Thugs behind Channel boat deaths ‘claim asylum’ - proving what nonsense Rwanda deal is

Does anyone today, anyone, even the most ardent hand-wringing, pro-illegal migrant twerp, really think that the violent men who used weapons and thuggery to bully their way onto that already fatally overcrowded dingy in the Channel are really genuine asylum seekers?

The thugs who used brute force and fear to make a terribly unsafe vessel fatally unsafe? The gangsters who basically killed a 12-year-old girl and four other human beings?

Asylum seekers? Really?

Young men who we Brits are to unquestioningly believe have been living in fear in their homeland - wherever that may be - for some as yet unexplained, and now wholly non-credible, reason?

Maybe they’re gay? Maybe their human rights activism has led to death threats from their dictatorial state? Maybe they’re persecuted for following their religion?

Maybe.

But looking at the horrific empirical evidence... most sentient beings would have to conclude it all sounds like cobblers.

They look rather like bad men you’d not especially like to have living next door to you.

Which is unfortunate, because someone quite soon will be.

Which brings me, again, to my oft-repeated concern about illegal asylum seekers from some pretty awful African states.

It is more than possible that the only men able to raise the not inconsiderable monies, to have the health, strength and resources to get from say Eritrea (where the thugs are believed to be from), cross two continents to the shores of northern France are much more likely to have been the paid soldiers meting out the war crimes than the persecuted and battered victims of the conflict against the tiny region of Tigray say. (FYI Tigray and Ethiopia have been at war since 2020 and as many as 600,000 people are believed to have been killed. A laughable peace treaty was signed last year but according to Amnesty the war crimes, the raping, enslaving and executing of civilians, are still ongoing. And, admit it, you didn’t have a clue did you? Black Lives might matter in privileged New York and London but in dirt poor east Africa the world happily turns a blind eye to genocide.)

Anyway, my point about who these illegal asylum seekers are is impossible to prove of course - but that is rather the point.

And before you start, I’m absolutely not against immigration - it’s the vital lifeblood of any thriving economy. It might well even produce Britain’s much-needed increase in productivity - but no sane state can leave the decision on who comes here to merciless organised crime.

Let’s remind ourselves what led to the deaths of five would-be migrants in the Channel yesterday - the very day Rishi Sunak finally secured his (slightly bizarre) Rwanda deal.

In the early morning Sky News - who had cameras on the spot - reported French police were being attacked by migrants using weapons and stones, and the terrified officers retreated.

Does that sound like the persecuted huddled masses to you?

The thugs then rushed an obviously unseaworthy rubber dingy and bullied the occupants into making way for them, swelling the numbers to an unfeasible 112.

The said dingy then ran aground at Wimereux, near Boulogne-sur-Mer, panic ensued, the boat part-capsized and five people died.

And where are those boat-rushing thugs today? Why, they are in our communities of course, because incomprehensibly 58 survivors were then escorted to Britain courtesy of the French Navy.

A criminal investigation into the deaths has been opened by the Boulogne-sur-Mer prosecutor, for all the good it will do.

A source close to the investigation said: “These are the men who could well be responsible for the deaths. The problem is that they are already in Britain, and undoubtedly claiming asylum.”

And apparently, all we can do is shake our collective heads.

More than 200 illegal migrants arrived in Britain yesterday.

Another 200 are expected today.

It’s estimated that even if Rishi’s bonkers Rwanda scheme gets off the ground - metaphorically and actually - only 200 migrants PER YEAR will find themselves in the East African country.

The truth is, despite all the agonies, all the fuss and bluster, all the time and money wasted, the Rwanda solution is no solution at all.