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🗓️ 16 April 2025
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Small Boats, Big Problem: National Emergency?
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Over 9,000 migrants have arrived by small boats on UK shores this year — with over 700 in a single day, and a 40% rise compared to last year. The cost? An eye-watering £6 million per day to house them in hotels.
Meanwhile, the U.S. has slashed illegal border crossings by 95% under Trump-era policies.
So why is the UK failing to control its borders? Is this a humanitarian challenge, a policy disaster — or a national emergency?
In this video, we break down the facts, the numbers, and the politics.
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· UK migrant crisis 2025
· Small boats crossing the Channel
· Dover beach landings
· Illegal immigration UK
· £6 million a day for migrant
· Asylum seekers in UK hotels
· Border control failure
· Trump vs UK immigration
· Channel migrant surge
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0:00.0 | Okay, let's be honest, we have got a national emergency. I'm not talking about the rubbish in the streets in Birmingham. I'm talking about the amount of illegal migrants who are entering Britain via Dover. It is a national emergency. It's surely now time to bring in the troops. I never thought |
0:23.4 | I'd say that, but it's clearly now at crisis point. How do I know when even, well, I'll tell you, |
0:30.4 | is when the BBC start reporting it, honestly, then you know there's a problem. Look at this. |
0:36.8 | I found it on my phone for you. The number of migrants |
0:40.0 | arriving in the UK after crossing the English Channel has reached a new record for the first |
0:46.6 | four months of the year. This is the BBC. Some 656 people arrived in 11 small boats on Saturday, taking the total number of people |
0:58.2 | crossing in 2025 so far to 8,064, according to home office figures. |
1:05.8 | We're less than halfway through April. |
1:08.4 | That's already higher than the seven and a half thousand people |
1:12.7 | who crossed the channel over the first four months of last year. That's our record high. |
1:19.5 | The Home Office spokesman says the government has a serious credible plan, oh yeah, |
1:24.5 | to finally restore order to our asylum system, and it will stop at nothing |
1:30.2 | to dismantle the business models of people smuggling gangs. |
1:35.1 | Now, let me tell you, that number has gone up even more. |
1:38.6 | Today, there was a record number coming over in inflatable dinghies, over 750 people. I'm not blaming the individual |
1:47.0 | migrants. It's obviously a massive trade, but I'm blaming our government, successive governments. |
1:53.9 | Rishi Sunak, he was useless at this, and so is Kyr Stama. But we as a nation have to do something. |
2:03.6 | If there's 700 people coming a day, listen to what I've got to say, we already know there's |
2:08.9 | 96,000 here at the moment. |
2:13.2 | It's costing us six million pounds a day to keep them in hotels. |
2:19.7 | Well, just do the math, as they say in America, or the maths. |
2:24.3 | Just say, let's just do 700 a day, and let's just base it on two days, two days in every week. |
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