That reads like a Farage style policy. Is it?

It makes attractive copy. The kind of stuff populists are good at producing. Of course we ought to “smash” the criminal gangs using every tactic at our disposal. Who could possibly disagree with that? Or indeed deploying more resources at our borders, if what we have now is insufficient. Or ensuring those not entitled to be here are removed. All obvious things

The problem is not defining the desires. It’s achieving the outcomes.

We need international cooperation, primarily with our European neighbours, to successfully overcome the smuggling gangs. Brexit hasn’t helped us do that, but does anyone think we aren’t trying? It cannot be done by us alone!

If more police and border control or returns officers would help do you not think they would be employed?

The biggest point though is the simple fact that the vast majority of immigrants don’t arrive on small boats facilitated by smuggling gangs.

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What anyone sees individually will never represent the whole picture. You seem, as so many do, to transfer the issues we undoubtedly have with illegal immigration onto the shoulders of the vast majority who are arriving here legally, to work and study.

They do work and pay taxes. There is no evidence they are more prone to be criminals than anyone else. In fact there is evidence of the reverse. Legal immigration has brought solutions to our shores. How can solutions be described as horrendous?

No one argues that illegal immigration isn’t an enormous problem for which no obvious solution is in sight. That though is nothing like the whole picture and we need to be clear sighted about it. We need to focus on where the problems are and not tar every immigrant with the same brush.

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I have not read this report, so am unable to comment. It is though just one. There are many. The problem with what seems “blooming obvious” to one person is that it often seems blooming wrong to another. Opinions are like that.

Being at odds with Farage is basic common sense. A good starting point for everything is to hear what his opinion is and take the opposite view.

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So create a new “Palestine” somewhere?

That’s worked out well.

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Your summary sounded like him. Whilst the whole is rather more nuanced it is still just political click bait during an election.

Something I disregard at all times and will be by Labour quite quickly too when they face the realities.

The only way to solve the problem is by coordinated international action.

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I’d be interested where you think those options exist and just how you will get the current sovereign state to agree let alone the present inhabitants to put out a welcome mat.

Or are you thinking of an uninhabited area somewhere. They are usually uninhabited for good reasons.

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