A total of 154 migrants have arrived in the country since the start of April, according to government figures that we copied from a typically screechy Daily Mail piece of manufactured outrage.
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| Immigrants in boats: All Labo*r's fault |
It means the total number reaching our shores since Labo*r took power at the general election on July 4 has now reached 30,038.
The Conservatives have been quick to point out that in a similar timeframe during their administration - from July 2023 to April 2024 - there were 23,439 arrivals, enabling them to claim that Labo*r has allowed illegal crossings to increase by 28%.
The Shadow Home Secretary Chris Bluebottle said that Sir Ke*r St*rmer had betrayed the British public by losing control of the country’s borders.
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| Bluebottle: "He's fallen in the water..." |
“It's the only way we can stop
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“This total loss of border control is catastrophic for our country, er, unlike 14 years of Tory 'party before country' incompetence and corruption …”
The high number of arrivals followed a period of seven days with no activity, when high winds in the Channel deterred the boats.
So far this year, there has been a 25% increase in numbers compared with the same point last year and a 70% increase compared with 2023.
Whilst none of this is anything to do with the Midway area, we thought we’d throw an article in about asylum seekers because it always get the page views and allows us to slag off the democratically-elected government that we at the MORON don’t approve of
We know that screechy headlines based on cherry-picked numbers is what our old Tory pensioner readership really want to see, because such headlines confirm what they think they already know.
We also appreciate that our readers aren’t interested in context when it comes to the right-wing manufactured issue of immigration, because that would go against the pre-conceived opinions we've already fed to them.
So we won’t be running our usual comments forum on this, in case some demented leftie points out that for the same July to April period across the previous 2022/23 period when the Tories were in government, the overall number of arrivals was 36,778 – 22% higher than the numbers we’re screeching about now.
Or that the channel crossing weather conditions (the most important factor in small boat crossings) were much more favourable this past year, with only four storms during the 2024/25 storm season, as against ten for the previous year.
And this is all clearly Ke*r St*rmer’s fault, so think carefully about who you vote for in next month’s county council elections.
In the real world, we see a sly headline that invites the hard-of-thinking to confuse correlation with causation…