More than a thousand migrants have travelled the Channel in three days, official figures revealed, showering enormous stress on Rishi Sunak’s vow to end the arrival of small boats.
The Home Office said that some 333 people were detected crossing the English Channel in small boats on Sunday.
There were 374 people seen on Saturday and 486 on Friday, meaning 1,193 people have been seen in three days.
The crossings have been aided by favourable weather and calm winds in the Channel, one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes.
The total number of small boat arrivals so far this year remains below the equivalent number at this point last year, but they’re getting closer.
More than 11,600 people had made the crossing by June 18, 2022, while the figure for 2023 so far is 10,472.
Crossings have picked up in recent days after a quiet period earlier in the month, with 2,862 people said to have arrived between June 10 and 18.
Seven boats were seen on Sunday, which suggests an average of about 48 people travelled the Channel per boat.
Total crossings last year were 45,755.
Dover Town councillor Rebecca Sawbridge said there were mixed responses in the Kent port town to the new arrival of migrants by small boats, but that Dover has always been a transient and multicultural town because of the docks.
The former seafarer said some residents have raised concerns about services, housing and poverty in relation to migrants arriving on the shoreline.
But on the increase of people arriving over the last few years, Ms Sawbridge said that she didn’t think more people had noticed it but there’s definitely been more attention and publicity around it.
She added that unless you live next to a hostel that houses migrants, you wouldn’t have that face-to-face contact.
One Dover resident, who wished not to be named, told the PA news agency that she’s sometimes seen boats arriving while walking her dog and reported it to the coastguard who arrive too late.
The woman said that she was fed up with it, particularly on how she felt it was straining public services supporting new arrivals and wanted the Government to do more to tackle the small boat crossings, and she added that it was a really tricky one, and that not all of those coming across the channel were genuine asylum seekers, but that some were, and that they could go through the appropriate channels.
Seems like the United Kingdom is a free for all, well until welfare, education and the health system break down, but saying that, aren’t we already broken as a country?
If our Government actually wanted to stop the migrants from crossing over the channel into the United Kingdom, don’t you think that they would? But it seems that not one political party has any intention of stopping this – not one.
The Conservatives said that they would control our borders, guess what, we were conned! And this is just unbelievable incompetence by our Government on a monumental scale.
Rishi Sunak keeps banging on about his pledges but now he’s become a broken record, and it doesn’t affect billionaires like Rishi Sunak, it affects the honest hardworking of this country, and it appears that Rishi Sunak is a do-nothing man.
And really, what was the point of Brexit? They said that they would secure and control our borders, again we were conned.
Rishi Sunak is completely clueless and he clearly wants to lose the next election, and why is our Government not even trying to be credible, let alone competent?
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