‘British taxpayers should not cough up millions in compensation for migrant families after tragic deaths,’ says Patrick Christys
Strap yourselves in. Today it’s emerged that the legal aid bill for Channel migrants is £71million over the last five years. That’s £38,000-a-day bill.
A record more than 500 migrants crossed in a single day on Wednesday. Channel crossings are up 10 per cent on this time last year – the total is more than 4,000.
The Home Office expects to spend £1.2billion on housing asylum seekers in large accommodation sites, that’s around £46million more than using hotels.
Some ex-RAF sites were set to cost £5m each, instead it’s cost £49million for Wethersfield and £27million for Scampton.
Rwanda could cost £1.8million per asylum seeker, and that’s before we’ve paid the wages for all the Lords and MPs who are dead set on blocking it.
A former Home Office official told me that we will be paying hundreds of millions of pounds in benefits and social housing for Channel migrants who will never, ever get a job here, for the rest of their lives.
James Cleverly’s got a cunning plan. Let’s release a video, in English, that we can show to illegal immigrants in Calais telling them how dangerous it is to get into a small boat. That’ll learn ’em, Mr Cleverly!
But here is your GB News exclusive. Are you ready? There is another way that the lawyers and the human rights brigade are probably going to take the British taxpayer to the cleaners. And it’s because of something happening right now, in France.
The family of an illegal migrant who died with 26 others when crossing the English Channel are currently suing the French government. They claim the French authorities did not do enough to stop their deaths. Three children and a pregnant mum were included in the deaths, which happened in November 2021.
Now the French Coast Guard have been accused of criminal negligence over the incident, which claims that they ignored repeated and increasingly desperate pleas for help from the migrants. New claims, which emerged last week, include the French military boat patrolling the waters was not monitoring channel 16, which is the international distress frequency on which the British Rescue Centre had issued mayday calls to help the boat.
Its crew also allegedly ignored three distress signals. 15 warnings are said to have been ignored and seven military personnel have now been charged, so the claim is believed to run into the hundreds of thousands of euros. Now, obviously, a few times that by 26, then you’re into the millions, aren’t you?
There are also fears that victims of other tragedies now may sue the British Government as a result of this, and it’s easy to see how this won’t just be for deaths. It could be for injuries or harm suffered like hypothermia or mental trauma.
The same kind of mental trauma that human rights lawyers tell their clients to emphasise when they’re trying to stay in Britain.
Tory MP Nigel Mills said that he fears that Britain could face legal action over the more than 200 migrants who have died trying to make the journey. Mr Mills, MP for Amber Valley in Derbyshire, said: “I fear they’ll come for Britain next. It’s a tragedy. But there needs to be personal responsibility. If French law enforcement were to blame, they should face the full force of their laws.
“But I fear Britain will be sued next. It’s wrong. They have my sympathy but they are taking the risk and it’s against the law. A burglar who falls over and breaks his leg when burgling a house cannot sue the homeowner for damages and rightly so. It’s not as straightforward as that here but the principle remains the same.”
Well said. The deaths are a tragedy, but look at everything I’ve outlined that you are already paying for there, and there’s loads more on top of that.
It is not the responsibility of the British taxpayer to cough up millions more pounds, to pay compensation for the family of somebody who willingly paid to leave a safe country, to get in a small boat and be pushed across the busiest shipping lane in the world.
The same lawyers and human rights groups who were licking their lips at fake Church of England baptisms will be practically drooling over this. Get ready to empty your wallet, Britain.