On Thursday Starmer was cock-a-hoop about his one in one out plan he conjured up with the frog president Micron. The diminutive Napoleon like figure was fresh from losing a court case where he had tried to stop stories about his granny actually being a bloke. I have to say very little fazes him. Candace Owen has said that the Donald asked her to stop banging on about it because it was making Micron even more difficult to deal with. Note he didn’t say it wasn’t true.
Trust the Grauniad, this the sub headline from an article by John Crace.
French president more interested in meeting the king and the sound of his own voice than joining PM in celebrating agreement on migration.
Many politicians from countries that are republics have a fascination for royalty. Perhaps we could install William as King and rent out old sausage fingers to anyone who can come up with the moolah, we could even throw in Camilla as well.
I remember at the start if the visit, Keith ponied up another 3 or 4 hundred million in largesse for the frogs. The plan, as outlined by Keith, consists of
- People coming to the UK on small boats would be detained and then sent back to France
- He implied all irregular migrants would be returned only they wouldn’t. It would be a mere 50 a week out of the thousands making the trip every 7 days
- His summary was very light on details for what are obvious reasons. It falls into “We must be seen to be doing something” territory.
- Errrr, that’s it.
It is supposed to deter people getting on dinghies and rocking up on our shores from whence, it seems, they will never ever be deported. However, will all arrivals be detained or just 50 a week. The obvious problem there is what happens to those above the 50 threshold who will not be returned to France.
Micron blamed it all on Brexit and our generosity to such irregulars. You won’t need reminding that this generosity was caused by one Keith Starmer when the Director of Public Prosecutions taking the then government to court to force them to give irregulars bennies. It is claimed they are not bennies but how else would you describe them.
So now 50 of these invaders will be sent back to France and they will be denied re-entry unless they jump back on another dinghy to take their chances. This works out to 2,600 a year. We have suffered the arrival of over 44,000 of the buggers during labour’s first year in office.
In return for this minus 50 number, we will be forced to accept another 50 legitimate asylum seekers. This is going to be a real money spinner for whichever frog gets to make the decision. He will be as rich as Croesus after a year.
To add insult to injury Pixie Cooper-Balls said on radio yesterday that returnees could be as high as 50 but would not commit to any number. In other words, it’s a stitch up.
My question is who decides who is a legitimate asylum seeker. If it is a frog they will not be very choosy about whom they pick. Let’s face it, France does not want any of these people to remain in their pleasant land. The further question is what happens to the 50 who are returned to France. The frogs do not want them either so where are they going to move them to. Nobody in the EU wants them. The erics are presently trying to offload their own set of illegals onto the Poles who want nothing to do with it. The Polish Army is now stationed on their Western border and some kind of vigilantes are patrolling the back roads and forest tracks leading from the fatherland to Poland. It is all getting very messy and will only get worse.
An even bigger question is that the human rights lawyers will be all over this returning 50 a week, if it was 1 a week they would still be all over it. The courts are going to be very busy hearing appeals and we know how long they drag on. It is not difficult to predict that it will take a good year to get one week’s worth of riff-raff out of our hair and it’s not difficult to guess that our dodgy judges will probably allow most, if not all, to remain here. The pathetic excuses they have found to keep convicted criminals here ensures those detained for crossing in a dinghy have little to fear.
Our glorious leader thinks this plan will deter would be dinghy invaders. I have a bridge to sell him. To add insult to injury, any so called legitimate asylum seeker among the 50 we might receive a week will be entirely legal and the chances of removing them will be less than zero. Again, my prediction, it ain’t gonna work and it will unravel pretty quickly.
France does not want these people, neither do we but our establishment seems rather keen on accepting them. They will therefore keep arriving one way or another. Keith is talking about sending 6% or so back to France, what happens to the other 94% who turn up uninvited.
I presume the government will have to legislate this, what are the chances of it passing without more rebellions, one can easily see the mother of the House fizzing with indignation. It will also take time so when exactly will this plan start.
The absence of detail is mind boggling. It has the whiff of “Oh look at us, we are actually doing something”. Starmer’s jibe at Farage taking pictures in the Channel may come back to haunt him. The proof of the pudding will be if it stops the dinghy riders crossing the Channel. The smuggling gangs, remember the ones Keith was going to smash, will just have to offer a free trip for those who have been returned to keep their business running.
Talking about doing something…. Starmer and Reeves have been banging on about growth and how they are going for it, The economy, or GDP as they call it, fell in May by 0.1%. Never believe a word that comes out of their lying mouths, Every time Labour are in power they prove they have no idea about how the economy works. All they can do is ramp up taxes and then act surprised when people don’t just stand there and happily pay over even more of their hard earned.
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