I laughed last week when it showed the French police turn up an hour after a boat had been launched and one of them was having a cigarette on the beach. The government are paying the French millions to stop them from crossing and the French authorities are nonchalant about the whole affair.
Surely they must know who are supplying the boats. I struggled to buy an inflatable during the summer in France and outboard motors are soaring in price because of demand. I ended up paying nearly £300 more than I would have in this country.
Why would they (France) even try and stop them (other than the risk of drowning of those passing through, which they seemingly don't care much about), just look the other way and let them pass on through. Then when they do get through/ over to the UK, they know we can't return them. Patel doesn't care about them drowning either, she would be out there on a gun boat, blowing up the migrants, and the French, if she was allowed, she's a cretin.
Where as before we didn't have to pay them (French) to look the other way, and could return them, now we have to pay them to look the other way, and can't return them, what a brilliant tactic (not). Paying them to take on more of a burden, which they can easily avoid is not going to happen, when they can take on the money and no burden.
It's laughable in a way, at how inept they (Tories) are at handling this, or thinking they could just shut up shop overnight, and close it down. Even worse are those that believed it (brexiters), and follow the Farage fan club, they live in an absolute dream world.
Then the other funny aspect is we're now crying out for legal immigration, as we don't have enough people to do the jobs that not many want to do. We also call our migrants expats, funnily enough.
If only all of this had been mentioned or foreseen in 2015-2021, oh wait, it was, just like all the other things.
If we want to stop it (which I don't think we need to, or can do without serious human rights issues), then we need to look at why we appear more attractive than the likes of France or elsewhere, but other places take on waaaaay more than we do already. We're just getting a small share, which is probably a small price to pay. Migrants are a net benefit anyway, only the blind don't see this, as their hate of all those from foreign lands, won't let them see it.