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What do you make of the government's most recent announcement to crack down on people smugglers, given, of course, illegal migration is now 50 percent higher than it was last year
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Yes. And as you said earlier, Tom, you know, we've now hit twenty five thousand and we're only in early August
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Look, I watched Alex Ballinger's interview. The fascinating thing was what he didn't say
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And he didn't mention that the government have announced this weekend they're going to try and massively speed up the process of asylum claims
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The problem with that is it will act as a gigantic pull factor
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At the moment, about half of all asylum claims are granted. So if you let the word get round, you know, all those camps in northern France or the British government are going to process asylum claims quotes within weeks
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more and more people will attempt the journey if they think they've got a 50% chance of getting
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asylum if they can get across the channel that you know the most the busiest shipping lane in
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the world so this is not thought through they said they would smash the gangs they palpably haven't
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that this ridiculous scheme of uh 17 in one out that was announced a few weeks ago is a total
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gimmick. Labour have no plan whatsoever to stop the boats. And that's a tragedy because the boats
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will keep coming, will need more asylum hotels, and there'll be more and more social unrest
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as a result. So this is all tinkering. The truth is they haven't got a clue what they're doing
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and the boats will keep coming and people will get angrier and angrier about it
