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Sign This Petition – We Must Have Transparency From The Home Office On Channel Boat Arrivals
Without transparency, democracy is impossible. Officials must not be able to get away with hiding the truth. Migration Watch UK has launched a petitionto tell the government that it must not cover up the daily arrival totals of people coming to the UK via the English Channel in boats. Instead it should continue
Britain Not Obliged To Take In Europe’s Failed Asylum Claimants: Parliamentary Committee
Although we often criticise the political class for being out of touch on immigration, a Parliamentary Committee did make a sensible statement recently which is worth putting on record. The statement was made in response to written evidencewhich we submitted. Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights recently said in a report: “It is
The Idea That The Government Is Delivering On Tackling Illegal Immigration Is Laughable
While announcing a welcome new returns agreement with Serbia, the Home Secretary, the government claimsthat it is ‘delivering on its promise to tackle illegal immigration and the harm it causes‘. Yet illegal boat crossings are six times as high as this point last year (with over 40,000 entering since end of 2017)
Bringing In The Military On The Channel Is A Red Herring
A former naval commander recently told MPs that the Royal Navy’s worldwide reputation could be seriously damaged by becoming a taxi service for migrants across the Channel (see media report). He is correct. The handover to the Navy that was touted as being part of the insultingly-named ‘Operation Red Meat’ to
Shameful Government Inaction Following Bomber’s Asylum Deception
The case of the Liverpool bomber Emad Jamil Al-Swealmeen – who blew himself up outside a women’s hospital on Remembrance Sunday in 2021 – highlights the depths of dangerous chaos and abuse into which our asylum system has sunk. This bedlam is now of such an extent that it poses a threat
Taxpayer Funds Government Ineptitude As £1.7 Billion Per Year Spent On Putting Up Migrants In Hotels
Another week, another bombshell. The Home Office revealed to a Committee of MPs that it is is spending £4.7 million per day putting up 37,000 Channel migrants and other asylum seekers in hotels (that’s more than £1.7 billion per year!). The news was released as the government planned to build a network of