{"id":1061619,"date":"2021-11-28T10:59:56","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T15:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1061619"},"modified":"2021-11-28T11:00:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T16:00:04","slug":"boris-hasnt-got-a-clue-farage-slams-tories-for-rudderless-response-to-migrant-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/boris-hasnt-got-a-clue-farage-slams-tories-for-rudderless-response-to-migrant-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Boris &#039;Hasn&#039;t Got a Clue&#039;! Farage Slams Tories For &#039;Rudderless&#039; Response to Migrant Crisis"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fboris-hasnt-got-a-clue-farage-slams-tories-for-rudderless-response-to-migrant-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=1061619&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\/Farage-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Nigel Farage has accused the British government of being \u201cutterly rudderless\u201d in the face of a growing migrant crisis in the English Channel and said that Prime Minister Boris Johnson doesn\u2019t have \u201ca clue\u201d how to manage post-Brexit Britain.<\/p>\n<p>The Brexit leader, who has hinted at a possible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/23\/nigel-farage-threatens-return-to-politics-if-bojo-cant-solve-out-of-control-migrant-crisis\/\">political comeback<\/a> over the Conservative government\u2019s failures to stop illegal boat migration, said that the issue&nbsp; \u2014 which he has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2020\/04\/29\/farage-illegal-boat-migrant-scandal-is-bigger-than-anyone-realises\/\">long highlighted<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 runs the risk of turning into a \u201cnational crisis\u201d and that the government is \u201cutterly rudderless\u201d in dealing with it.<\/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>\u201cI think it is possible that by the spring or summer of next year this [the Channel crossings by migrants] will become a national emergency,\u201d Farage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/politics\/1527895\/Nigel-Farage-comeback-nhs-immigration\">told<\/a> the <em>Sunday Express<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the numbers that will come will dwarf what you are currently seeing. I\u2019ve not been wrong on a single prediction on this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can put 20,000 police on the beaches in France but if the pull factors remain as strong here, namely four-star accommodation, three square meals a day, healthcare, dental care, spending money and the massive illegal economy that thrives in Britain with slave conditions, although nobody dares want to talk about that whether it is in Leicester or wherever it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Mr Farage argued that the Tory Party and Prime Minister Johnson never actually believed in reducing migration, but merely paid lip service to voters during the Brexit referendum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoris Johnson didn\u2019t even want to talk about migration in the referendum, he said, adding: \u201cThey mentioned it because they got electoral advantage from it, they never meant it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The apparent lack of a desire to reduce immigration was perhaps demonstrated by Health Secretary Sajid Javid on Sunday, who <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RidgeOnSunday\/status\/1464886830059372549\">told<\/a> Sky News that the UK should be \u201cvery proud\u201d of having expanded the asylum system to allow tens of thousands to settle in Britain.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.7142857142857\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Farage Slams Border Force, Priti Patel as \u2018Not Fit for Purpose\u2019 After Boat Migrant Deaths <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/21ucZl7zrw\">https:\/\/t.co\/21ucZl7zrw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1463897453187506181?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr Farage, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/03\/07\/farage-quits-electoral-politics-but-battle-against-communist-china-and-woke-brigade-continues\/\">stepped back<\/a> from frontline politics in February following the UK\u2019s official departure from the European Union, warned that the British public is growing tired of the Conservative Party\u2019s inability or unwillingness to confront the crisis in the English Channel, which claimed the lives of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/25\/boris-slams-french-government-for-failing-to-stop-migrant-boats-after-at-least-27-die-in-english-channel\/\">27 migrants<\/a> this week, including a pregnant woman, after a boat capsised off the French coast.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe majority of Leave voters, the vast majority of Conservative voters see [immigration] as an absolutely defining issue and he hasn\u2019t got a clue how to do this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there are millions of people now who literally would not vote. The Corbyn bogeyman has gone. It is difficult to see how Starmer could be worse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On a possible return to the political fray, the former Brexit Party (later rebranded as Reform UK) leader, said \u201cnever say never\u201d and that he will think about it. Mr Farage claimed to have been contacted by big Tory donors, who have become disillusioned with the left-wing agenda of the supposed Conservative government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are not taking advantage of Brexit, we have got our country back but we have not changed politics for good,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Even without Mr Farage at the helm, Reform UK, which is now being led by former businessman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/18\/exclusive-richard-tice-boris-johnson-doesnt-have-the-political-guts-to-stop-illegal-immigration\/\">Richard Tice<\/a>, has been steadily gaining in the polls, rising to six per cent in a general voting preference in the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.cdn.yougov.com\/prf6ceddy2\/TheTimes_VI_211125_W.pdf\">survey<\/a> from YouGov, putting Reform UK on par with the long-established Liberal Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s amazing given that the brand name isn\u2019t even established yet. Is there an appetite for something? Yes, there really is,\u201d Farage said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.1052631578947\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Prime Minister Farage: Blair\u2019s Former Minister Fears Relaxing Migration Rules Could Result in Farage as PM <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/I5lDtaBSsD\">https:\/\/t.co\/I5lDtaBSsD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1464326844589776903?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 26, 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>Nigel Farage has accused the British government of being \u201cutterly rudderless\u201d in the face of a growing migrant crisis in the English Channel and said that Prime Minister Boris Johnson &#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-1061619","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\/1061619","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=1061619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061619\/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=1061619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}