801 Migrants cross English Channel in 1 day

[NigelJK]

Or repeal the law which makes it compulsory to give there criminals money whilst waiting for their case to be 'reviewed'. You could even ask the PM if he thinks it's still a good idea.

[Snooky]

Or repeal the law which makes it compulsory to give there criminals money whilst waiting for their case to be 'reviewed'. You could even ask the PM if he thinks it's still a good idea.

Do you mean the ECHR?

[vetran]

Or pay for a few hundred Police/Border officials to patrol the French coastline to try and stop them launching the boats, and apprehend traffickers.

I'm not sure the French will be too keen on us patrolling their beaches.

[woody1]

I'm not sure the French will be too keen on us patrolling their beaches.

Then pay the French to do it. If Ziggy's calcs are right, then every boat stopped would save us a fortune each year.

Problems like this call for pragmatism over idealism.

[Zigenare]

Or pay for a few hundred Police/Border officials to patrol the French coastline to try and stop them launching the boats, and apprehend traffickers.

We've already got UK Border Force embedded in French ports checking for "Migrants" smuggling themselves in trucks/vehicles bound for the UK so joining French Police in their patrols shouldn't be too much of a stretch - if of course Sir Keir is serious about "Stopping the boats"...

However that would mean that the Migrants would remain a French problem and they'd have to pull their fingers out of their collective arses and sort things out.

[vetran]

Then pay the French to do it. If Ziggy's calcs are right, then every boat stopped would save us a fortune each year.

Problems like this call for pragmatism over idealism.

we actually do pay the French already for this.

[Fraidycat]

Given that "In 2022/23, the average cost of a prison place in England and Wales was £51,724 a year" I will put an arbitrary, plucked from thin air average cost per migrant for their first year at 2/3 of the price of a 2022/2023 Prisoner so that will laden the UK tax payer with an additional cost of £34,482 per migrant or £27,620,082 or the heating allowance for 92,066 Pensioners.

Let that sink in, Saturday's arrival of "Migrants" who crossed the channel illegally has cost the UK purse approximately £27,620,082 over the next 12 months.

Sweden has figured out its cheaper to bribe them to go back home rather than pay benefits to them for decades

Sweden Will Offer Migrants $34,000 to Go Home


If its a family of six does that mean they will get $200K+?

[woody1]

we actually do pay the French already for this.

Well there's clearly not sufficient resources to be effective, so pay more.

The stretch of French coastline, where it's vaguely viable to cross the Channel in a dinghy, is not that long. Throw enough bodies at it and you could patrol it pretty rigorously, and hopefully collar some traffickers at the same time.

[malvolio]

Well there's clearly not sufficient resources to be effective, so pay more.

The stretch of French coastline, where it's vaguely viable to cross the Channel in a dinghy, is not that long. Throw enough bodies at it and you could patrol it pretty rigorously, and hopefully collar some traffickers at the same time.

Brilliant. I wonder why we hadn't thought of that before.

It is of course entirely possible that the gangs can easily overwhelm the resources of the French police on the shore line (which is bigger then you think). The police are trying to disable the boats before they are launched, but it's too risky to do so once they are in the water. And if they do stop a boat everyone melts back into the undergrowth and waits for the next one.

As for throwing money at the problem, haven't you been listening to Martha Reeves?

[SueEllen]

Sweden has figured out its cheaper to bribe them to go back home rather than pay benefits to them for decades

Sweden Will Offer Migrants $34,000 to Go Home


If its a family of six does that mean they will get $200K+?

The story you linked to is very confusing.

Are they migrants or refugees?

If they are the latter from say Sudan where there is a civil war going on obviously they aren't going to accept the money. If they are the former and from a place like Albania then it makes sense for them to accept the money.