Carrying 100 at a time now launching by the "small boat" runners - but the Government has ferries that carry 500. If they put on TWO A WEEK charging passengers £20 each, landing at secure points, they would undercut the smugglers, save thousands of lives, spend far less on coast guards, get much greater success capturing the few who still take small boats and solve the problem in a stroke. Yet they don't even consider it. Why not? Lack of brain cells, that's why.

JK2006 wrote:
Carrying 100 at a time now launching by the "small boat" runners - but the Government has ferries that carry 500. If they put on TWO A WEEK charging passengers £20 each, landing at secure points, they would undercut the smugglers, save thousands of lives, spend far less on coast guards, get much greater success capturing the few who still take small boats and solve the problem in a stroke. Yet they don't even consider it. Why not? Lack of brain cells, that's why.

Well no, because it seems there is quite a bit of evidence that shows that the government ARE actually the smuggling gang that Starmer promised to smash.

I don't think any migrants die at sea these days. In hindsight, I am not entirely sure that any ever did.