"Dead in the Water"

Home Secretary Priti Patel has ordered the UK Border Force to escort small boats with illegals crossing the English Channel back to France "if it's safe to do so". This plan is "dead in the water", said an Immigration Service union official on BBC Radio 4 "Today" because it requires the French to co-operate - and they won't. When the first (?) of these smalll boats arrived in England with illegals in 2018 the Immigration Minister just meekly said "It's deeply concerning". This was an open invitation for more to come. They should, instead, have been promptly put on a ferry back to France. If the French had refused them permission to land they should then have been sent back to their own countries. That would have stopped these crossings dead in the water. Instead, many thousands - more than invaded England in 1066! - have been allowed to take up permanent residence here, bypassing Britain's elaborate, expensive and "broken" (Priti Patel's word) asylum system.