{"id":1012436,"date":"2021-11-14T20:13:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T01:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1012436"},"modified":"2021-11-14T20:13:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T01:13:52","slug":"wrong-line-of-work-uk-border-force-boss-says-bloody-borders-are-pain-in-the-bloody-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wrong-line-of-work-uk-border-force-boss-says-bloody-borders-are-pain-in-the-bloody-ass\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrong Line of Work? UK Border Force Boss Says &#039;Bloody Borders&#039; Are &#039;Pain in the Bloody Ass&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwrong-line-of-work-uk-border-force-boss-says-bloody-borders-are-pain-in-the-bloody-ass%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1012436&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1232745146-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The outgoing chief of the British Border Force reportedly said that \u201cbloody borders\u201d are a \u201cpain in the bloody ass\u201d as the agency he leads continues to bring hordes of illegal boat migrants to Britain\u2019s shores.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Lincoln, who has served as the director-general of the Border Force since 2017, marked his departure with a speech maligning the very concept of borders themselves as he is set to step down from his&nbsp;\u00a3135,000-per-year position.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Excerpts of the speech, which were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10199165\/Outgoing-UK-Border-Force-boss-triggers-political-row-saying-borders-just-pain-a.html\">obtained<\/a> by the <em>Mail on Sunday<\/em>, had Lincoln quoting Shane MacGowan of The Pogues, saying: \u201cPeople are talking about immigration, emigration, and the rest of the bloody thing. It\u2019s all bloody crap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Lincoln concluded his remarks by proclaiming: \u201cWe\u2019re all human beings, we\u2019re all mammals, we\u2019re all rocks, plants, rivers. Bloody borders are just such a pain in the bloody ass.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The leaked speech comes as the migrant crisis in the English Channel continues to hit record levels, with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/12\/estimated-1000-illegal-migrants-cross-english-channel-new-daily-record\/\">new daily high<\/a> of&nbsp;1,185 landing on British beaches on Thursday. It is estimated that over 23,500 illegals have successfully reached the UK since the start of the year, approaching three times last year\u2019s record total of 8,410.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Rather than protecting the nation\u2019s borders, the Border Force has been accused of acting as a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/06\/29\/migrant-crisis-nigel-farage-challenges-home-secretary-priti-patel-to-come-to-the-border\/\">taxi service<\/a>\u201d for illegal migrants, with Border Force boats regularly picking up migrants in the middle of the Channel and ferrying them to the Port of Dover. The Border Force has also reportedly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/06\/05\/uk-border-force-travelled-into-french-waters-to-pick-up-migrants-report\/\">travelled into French territorial waters<\/a>&nbsp;to pick up migrants and bring them back to Britain.<\/p>\n<p>Priti Patel\u2019s Home Office has called for the Border Force to begin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/10\/05\/priti-patel-says-uk-military-will-turn-back-the-boats-to-stop-migrant-crisis\/\">turning migrant boats back<\/a> to France, a safe and prosperous EU member-state from which migrants have no cause to flee. However, last week a Border Force official told the media that there is no appetite within the agency of enacting the government\u2019s wishes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/09\/uk-border-force-refuses-to-turn-migrant-boats-back-to-france\/\">saying<\/a>:&nbsp;\u201cThere is fairly universal agreement that this is not likely to ever happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.8653846153846\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Farage Blasts Pay Rises for Border Force and Home Office Amid Migrant Failure <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7nCjdZS1Vu\">https:\/\/t.co\/7nCjdZS1Vu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1422946176605855750?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 4, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There is growing concern within the government that the migrant crisis will only escalate in light of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/08\/watch-violent-clashes-polish-border-thousands-of-mid-east-migrants-besiege-nato-frontier\/\">masses of Middle Eastern migrants<\/a> gathering on the Poland-Belarus border, with many potentially heading to the United Kingdom should they breach the EU frontier.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Home Secretary Priti Patel <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SimonJonesNews\/status\/1459810301373730816\">said<\/a>: \u201cWe are facing a global migration crisis, choreographed by organised crime groups. This is a pressing and urgent issue for the whole of Europe, requiring close working with our near neighbours in France, Belgium and the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cPartnership with France is central to our response to unacceptable and deadly illegal crossings in the Channel. It is a shared problem and it needs shared solutions and I have been in close contact with Monsieur Darmanin this weekend,\u201d she said, heedless of the fact that counting on the French to stop the crisis instead of taking robust unilateral action has failed for years.<\/p>\n<p>There is growing concerns about the potential political fallout from the crisis, particularly in so-called Red Wall seats in which Tory MPs were elected in traditional Labour Party strongholds in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Amid allegations of corruption within the Conservative Party, recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/nov\/13\/labour-records-first-poll-lead-over-tories-since-january\">polls<\/a> have seen Keir Starmer\u2019s Labour actually take a lead over Boris Johnson\u2019s Tories in the polls, representing the first lead for the left-wing party since January.<\/p>\n<p>Tory MP Alexander Stafford, who represents a Red Wall seat in Rother Valley in the North of England, criticised the government for focusing on issues like climate change rather than on the migrant crisis, which in his estimation is far more of a pressing issue for voters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApart from Covid, dealing with the migrant crisis is the No 1 priority for my constituents. The Government must put relentless focus on sorting out the mess going on in the Channel,\u201d the Conservative MP told the <em>MoS<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Another Red Wall MP told the paper: \u201cWe\u2019re hosting this huge world climate conference but we can\u2019t stop people crossing 25 miles of water in a rubber dinghy.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.7963525835866\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Britain&#8217;s Crown Prosecution Service has announced it will no longer bother to attempt prosecuting most illegal migrants even under existing laws, as Home Secretary Priti Patel is once again claiming the Tories are poised to get tough on mass migration <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QDGlDHmAYO\">https:\/\/t.co\/QDGlDHmAYO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1413786320460206084?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 10, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Kurt Zindulka on Twitter here <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtZindulka\">@KurtZindulka<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The outgoing chief of the British Border Force reportedly said that \u201cbloody borders\u201d are a \u201cpain in the bloody ass\u201d as the agency he leads continues to bring hordes of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}