I’ve heard it said that boats or yachts are holes in the water into which we pour massive amounts of money. After a lifetime’s messing about in boats, I can vouch for the above statement; it’s not just super yachts that are expensive, some of the most costly boats are the little rubber ones, even if we don’t happen to own them.
According to the BBC, last year around one thousand nine hundred illegal immigrants arrived in Britain via small boats across the English Channel. Now, not only are the number of illegal arrivals increasing exponentially, the French Navy and Coastguard are escorting them across the Channel, where they are picked up by our own coastguard: a water taxi service in other words.
I suppose you’ve all see this LBC video now; but just in case you haven’t:
Nigel Farage witnesses illegal migrants entering British waters
With friends like the French: who needs enemies? According to the European Union we’re all meant to be the best of friends: aren’t we?
It is hard to establish an actual cost for immigration into Britain, there are so many different sources and estimates, however, one thing that all of these estimates have in common is that they are all huge. All of these estimates represent a massive cost to the British tax payer. Firstly consider this 2016 article from The Mail online:
£17bn, the true cost of immigration to the UK every year: Figure calculated as gap between amount migrants pay in taxes and consume in public services
Then there is this article from The Express from 2015:
Every illegal immigrant costs YOU £36K a year: The cost of migrant centres revealed
It would be hard to imagine that after five years that our politician weren’t aware of these numbers and costs, looking around at other estimates, I would say that the figures I’ve used so far are very conservative.
This today from Breitbart:
100 Illegal Boat Migrants Escorted Again Into British Waters by the French Navy
Let’s look at the cost of just last Wednesday alone to the British taxpayer, also bear in mind that as so very few of these illegal migrants are ever returned, these costs are ongoing year on year.
100 times £36,000 = £3,600,000
That’s £3,600,000 per annum and ongoing as a cost to the British taxpayer just for last Wednesday alone. The really sickening thing for most of these taxpayers is that many of them could only dream of earning £36,000 per annum and yet they must go out to work and pay taxes to provide this comfortable living for people who shouldn’t be in our country.
The cost of illegal boat migration across the English Channel for 1919 then was £68.4 million per annum and that is just for the ones we know about, those that have been published.
According to Wikipedia and these numbers sound about right but can be checked at other sources, in 2017/18, the National Health Service spent £13.8 billion on medicines alone. This amount of money would be more than offset by the annual £17 billion cost of immigration to our country.
Talking specifically about illegal immigrants, this from Migration Watch UK
In 2013, the government estimated that illegal immigration cost the NHS £330 million per year. The London School of Economics has estimated that the long term costs of benefits for illegal migrants could be £1.6 billion a year.
Of course many of the figures that I’ve quoted so far in this article, massive as they are, will probably already be out of date. The trickle of illegal of illegal immigrants being brought across the English Channel by smugglers is starting to explode, particularly with the arrival of summer and yet our government simply bury their heads in the sand and refuse to address the issue.
A video from Jeff Taylor, possibly gives us a reason why our government will often talk tough on illegal immigration but never really act.
EU wants UK to give up sovereignty for a Brexit trade deal!
Apparently, one of the biggest stumbling blocks (among others) to reaching a trade deal with the European Union is because so far, our government will not promise to be bound by the European Court of Human Rights. If our country is bound by this court, along with the various UN courts and its Global Compact on migration, it’ll be impossible for us to ever regain control of our borders.
Since the British people voted to leave the European Union, the disdain from our politicians has been palpable, if we can’t regain control of our borders, the EU and UN agendas will proceed unabated. In the not too distant future we will lose our cultural identity and ultimately our country. This is the unstated but increasingly more apparent and understood aim of all of these globalist organisations, the abolition of the nation state and their borders. It seems that behind the lies and prevarication our government are still behind these globalist agendas: treason in other words.
We must watch out for a last minute stitch up by Boris Johnson’s government in its current negotiations with the European Union.
Many globalists realise and Angela Merkel stated that multiculturalism is a failure, particularly in its present form and yet these globalists have proceeded with this policy regardless of its destructive effects on Western countries and our culture. All of this in pursuit of their globalist dream and an insatiable lust for power. Here’s an interesting article written by a Lebanese Migrant in Psychology Today.
Multiculturalism: A Failed Policy
Even some legal immigrants can see the negative aspects of today’s globalist doctrines. Currently, the US, Britain and Europe are suffering from racially motivated and highly organised riots with the potential to become all our race wars, this due to the betrayal of successive governments.
Messing about in boats is indeed a very expensive pastime.
Your right about boats. – The cost, and then the upkeep, and don’t forget the charges for a place to keep them ! ….. One thing that we all know, is that if you make a hole in a boat, it sinks ! – Our Navy used to be rather good at sinking ships, so boats would be very easy. – These French ships would be a good start ! ….. Can you imagine the blast from Brussels if we did this ? – They might even decide that the UK is beyond trading with, and tell us to clear off ! THE FRENCH TOLD TO BEWARE AND BREXIT DONE, ALL IN ONE MOVE ! ….. Now that’s economy old British style !
Not ‘arf Mike.
I really can not understand WHY we don’t tow them back to Calais. We’ve been calling them ILLEGAL immigrants all the time we were in EU. So they MUST be illegal in this transition year.
If it’s ‘DON’T UPSET THE TRADE DEAL NEGS.’ Well bl**dy end them then. They can not help us and could harm us.
If it’s lack of sea power, boats or whatever then build ’em. borrow or buy from USA. As Mike Maunder suggested way back.
We NEED them to protect OUR fish and CONTROL our borders.
Why is nothing being done? It would be cheaper than supporting these people ad infinitum.
Your article about boats made me think about the need to leave the EU before the ‘ship’ sinks.
Of course if you are in the ship you will go down with it. But there is some controversy over the vortex sucking anything close down with it. Then there is the theory of aeration. It is an event that I as a land lubber, will hopefully never have to test. One would automatically want to go up to the surface for air.
If we go up the chain of command we come to Boris Johnson or whoever else is in charge. Surely the buck must stop with him?
We seem burdened with a feeling of slow death as this continues. I would like not to think of it but that would be irresponsible. Our politicians seem to have no trouble dealing with these injustices just as they don’t appear to respond ruthlessly to the rape of children by organised gangs in this country.
My feelings of Cameron, May and now Boris are no different to Blair Brown Heath and all the others. They are the same. They deserve no respect no sympathy no excuse no charity and no mercy. They serve a function but I am disgusted with them. They know what they are doing, God knows why they continue to do it.
Mass immigration from the third world is a tool of the globalists. People need to waken up, not only to the problems created by such uncontrolled immigration, but to who is behind it and for what reason. (clue: research the UN agendas and those behind the World Economic Forum)
Only then will the solution become clear.
The economic argument against immigration is now irrelevant to the thinking of those now in government. It will continue at least two more Parliaments because policy will not change and it is likely that new MPs will be more pro-immigration than ever given the new demographics. This doesnt mean economics is not important. Any economy spending more than it earns is heading for trouble. The day will come when this profligacy will explode and it seems safe to predict that day will come before the younger MPs in the present conservative party can reach safe retirement.
Migrants know it, the French know it, the EU know it, the UK political establishment know it, and we know it. Once an illegal migrant sets foot on British soil the chances of being repatriated are very slim indeed. Don’t blame the EU or France for the scandal going on in the Channel – it is the UK Government, that is and has, failed to deal with mass illegal immigration for decades and thus has done nothing to discourage it.
An excellent article, well referenced and documented.
Unfortunately this reasoned and stimulating piece is destined to be confined to the contributors to and of this (excellent!) Site.
For many a long day I have described this situation as complete insanity – but beyond what I and others who support UKIP. TBP and other Independent Partys think of this as a calamity – the ‘mugs’ out there all have a vote yet continue to contribute to their own demise and that of our culture, sacrificed on the bonfire of the equally insane nightmare of ‘multiculturalism’…………
I continue to believe that ultimately there WILL be a reckoning……….but it will be too late and lead to the final division and destruction of our once great and wonderful country.
I thank heaven that I will not be here to witness the death of the UK, most probably at the hands of Bumbling, Billy Bunter Boris and his cohorts who are heading like lambs to the slaughter if they accept ANY of the blackmail Barnier is imposing, and which seems to be succeeding.
The Conservative Government gave the OK to FOUR BILLION POUNDS being spent on migrant housing in recent time. Now I think that’s £4000,000,000. Where TF is this money going to come from?? (TF=The Fudge)
Shocking! Anyone would think the Tories wanted mass immigration!!!
According to our politically correct government and mainstream media there is no difference between races, we’re all going to integrate and live happily ever after or is this just propaganda. Some people would regard those immigrants to our shores as savages, hardly surprising as so many of those that we work to support repay us by raping our women and sexually exploiting our children.
Maybe the globalist agenda of multiculturalism was all just lying propaganda, certainly there was a body of earlier scientific research published that seems to suggest that this is so; of course we’re not allowed to discuss this evidence now. I’ll let you read some of these published articles and make up your own minds.
“Variability in Frontotemporal Brain Structure: The Importance of Recruitment of African Americans in Neuroscience Research”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2964318/
“SOME RACIAL PECULIARITIES OF THE NEGRO BRAIN.”
https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/49594/1000050402_ftp.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
“THE WEIGHT OF THE NEGRO BRAIN”
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/80/2080/431
Think Dianne Abbot!
No! Please NO! I am going to vomit.