1200 More Illegal Immigrants In 8 Days

Another bad week for the Government on illegal immigration. Complacent with the fact that illegal immigration is down from last year, many factors could cause this. The gangs can lack equipment, or basically the weather is not good enough.

From the 27^th of September to the 4^th of October, the 8 days showed 1260 small boat arrivals. Looking at stats for the year Thu 1^st Jan 26 to Thu 1^st Oct 26, 19,196 illegal immigrants arrived, down 44% from last year but still way too many.

The incentives are too high to come to the UK. Anything we do in life has to have an incentive, and we seem to have what these people need.

But 19,000 people arriving this year will influence the UK economy and, lest we forget, morale among British people. All these immigrants must be paid for, and as an example, housing, transport, clothing and personal allowances.

The other problem we see now is protests concerning illegal immigration. Towns are being singled out as landing spots and are being met by protesters. Dover seems a far cry from new landings in Hampshire; they are using more dangerous routes.

Another important point is that illegal immigrants should stay in the first safe country they reach. But they travel from Italy, which is safe, through Europe to France, where they cross to the UK.

The problem with the let-them-in lefties is that they don’t seem to have any concept of size. It could be land size or money. Our little island can only take so much immigration. We are currently struggling to increase defence spending, so how can we keep paying for immigration?  

It’s time the country settled down from the Burnham bounce and got on to securing our borders because 19,000 illegal entries are not secure. Instead of looking at past years’ small boat crossings, look at them here and now.