Cruella Braverman is trying to act tough to appease her mates in the IEA. She is also using the tactic of “I do not agree with the advice you are giving me – so I will get legal advice from those who will agree me”, thus rejecting Home Office Advice. At £5 million per day it would surely be cheaper to set up a system whereby applicants for asylum status can apply at any British Embassy or Consul. This should be swiftly processed and those awarded it can be issued with special visas which allow entry to the UK via normal and safe methods. Those entering illegally can then be treated separately,
Those entering and claiming to be victims of people traffickers could be legitimately be put on a plane straight back to country of origin – which in many cases seems to be Albania (which is not in the EU!). By making it easier for legit migrants and asylum seekers to be processed quickly, fairly and efficiently the government could claim the moral high ground.
Whatever happens these migrants are people and should be treated with humanity – not subjected to abysmal conditions in concentration camps. Perhaps giving them an option to work with the promise of a time limited visa would enable the police to divert them away from gangs and the ‘county lines’. Perhaps the police need better funding to deal with that problem? So many solutions but not the will power!
It remains a fact that although a massive increase in Channel migrants has occurred – the %is small compared the 270000 “legal” migrants. We are desperately short of workers and are unlikely to get a trade deal with India without the introduction of an easier migration/visa policy with the sub-continent. The last Health Secretary said that she would recruit nurses from abroad if those in the NHS did not accept that they had already had a pay rise! Coffrey really is obnoxious!