There has been a run on loo paper in the coastal towns of France. The supermarket shelves are empty, not a pack of supersoft to be found; even that shiny ‘medicated’ stuff we used to use as children is out of stock. It’s like Covid all over again.
What lies behind this terrible situation is a recent posting on X by our brave and illustrious leader Sir Keir ‘Tough-Talking’ Starmer. He said:
“If you’re one of the smugglers putting people in small boats across the channel – we’re coming after you.”
This had such an immediate and devastating effect on the innards of the people smugglers that they have, literally, been shitting themselves ever since. Perhaps they imagine that a motor launch with a stern-faced Sir Keir at the helm will appear on the horizon and chase them, and their miserable human cargo, up the beaches of Normandy. I must say, that would frighten most people.
It is wonderful that our PM has seen the light regarding illegal immigration over the English Channel. Having extolled the virtues of mass immigration for decades and turning the blindest of eyes to illegal immigrants invading our southeastern shores, it seems he has had a profound change of heart.
He has even begin referring to immigrants as ‘strangers’. What lies behind this Powellite conversion? Only a few months back people were being nicked and jailed for posting comments on X that were critical of immigrants.
It is hard to imagine that Starmer has really had a change of heart. It contradicts everything he and his party of political misfits stand for. They have long favoured mass immigration, and encouraged it, with the aim of undermining British culture and creating a utopian melting pot of cultures and creeds.
The fact that this experiment has been a demonstrable failure has not deterred them. The painful fact that the previous Conservative government did nothing to prevent it, apart from rhetoric, has done nothing but encourage those on the left of politics who have no regard for traditional British values.
So, is Keir Starmer’s ‘Enoch moment’ sincere? Has he been reading ‘Brexity’ material and moved to the right politically? Or could it be the drubbing that Labour – and all the other parties – received in the recent local elections? Does he fear a similar defeat and well-deserved annihilation next time the government goes to the country? I suspect this may be the case.
But the real question is, whoever is at the helm in Downing Street, will Labour’s newfound nationalism stop a single boatful of scroungers fleeing the vicissitudes of living in coastal France? Of course, it won’t. Rishi Sunak asked to be judged, amongst other things, on his record on stopping the boats arriving on our shores. And having been subsequently judged, he got his answer. Most folk in the UK have forgotten the name of our previous Prime Minister.
The problem is not that those in government do not wish to prevent immigration, either sincerely or to win the next election. The problem is that we have neither the will nor the ability to do anything about it. The services which deal with immigration – the Coastguard Service and the UK Border Agency are beyond the control of the government.
They both operate in an autonomous woke bubble of their own making, which leads them to do the inexplicable. For example, while it is considered far too dangerous to tow boats full of migrants back into French waters, it is considered acceptable – and safe – to tow them into ours. Presumably, all that differs is the direction.
When I arrive at the border in China, some Middle Eastern countries and even the USA, I am treated with a degree of suspicion before I hear that assuring ‘thud!’ as the man or woman behind the immigration desk stamps my passport. The blighters who are arriving on our beaches have no bloody passports to stamp, and their reward is such a degree of mollycoddling that many Brits must have given serious thought to hiring boats themselves.
Nothing will change regarding the waves of illegal immigrants arriving on our shores until there is a root and branch reform of our coastal and immigration services. If Labour convinces voters that they are going to do something about it, they may win the election and things will continue to be the same.
If Reform UK win, we may have a chance of changing things. That remains to be seen and it also remains to be seen if Reform can hold it together and stop the infighting long enough to be a credible alternative when the country next goes to the polls. Meantime, I imagine that, far from being confined to the water closet, the organised criminals who engineer the mass illegal transfer of people across the channel will be having a right laugh.
Roger Watson is a retired academic, editor and writer. He is a columnist with Unity News Network and writes regularly for a range of conservative journals including The Salisbury Review and The European Conservative. He has travelled and worked extensively in the Far East and the Middle East. He lives in Kingston upon Hull, UK.
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This modern farce is surely the equivalent of the RAF and RN etc. giving safe passage to Nazi invaders and then escorting them to hotels for the duration where they’d get better rations than the beleaguered natives. They didn’t, but their alternative methods don’t seem to ever be suggested, even by the Tory Wets that masquerade as Reform – one wonders why (but it’s pretty obvious isn’t it).
There is also news (fake perhaps?) of setting up a new Home Guard to protect Airports and Power Stations – since LibLabConGreen are opposed to both types of installation it hardly makes sense and brings into question why the Police and TA can’t anyway do this instead? It would only take a few Captain Mainwarings to go rogue and deploy their decrepit troops to the coast to sort things out….
Well stated Roger Reform are too far to the left for me I support Paul Golding of Britain First who will do something about the situation I personally believe that our Navy should use the small boats for target practice.