Has the Government’s small boats plan put people in Calais off crossing the Channel?

Downing Street is claiming the Home Secretary Suella Braverman didn't approve an email sent in her name blaming civil servants for the failure to stop asylum seekers in small boats.
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She did however step up her rhetoric with an extraordinary warning that billions of people were eager to come to Britain if possible.
Foreign affairs correspondent Paraic O'Brien has spent the day in France meeting some of those waiting out the bad weather for their chance to cross, to see how the UK government’s plan to stop the boats is going down.
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[@miikavalo8324]

As an EU citizen I’m wondering why the EU isn’t doing anything about the illegal migrant camps in northern France and the organized crime that goes with it. The EU shouldn’t allow these illegal crossings and they should be deported already while they’re here.

[@chrissilver7719]

You can't make people take up asylum in France. You were part of the Dublin Agreement when you were an EU member where it was possible to return people to France. You voted to leave and the oven ready deal you signed extracted yourself from the treaty. It's as much a French or EU problem as it is in Turkey or Libya if people want to cross the Med to Greece or Italy. You didn't want international cooperation, hence Brexit .

[@TheJbsportstech]

Also why is France allowed to have a porous border and illegal boats leaving its shores?

[@hayleyfay4779]

France illegally evaded snd colonised many countries around the planet as did Britian. They need to accept migrants from their colonies with open arms..

[@maureenbarclay2127]

I thought the EU had said recently they wouldn't anyone anyone without a passport.. It's in the EU interest to resolve this. We need to be assertive as the Danish

[@harrybriscoe4913]

They don’t give a 💩

[@kakhaval]

The Afghan English teacher started contradicting his case straight away. He had dream since childhood to come to UK (to teach them English) rather than escaping danger.

[@wilsonmanch6773]

Lol

[@M.Manique]

Lol why come here and teach English when many in Afghanistan and other poorer countries need an English teacher more than in the UK at the end he stated he has come here for his friends and family this is exactly why we need to stop being so generous these people will never stop. This guy really thinks he can get a job as a teacher the ones who are here know how scarce jobs are in any field now during rising cost of living!

[@empatheticliberalabomina-vu4qp]

Stop trying to be white.

[@wilsonmanch6773]

@@M.Manique It is this kind of stories that media displayed causing even more anger. Yes, you can dream about coming to UK, but there's legal route. It's hard and many processes, but, duh, so is your life in the country that you are trying to escape. Try the legal route, if you are qualify to 'teach english' (UCAS, IELTS system screening) then, I am sure there will be employment and thus sponsorship. Which is where the government need to tackle, seeking a way to open these professional route, more accessible and affordable (paying thousands of pound to apply working visas is hardly affordable) but then again, these illegal migrant willing to pay that money for gangs to bring them over. Just too much contradictions. Over and all, it is just show of disrespect of border laws and wanting a quick get away without fighting for a legal visa. (that says loudly for the character) As I say it's not just UK, every country's border laws should be respect in the first place. Unless you are prosecuted by the armed force in your country. Same with anti migration sentiment, it doesn't stop the illegal migrants nor the fundamental issue. Stop being left or right, government need to stop the g damn issues with a clear, accessible, affordable processes.

[@russellmathews3599]

​@@wilsonmanch6773 so when the English and Irish left these shore to migrate and take over from indigenous people the lands of America Canada Australia South Africa etc etc ....they applied to the indigenous people for visas ?

[@boota1979]

This government has had since June 2016 to sort this mess out and put new laws in place, which it has failed to do so in a spectacular fashion. How utterly embarrassing for the people of our country having to put up with such an inept bunch of scoundrels. Why oh why were they voted in again is quite beyond me.

[@rolandsmith2141]

Of course we should go for the antisemitic party that would have us in lockdown today

[@chrisgraham6148]

The UK government should have implemented this policy in 2016

[@kurtgodel5236]

The British voted for them. By a huge majority.

[@ahgversluis]

You knew what you voted for 😂 The xenophobic inhumane unpalatable island that the UK has become is exactly why we need the ECHR

[@stevebbuk9557]

I think Boris Johnson's natural inclination was to grant access. I applaud Robert Jenrick for his understanding of the issues.

[@user.0704]

Deport all the ones filling the hotels too!

[@AuntyEsther]

The Tories took away their right to work in 2005 - to make them look like "scroungers"? - and if they were allowed to work again they would be able to find their own accommodation like they did before when hotels weren't being used. This is entirely a problem of the Tory Government's making and they aren't going to solve it either.

[@connorboy43]

Amen to that, what about summer when people are wanting hotels in seaside towns and there full of Illigal migrant!

[@justjackman]

To where?

[@michaelbaker5501]

@@justjackman Back to where they came from

[@leslie-annmills-gomez8763]

​@@connorboy43 can't wait for your karma

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

These poor people have the latest smart phone .

[@G4RY1159]

And 2 or 3k for the people smugglers, they all have nice expensive jackets and trainers too

[@lesleycooper7544]

Saw a group of these poor suffering men on YT. ALL cosey Sitting round shoes of. Playing with their I PHONES DRINKING. In HOTEL LOUNGE. ANOTHER LOT IN A BETTING SHOP 🤬🤬🤬 NOT SURE SOMETHING NOT RIGHT SOMEWHERE.

[@Donna-pl9zn]

Wish I could afford that in UK.

[@straightouttacornwall]

If this problem gets sorted I think the money saved should be spent on getting the homeless off the streets. I'm sure most taxpayers would be happy with that. We are not a society if we don't help our own.

[@Gooseplan]

Tories don’t care

[@slinkiegirl2001]

agreed a billion percent

[@joannelewis3390]

That would be nice.

[@andrewbush3744]

I agree I was homeless for a bit

That’ll never happen mate

[@UNIMPORTANTMAN]

I'm sure that quite soon most British people won't care as this once proud nation is spiralling downwards with no way out

[@whiskysam2036]

I Gave up a long time ago Britain is finished 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@palerider955]

I already don't care.

[@G4RY1159]

15 years too late Everyone got sleepy and cosy

[@maureenbarclay2127]

A crowded country won't be successful if you end up a ghettoised country look around the world. France will survive with a larger land mass . I hold out no hope for the UK

[@paulbolton7232]

The British people are being replaced

[@Sebastian-pc1qf]

Once they get sent straight back, it will soon stop them and make them go through the proper channels.

[@barbaravyse660]

I’m afraid that once in your country, they are there to stay.

[@gelbsucht947]

A handful of people may be sent back. Not enough to deter anyone.

[@straightforward7964]

The UK should only let in those with valid documents who have been checked who are legit but those without documents should not be allowed in for security reasons.

[@BritishRosie-es3zr]

General public: "Why is my gas bill so huge that I can't afford to pay it? Why do I have to go on strike to get fair pay? Why can't my friend export to the EU anymore? Why are you risking peace in Northern Ireland?" Government: "Look over there! Asylum seeker! Look!"

[@sarangistudent8614]

Over there, rubber dinghy!

[@chrissilver7719]

Sunak and Braverman are trying to pander to people who would only be happy if Rishi and Suella got sent back as well. It's a rather odd strategy, that they cannot see themselves as how their target audience see them.

[@GRACE-do4we]

Because we got over 300000 illegal immigrants, the government has to sustain and pay all the costs to staff. Britain has to pay the price like all of us.towards £ 6 million per day.

[@jayplay8140]

absolutely spot on.

[@Warentester]

It's literally the "Squirrel" equivalent... ...for fascists.

[@juliechristie3736]

At least they have tents in France no fancy hotels but they still have more than the homless in the uk

[@exposingnewcastleswestend3328]

These clowns in parliament smiling while they argue over serious issues such as peoples life’s and our country, they need run out. It’s all for there careers and they thinks all a game for which party has power. We need too reform this government and parliament. From these untrustworthy, unfaithful and dam right mockery of out so called “politicians”.

[@franciscouderq1100]

Right and In short put all of them MPs in our multitude free dinghies and cast them drifting to sea. With a bit of luck they ll end up in Trump’s land.

[@empatheticliberalabomina-vu4qp]

A full scale nationalist revolution.

[@Rob-on-the-Road]

There is no longer a parliament?! Get rid of party politics and why should there be a fee to run for office? When you get to be Prime Minister you join the Privy council it's all corrupt?!

[@andrewjones-productions]

I cannot understand why all the political parties don't work together on this issue. First and foremost, people risking their lives to cross the Channel in rubber boats for an obscene amount of money that is likely going to organised crime, is a problem that needs to be dealt with. A change in the law introduced by the ruling party of the day isn't going to solve it either and a change of government is not going to make the problem go away either. All the political parties need to sit down together and come up with a comprehensive plan and be willing to work with other countries and get them onboard also. This isn't just a UK issue.

[@sueyourself5413]

It is a British issue. Sorryeah.

[@Morning404]

@@sueyourself5413 it's an international issue

[@boota1979]

@Andrew Jones Productions, Great idea Andrew, I can never understand why all parties didn't come together during the pandemic either. Makes you wonder.

[@chrissilver7719]

Do you see the podium say stop the criminal gangs ? They don't really care how much criminal gangs are making . This mob would probably be ok if everyone came in the back of lorries as the boats are a tad too visible. They have to be seen to be doing stuff to scupper the Reform loons from taking seats in the south coast. It's electioneering.

[@kokloketan1177]

Hence that's is the problem why illegal economic migrants keep on crossing the channel daily in hundreds...

[@FionaJohnson-ly9lb]

Here's an idea - why don't we deduct money from the millions we pay to the French for every boat that gets over here.

[@kellykreqeli8924]

Our council tax is £188 a month and all our council tax has gone up to support these people yet we are all struggling here with high inflation of food electricity and gas we should not have to support these people when we have our own problems here can't get a hospital appointment this country can not cope with so many people coming where are they going to go? People like myself from here are sick of it we are all struggling in the uk as it is

[@charlo90952]

He says it was "his dream" to go to UK. That's not a refugee escaping persecution deserving asylum. That's simply an economic migrant. So why doesn't he apply for legal migration? Or apply to US? He seems to have qualifications as a teacher. The problem is that the economies of these countries have developed sufficiently that these people can earn enough to finance their journeys to UK. It would behove us to assist these countries to further develop their economies by infrastructure development like the Chinese are already doing in order to incentivise them to remain at home.

[@Stephen0988]

Cost of living, inequality, poverty, homelessness, lack of social housing. All the fault of the Tories.

[@charlietreston4035]

My dream was to live in USA but I never even thought about going there illegally

[@jeanlind7540]

My dream is not to live there!

[@MAGA_Randy_Marsh]

Because you have a brain! Come in legally! We welcome you!

[@stephenturner7949]

Good job , you would not get in , they are not soft like britain

[@pauld.b7129]

As long as Biden is president, you can just buy a plane ticket to Mexico, and claim "asylum" no matter what country you're from. Thousand of people from India and Ukraine are already doing it

[@ApproachingPerfection]

@@stephenturner7949 as an american i can say we have great immigration rules but a disgusting lack border enforcement which makes those laws useless. If im not mistaken 1 million migrants came to the UK last year right? well the US govt has already deported 2.2 million illegal immigrants in 2023 already

[@lorrainemoore7397]

Don’t they understand we don’t want them either

[@michaelkavanagh5947]

It’s insane we can’t give every “young man” a life with us. Impossible.

[@mickeypye2593]

@@paulsayers580 😆😆😆😆😆😆

[@bassekaman8315]

What about the women

[@WOLFanddBEAR]

@@bassekaman8315 women don’t come, or the children. These men leave them behind.

[@SonsofThunder1234]

​@@WOLFanddBEAR They'll arrive, once the men are settled. Including the extended family. Part of the plan. That's why I'm far from convinced these illegal immigrants are genuine Asylum Seekers.

[@kurtgodel5236]

You can't even provide refuge for your Afghani allies. Because you have no intention to do so. Betraying and deserting them is so much easier for you Johnson clones.

[@kevinjackson9740]

We want to out of the EU that’s what we voted for not have one foot in and one out.

[@ThePixey1000]

So this lad had a dream of coming to the UK one day. I always wanted to live in the states but I would not be allowed to enter it illegally this just says everything about these asylum seekers they are fulfilling their dreams on our Tax payers money.

[@sueyourself5413]

So let's forcibly return all Brits abroad, 'nuff said?

[@pavolkocis7456]

Exactly I'll not sacrifice my dreams to fulfilling someone else's dreams.

[@Morning404]

How rich, after brits went to most nations on earth and stole their resources you turn around and say 'we're full' 💅🏿🤡

[@dukemaximus1639]

If you have given him an option to come and do a job of quality he would have been paying taxes and your pension. But UK didn’t allow enough legal routes and people, would need illegal routes naturally. Not to mention UK and US broke his country and couldn’t fix for many years. Then run with their tail between their legs.

[@novacaine_]

But if you were seeking asylum your claim would be processed and then if deemed not an asylum seeker you would be returned home... what dream are they fulfilling exactly when they can't work, they get a pittance for upkeep while people are telling them to go back to their country?

[@anneheard9381]

So irritating when they say their big wish to go to UK. I thought your wishes were to be safe.... No but you want the UK 😡

[@lesleycooper7544]

Freebees UK

[@M.Manique]

Not everyone is trafficked against their will.! The UK is not what it useto be we just don’t have that capacity or funding to support and accept massive amount of asylum seekers and refugees. The UK economy is going downhill and i dont think it is against international law for a country to protect its economy from illegal immigration a country has every right to do what is necessary to ensure that its citizens and country is protected from illegal invaders falsely claiming asylum. British people should come first at least these illegal immigrants residing in expensive hotel and i am British born living in a old hostel with my 3 children homeless n jobless for 1 and half years!

[@hallamrafat2193]

We have foreigners as politicians claiming they are shutting UK borders from immigrants even though those politicians have parents which immigrated to the UK.. but immigrants have also been booked into hotels for quite a while under conservative rule..

[@michaelbaker5501]

The difference is those politicians are British citizens and were born in the UK. The UK is shutting borders for illegal immigrants which all western countries should do

[@hallamrafat2193]

@@michaelbaker5501 listen mate, I'm a British citizen but I'm also half Iranian, you don't hear me claiming to be shutting your borders while booking them all in hotels, while also silencing anyone who stands against my little immigrant war.. those conservatives are scum.

[@michaelbaker5501]

@@hallamrafat2193 I never said they were good, but I think their policy is a step in the right direction

[@sararichardson737]

Be careful of what you wish for!

[@KJ-js7pi]

Wow that's a really nice hotel room, I hope he is able to live happily here :)

[@belkentens]

Don’t forget mat hancocks text messages

[@MacrobianNomad]

The Immigration Minister said, along the lines, "Ukrainian lives matter more than Iranian ones." The hierarchy of human lives!

[@rikabok6883]

Oekraïners zijn geen moslims, maar gelukkig Christelijk.

[@roadtohope]

Absolutely spot on it’s clear Racism

[@MacrobianNomad]

@@roadtohope they purposefully do this so we are distracted by focusing our attention on the Ukrainians fleeing a war instead of being angry at their racist policies setting people against one another.

[@wodens-hitman1552]

​@@roadtohopeAnd?you've over used your little race card .

[@martinmcguire9974]

They all matter more than the English matter to them. All I hear is helping Ukraine, migrants, turkey, Gambia, Syria and on and on and not once have I heard any of them mention the tens of thousands of English homeless getting urinated on by drunks in town centre doorways. Do they matter? They don't even get a mention in the who matters debate, they don't even matter enough to get on the who matters list.

[@mall231]

Convenient they got someone that could speak fluent English very Convenient indeed

[@lallalucas4145]

Never incentivise behaviour you don't want. These young men are needed at home to build and improve their own countries

[@shahzadamir3751]

Our own politicians like starmer will stand up against this bill and will not let it work like they did against Rawanda policy. If one plane was sent to Rawanda this dangerous boat journeys would've stopped.

[@tofurakhanom2644]

This government has messed up so bad and let its people down and don't believe anything they say and most of em are really ungrateful

[@lv3609]

Global people listening to that UK politician Robert Jenrick and that Afghan refugee earlier on, must realize have to admit France *have more empathy* to Global people, EU *have more empathy* to Global people. Look at the rhetoric, look at the actions. Remember when you see people or politicians like in this piece going to your country.

[@REX4340]

The Afghan teacher is an economic migrant by the ministers definition, so why is he accepted?

[@illusion1361]

Of course it won’t been going on for decades don’t want to say it but Mrs Thatcher would have stopped this

[@uniquevideosUk]

Channel 4 as left as always with their language...cause I've looked on government website & we offer so much help, it's wrong to expect ppl here to be on the streets to bring in millions of ppl who seek asylum, are ppl actually that far from reality to not see that this is unsustainable.. Try have a heart & think of them in poverty here like our children 💔

[@rajomshanati]

Lots of asylum seekers work cash hand jobs get benefit house uk

[@Stephen0988]

Mosely himself was interned in 1940 on the orders of Winston Churchill under regulation 18B, and was not released until 1943, and even then placed under house arrest. Braverman should receive the same treatment.

[@alessandrogiglisongwriter3073]

What a joke 6 million per day, While my last Gas/Ele bill was £400 pounds for one month. Not mentioning the 10 increases on my mortgage. This country is DONE!

[@Jello836]

It’s ridiculous. They have been completely inefficient processing and returning illegal economic migrants and now genuine asylum seekers will pay the price. In my opinion it’s unlawful and disgusting. Get the broken system working properly and protect the people we signed up to protect. We take far fewer asylum seekers than other countries.

[@loco68]

We are a smaller country than the rest. Anyway we the majority of the people don’t want them here. We are sick paying for the worlds problems when we have enough problems of our own.

[@christinefiedor3518]

When you have uncontrolled migration in these numbers, from cultures vastly different to your own it’s asking for trouble many do not understand the ways of the west. A sound infrastructure is essential which sadly the uk does not have at the moment. .it is completely irresponsible for a government not to know who is in your country. Sadly something has to be done to curb this flow of queue jumpers!

[@gwenwalravens8030]

@@loco68 "We are sick paying for the worlds problems when we have enough problems of our own." Why wouldn't you need to pay for problems if you are part of causing them? Why are so many people short-sighted when it comes to world economics and global effects.

[@Jello836]

@@loco68 that’s loco. How about backing up your claims with evidence? BTW immigrants bring far more income to this country than they use,

[@ThePixey1000]

We are an island a far smaller country regarding the volume. It is not illegal they have gone through many countries to get to UK and they should have applied at the first country of safety but the Greed got the better of them and they all wanted to fulfill their greedy dreams

[@jamiecross8359]

450000 giving homes wat about people that were born here lived here all there life don't get a look in no wonder we got a housing crisis we give 2much and not to our own............it's ok for MPs with there ten houses Ur whole system is a joke

[@TruthTortoise81]

Perhaps if you learned to read and write you would find it easier to get a job and somewhere to live.

[@lanceshire2022]

Exactly spot on ✌️♥️🇬🇧

[@jaynekittycat9252]

Charity should begin at home first.

[@chrissilver7719]

Perhaps you should be asking the relative question , why does anyone need to own multiple homes. Perhaps there should be a tax levied on those who hog property. This would or should be placed upon areas with lots of holiday homes that prevent people in the area from having some form of permanent accommodation.

[@japfourme381]

It will only put people off when they can see it working!!

[@ronniew3229]

Jeremy Clarkson has a lot to answer for with his Toybota. 😅

[@lukeseven8155]

What a terrible world humanity has created.

[@ramalama9650]

No. What a terrible world third world people have created. THEN wanting to go to other countries and then spread those ways!

[@empatheticliberalabomina-vu4qp]

The 3rd world has created.

[@OakleyANDSittingBull]

@Luke Seven, It’s *specifically* those who’ve chosen to go *more or completely toward the PREDATORY end of the humanity spectrum* rather than the HUMANE end. In other words, the *personality disordered and hyper-privileged therefore sabotagingly, nihilistically and misanthropically imbalanced;* Dark Triads and Cluster-Bs: narcopaths, sociopaths, psychopaths, machiavellianists, pathological narcissists, borderlines and anti-socials.

[@wodens-hitman1552]

I blame the looney pc brigade

[@WhoBetterThanKanyon]

The host made that personal, I thought news hosts have to be unbiased 🤔

[@leighparr7961]

He's obviously not impartial lol. Multiculturalism destroys community.

[@romanjimenezgil]

Tories create a solution ( that wont work) for a small problem which is not affecting most people. One of the strategies to divert the attention from problems which are very important for the vast majority and are death with to favour elites. And people think about this issue instead of thinking about the important ones. British are really getting caught again in a trap. Poor UK,I used to love it. But after Brexit and now after this love for politicians who do not address the real problems, I am disappointed. Real problems are....the cost of living, the poor quality of medical care, the xenophobia,the Brexit itself with lack of freedom of movement and a reduction in trade, tax heavens, tax evasion,poor quality in education...poor housing...

[@ThePixey1000]

You really dont know the UK at all do you LOL

[@b62boom1]

​@@ThePixey1000 He literally described Britain as it is today.

[@mechtechmechanical1571]

If the illegal can't land here in small boats are the life guards from the UK going to pick them up in mid sea and let the empty boats float to shore. what are they going to do with the illegals that are already here, stop sweeping them under the carpet or shall I say hiding them up and down the country sending them out at midnight to unready towns then the people of that town find out in the morning when they wake up to find that a bus load of illegals have moved in next door to them. People are looking out for them up and down the country and telling each town and place about them people will know that they are there. We can't keep doing that so what are they going to do with them they must be removed from this country. I have heard of a small island that is empty near the south coast of Africa I think it is called Tristan De Cuna it did belong to England at one time and I think it still does send them there.

[@mechtechmechanical1571]

Lets cut the cr*p this government don't want to stop the illegals coming here, the people that own the hotels do not want to stop the illegals coming here they are getting money out of it all and we don't know who they are but they know how to take the tax paying publics money, it is all set up to squeeze the last pennies out of the working public even though we don't want to give them a penny.

[@akpanekpo6025]

The real problem is that like Patel before her, she demonstrably has no interest in addressing the problem. For just as her fellow Brexit Ultras wouldn't have purpose without "Brussels"., she would have no raison detre without a dysfunctional immigration system. She could, for example, spend a minute at her desk addressing the backlog, except that her "government" has cut staff numbers to the bone and won't pay the remaining ones a living wage. She could set up centres to process applications abroad, but won't, because that would deny her the excuse to stoke the ugliest sentiments on the far right, with words such as "invasion" - apparently unaware that even military invaders are entitled to humane treatment under the Geneva Conventions. (Or perhaps I'm expecting too much from a 10th-rate lawyer who falsely claimed to have co-authored a book, and had to take a course on why she shouldn't be using her private email account for official communications - but I digress). If you'd like to know how utterly useless she is in that office, watch her merciless evisceration in Parliament by Yvette Cooper - and weep for a Britain that managed to allow her ilk near any public office. Even if you have no sympathy for refugee claimants, recall how a similar diabolical "policy" by Patel contributed directly to the Covid deaths; for instead of setting up a screening system at Britain's ports of entry, Patel was busy fighting culture wars with immigration lawyers and judges, while countless visitors walked through unscreened for a virus that was already known to have killed millions across the world. So the question for Braverman is: how is your "policy" of deliberate, malign chaos keeping the country safe, not least because most claimants have no choice but to arrive at Britain's ports?

[@jonsimmons4150]

They can get "humain treatement" in *FRANCE* *1951 refugee convention signatory country* *Penned rights of man and citizen in 1789* Prove me *WRONG* *~All Chancers*

[@Jen8973]

I think its dodgy to say even military invaders to this country are entitled to humanitarian treatment. The last time that happened was at the battle of Britian and the nation was rightley defended. You cannot keep taking in people who dump all their i. D and passports. The bill to house these migrants is now in the billions its not sustainable. But I do agree that centres abroad should be set up you help. But the other issue is we don't know who they are Because theyve no passports! IN which case they shouldn't be as allowed in.

[@akpanekpo6025]

@@jonsimmons4150 That's your refugee convention, not the Refugee Convention. Nor does any international treaty, never mind the Refugee Convention, contain anything called "humain treatement". Nor was it I who used the term "invaders" (a military term not envisaged by the drafters of the Refugee Convention - hence my reference to the appropriate treaties: the Geneva Conventions) to describe refugee claimants. But you're right in one respect: I can't prove you wrong, but that's because you've already proved yourself to be a stunningly ignorant person, but one driven by your absolute certainties, and thus irredeemably so - which is much worse.

[@akpanekpo6025]

@@Jen8973 Mercifully, neither you nor I have a say in the matter (i.e., whether the Geneva Conventions apply to "invaders"). Nor does the government, in fact, for they're international treaties which codify customary international law, and thus bind all governments, whether signatories or not. The Battle of Britain was fought with fighter planes and high-yield bombs, but if you wish to accuse helpless people of that, it's a choice. As for IDs, why not process them abroad, as I suggested? No, Braverman won't, because that would deny her the excuse to label them "invaders", which was my original point. The bill isn't anywhere close to "billions", certainly if you're counting in GBP. But if it is high (which it is - relatively speaking), it's because the "government" has a policy of making them so, by accommodating them in cockroach-infested facilities owned by party donors at extortionate costs - to provoke outrage from people like you. They could be much more cheaply accommodated (and in better facilities too), as a parliamentary committee has long recommended.

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

@@jonsimmons4150 utterly irrelevant reply of the day award! Here’s your prize: 💩

[@donaldmcronald2331]

I'm really interested in what the government considers a "legal route" when the vast majority cannot afford a flight.

[@gwenwalravens8030]

Either you need to have a job in the UK, be a student in the UK, married or engaged to someone from the UK, be an investor or start a business.

[@leighparr7961]

Good we don't want them.

[@WOLFanddBEAR]

It costs more to go the illegal route.

[@kevinwake8789]

Cannot afford a flight, they're PAYING PEOPLE SMUGGLERS £3,500-£8,500 EACH to get a spot on the boat from France. If you want the FULL SMUGGLING EXPERIENCE from, say, the Philippines (it'san example), that will set you back between £15,000 and £20,000 and if you pass away on the trip, that debt goes to your family. Many of them have had to sell their farms (according to a tv documentary) because of it....... but yeah, they couldn't afford a work or education visa and the flight across.

[@johnwright9372]

Ironically, they can afford a flight. They are paying £3,000 to £6,000 per head for the dinghy crossing; they aren't allowed on flights because they have no visa.

[@charlesscottkelly]

No we have heard it all before.

[@colintawn3535]

@Andrew Jones Productions They are not forced to come here from France. Illegals leaving Calais are not fleeing persecution there nor is France a war torn country.

[@JOHNDOE2K13]

Why small boats and not any type of vessel though im curious why specifically "small boats"

[@ThePixey1000]

It started in the 80s by boat because they used to come at night and just dispers across the country. But not that many in those days but its got out of hand when they got better at stopping the trucks. Hundreds also come through the Euro Tunnel walking not on the train.

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

Personally I snuck in aboard a Galaxy Class starship then stole a type 5 shuttlecraft and scarpered to the surface but shhhh, don’t tell Starfleet 🤫

[@mga59xbd38]

Bewildered at how these desperate asylum seekers have £3,000 spare to pay traffickers.

[@franckcolomb5579]

And thats only to cross the channel… i estimate the full people smugglers fee from Afghanistan is around £20 000. Whithout the living costs ( food, tents, mobile phone costs…). How many robbery victims to finance all that????

[@braxxian]

That's because most of these characters are not refugees. They are illegal economic migrants.

[@alancrane4693]

@@franckcolomb5579 we need a modern Scarlett pimpernel who snatch immigrant's from hotels and send them home. They seek him here they seek him there they seek the pimpernel everywhere. So we can say cheers mate 👍

[@franckcolomb5579]

@@alancrane4693 we also need the Jamaica Inn to open a chain all along the coast🤣🤣

[@SuperGreen36]

Spouting such typical debunked propaganda- boring

[@jeanlind7540]

Stop all migrant hotels then. What about our own homeless people, many of them ex military!!!

[@beckiebeckiebeck]

He might as well have said “well the Ukrainian people look like me, those Iranians are a bit too brown”

[@M.Manique]

Loool

[@nickybrooks6942]

I agree that we need to stop people from risking their lives in crossing to the UK illegally , but surely the answer to that is a fast tracked immigration scheme that allows them to apply for legal entry and asylum ! It is appalling that people are waiting for years to claim asylum even when they have genuine human rights reasons and genuinely want to work and contribute to the UK economy. You tell me how a skilled nurse coming here from these places can earn the required k40£ when our own british nurses don't even earn this . Maybe immigration should be based on skill rather then on money !

[@franciscouderq1100]

The main problem is these recent and present governments failed to addressing the problem And Brexit is not helping getting things right. In short the actual UK is incompetent in properly checking people and goods at its borders . No will to do so and of course no money and civil servants put into it. Meanwhile the Home Office is full of xenophobic criminals…

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

Based 👍

[@AlBion-rw9kd]

"If you come here illegally you'll be detained" Yeah detained in a four or five star hotel

[@illusion1361]

And when the hotel contracts are up the government will have half ownership of the property

[@geraldfisher5683]

It is all talk. As with Patel. All hot air. Stop all benefits and hotels. They would stay in France 🇫🇷. Stop the boats.

[@franciscouderq1100]

Don’t blame GERALD as he has a very simple mind.

[@Fly_high138]

I some times think if theses politicians and businessmen born in poverty, how will they behave? Torn other peoples countries and now protecting their own.

[@ThePixey1000]

They do speak to Governments and officials in those countries they ask for help we dont just go in Guns blazing. Well unless you are Lying Labour Party Tony Bair but we all agree he should have been put to death as a War Criminal.

[@nedson6503]

Most people are in favour of protecting the places they live in. Wealthy is irrelevant.

[@roadtohope]

@Fly High absolutely 💯

[@kingdicer8677]

thank God for Channel 4 News

[@alanfrost4661]

Poor things give them a BACON sandwhich

[@Lili-ey8bi]

Jesus Christ. How much pain in this world.

[@ssanonswu2010]

I am sorry to the Afghan guy but he should claim in first safe country , not pickily choose the UK.

[@hks-lion]

The vast majority of people seeking asylum do not come to the UK. But for the relatively smaller number who do, the most common reason they choose the UK is to join their family who are already in the country. Another common reason for people coming to the UK is that they speak the language. He said he is an *English* teacher and has friends and family in the U.K.

[@mga59xbd38]

@@hks-lion Learn the language in France and apply for asylum there. Truly desperate refugees would do that.

[@ssanonswu2010]

@@hks-lion he was safe on France, if he was truly desperate he should claim there.

[@hks-lion]

@@mga59xbd38 why force someone to learn a third language? How are they going to learn the language? Pay for tuition with their meagre Afghanis? Makes no sense especially when we don’t have enough labour in this country at the moment.

[@johns1600]

@@hks-lion there are appropriate channels to apply for asylum and family reunification, not gang driven boat arrivals

[@december974]

I think only a few are uncomfortable most will welcome it

[@TallPoe]

I usually find your style of reporting fine Kathy. You have to be able to asses our own situations. There is much trickery out there :

[@Chris-rb8ox]

That interviewer doesn't need an interviewee. He'll ask the question, tell the other what 'they're saying' and then have an argument about it all by himself.

[@thinkingallowed7042]

👍

[@carolokbrblol]

Even if you live in a camp. Keep it clean.

[@sandranixon4808]

Imaging if there live next door to you,there going to be more spits and the streets

[@franciscouderq1100]

The French are not top at collecting and processing garbage.

[@nick4995]

crack on 👍

[@mackenzieferg9254]

Who is the journalist?

[@roberttalbot6397]

When this fails,miss braverman will resign!! Patel or Johnson in charge next, to " stop the boats"

[@braxxian]

Australia successfully "stopped the boats" years ago with this very policy. And our coastline is massive compared to yours. You just don't have the will. Europe is weak. That's why Russia and China think your such a push over.

[@roberttalbot6397]

@@braxxian weak is an understatement, embarrassing maybe the word here

[@ThePixey1000]

No what we need is barbwire and soldiers with guns.

[@roberttalbot6397]

@@ThePixey1000 thats for ukraine

[@Littletime839]

Why does France allow them into France?

[@franciscouderq1100]

Get educated then come back later

[@mrgr8guy257]

Too late, too many already here!

[@ianmccuaig9867]

No

[@gretareinarsson7461]

“It will be the conservatives and only the conservatives who bow to xenophobia” - that’s what SB and RS and the conservatives are really saying

[@leighparr7961]

Look at Sweden and Germany you silly girl, they're kicking the Muslims out ASAP due to the rapes and crime. When you grow up and pay rent and tax maybe you can have a say.

[@azathothsmile]

Greta is in America waiting for all of you!!! Pray for UK!!!!🇺🇦

[@alancrane4693]

Pray for USA poor sod's! Saying that hopefully she stays over there!

[@michellesayers5346]

She needs to go back to school and learn some discipline

[@Morning404]

@@michellesayers5346 you need to get over you hating and seething over a young climate activist. Take a chill pill and bring your blood pressure down clown 💊💊

[@maureenbarclay2127]

It infuriates me just heard a radio programme they visited two houses where foreigners lived. Between the two house they had 11 children no one is working living on benefits. Our poorest are getting poorer they are cutting back on food. But we still have these uninvited guests. It's maybe your wish bit it isn't our wish

[@anthonysmith4826]

Hope to god 🙏 that it works

[@kingdaleclarke]

It's fake

[@manseerkhanm4023]

Brucella should be back to India

[@dianamincher6479]

Suella looks forward to wearing her sari with her British diamonds!

[@alancrane4693]

Hmm don't know? I do enjoy a korma 😉

[@manseerkhanm4023]

I like cow 🐮🐄🐄 immigrants will welcome

[@bobbyg309]

Khan, you and Abdul are getting deported.

[@jackjhmc820]

when Hong Kong was a British colony before 1997, 200,000 Vietnamese fled to Hong Kong on small boats in 1970s to 1990s due to famine, and no the British locked them up in an island with camps like they are prisoners. Many tried to commit crimes on purpose so they could end up in prison just to guarantee food supply. Many tried to flee to Singapore too but their navy shot machine gun and forced them to go back.

[@franciscouderq1100]

Jack : where did you get your info from??? I was in hk at the time and my wife worked for UNHCR I can tell you you are spitting up rubbish. Get truly inform and eventually come back to make a trustworthy comment.

[@jackjhmc820]

@@franciscouderq1100 hahahaha I live in Hong Kong and i am a local hong konger, and clearly like most westerners you got filtered news. it s broadcasted live on TVB. Can you even read Chinese newspaper or understand Cantonese? Please politely ask your friend in Hong kong what 私了 means and if any unarmed innocents were hurt, and how often it happened. hint . every freaking weekend that terrorised folks like me. Solution? forced to shout add oil when rioters arrived so my district wouldn't get teargas. That's why it s scary in today social media. Alternative facts are being made in English. Unlike Western media, that s a huge silent majority that is both afraid of CCP and even more afraid of the so called yellow ribbon freedom fighters. You clearly lived in your own bubble and echo chamber. I dont blame you if you only read western media that is even worse than chinese propaganda on its extreme selective reporting on Hong Kong riots. Hong kong has become deeply divided. But facts are facts. I wish I can place a 10000 HKD bet with you right now if you insist i made it up copy 私了 and paste into youtube and you can see countless videos of unarmed innocents getting beaten up by the mob in Hong kong. sadly Many were only reported on local newspaper, but anyone who read newspapers know.

[@mimikhan9546]

We all have wishes.

[@adidutta5863]

My childhood dream is to go to Moon, that is why i broke the NASA rocket door and seated inside it and now im in Moon 😆🙃 help me guys,

[@Aloh-od3ef]

The media has so much sympathy for these people. But can’t explain why the people who have worked hard, spent years studying for the qualifications needed to enter. Have to wait at the back of the queue?? While these individuals traveled through many safe countries. Paid criminals to be smuggled in. Take priority over EVERYONE ELSE!!!

[@loco68]

Your spot on. We need also to look at all these ones coming from India and Pakistan and buying fake degrees, then able to stay here and bring every member of their family. It’s a joke . Round them up and deport them also.

[@braxxian]

You actually think the media works for the betterment of society?. Think again.

[@rogerbeck1293]

No wonder they keep coming from the snowy tents in the woods of Northern France when we offer them comfortable, warm hotel rooms with hot showers, TV and free meals. Who wouldnt opt for that ? . The biggest mistake, after letting them in , was not to build tent cities behind barbed wire fences on unused military airfields and process them there and actually have them see that they will be removed is they arrived illegally.

[@davidz3879]

All of those in Calais are safe. Many are from safe countries including Sierra Leone, the Gambia, Senegal, Zambia, Tanzania, Ghana, Kosovo & Albania.

[@braxxian]

Indeed. Most of these people are not "refugees". They are illegal economic migrants. Big difference.

[@franciscouderq1100]

Huh????

[@s.j.s601]

The actions taken by the British government shows exactly that it is not a generous country.

[@pavolkocis7456]

Yeah of course I'm going to find another job just to pay for freebies because the government can't sort it 😒

[@davidbarbero6212]

Better ask the people of knowsley.

[@HouseOldSkoolRaver]

Generous to illegal men free 🚬 and 24 hr heating.

[@gwenwalravens8030]

@@pavolkocis7456 The government has more than enough money to deal with the problems this government needs to tackle. But they prefer to waste money than to solve problems. An active integration project of these people might solve the issues the UK has to find people to fill lower wage jobs.

[@pavolkocis7456]

@Gwen Walravens Agree but I don't think that the migrants from middle East or Africa who came in on dinghies will or wants work. I could be mistaken.

[@danceillusions13]

I'm not British (doesn't matter what I am), but I disagree that countries should be forced to accept any foreigners at all against their will. Who invented these laws? Sovereignty means each state gets to decide whom they want in and whom out, or at least it SHOULD mean that. Yesterday I heard some politician saying women from Iran who don't want to wear hijab should still be allowed to claim asylum in the UK. Are you serious? Not wanting to don a piece of cloth is a human rights issue? Shall a woman claim asylum in some African tribe if she wants to go about with an unconverted chest, which isn't allowed in Europe? Should a French or Swiss woman who wants to wear niqab also be allowed to seek asylum in other European countries where niqab isn't banned? After all, if clothing is a human rights issue now, the reverse argument should also apply...

[@padiedo7213]

DON'T worry UK TAX PAYERS WILL FOOT THE BILL .... AND TO THE SNOWFLAKES I WOULD JUST SAY UK HOMELESS PEOPLE FIRST SHAME ON YOU 👊

[@paulhoskin3286]

They are illegal whatever that means

[@stevecroft3973]

Put sunak back on his boat then !

[@TheMoggiemum]

Unlikely to put people off, if they are even aware in advance And to be honest I kinda get it. As a disabled adult without private resources in uk my life is really bad and if I was given a chance at a better life mum and I would probably take it. A proper processing system would be far better than this idiocy

[@MelaniaRose]

It’s worked in Australia

[@TheMoggiemum]

@@MelaniaRose "it's worked in Australia" is debatable... All its going to do is push those who do risk the crossing into hiding and into increased vulnerability. Giving the traffickers more power over those who do make it doesn't seem like a great idea to me.

[@mickeypye2593]

NOPE

[@hunterbiden-rj1ev]

go to the usa .....go through mexico

[@truthismycause2800]

Doesn't UK have small islands? Denmark built a refugee camp in one of their islands and put them there. Why the hotels?

[@christown2827]

Isle of Sheppey has 3 prisons. Release all the prisoners and they have some capacity there then.

[@truthismycause2800]

@@christown2827 Releasing criminals doesn't sound like a good idea, does it?

[@christown2827]

@@truthismycause2800 No you are right but they are going to need a whole lot more detention centres preferably in places where there are NO locals!

[@truthismycause2800]

@@christown2827 Exactly.

[@user-os7nx1bg2j]

Absolutely not ! The EU and the United Nations should be ashamed that they are allowing a civilised country like France to allow asylum seekers congregating pn the coat near calais to live in inhumane conditions like this.The people should be housed in appropriate buildings such as hostels or camps like the UK are having to do .This situation has been going on for far too long.

[@matthew-005]

Leave both the conventions we need to have a say in how we run our own damn country for a damn change.

[@martinbennett2228]

Emmanuel Macron should appoint Marine Le Pen to negotiate with Suella Braverman, I am sure they would see eye to eye.

[@franciscouderq1100]

Ah ah ah nope. LePen would open wide all beaches and provide the dinghies..

[@christown2827]

Probably end up in a fight!

[@ThePixey1000]

I love Marine Le Pen Frace would not have become the sh** Hole it is if she had been in power. Britian could have worked well with Marine Le Pen.

[@broskib6609]

The man is an english teacher. And we have a shortage of teachers. But our government would rather deport him than train him up and put him to work. Jesus christ you cant make this up.

[@ThePixey1000]

He could not speak English he could not speak a full sentence they LIE so much they will say anything trust me I have worked with them. Thats why they throw their paperwork into the sea. One said he was a doctor could not speak English when interviewed it turned out he had worked in a laundry. If he had slipped through imagine him working in the NHS.

[@wodens-hitman1552]

And let's chop a few hundred acres of ancient forest down around where you live and build a few thousand council houses for them.I wonder how long it's going to take to wake you up afterwards?

[@johnsonanthony5953]

Why there is no clear law About this happening. The common people are struggling to meet their present chaos. Food prices are soaring, not enough wages.