Straight from horses mouth. Listen to this exchange between Angela Rayner and Nick Robinson on illegal migration. It’s very revealing. Under Andy Burnham’s new government, Angela Rayner just showed Labour still doesn’t get it on the boats. A record 230 people on one mega-dinghy crossed the Channel yesterday. Nick Robinson asks Housing Secretary Angela Rayner how she feels as a politician seeing it. She replies that she feels “absolutely appalled” these criminal gangs will load a boat up to dangerous levels and put the “innocent lives of desperate people at risk”. That’s why they must crack down on the criminal gangs. Robinson then puts to her that people feel “rage” watching these huge boats coming over, saying “it’s no longer a taxi service, it’s a bus service!” And they don’t go back to France. Rayner’s response: “Well these are desperate, vulnerable people getting into these vessels that are dangerous and we’ve got to stop that.” That exchange shows they just don’t get it. These people are choosing to make the crossing. They’re not desperate families. It’s overwhelmingly young men, economic migrants coming for a handout from the British taxpayer, making the trip voluntarily. They’re not being forced onto the boats. Rayner has no problem with the migrants coming over. No problem with the huge numbers. No problem with who they might be or what they might do. No problem with the huge costs involved. The only problem, in her view, is their choice of travel to this country. Now you understand why Mahmood and Burnham keep banging on about more safe and legal routes. They don’t want to stop the immigrants. They just want a safer entry.
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