If Peppa Pig is now the symbol of global Britain, what have you got to lose Mr Farage?

Well said Sir Edward Leigh Conservative MP for Gainsborough, Lincs. Speaking in the Commons yesterday.

“At the referendum, us Brexiteers told the people that we would take back control. It is clear that, in this aspect, we have lost control. If we tell the most desperate economic migrants in the world, “We will provide a free border taxi service across the channel, we will never deport you and we will put you up in a hotel for as long as you like”, is it any wonder that more and more come? This is now a national emergency. Will the Home Secretary introduce an emergency powers Act to override the Human Rights Act, if necessary, and put people in secure accommodation now? Otherwise, we will not solve the problem”.

Appalling statement

This is wicked. Truly wicked.

Override the Human Right Act? Do you hear yourselves?

How low can people sink?

Just can't even begin ...this thread is just so dreadfully appalling.

Well said Mr Richard Tice, The Reform Party

Mr Tice said that the government is “woefully” failing in its duty to secure the nation’s borders, arguing that migrants should be turned directly back to France, a safe and prosperous nation from which refugees have no justification to flee from.

He argued that the waves of migrant boats would cease within “two or three days” if the government began merely sending them back to France, which he said can be justified under existing international law, a claim which the French have denied.

“There will be some difficult discussions with the EU and with France, but this will stop and it will stop fast,” Mr Tice said.

Oh C’mon ... get real about this. The government has little interest in stopping these rubber dinghies. There are more crossing the Channel because fear has spread amongst would be migrants paying people traffickers to climb into a container.

Is it any wonder they are flocking here in their thousands ……..
www.gov.uk/asylum-support/what-youll-get

Maudi

Well said Mr Richard Tice, The Reform Party

Mr Tice said that the government is “woefully” failing in its duty to secure the nation’s borders, arguing that migrants should be turned directly back to France, a safe and prosperous nation from which refugees have no justification to flee from.

No, somebody arriving from France can't be turned directly back to France without being interviewed, at the very least. Everybody has the right to apply for asylum once they have stepped on British soil.

Tice is wrong and lawyers have called him out again and again.

There are thousands fewer migrants than there used to be. You are being manipulated by people who are either ignorant of the facts or have their own agendas, which I assure you, do not include making your life better.

Urmstongran

Oh C’mon ... get real about this. The government has little interest in stopping these rubber dinghies. There are more crossing the Channel because fear has spread amongst would be migrants paying people traffickers to climb into a container.

Is it any wonder they are flocking here in their thousands ……..
www.gov.uk/asylum-support/what-youll-get

Are you serious? Would you swap your life for that?

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There are a million job vacancies in the U.K. Just saying…..

vegansrock

There are a million job vacancies in the U.K. Just saying…..

Exactly. So many businesses can’t get staff.

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Oh I do dislike some words/expressions…..one being “woke”. Then there’s “playing the race card”

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Actually.....I didn’t quote the deleted post, simply said that it should be possible to post opinions without any personal attacks.
Shrug.

Lucca

vegansrock

There are a million job vacancies in the U.K. Just saying…..

Exactly. So many businesses can’t get staff.

Here's an article from the Guardian that talks about this. I thought it was spot on.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/23/britain-workers-ministers-small-boats-channel

The ever present danger of remainers must always be considered regarding Boris’ tenure.

As the Uk is pushing the EU and threatening Article 16, it should be of no surprise that unnamed MP's, Labour and the media are looking to topple Boris Johnson.

Whilst Boris thretens to take the UK further away from the EU, the remain elite want to cling ever tighter - in the hope that one day the UK will be subsumed again into the EU

The ever present danger of remainers

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Sorry, I've never been part of a fifth column before.

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09:26Urmstongran

Well he didn't do himself any favours with his shambolic Pepper Pig speech ? but I don't think he'll be going anywhere soon, who would take his place? He's gone down in my estimation I'm not happy about social care costs, the watered down HS2 route and his failure to sort out the migrant crisis.

Have to agree with you over the migrant crisis Maudi and the social care ruling. Boris is done. The Brexit warm glow is now in the rear view mirror and the thousands of people coming ashore illegally is front and centre in many peoples minds (except here of course in this little bubble of expert knowledge) and he doesn’t seem able or isn’t interested in sorting it .