Asylum: enough is enough

It’s been a weekend of “rising tensions” over dinghy migrants. The government is no closer to a resolution and one gets a sense that they’ve learned absolutely nothing from Southport in terms of narrative management. Consequently, the protests are getting larger and more dangerous. The conditions are such that it wouldn’t take much to spark wider unrest.

This is not helped by the news that two Afghan asylum seekers had been charged with the alleged rape of a 12-year-old girl. Ahmad Mulakhil, 23, had been charged with the rape of the underage girl in Nuneaton, Warwickshire while a second man, Mohammad Kabir, also 23, had been charged with aiding and abetting rape, as well as strangulation and kidnap of the girl.

Any normal person would look at this and say enough is enough. There simply isn’t an economic or moral argument for admitting the dregs of the third world. It’s not even as though this is a one-off, but even one such incident is enough to call time on the entire asylum system.

With the recent revelations that migrants housed in hotels at the taxpayers expense are working illegally for firms such as Deliveroo, the case for housing migrants in hotels (if ever there was one) collapses. We must now look to secure detention.

To that end I am not interested in hard-man performative cruelty, sending migrants to the Highlands or the Falklands. Any interim solution must have the smallest financial footprint possible. It doesn’t matter where migrants are detained so long as they are detained. There is nothing wrong with using former RAF bases such as Scampton and Linton on Ouse just so long as it’s secure detention and that migrants are not free to roam.

While we’re at it, we need simultaneous enforcement of vagrancy laws to clear out the tent cities springing up around London. Those with no right to be here must be escorted to one of the camps. This is on the understanding that they are free to leave at any time provided they’re volunteering to return to their country of origin.

There should be no private sector involvement at this point. If there’s one thing we proved with Afghanistan and Iraq it’s that we are more than capable of establishing large temporary bases. This is now a defence issue, and as such, the use of military bases is wholly appropriate. It’s time to let the MoD do the one thing it’s actually good at.

But, of course, Labour will not do this. They will try everything except tackling the issue head on. They will instead attempt to distribute migrants throughout the country, into social housing and private lets if necessary, concealing the costs wherever they can. They are not going to remove any of the incentives and we are going to see more rapes and sexual assaults.

They will, in fact, allow it to worsen. They have made it abundantly clear that your concerns are not their concerns. Your safety and the safety of your children is not a priority. What does concern them is that you might not passively accept this as normal. In light of that they will censor media and curtail your freedoms. Britain will continue to welcome uncapped numbers of third-world dependents even they are sexual incontinent predators.

We can assume this is official government policy because no meaningful steps have been taken to suggest otherwise. Your approval is not sought. Your function is to pay for it. You do not get to choose differently. They are engineering a situation where violence is the only likely outcome. The only mystery here is why the rape of a twelve year old girl has not already sparked wider civil unrest.

That day will come though. Possibly soon, but no later than this time next year. We still have a warm August ahead of us, and more protests to come. Reading the temperature, I do not see the public putting up with yet another summer of wholesale asylum fraud - especially when we learn that a record number of migrants are claiming asylum despite arriving in the UK with legal visas. The legitimacy of the entire system, and its administrators, is collapsing.

As such, it is perhaps MP constituency offices we should be protesting. They're just as much freeloading squatters as the migrants. They got where they are through fraud and on false pretenses, they cost us a fortune, and they're the ones who allow the invasion. We need to turn the heat up on them and remind them who they work for.