I'm not saying this to be controversial, but I've arrived at a point where I have zero interest in humane solutions regarding the boat migrants. I've seen enough of what's going on in Calais to know this is a very serious threat to the safety of my own people, and at this scale, we are right to be calling it an invasion. As such, this is a defence issue - which overrides all humanitarian concerns. Since no government department is evidently capable of managing the issue effectively, it should be handed over to the Royal Navy to deal with.
On that basis, I do not advocate wasting time with pushbacks, and we certainly have no business rescuing them. We need lightweight, high yield kamikaze drones that will explode directly above dinghies. The navy must kill them on sight. I have no problem with the border force boats going out to recover the bodies, but everyone setting foot in a dinghy should expect to die within minutes of entering British waters. I think we will see that death is a highly effective deterrent. Lethal force in defence of our borders is wholly justified - and it is time to re-establish that principle.
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE - Another Channel migrant, deported under the France returns deal, arrived back in the UK yesterday. It comes less than a week after an Iranian man, dubbed the ‘hokey cokey’ migrant, was finally sent back over the Channel having arrived back on a small boat a month after he was deported.