Britain's "lack of deterrent" for "economic migrants" has been stressed by political commentator Charlie Rowley, as he delivered his verdict on GB News's exclusive migrant investigation from Calais.GB News presenter Patrick Christys spent 24 hours on the French front line, visiting migrant camps across the port city, where several migrants were waiting to make the perilous journey to Britain.FULL STORY HERE.
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00:00Just listening to the detail there, listening to people who were supposed to get on boats yesterday,
00:03make that perilous journey, still suggesting that there's no deterrent to come into the UK,
00:08despite the Prime Minister's announcement only yesterday to toughen up legal migration.
00:14I think that has now caused the debate, legal migration versus illegal migration.
00:20People are still obviously very fed up with the amount of people who are crossing the channel illegally.
00:25Obviously, whether the government's plans will do anything to tackle that remains to be seen.
00:32But it's clearly going to be a lot of worry for a lot of people.
00:35And on the back of the local elections where people voted in reform in local communities,
00:40it sent a real signal to the government.
00:42But this suggests in Patrick's report there's no sign of letting up.
00:46I mean, what struck me watching Patrick's reports last night,
00:49where obviously he's talking to people in France, which is a safe country,
00:52and he's saying, why then make the dangerous, that perilous journey across the channel to Britain?
00:57And there seems to be an understanding amongst the men that he was talking to
01:01that they could get a house and they would get money from people living here in Britain.
01:06And Patrick said to them, oh, it's not like that.
01:08We're not all rich. We can't, you know, we can't do that for you.
01:11And it seemed as though it was the first time they'd actually heard that.
01:15Yeah, I think that's right.
01:16Look, you know, people in the UK, you know, if you take Ukraine, for example,
01:20people open up their hearts and their homes to people that are fleeing persecution,
01:24that are fleeing conflict, that are fleeing war.
01:27You know, we are a generous country.
01:28And, you know, it's absolute rights in our history.
01:30It's our DNA to support people that are in genuine need.
01:33But for every one person that comes over illegally that might get to the top of that housing list,
01:38that might get the benefits that could otherwise be going to somebody in the UK
01:41or to someone that's in genuine need, it's a profound sense of unfairness.
01:46And when you see thousands of people, it seems to me, just looking at these images now,
01:50young men that seem to be crossing the channel, they're not necessarily people in need.
01:56They are economic migrants.
01:57And we've got to get that language right, depending on where people are coming from,
02:00because you're right, they end up in France.
02:02France is a safe country.
02:04And many countries would have been passed through before arriving to France and then on to the UK.
02:09So it's got to be a whole supply chain where lots of countries need to get involved
02:15to prevent that mass movement, because it's a European problem as much as it is a UK one.