There was a building in Calais where asylum seeker claims could be processed. Health was checked, children were fed, women were protected from rape.
No-one had to die under trains or drown in the world’s busiest shipping lane. Unworthy claims were thrown out before they set foot on British soil, and the ones who genuinely needed help got it.

In 2002, we told the French to close it.

And we put up a fence.

Then we bombed Libya, were unable to pick a side in Syria, complained about Somalia, did nothing at all about Eritrea while mining it of resources and watched the Arab Spring install schismatic warlords all over the Middle East.

It’s hardly a surprise some of them want to come here, if only to lodge a formal complaint.


We cut resources for our border agency, which means there are only a few people at a time to check lorries at Calais. This means the queue backs up, the lorries have to stop, and immigrants have the opportunity to clamber aboard.

We put up better fences at the ferry terminal, which means those same people have gone to the Eurotunnel terminal instead.
We’re putting up more fences there, so now they’re cutting the normal fences further away and walking up the track. 
We’re going to have to put up steel fencing all the way to Tripoli at this rate, and that still won’t stop it.


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