Channel crossings: Government and Royal Navy at odds?
According to Border Force statistics, nearly a thousand people crossed the Channel into England on small boats during the first three weeks of January – that’s around three times the rate of arrival for the whole of January 2021. Almost…
Channel Crossings: 1,000 arrivals on a single day
Border Force statistics show that, despite the rhetoric of politicians on both sides of the English Channel, passages of small boats carrying migrants/refugees from Europe to the Kent and Sussex coast have continued this autumn in record numbers. On one…
Boat People
Political Clashes over Peril at Sea Well over a thousand people – men, women, children and babies – have crossed the English Channel from France on small boats during the past few weeks. Politicians refer to them as migrants. Supportive…
Calm Seas Entice Migrant Boats
The English Channel looked as flat as a child’s boating lake in the days leading up to Easter. No surprise then that the Border Force reported a series of crafts intercepted off the coast of Sussex and Kent, with an…