Now Emily Maitliss has left the BBC she is not handcuffed by the propaganda machine. No more having to run certain content by a Tory/establishment figure. Now the independence enables the exposure of reality.
This is not to say that leaving the EU was the wrong decision merely that it was handled incompetently and by a small group who had to lie and cover up that incompetence every step of the way.
Of course there are some who believe every lie but that will always be the case. They are incapable of constructive critical thought and analysis.
The Reality
Bluntly ,the immigration numbers have grown bigger since Brexit not smaller. The reason is not “ marauding criminal gangs “ ( more than 80% whose cases are heard are ultimately granted asylum) but a break down in relations with France and others ..
— emily m (@maitlis) October 31, 2022
Why do migrants make the crossings?
“Limited access to, or inadequate safe and legal avenues, are contributing to more people taking alternative means, including crossing the Channel in small boats,” a spokesperson for the United Nations’ International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has revealed.
Clare Mosely, founder of the Care4Calais NGO explained that “boat crossings are one of the very few ways that people can get to the UK to claim asylum.
“For all practical purposes there is no legal way to travel, so the only choice is whether you risk your life in a small boat or hidden in a lorry,” she said.
The role of Priti Patel and the Tories
According to https://ukandeu.ac.uk/ in July 2021 it was announced that a new funding package had been agreed – the UK would pay a further £55 million (€62.7 million) to France to clamp down on crossings and the number of French patrol boats would double. Despite this new package, the number of crossings continued to rise in August.
At the start of September 2021, the Home Secretary, Priti Patel, threatened to stop the payment unless the French increased the number of migrant crossings stopped from one in two to three in four by the end of the month.
In response, French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin tweeted that France would not accept ‘financial blackmail’.
Meanwhile, French General Frantz Tavart declared he would call off nightly patrols in the English Channel if the funding were no longer provided.
In early October, Darmanin complained that ‘not one euro’ of the promised funding has been received. A British Security Minister, Damian Hinds, has said this was due to an ‘administrative’ issue rather than a ‘political question’.
The Home Secretary also approved the use of controversial ‘pushback’ tactics in September – using the nose of a Border Force vessel to turn a boat, or telling asylum seekers to turn their boat around – to intercept migrants’ small boats on the English Channel.
However, it is understood these tactics would be subject to strict guidelines (such as use only in neutral waters rather than UK or French waters) and the requirement that any migrant turned back is turned towards a receiving French boat.
It is unclear whether ‘pushback’ tactics have yet been employed, however, footage has emerged of the UK Border Force training to use them.
Some have argued this ‘pushback’ strategy is at odds with the legal duty to rescue at sea and breaks international law. The Home Office claims the new measures have been agreed by the Attorney General.
“It is unclear whether ‘pushback’ tactics have yet been employed, however, footage has emerged of the UK Border Force training to use them. Some have argued this ‘pushback’ strategy is at odds with the legal duty to rescue at sea and breaks international law”.
France has resisted the plans – Darmanin said ‘France will accept no practices contrary to the Law of the Sea’.
The Refugee Council have recommended that, rather than using pushback tactics, the UK government should work to provide ‘safe routes to stop such perilous journeys in the first place’. They say such routes could include refugee family reunion and resettlement.
However, the provisions of the UK government’s Nationality and Borders Bill on family reunion rights (Clause 11) are limited, and the ‘New Plan for Immigration’ included no timetable or target number on resettlement.
Has Brexit made a difference?
Yes. Before Brexit, the UK was party to the Dublin Regulation through which it could return some asylum seekers to the member state determined to be responsible for handling an asylum claim.
The Dublin Regulation ceased to apply to the UK from January 2021 and there is no successor agreement with the EU, nor with individual member states.
Consequently, the return of asylum seekers to France is much harder. Between 1 January 2019 and 1 October 2020 (while the UK still applied EU law), 231 migrants who crossed the English Channel were returned to mainland Europe under the Dublin Regulation.
Migrant Channel crossings to UK
— Matt Goodwin (@GoodwinMJ) October 30, 2022
2018 299
2019 1,843
2020 8,466
2021 28,461
2022 39,430 incl. 1000 today
Home Office/BBC
And yes, the backlog too. If we spent more money on speeding up the asylum process there would ironically be far less pressure on the system.
— emily m (@maitlis) October 31, 2022
Until we all face up to the reality and worship the facts over the fantasy and delusions this discussion will go on and on and on.
Jason Cridland
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