend it on enough channel patrols to turn them all back. Turnabout as fair play - get them back into French waters and call their coastguard to come and pick them up. Push comes to shove, cancel all visas and right to remains issued to French nationals because they're piling people over here illegally and room has to be made. Stop all flights and refuse them entry into our airspace.
None of that solves the root cause mate. Every intervention the govt make, or Labour hint at, is about removing a blemish, but never preventing it coming back again. Stopping illegal immigration is not the challenge at hand, but sadly our political parties dont want to do the hard yards.
There's no solving the root cause at this point. We spent plenty trying to help these people at source and they're still rocking up on our beaches.
There are always enough thick people who'll literally salivate when the likes of Priti Patel say they'll send in Royal Navy gunboats ... ... so they'll parrot nonsense like 'they're all Albanian pickpockets'. I'd like to see zero illegal immigrants but it doesn't mean I want to see women and children drown to get my own way.
Exactly this. Also up the road the Scot’s are increasing the burden on those with more than needed to improve services and conditions. Two big pluses would be empathy and wealth fairness.
The Scots are hammering those on between 40 and 50k with an effective 54% tax rate, while those making more pay less. Not exactly 'the Rich' you all pull your skeletons out over. And nothing will change, because the SNP couldn't run a bath.
That’s not true. From April 2024 the new advanced tax band is introduced which will see those earning between 75k and 125k now paying 45% instead of 42%.
You didn’t say anything. You typed it. The threshold for the higher tax band is frozen at £43,600. Why are you saying 40k? They’ve had little choice due to Westminster imposition of austerity, if they want to freeze council tax, provide free school meals and reduce child poverty. I’m in that band as it happens and support this idea.
I know it keeps getting repeated mate,but if you are that desperate why would you risk your life and your children’s life when you have passed through and are in a free democratic country before the channel crossings
Maybe the free bank in Britain is such an inviting draw... Maybe France doesn't offer them any benefits?
If they spent less money on independence (and then stealing it) they might not have needed to. It's not going to make anywhere near what they think it will. It might even reduce the tax take from that bracket. Everyone I know and everyone I've seen online is going to salary sacrifice into their pension, new electric cars through the company scheme etc. Then there's the knock on effect of people not taking jobs up here, jobs moving south. It's a dreadful decision that's nobody's fault but the SNPs.
Wouldn't be surprised if the French started the rumours of "free money" in England to them. Get's them out of their hair
Also , the traffickers are apparently painting them a false picture of how brilliant it’s going to be for them
The good news is that after Labour get in and fail, it should make it clear to many that the establishment parties have no capacity to do anything other than run the country into the dirt. At that point we arrive at a junction where anything is possible, including mass repatriation and the stripping of citizenships, with the approval of the UN and the likes.
Don’t what on earth your paranoid mind is leaping towards but to be kind I’m going to pretend you want proportional representation
