Home Secretary says nearly all women who attempt to each UK in small boats are raped on their journey

Women (and children and men) have been trafficked for centuries. It isn’t anything new and it isn’t anything one woman working for one administration can fix.

If the UK can negotiate something with the EU over the new AMMR to establish legal routes to the UK, that wouldn’t stop trafficked women being raped before they arrive in Europe.

The thing the UK can do is be compassionate to the women who do make it to these shores (4,300 last year to June 2026) and help them to have a better life rather than being terrified by bunches of flag-waving, balaclava thugs.

Looking for workable political solutions that can avoid the deaths at sea and rapes of women is better than simply banging a drum.
Safe legal routes and cooperation with our European neighbours will be better.

I pray it all stops.

There is hardly any average Joe left, who doesnt want it stopped now.

Apart from whoever really runs Countries.
Monied people and Countries, who give money to those Countries who are in debt.

Tworedroses

Casdon

Maybe others are just sick and tired of the very regular have a go at boat migrants threads thinly cloaked in concern. I certainly am.

Don’t read it then. Scroll past.

People who are genuinely horrified would be saying in their post that women should be fast tracked to seek asylum, to get them out of the situation they find themselves in. I won’t let threads like this go, or scroll on, why would I, when I disagree with posters.

Some of us are horrified that women are being raped.

What on earth do you mean some of us?

What are you expecting? That the Home Secretary can stop worldwide trafficking and rape?

Trafficked women (and men) are raped irrespective of where they are trafficked to.

Epstein files anyone and why Trump is refusing to release them all?

Smileless2012

It is horrifying Primrose those poor women and what does it say about the men travelling with them .

It is horrifying. Can’t say on here what I think about those men.

Casdon

Maybe others are just sick and tired of the very regular have a go at boat migrants threads thinly cloaked in concern. I certainly am.

Don’t read it then. Scroll past.

Until the traffickers are caught and dealt with harshly sending out a message to any others doing the same thing, this will continue, the traffickers are gangsters who have no moral compass so am not surprised at all that heinous and depraved crimes are occurring. I imagine male and female migrants will have been brutalised and robbed of everything they possess before getting on an overcrowded dinghy.
Medicine without borders is operating in the UK treating migrants with PTSD and other mental health difficulties as well as physical wounds sustained from being gun whipped and raped.
Legal routes must be opened with the help of our European neighbours to prevent the gangsters operating.

It is horrifying Primrose those poor women and what does it say about the men travelling with them .

Maybe others are just sick and tired of the very regular have a go at boat migrants threads thinly cloaked in concern. I certainly am.

Whatever one’s opinions of those arriving by these inflatable death traps, being concerned about women being raped along with the danger of any on these boats drowning should in my opinion be of concern to all.

Casdon

It’s the monthly small boat migrants thread. Wind them up and watch them go.

Some of us are horrified that women are being raped. Maybe others are not. 🤔

It’s the monthly small boat migrants thread. Wind them up and watch them go.

As the traffickers are now using longer routes, I am afraid that we will see many more asylum seekers drowning in the channel.

These traffickers are the devil incarnate.