THE small boats crisis is a national security emergency. In the last 100 days we have seen a spate of alleged attacks by illegal migrants.
A girl in Epping , sexually assaulted. A ten year old in Stockport , nearly kidnapped. Three stabbed in Southampton . All adding to a general sense of lawlessness in the country.
It’s no wonder protests are starting up across the country.
I wouldn’t want my children to share a neighbourhood with small boat migrants about which we know next to nothing.
I don’t want anyone else’s family to have this forced on them either.
For saying this I, and the millions of people who agree with my statement, were labelled “racist” on BBC Radio 4’s Thought For The Day.
The BBC didn’t see anything wrong with this statement and allowed it to be broadcast.
Well, there is nothing racist about caring about the safety of your family.
Patriotic protesters
When I was in the Home Office I saw up close that dangerous people were crossing the Channel .
I sounded the alarm publicly that terror suspects were crossing in small boats .
I am pushing for the Government to publish the migrant crime stats quarterly, but until then the indicative data suggests certain nationalities are far more disposed to commit crime than others.
The overwhelming majority of those crossing in small boats are adult males with no paperwork.
How are the authorities supposed to identify them and check their criminal record ?
The British people are right to be worried. It’s why on Sunday I visited peaceful and patriotic protesters in Epping, Essex , who are simply fed up.
I spoke to teenagers, parents and grandparents — all rightly concerned about the safety of their community.
These weren’t racists or far-right thugs — they were mums in pink T-shirts with Union Jack bunting.
One mother told me how her daughter’s school had written to her suggesting children avoid certain parts of town on their walk home.
Her young daughter told me that men from the hotels loiter outside certain spots “where they look at us.”
These weren’t racists or far-right thugs — they were mums in pink T-shirts with Union Jack bunting
Another mother told me how her daughter had bought a pair of construction worker’s boots to put outside the house, to make it look as if there was a man inside.
Among everyone I spoke to there was outrage at how they felt the perfectly legitimate anger over mass, uncontrolled migration had been ignored by the Government and smeared by an absurdly out-of-touch liberal elite.
The Government isn’t listening to the community in Epping, nor those across the country who have asylum hotels forced upon them.
These hotels aren’t where the cabinet or senior officials live.
They are safe in their ivory towers. It doesn’t affect their day-to-day lives like it does for those in the rest of the country.
Sir Keir Starmer should get out of Westminster and come and speak to the people of Epping to hear their concerns and act on them.
We’re seven years into this and more than 170,000 have arrived illegally
Maybe then he will wake up and do something about the spiralling small boat crossings .
But until then we will keep seeing fair-minded Brits out protesting that enough is enough.
Sick joke
We’re seven years into this and more than 170,000 have arrived illegally.
Based on a Dutch study, each migrant is set to cost us roughly half a million pounds over the course of their lifetime.
By the end of the decade, we’ll have spent tens of billions on this.
It’s a disgrace. A sick joke on the British people. It simply has to end.
I will be the first to admit the last government didn’t do enough to fix this problem.
I was the first Minister to close hotels, initiating 100 exits — but we needed to do more.
I fought tooth and nail with then Home Secretary Suella Braverman to get Rishi Sunak to disapply Tony Blair’s Human Rights Act and ECHR so we could deport all those coming illegally.
But despite much arguing, I couldn’t persuade him, so I resigned and fought on the backbenches for much stronger measures.
If Starmer is to succeed he needs to close all the loopholes immigration offenders use to frustrate their removal.
And he needs to reform the judiciary to remove activist judges who compromise the independence of the judiciary.
Otherwise the British people will continue to suffer.
