Yes, I Just Bet You Would, Matt...

Describing the claims as 'hugely shocking', Skegness MP Matt Warman said it 'understandably raised a number of significant concerns'.

However, he added: 'I would ask that people resist the understandable desire to speculate on this case.'

...but if it's OK with you, and actually even if it's not, I'm going to.

Investigators are said to be working to determine whether he had any prior convictions before his arrival in the UK.

Maybe they should have done that before letting him - and all the others the RNLI and UK Border Force  escorted to our shores - run around free? 

The Last 'YCMIU' Of 2022..?

An official working for the UK Border Force has been arrested on suspicion of...

Shirking his duties? Stealing paperclips? 

...being an illegal migrant himself.

*blinks* 

His bosses are understood to have acted quickly as soon as doubts were raised about his status, The Sun reports.

Oh, maybe he's one of those new hires, then? At least they found out before he could do any dam... 

The suspect is understood to be in his late 30s and arrived in the UK around 20 years ago from the Balkans. It is alleged he lied on paperwork about his origins in order to be granted the right to remain in the UK, later going on to work for the Home Office.

/facepalm 

The same man is also believed to be among four Border Force staff who were arrested over a separate incident on December 6. The four were detained on suspicion of misconduct in public office and conspiracy to steal.

Could the BF strike for another few months? I don't think the country can cope with them on duty. 

The Only Time You'll See This Term In Close Proximity To The Words 'Border Force'...

Steve Dann, Border Force chief operating officer, said travellers should be prepared for disruption.

He said the military personnel and civil servants, "many of whom are sacrificing their Christmases", will "not be able to operate with the same efficiency as our permanent workforce".

They could hardly do worse, could they?

Gosh, Really? What A Shocker!

Said no one with more than two brain cells to rub together:

Almost a fifth of lone Albanian child refugees have gone missing, an English council has revealed. Kent county council took in 197 unaccompanied children from Albania between 1 January and 31 October of this year and, of those, 39 are missing.

Why are they even here long enough to go missing in the first place? 

Kent county council said when a child goes missing it works closely with police and the Home Office to find them.

Neither of whom could find their own arsehole with a flashlight and a hunting dog... 

Why Do We Bother With Border Force..?

I mean, do they manage to keep out anyone..?

An Albanian man who entered the UK illegally on two separate occasions has been jailed after he was found at a cannabis farm worth thousands.

Endrit Neza tended to around 300 cannabis plants - which had a potential value of between £28,000 to £120,000 - at an address in Newcastle.

The 30-year-old, who returned to England after being deported in 2017, was arrested after police raided a property on Malvain Avenue on August 24 this year and found the cannabis farm.

They don't say how. Probably just waltzed in past all our 'defences'. 

Sophia Allinson, defending, told the court Neza came to the UK out "dire financial necessity", saying: "He didn't intend to commit criminal activity like this."

Given he was committing a criminal offence by coming into the country at all, that doesn't ring quite true, eh, Sophia? 

I Know We Have To Avoid Disability Discrimination In The Workplace...

...but surely we aren't hiring blind Border Force staff?

A migrant who came to the UK by boat....

Whoa, let me stop you there! 

'Migrants who arrive by boat' do so with passports and visas in hand, via Stena Lines or P&O. They don't come ashore in Kent via dinghy, having conveniently lost all their documentation. Start calling these what they are - illegal immigrants. 

....and claimed to be a child so he could stay is actually in his mid-20s, and even joined an over-30s dating group, before he was caught out by his grey hairs and stubble.

There is no way in hell anyone could claim to have thought this man was 16 years old. No way.  

Aria Ibrahimi, who is now believed to be 25, posed as a 16-year-old and got taken into care by Kent County Council as a minor before social workers' suspicions began to grow.

/facepalm 

It's 'Answers On A Postcard' Time Again...

 A question is posed:

Well, Reader, over to you. 

Oh, but before I go, let's have a look at these 'refugees', shall we?

One wonders just what it is they are 'fleeing'...

Hey, Robert, You Spelled 'Illegal Immigrant' Wrong!

Migrants get on a ferry and arrive passport in hand, Robert...

The Home Office confirmed the figures today, with 145 people being picked up by Border Force officials during eight incidents yesterday, believed to be a record number for a single day.

Minister for Immigration Compliance and the Courts, Chris Philp said: “We are all working night and day to dismantle and arrest the criminal gangs who trade in people smuggling. This week, the Home Secretary spoke to her French Counterpart Interior Minister, Christophe Castaner who reaffirmed the commitment to carry out more returns at sea to stop these illegal crossings.”

Well, it's good to know Priti is doing something...such a shame it's only talking to some frog muckety-muck while the Border Force play water taxi.

Vital That You Reach The Answers You Want, You Mean...

Hmmm, OK. I'll bite. Go on...

Our immediate reaction is usually shock, and a desire to prevent things like this from happening again. A kneejerk response is to demand tougher controls: more security infrastructure at the borders; tougher punishments for the people who try to make these journeys and those who facilitate them.

Well, errr, yes. What else should we demand?

Yet such disasters do not happen because of a lack of border control – they are the price of it.

And it seems most people - certainly far, far more than the tiny coterie of Open Borders advocates - are happy to pay it. Can't say I'm surprised. I'm happy to pay it, too.

These people aren't refugees - they are illegal immigrants desperate to come here to make as much money out of the country as they can. They know full well that what they are doing is breaking the law, and they just....don't...care!

So why should I?

The illusion our politicians perpetuate, or buy into, is that migration can be switched on and off like a tap, according to the wishes of voters or the demands of the economy.

But it can. If we control our borders.

Britain did not experience a “refugee crisis” in the way that other parts of Europe did: in 2015, as asylum applications rose across Europe as a whole, the UK’s share of applications actually fell.

It fell because they decided it was better to try to get here illegally. They don't care about the risks, as they willingly admit:

A major new study by the United Nations development programme illustrates how complex the answers can be: in interviews with nearly 2,000 people from Africa who travelled to Europe for work, via some of the world’s deadliest migration routes, more than 90% said they would do it again. In the most part, they were not suffering abject poverty, but had experienced inequality and injustice, and wanted more from their lives.

And were happy to break the law to do it. Are these the sort of people you want to see us take in more of?

By asking these questions, we recognise that the people who suffer at our borders are not simply passive victims, but individuals making decisions and trying to retain control of their lives. Only then will we stop treating this issue as a problem to be ignored or suppressed, and start to talk about how we might reorganise our system around people’s needs.

Why on earth would we organise our whole system around some law-breaking stranger's 'needs'..?

It's suicide!

Attacking The Drunken Abusive Customers The English Don't Want To....

The Recorder of York, Judge Paul Batty QC said: “Whilst of course you cannot, and the law doesn’t permit you to, arm yourself with weapons and go on the offensive, the fact of the matter is each of you was subjected to very considerable provocation.

“I am quite satisfied compensation would be wholly inappropriate. The way he behaved that night, he is certainly not going to by the means of this court receive a single penny because he doesn’t deserve it.”

Interesting. I wonder what the feminist outrage would be like if a judge said something similar about a false rape complainer getting a slap from her victim?

He gave Kala a 16-month prison sentence, suspended for two years on condition he does 120 hours’ unpaid work, and Uzbek an eight-month prison sentence suspended for two years on condition he does 80 hours’ unpaid work.

*rolls eyes*

Kala’s solicitor Keith Allen said he had lost his job at Bambinos at Harrogate over the attack.

He had been in the country for 11 years since he arrived as an asylum seeker and been working for the restaurant for one and a half to two months.

/golfclap for the UK Border Agency, there!

Uzbek’s barrister George Hazel-Owram said he was a hard-working man who still worked at the restaurant.

So...now we all know where not to go for a kebab.

Keeping You Safe, Citizen! You Don’t Need To Know The Details…

Police do not know the whereabouts of hundreds of convicted sex offenders in the UK, according to figures published on Tuesday.

A total of 396 registered sex offenders – who are supposed to be monitored by police and inform authorities if they change address – are missing across the UK, with some out of contact with police for more than a decade, according to freedom of information responses to the Press Association.

How terrible! Can the public help you, officers?

Police have refused to name 23 missing sex offenders in case they breach their 'human rights'.

Greater Manchester Police has confirmed that they are missing, including one who disappeared in September 2005, and three who have not been seen since 2006.

Umm…

The MEN asked for the names of all 23 and details of offences they had committed. But in a statement GMP said: "It is not the policy of GMP or the Police Service of England and Wales to routinely name sex offenders whether they are missing or not as this would be a breach of their human rights.

"This also may endanger their safety unnecessarily and may also lead to the identification of victims."

/facepalm

"A large proportion of the recorded missing/wanted sex offenders are either known or believed to be living abroad or have returned to their country of origin.

"Of the 23 registered sex offenders registered in GMP whose whereabouts are currently unknown, 11 are strongly believed to be abroad and checks are in place should they return to the UK.

"The remaining 12 are subject to periodic reviews and enquiries in order to trace them all are circulated as wanted."

Oh, OK, well, we can all sleep safe in our beds knowing the UKBF is on the ca…

Wait.