{"id":1043398,"date":"2021-11-22T09:28:56","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T14:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1043398"},"modified":"2021-11-22T09:29:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T14:29:00","slug":"migrant-arrivals-around-triple-that-of-2020-majority-of-voters-think-tories-are-too-soft-on-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/migrant-arrivals-around-triple-that-of-2020-majority-of-voters-think-tories-are-too-soft-on-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrant Arrivals Around TRIPLE that of 2020, Majority of Voters Think Tories Are \u2018Too Soft\u2019 on Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fmigrant-arrivals-around-triple-that-of-2020-majority-of-voters-think-tories-are-too-soft-on-crisis%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=1043398&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\/boat-migrants-1-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Approximately 25,000 illegal aliens have crossed the English Channel from France since the beginning of this year, around triple the number that arrived in 2020, when 8,404 made the journey.<\/p>\n<p>The estimations were revealed as the government appears to have gone into panic mode over the English Channel migrant crisis, with a government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-59357991\">review<\/a> looking into the record number of landings.<\/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>Public perception of the government\u2019s handling of the situation is not favourable to the Johnson administration, either, with the majority of all voters and three-quarters of those who backed Boris in the 2019 election <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/politics\/2021\/11\/20\/migrant-crisis-puts-tories-peril\/\">thinking<\/a> the Tories are \u201ctoo soft\u201d in dealing with the illegal migrant flows.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/hundreds-more-migrants-rush-to-cross-channel-before-winter-hj82v0ks9\">reported<\/a> on Saturday that hundreds of more people had crossed the Channel on Friday in a bid to beat the coming bad weather, with small boats arriving on the shores of Dungeness, Folkestone, and Dover in the south-east English county of Kent. One eyewitness told the newspaper that he saw around 300 people arrive at Dungeness alone.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper of record calculated that the latest arrivals, in their hundreds, will add to the 24,700 already known to have arrived by boat this year, triple the 8,404 who landed in 2020.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Prime Minister Johnson is reportedly said to be \u201cexasperated\u201d by his own government\u2019s failure to get to grips with the mass illegal migration coming largely via France, and has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-59357991\">ordered<\/a> a review into how to prevent it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.0434782608696\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Chain Migration: Macron Suggests Illegals Should Be Allowed Entry to UK for \u2018Family Reunification\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pK7rWKfayQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/pK7rWKfayQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1462058649149493254?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A senior government source told <em>The Times<\/em> that the crisis has become his \u201cnumber one priority\u201d which the \u201centire government machinery\u201d must get behind to solve.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-59357991\">appointed<\/a> Cabinet Office minister Stephen Barclay to lead the review, looking at what other departments can do to solve the problem including diplomatic options like \u201coffshoring\u201d the processing of migrants to a third country which will be paid for hosting the asylum seekers.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a poll <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/politics\/2021\/11\/20\/migrant-crisis-puts-tories-peril\/\">conducted<\/a> by the Tory-leaning <em>Telegraph<\/em> has revealed that 55 per cent of the British public and 77 per cent of those who voted Conservative in the last election think the government\u2019s approach to handling the English Channel migrant crisis has been \u201ctoo soft\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>A former Conservative front-bencher told the newspaper that the migrant crisis could be more damaging to the party than the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/nov\/08\/what-are-the-sleaze-scandals-facing-downing-street\">alleged \u2018sleaze scandals\u2019<\/a>, saying:&nbsp;\u201cPeople are genuinely fed up with this. So I think you can be pretty tough. That will mean that we will end up in the courts, but the Government has got to fight this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another Tory MP observed that a \u2018review\u2019 would be rather a pointless exercise without action, saying:&nbsp;\u201cIt\u2019s all very well putting Steve Barclay on it. What\u2019s he going to find out? That they need to get on with the bloody thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.7011494252874\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Boris Govt Plan to Send Boat Migrants to Albania \u2018Will Never Happen\u2019, Says Albanian Govt <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mfiHzqREqv\">https:\/\/t.co\/mfiHzqREqv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1461651718358269959?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite the tough talk appearing to be leaked from the government, Reform UK leader Richard Tice has told Breitbart London that he doesn\u2019t believe Johnson has the \u201cpolitical guts\u201d or \u201cpolitical will\u201d to take a firm line on stopping illegal mass migration.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to this publication last week, Mr Tice \u2014 who is running for a parliamentary seat in the upcoming Sidcup by-election \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/18\/exclusive-richard-tice-boris-johnson-doesnt-have-the-political-guts-to-stop-illegal-immigration\/\">said<\/a>: \u201cWe should be at zero tolerance of illegal immigration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government is failing woefully, utterly woefully, because they are incompetent because they talk the talk, but they never walk the walk in terms of delivery, action, and deeds,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Saying he supported the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/09\/uk-border-force-refuses-to-turn-migrant-boats-back-to-france\/\">\u2018turn back the boats\u2019<\/a> policy, Mr Tice said: \u201cThere\u2019s absolutely no question we have to make clear that nobody who comes over illegally by the Channel will be granted asylum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adding: \u201cThe first thing you do is you stop the dangerous situation, so you pick them up in the Border Force boats and you take them back to France which we can do under existing international law. We just don\u2019t have the political guts, the political will to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"video-src-attr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/author\/kzindulka\/\">Kurt Zindulka<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Approximately 25,000 illegal aliens have crossed the English Channel from France since the beginning of this year, around triple the number that arrived in 2020, when 8,404 made the journey. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"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-1043398","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\/1043398","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\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043398\/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=1043398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}