{"id":1130389,"date":"2021-12-18T10:29:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T15:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1130389"},"modified":"2021-12-18T10:29:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T15:29:11","slug":"farage-predicts-doom-for-boris-at-election-over-borders-as-hundreds-more-illegals-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/farage-predicts-doom-for-boris-at-election-over-borders-as-hundreds-more-illegals-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Farage Predicts &#039;Doom&#039; for Boris at Election over Borders as &#039;Hundreds&#039; More Illegals Land"},"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%2Ffarage-predicts-doom-for-boris-at-election-over-borders-as-hundreds-more-illegals-land%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=1130389&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\/Nigel-Farage-3-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Brexit leader Nigel Farage has warned that the Tories may be \u201cdoomed\u201d at the next general election unless they deal with the migrant crisis in the English Channel, claiming that \u201csix hundred migrants\u201d landed in Britain on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>While Mr Farage predicted that the market town of North Shropshire, which Boris Johnson just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/17\/another-blow-for-boris-conservatives-lose-ultra-safe-north-shropshire-seat-in-special-election\/\">lost to the Liberal Democrats<\/a> in a by-election, will \u201cin all probability go back to the Conservatives\u201d at the next general election, he warned that a \u201cbigger problem\u201d which continues to unfold in the waters between England and France could cost the party even more seats when the country next goes to the polls.<\/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>In a video&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=57NYYVlwbKU\">published<\/a> to YouTube, Mr Farage claimed that \u201chours before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/17\/another-blow-for-boris-conservatives-lose-ultra-safe-north-shropshire-seat-in-special-election\/\">that result was declared<\/a>, the Dover lifeboat was called out by the coast guard, following 600 people who illegally crossed the English Channel yesterday\u201d, and further alleged that by early Friday morning another four boats had already been brought into the Dover harbour.<\/p>\n<p>While media reports had not corroborated Mr Farage\u2019s claims of hundreds of illegals making it to Britain via France on Thursday, the <em>Daily Mail<\/em> had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10315045\/Channel-migrants-held-inadequate-conditions.html\">reported<\/a> around 100 arrivals by Thursday afternoon. Local media outlet KentOnline also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentonline.co.uk\/dover\/news\/channel-crossings-continue-259325\/\">reported<\/a> that \u201clarge numbers of people\u201d had been brought ashore at the port town of Dover, while Sky News <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/migrant-crisis-crossings-continue-despite-channel-tragedy-as-high-tech-spotter-plane-joins-search-efforts-12497684\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;yesterday that \u201cplenty\u201d of boats are still leaving French shores \u2014 these reports coming after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/16\/france-closes-border-to-uk-meanwhile-channel-migrant-crisis-rages-on\/\">weeks of relative silence<\/a> from the press on migrant landings.<\/p>\n<p>It has been estimated that over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/14\/outgoing-uk-border-force-chief-says-borders-are-a-pain-in-the-bloody-a-report\/\">23,500 illegal migrants<\/a> have made the crossing this year, with actual numbers most likely being higher as not everyone who crosses is caught.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Farage has&nbsp;suggested&nbsp;migration was a major worry for voters in the North Shropshire by-election which resulted in an embarrassing defeat for Conservatives, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/17\/another-blow-for-boris-conservatives-lose-ultra-safe-north-shropshire-seat-in-special-election\/\">lost the seat<\/a> that they held for nearly 200 years to the Liberal Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Reports surfaced that it cost the British taxpayer an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/09\/02\/cost-of-housing-asylum-seekers-jumps-to-1-4-billion-in-britain\/\">estimated \u00a31.4 billion<\/a>&nbsp;last year to accommodate illegal migrants.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.3493150684931\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dover today, another steady stream of illegals crossing the Channel. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kJ9h73k8k7\">pic.twitter.com\/kJ9h73k8k7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nigel_Farage\/status\/1471491992282566660?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis is an issue not just in North Shropshire, but crucially in the Red Wall, and these are areas of voters who\u2019ve normally been Labour,\u201d Mr Farage said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTaking back control of our borders, reducing the numbers [of migrants] coming into Britain was the reason [historical Labour voters] voted Brexit, the reason they were happy to vote for the Conservatives in 2o19, and I promise you this issue is going right to the top of British politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Conservative Party\u2019s once 80-seat majority won in 2019 was in large part delivered by former \u2018Red Wall\u2019 voters&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2019\/12\/13\/collapse-red-wall-labour-voters-backed-conservatives\/\">choosing to vote<\/a> Conservative, some for the first time ever.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Red Wall\u2019 refers to industrial areas of Britain, that were once home to coal mines, steel plants, and manufacturing, largely in the North of England,&nbsp;were where the working-class voters typically supported Labour \u2014 whose traditional colour is red.<\/p>\n<p>These regions are similar to the so-called \u2018Rust Belt\u2019 in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Immigration is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.migrationwatchuk.org\/news\/2020\/09\/07\/red-wall-constituents-oppose-governments-immigration-proposals\">particularly important<\/a> to Red Wall voters as their communities were disproportionately affected by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3466485\/How-Blair-cynically-let-two-million-migrants-Explosive-biography-reveals-PM-s-conspiracy-silence-immigration-debate.html\">\u201cunprecedented influx\u201d<\/a> of migrants orchestrated by Tony Blair in the late \u201990s and 2000s, which has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/04\/17\/uk-office-for-national-statistics-estimates-net-immigration-increased-282000\/\">continued largely unabated<\/a> under the Conservatives.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.9354838709677\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">French Minister: Migrants Threatened To Throw Babies into English Channel <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zZguPR7TTc\">https:\/\/t.co\/zZguPR7TTc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1465739150577991683?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 30, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In his address, Farage once again suggested the solution to ending \u201chuge numbers of young men\u201d coming into Britain is to introduce an Australia-style migration system.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott\u2019s government launched&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2017\/02\/08\/operation-sovereign-borders-900-days-migrant-boat-australia\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Operation Sovereign Borders<\/span><\/a>, under which migrant boats are intercepted at sea and either brought to offshore processing centres or returned to their country of origin. This operation helped reduce the number of migrant boats that land in the country to virtually zero.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Conservatives are going to be doomed at the next election unless they have a leader with the courage to deal with what\u2019s happening in the English Channel and I don\u2019t think it\u2019s Boris Johnson anymore,\u201d Farage said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.7639751552795\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">82 Per Cent of Voters Think Boris Govt Is Handling Channel Migrant Crisis Badly <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TTdhY82kEk\">https:\/\/t.co\/TTdhY82kEk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1465700646825250819?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 30, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brexit leader Nigel Farage has warned that the Tories may be \u201cdoomed\u201d at the next general election unless they deal with the migrant crisis in the English Channel, claiming that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"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-1130389","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\/1130389","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\/349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1130389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130389\/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=1130389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}