Broken Pledge

Rishi Sunak's Government still aren't delivering.

Hello all and welcome back to another edition of Heaver News! As ever I hope you are all very well.

It is becoming increasingly difficult to imagine Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s pledge to ‘stop the boats’ as being anything other than a broken promise.

Already he seems to be watering down any expectation that the Government will have stopped the illegal immigration crisis by the time of the next election.

Looking at the official figures for the boat crossings from France confirms that they have continued every day between 16th August and 21st August.

On 20th August for example a further 337 people crossed on 5 boats.

Then on 21st August a massive 661 migrants made the crossing on 15 boats in a single day.

Before I lay into the Government’s failure on this, let me reiterate a few suggestions of action I would have taken years ago to stop this crisis escalating to such a ridiculous and dangerous degree.

Firstly, instead of handing France hundreds of millions of pounds in return for a declining interception rate, I would have started revoking French fishing licences that our Government so generously handed out.

Then I would have provoked a French reaction by taking the boats back to their beaches and watched them go potty. Perhaps that embarrassment for the French Government would then have prompted stronger action to stop the boats.

And for a Conservative Government with a big majority to essentially be blocked and delayed from implementing its Rwanda policy is absolutely pathetic.

The question isn’t whether we need to leave ECHR. It’s what the hell are the Government waiting for?

So instead we’ve seen tough words but a crisis that has continued. That could be absolutely fatal for the electoral prospects of Sunak’s Tories.

Let’s not forget, the PM actually stood on stage with the words ‘stop the boats’ displayed in front of him.

But the Government are still simply refusing to do what is necessary. The rumour is they will pledge to get tougher in the next election manifesto. Too little, too late.

It still seems not to have fully sunk in yet for some Conservative MPs and candidates that they will all have Reform UK candidates standing against them, campaigning for an ECHR exit.

Even with Reform only on 8%, YouGov’s research shows they are already losing more support to Richard Tice’s party (16% of 2019 Tory voters have switched) than to Labour (11%).

I suspect the Tories will end up committing to leaving ECHR - IF the public vote for another Conservative Government.

But the tragedy is that that should already have been done years ago when this crisis began.

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