Farage calls for national emergency over arrival of people from ‘alien’ cultures
Nigel Farage has urged the Prime Minister to declare a national emergency, as he claimed thousands of migrants from cultures which are “alien” to British people are coming to the UK.
The Reform UK leader and MP for Clacton, said billions of pounds are being spent on housing “undocumented males” in hotels and rented accommodation.
In the Commons, Sir Keir Starmer accused Reform UK of being a “pro-Putin” party who want to charge people to use the NHS.
The Prime Minister also pointed to the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill, saying the Government will “take back control” after the Tories lost it.
“Undocumented males”
Speaking at Prime Minister’s Questions, Mr Farage said: “To date, so far this year, 10,000 young, undocumented males have illegally crossed the English Channel into our country, a 40% increase on this time last year.
“Many coming from cultures that are somewhat alien to ours.
“They are being housed at a cost of many billions of pounds a year in hotels and increasingly in private rented homes.
“The effect on communities is one of a sense of deep unfairness, actually bordering on resentment.
“In Runcorn alone, there are 750 of these young men.
“Is it not time to admit that ‘smash the gangs’ was nothing more than an election slowdown, not a policy?
“Isn’t it time to declare a national emergency and to act accordingly?”
Bill
Sir Keir replied: “We are passing a borders Bill with extensive powers to smash the gangs.
“These are terrorist-like powers that give powers to the police to intercept where they think the suspects are committing people-smuggling, which is a vile trade.
“We must take back control of our borders after the last government lost control.
“But what did he and his party do? Did they support those extra measures to actually smash the gangs? No, they went in the lobby with this lot in their new coalition to vote against them.
“And let’s be clear what a vote for his party means. It means a vote to charge for the NHS, it means a pro-Putin foreign policy, and a vote against workers’ rights.
“And now we here he’s recruited Liz Truss as his new top adviser, as he was cheering on the mini budget.”
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There were no small boat crossings until you forced Johnson into leaving the Dublin deterrent.
The small boat crossings are literally this clowns fault, and the fault of the people who got fooled by his nonsense.
Perhaps a brexit tax would help?
If he stopped the ‘billions’ being spent on this, I wonder who would see the proceeds. Us the people or Tufton Street?
What is alien to our shores Nige? Stoking racist rioters to attack police and burn people to death in the “hotels”? Repeat false claims to help stoke those riots? Perhaps we need to call a draft dodger the bravest man we know whilst telling the one that asked for more ammo he needs to wear a suit? Or is it saying he admires putin as putin tries to kill a country? Maybe its inflicting such a huge amount of self harm on a nation with brexit that Nige hides behind lies and bluster every time he is questioned on it?… Read more »
Barnstorming! What a great read! Hey, Torygraph, Fail, Scum, Excess, Dick-tator – yoor s**tsheets toook a helluva beeeeting!
‘Virulent. (Of a disease or poison). Extremely severe or harmful in its’ effects’ plus ‘bitterly hostile’. He has his own dictionary definition.
What a piece of work. Surprised he didn’t refer to the alleged. 10000 undocumented males as men of fighting age which is the usual drivel spouted by the far right.
And next year he’ll be asking Welsh voters to support his alien brand of English nationalism.
The real issue is the sheer scale of immigration (legal & illegal, ‘alien’ or otherwise). It is time this stopped being a political or philosophical debate and started being a practical debate. Net immigration (legal & illegal) totalled 728,000 in 2024 – about the same as the population of Nottingham (4th biggest city in UK). In the previous year, net immigration totalled 866,000 – About the same as the population of Liverpool (3rd biggest city in UK). Whatever your opinions of the benefits or otherwise of immigration it is impossible to conclude that this is sustainable. Can we build the… Read more »
Why do you think Whitehall have dialled up legal immigration to the max? We have an aging population. With net zero migration every day that passes means there are fewer workers to pay for the exploding population of older people. If you want an honest conversation, start there.
That doesn’t change the fact there there is nowhere for an extra 700,000 or 800,000 thousand people per year to live, no GPs or hospitals to treat them, no schools for their children, no room on the railways or motorway for them etc, etc, etc. The issue you are picking out about working age vs pensioners is valid, but there are other solutions there (get the working age population back to work and reduce the number of people wasting the prime of their working age studying pointless degrees and sitting on their parents’ sofa for a start). Relying on ever… Read more »
You can dance around the point but to reduce immigration we need to reduce the cost of older people. It’s as simple as that.
I’m not dancing around anything. An immigration Ponzi scheme is not a long-term solution, but getting the working age population back to work is.
Would you like to stop dancing around the question of where all these people are going to live? You view this as a question of cost so perhaps you can tell me how much you think it would cost to build a new Nottingham every year?
Getting the working age population back to work isn’t a long term solution when a population is continuing to age. You’ll eventually run out of skivers (or people waiting for medical treatment). Here are some solutions that can avoid the need to import workers: 1. Means test state pension benefits. 2. Replace a fixed retirement age with a fitness to work test. If people are still healthy at 80 keep them working. Those working tough jobs get signed off sooner. 3. Next pandemic, let it rip (in the name of freedom). And immigration is only a Ponzi scheme solution if… Read more »
Life expectancy is reducing, not increasing. We are currently seeing the impact of the previous era of increasing life expectancy work through the retired population, but this will not continue.
I think your final paragraph implies limiting immigration to workers, and that they would not have a right to remain when they stop working. This approach seems to work in various other countries (e.g. Switzerland, UAE).
It’s not just life expectancy. It’s birth rate, and the birth rate for UK born women is now below the replacement rate.
But it sounds like we have a consensus, with a combination of a three point plan to reduce the cost of olds and an under 30s work visa net zero permanent migration might be possible.
Except that is not the issue the far right make it out to be.
They are trying what Millar is doing in the US. demonising people.
Per my initial post, I am not talking about the politics. I am talking about the undeniable practical problem of accommodating twice the population of Cardiff arriving every year.
Does he need any help packing?
Takes one to know one ET…