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Mega dinghies transport 230 migrants in one go. 80,000 arrived under Labour.

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Primrose53 Tue 11-Aug-26 16:22:45

Have been in supermarket this morning and all the newspapers are headlining these mega dinghy photos packed to capacity with approx 230 people. No longer can we call them small boats. Their capacity is now more than a Boeing 737 jet!

More than 3,000 migrants have arrived in 22 days and 80,000 have now arrived under Labour. That is the population of towns like Shrewsbury, Great Yarmouth or Chatham in Kent.

Burnham pledged to sort this out but we have bigger boats arriving and still throwing millions of £ at France who are doing nothing except laughing in his face. He honestly does need to do something and fast.

LemonJam Thu 13-Aug-26 16:10:41

It's interesting to compare the numbers of annual arrivals under the Tories compared to the number of arrivals under the Labour government last 2 years.

Its interesting to read the comparative figures of those granted and those denied asylum of those that arrived.

Its interesting to compare the time period the Conservatives took to process the asylum seekers' applications once arrived in the UK.

That evidence provides the basis on whether the Tories or the LP in past 2 years has performed better on the issue.

NO party can prevent asylum seekers coming. Reform, Restore, The Greens and Reform UK cannot be tested ior compared n the same way as they have not been in government. They can only offer promises and proposals that have not yet been tested, costed or stress tested etc.

Oreo Thu 13-Aug-26 20:07:16

The Conservatives were just hopeless most of the time on very many issues, even their voters in the past must now think that.