Garang*, 18, is one of thousands of refugees recently caught in the crossfire of French riot police, who threw teargas and beat them with batons when they boarded dinghies to travel to the UK. He is a victim of a war in his home of South Sudan – and one being fought on France’s northern shores. He borrows a phone from anyone with credit who will let him try to call home, where his family is displaced. Garang doesn’t have enough money on the £10-a-week allowance from the Home Office to make a long-distance call. All he wants is to speak to his mum, to hear her voice, and let her know he is alive and safe in the UK despite the violence he has faced.
How nice of the Home Office to extract some of the money I pay in taxes for the upkeep of the country to gice a criminal a mobile phone...
On Thursday, stopping more people like Garang from reaching the UK in small boats topped the “to do” list of the prime minister, Andy Burnham, and the French president, Emmanuel Macron, when they held talks.
And talk is all they are likely to do about it..
How much further can the war on refugees go?
Much, much further, of course - it's hardly a war, it's little more than a skirmish, and we're losing!
The UK government is increasingly using military terms such as “surge” and “neutralise” in relation to small-boat crossings.
Timr to drop the 'terms' then, and use military forces instead.
These images have fuelled anger, with some Britons believing that most refugees are shunning other countries to beat a path to our door.
They clearly are, because you've just proved that point, haven't you? Why did Garang not phone his mum in Sudan to tell her he was safe in France?
In fact, the number of irregular arrivals to Europe in the last year has dropped significantly, and the UK ranks 16th in Europe per head of population for asylum claims. According to this newly released data, a majority of asylum seekers do not arrive in small boats – 41% were already in the UK and held a visa or other leave prior to claiming and 20% arrived by other routes, many likely to be clandestine means, such as lorries.
In other words people lie on entry, or when their visa runs out? Why would we be happy to keep people like this in thr country? If you invite friends over for supper, and they decide they aren't going to leave and annouce their intention to live in your house instead Diane, is that acceptable to you or would you be calling the police to have them removed?
Nigel Farage and Reform UK have poisoned the public discourse on people fleeing war, people who run because they don’t want to be killed or to kill others.
If they've decided they 'don't want to kill others' it's not for long at all, is it? So many of them find the urge again that the government finds it polically useful not to keep track.
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