Did they not have to apologise to their viewers for the boats numbers going down lol
LyingFacts on
Starmer’s works would’ve been fine if this was pre 2016.
The bots online from foreign countries soaked purposeful dissent and got him ousted.
They must be over the moon.
LycanIndarys on
To be honest, the whole situation is just bizarre.
GB News aren’t happy that they’ve got what they wanted, because then they’d have to admit that Labour have done a decent job handling the situation.
And Labour can’t brag too much about what they’ve done, because far too many of their supporters are upset that they even tried in the first place. And some of them have abandoned the party for the Greens because of it.
tomrichards8464 on
This appears to be quite a noisy statistic. 25k would be significantly lower than the numbers for 2022, 2024 and 2025, but pretty similar to 2021 and 2023, and much higher than any year prior to 2021. There are also strong seasonal effects, with January and February being by far the quietest months and June to September the busiest most years, so 25k may well be an underestimate.
I think it’s premature to conclude the policy is working.
Horror-Protection225 on
Have their viewers lives substantially improved or was the divide and conquer always at the wrong target?
(Obviously I think we should be stopping these gangs, solely because I’m always up for stopping criminal gangs, it’s more just I’d be astonished if it’s had any material impact on their viewers lives…)
The number is well down on last year, but about equal with 2022, 2023 and 2024.
Hopefully this does represent a fall, but I’d be careful declaring victory, after all 2022 was the highest level ever by the end of the year, but had the same number of crossings at this point in the year.
Dangerous-Branch-749 on
Party over country politics is a scourge, the right wing have no interest in seeing immigration drop when they’re not in power as it doesn’t help them. This applies here and elsewhere, see Trump pressuring Republicans to vote against the relatively hardline bi-partisan border bill.
anonypanda on
Just automatically reject any asylum claim made by a small boat arrival and the crossings will go to zero.
FaceMace87 on
So this means that everyone’s lives are 40% better yes? After all it is immigrants that are the sole reason for every issue we have right?
Agreeable_Falcon1044 on
GBNews has gone weird…it’s reporting the news. Their „fans“ are angry it’s not lying to them but it looks like whichever shady figures were funding it are gone
Smittumi on
People’s upset was the visual image. Seeing footage of boats arriving. It was far more powerful an image than a whole lever arch of statistics.
What Labour needed was footage of a Royal Navy ship turning a boat back. Or capturing the boat, bringing aboard the people and sailing to France.
It’s a vibes based story (given that boat arrivals are dwarfed by other migration such as overstayers). People would have been persuaded by a vibes based solution.
As it is, most Reform voters will have no idea, or won’t absorb the new figures, and still vote Reform.
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Did they not have to apologise to their viewers for the boats numbers going down lol
Starmer’s works would’ve been fine if this was pre 2016.
The bots online from foreign countries soaked purposeful dissent and got him ousted.
They must be over the moon.
To be honest, the whole situation is just bizarre.
GB News aren’t happy that they’ve got what they wanted, because then they’d have to admit that Labour have done a decent job handling the situation.
And Labour can’t brag too much about what they’ve done, because far too many of their supporters are upset that they even tried in the first place. And some of them have abandoned the party for the Greens because of it.
This appears to be quite a noisy statistic. 25k would be significantly lower than the numbers for 2022, 2024 and 2025, but pretty similar to 2021 and 2023, and much higher than any year prior to 2021. There are also strong seasonal effects, with January and February being by far the quietest months and June to September the busiest most years, so 25k may well be an underestimate.
I think it’s premature to conclude the policy is working.
Have their viewers lives substantially improved or was the divide and conquer always at the wrong target?
(Obviously I think we should be stopping these gangs, solely because I’m always up for stopping criminal gangs, it’s more just I’d be astonished if it’s had any material impact on their viewers lives…)
You can see the statistic here:
https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/channel-crossings-tracker/
The number is well down on last year, but about equal with 2022, 2023 and 2024.
Hopefully this does represent a fall, but I’d be careful declaring victory, after all 2022 was the highest level ever by the end of the year, but had the same number of crossings at this point in the year.
Party over country politics is a scourge, the right wing have no interest in seeing immigration drop when they’re not in power as it doesn’t help them. This applies here and elsewhere, see Trump pressuring Republicans to vote against the relatively hardline bi-partisan border bill.
Just automatically reject any asylum claim made by a small boat arrival and the crossings will go to zero.
So this means that everyone’s lives are 40% better yes? After all it is immigrants that are the sole reason for every issue we have right?
GBNews has gone weird…it’s reporting the news. Their „fans“ are angry it’s not lying to them but it looks like whichever shady figures were funding it are gone
People’s upset was the visual image. Seeing footage of boats arriving. It was far more powerful an image than a whole lever arch of statistics.
What Labour needed was footage of a Royal Navy ship turning a boat back. Or capturing the boat, bringing aboard the people and sailing to France.
It’s a vibes based story (given that boat arrivals are dwarfed by other migration such as overstayers). People would have been persuaded by a vibes based solution.
As it is, most Reform voters will have no idea, or won’t absorb the new figures, and still vote Reform.