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The need for reform is obvious and is urgent.

This government has not sat on its hands, Mr Speaker.

No, it certainly hasn't sat on its hands.

It's tried endless measures to stop the flow of small boats crossing the channel

and with each new measure, so the numbers of boats making the crossing increase exponentially.

They have been in government for 13 years.

And over that time, well, really in the last sort of five or six, actually,

the Guardian reckons they've come up with about 40 ideas.

So we've chosen a few of our peachy favourites.

I quite like the patrol on skis.

Do you remember the jet skis? That was

September of 2020. There was the bid to send asylum seekers to Moldova and or Papua New Guinea.

Those are good. One of the ones I really liked was when Pretty Patel said that they were going to

use the Navy to block crossings before boats can enter British waters.

I mean, I don't know how many British Navy vessels she thinks.

The Royal Navy. The Royal Navy would be deployed across the whole of the English Channel and still wouldn't get them.

There was also the social media blitz.

There was going to be Facebook ads to warn migrants.

I think they spent, what, £90,000 on the ads for that.

That didn't work.

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