The dead include 10 women and girls. The UK government is to blame, for encouraging illegal mass migration (which is also harming British citizens). Also to blame are the unscrupulous people smugglers. The migrant invasion of sovereign countries should have been brought to an end years ago. Illegal migration drove Brexit, continued under the Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak governments, and still persists. Failed immigration policies (along with their consequences) have caused frustration to boil into the protests that recently rocked Britain. The UK has faced protests against its ruinous immigration policies that have seen crime soar and jihad attacks and threats rise, amid a plummeting economy.
UK interior minister Yvette Cooper called the deaths “horrifying and deeply tragic.” She criticized the “gangs behind this appalling and callous trade in human lives,” saying that they “do not care about anything but the profits they make.” French police say that “smuggling gangs” are increasingly “forcing migrants, year-round, into ever more crowded and unseaworthy boats.”
While government reps such as Cooper pass the blame, it’s ultimately the UK government’s fault for not putting an end to illegal migration and for not making an example out of unscrupulous people smugglers.
“Ten women and girls among 12 dead after migrant boat sinks in Channel,” Sky News, September 4, 2024:
At least 12 people have died – including 10 women and girls – after a boat with dozens of migrants tore apart in the English Channel, a local mayor has said.
Olivier Barbarin, mayor of Le Portel, a French coastal town being used in a rescue operation, said “the bottom of the boat ripped open”.
The French coastguard said more than 65 people had been rescued after a vessel got into difficulties on Tuesday morning.
Local authorities said several people needed emergency treatment and a temporary medical post has been set up at the port at Boulogne-sur-Mer, about 28 miles (45km) southwest of Calais…..
More than 21,000 people crossed the English Channel in small boats between January and September 2024
John Allan says
‘The UK government is to blame, for encouraging illegal mass migration …’
Encouraging!? Boll_cks!!
It’s what it ISN’T doing, that is the problem – STOPPING it!
And BEFORE they reach the Channel’s halfway point!
John Smith says
John Allan.
As soon illegal migrants arrive they are provided with free accommodation, often in 4 or 5 star hotels. They are given money, food, and free health care. That is what I and most other people would call, encouraging them.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
This is great news, and I’m not remotely sympathetic towards the migrants. What British coast guard, or what passes for them, won’t do, the English channel did: swallowed them whole. I just hope this happens to more and more of those boats, so that people stop trying to go to the UK
stephen charles burgess says
could not care less why do we let this shower of sh-t to keep coming sack the whole border force not fit for any purpose . do not feel sorry for any of them.
John Smith says
Germany are now in negotiations with Rwanda to send their illegal migrants there. They plan to take over the facilities paid for by the British tax payer to house them. These facilities cost the British one billion.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Maybe Britain can do the same sort of Rwanda deal w/ Germany, and let Germany forward them to Rwanda, so that that problem is still solvable
As an aside, why can’t they do such negotiations w/ one of those muslim countries, such as, say, Sudan or Turkmenistan or Yemen?
Andrew Blackadder says
Try blaming France for allowing these people into France in the first place and try sinking the bloody boats just as soon as they enter British Waters as any country would do once they notice they are being invaded… Key word here is NOTICE…
England Invaded says
They got on the boats, they are to blame. Need to more to stop this.
OLD GUY says
The problem is all these soft hearted do-gooders see these illegals as poor down and out individuals looking for a better life. Thats not always true. Many of these illegals are coming into the countries for the free ride, or are criminals in their home country on the run, or they are invaders coming to disrupt your society. Border control is a must if you are going to have a country with law and order.
When a home invasion takes place you defend your home and your family, illegal migration is an invasion of your home country. So defend your borders like your life and property depend on it. Anyone who intentionally breaks the law is a criminal, not a migrant.
Doug Hanlon says
As most of the kindly commenters here have noted, the people drowned in the Channel deserved what they got. Especially the six-year-olds.