Dear Jack,
We have been lied to and we have
been misled. For years now the Government has not released the
breakdown of the countries of origin of those who have crossed the
Channel illegally, and left-leaning human rights lawyers have insisted
that those entering were fleeing war and persecution.
Yesterday, the Mail on Sunday
revealed — as the result of a leaked report that I obtained — that 4
in 10 of these crossings were actually being made by people from
Albania, a peaceful NATO member and candidate for EU membership which
hasn't suffered from any conflict for at least 25 years. This exposé
was so shocking and outrageous that it made the front page. You can
read the article in full here.
As I discussed in my TalkTV
show yesterday this has serious implications for the
safety of our country. While most Albanians are delightful,
law-abiding people, Albanians make up the largest group of foreign
nationals in UK jails.
There is also growing problem of organised crime,
money laundering, human trafficking and drug-dealing. Are the people
being smuggled across the Channel by gangs going to be used as their
footsoldiers, or worse, kept in modern forms of slavery? This question
is raised as the cost for an Albanian wishing to visit or work in the
UK legally is significantly less than the thousands of Euros paid to
gangs to dangerously cross the Channel in
dinghys.
Again, the Conservatives have failed, and
the 2 lacklustre leadership candidates don't have the answers. Reform
UK would:
1) Publish the origin of Channel
migrants monthly.
2) Instruct the Navy to give the
location of launch points immediately to the French police and also to
publish them publicly.
3) Pick up and take back
boats under the existing laws provided in the 1974 International
Convention of Safety of Lives at Sea.
4) Withdraw
from the European Convention on Human Rights and the 1951 Refugee
Convention.
5) Reform the Human Rights Act
1998
6) Merge the existing Border Force and
Immigration Enforcement departments into a single dedicated force, to
be called Her Majesty’s Border Force (HMBF)
7)
Remove the new HMBF from woke civil service control, attaching it to
the Home Office as a separate entity.
With thanks,
Richard Tice
Reform
UK Leader
P.S. We thought you would
appreciate this, which was sent in to us last week. Progress is
unhappy Tories!
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