 It is the fact that it is dangerous, even for the RNLI crews with a good boat and training and radios and satellite navigation, which indicates that those migrating aren't doing it on a whim. No-one would. And if they have some reason pressing enough that they'd risk life and limb to cross a body of water, in the hands of criminal gangs, at great expense, with children, and when many of them are unable to swim, then it's likely that reason will overwhelm any and all obstacles Suella might put in their way. Whether you wish to call it desperation, terror, or economic need, that push factor simply propels them through appalling risks, in multiple countries and continents, to get to the UK. If it is, by definition, stronger than anything Mother Nature can throw at it, it is probably stronger than any law, any Home Secretary, and any government. And when something that strong is coming at you, it is very unwise to push back. It's also pretty unfair when what you're pushing against is children, bearing a message asking for help ( PA) Yet the impact of those people being propelled in our direction is immense. Millions of pounds are leaving taxpayer pockets and going into those of ho){kind=link}
You need to stop pretending it’s the migrants that are the crisis, says Fleet Street Fox
Yesterday, Home Secretary Suella Braverman got in a £3,500-an-hour Chinook helicopter to fly around the Kent coast looking for migrants that weren’t there.
That’s because the entire south of England was suffering such bad weather that even where I am, in mid-Kent, everything below knee-level is about as wet as the mid-Atlantic. It was not a day for dinghies.
Instead, Suella saw only fog. Which is ironic, really, because there’s probably no-one in Britain with a more clouded view of Britain’s so-called migrant crisis.
If only she’d had the wit to check the weather forecast, she might also have had the nous to realise that crossing the Channel isn’t a jolly for those who don’t get ferried around by the RAF.