Turn the boats around and send them back to where they came from. Not being allowed to land will lead to disgruntled occupants of the boats who will ask for their money back from the boat organisers. This will cause frustration and mayhem for the organisers who will have mutinies on their hands and will turn and run.
Take the sugar off the table in Britain and give no attraction for coming here in the first place.
We can then deal with our own miserable affairs of welfare and benefits which are now so out of hand; there will be Labour governments for the foreseeable future. The way out of this is probably harder than the way out of stopping the boats.
Even the RNLI are going out to mid Channel to bring them over. Had their rubber boat been sinking, I might have had some sympathy, but they were all happily sailing along in the sunshine.
ReplyDeleteI read that this was what Australia did about 25 years ago when they had the boat people. I wonder if Margaret Thatcher would have dealt with it similarly although, of course, the problem would perhaps not have existed in the first place if she had remained in office. I certainly like the idea that the "organisers" would be in turmoil and flee.
DeleteMany years ago I was friends with a couple and another family originally from Eritrea, before they moved away. They told me from personal experience in their large circle of family and friends how it was perfectly normal for most immigrants to dress in their best clothes, walk around a relatively wealthy neighbourhood and find a beautiful house with expensive cars in front. There, they would pose for photos that they then sent to the family and friends back home, making them believe that they had a great new life in Germany, with all the material wealth they had dreamt of at home.
ReplyDeleteThis of course in turn made more people want to come to Germany. Once they arrived, of course they quickly learned that they had been lied to, but because they didn't want to "lose face", they kept this "tradition" going and in turn sent such fake photos to their folks back home. And so it continues... nowadays not quite as easy as back then; Social Media facilitates both the fake stories and the true ones, but I wouldn't be surprised to know that the fake stories still largely prevail.
I once sat with a Polish worker on the train and got chatting and he told me he was in a house of 12 where 6 worked day shift and six worked nights so they used the same beds, bunks. He was sending his money home to Warsaw where he was building a house. He said he planned to leave England once the house was finished. He said this was quite common. A lot of this stopped with Covid when cheap flights to and from Poland ceased and Poles decided to call it a day and get home with family while they could. Not quite the same as your illustration but he did tell me that his friends assumed he was living, and working, in luxury when he said it was far from that.
DeletePoland is now a very successful country. I don't know why many Poles don't return.
DeleteMany have from East Anglia. I hear far fewer Polish people on the trains these days, especially since Covid when many of them went home not to return.
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