The Illusion of Border Control: The Rwanda Policy is a FARCE | Richard Tice’s Sunday Sermon

by | Mar 28, 2024 | Sunday Sermons | 1 comment

Border Control is an Illusion

Welcome to this week’s version of Britain’s favourite Sunday sermon. Now just cast your mind back, how long have we been talking about border control and the great Rwanda scheme that would be a deterrent to people coming across the English Channel? Is it one year? 18 months? Two years?

Time flies it’s hard to know. It’s about two years that the government has been saying this will be the answer to all their prayers. It will stop it, will act as a great deterrent so what’s actually happened here? Well, we’ve sent Rwanda give or take about £300 million the only actual human beings we’ve sent to Rwanda is three home secretaries and some SPADs, advisors and journalists. Not a single illegal migrant Asylum Seeker has gone to Rwanda and now they’re playing this great game in the houses of Parliament called ping pong.

You’ve heard of ping pong? You might have played it in the pub, table tennis to other people but no in parliamentary terms it means that they’re moving this this bill from the House of Commons to the House of Lords, back to the House of Commons, back to the House of Lords.

I mean the whole thing is extraordinary and the Lords have rejected the Amendments from the House of Commons who rejected the Amendments from the House of Lords. You just can’t keep up with it, drives you nuts. The whole thing is a complete and utter waste of time, why?

The Rwanda Deterrent – Border Control?

Well because how can it be a deterrent if people are still coming across the English Channel? How can it be a deterrent if people are still prepared sadly to take that risk and yes tragically about 10 people have lost their lives this year already and its only mid-march for heaven’s sake.

Late March, 10 have already lost their lives trying to cross the English Channel now I mean this is clearly not a deterrent and the end of last year the Home Secretary said yes but crossings in 2023 are some 36% down on 2022 so the deterrent is there it’s working. Their plan is working to stop the boats.

Well, here we are 10, 11, 12 weeks later, March 2024 and already this year some 4,300 have crossed the English Channel. It’s well above the same the same period this time last year, well above and in the last two days it looks like about 900+ have crossed in just two days.

900+ the very same week that our parliamentary minnows are debating the latest twist to the latest Bill supposedly to become an Act. It’s like the people Smugglers are literally rubbing our noses in it.

Here you are here’s a few hundred more whilst you’re debating this great deterrent. The whole thing is completely and utterly absurd it’s a waste of parliamentary time, of journalistic effort, of readers effort, reading this stuff, of viewers effort, watching this stuff, the whole thing is an absolute farce.

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It’s not a single jot of a deterrent if anything it might even be acting as more of a magnet where the people smugglers say quick get on with it, get in before they do this new Act. Honestly, how could anybody seriously have thought that this would be a deterrent?

But don’t worry, no it’s fine, the President of Rwanda has said Well thanks for sending me the cash. If you are going to send a plane load over we then might need a bit of a pause folks, yes how long’s a pause? Well, it might be two or three months, two or three months after one plane load of a deterrent that’s trying to stop tens of thousands coming across the channel.

I mean you literally bury your head in sand at the stupidity of the whole thing. Maybe the President of Rwanda has just completely and utterly legged us over, shafted us, utterly ripped us off? He just banked the cash. He might take a few if we can get round to it but otherwise thanks very much folks, we then need a pause. We haven’t quite built enough accommodation that you’ve already paid us for and a lot more besides.

I mean I’m just actually genuinely speechless and I think I speak on behalf of millions and millions of British people who just cannot believe the inane stupidity of these muppets in Westminster who genuinely think that this is going to have any effect whatsoever on border control, zip, zero, nil.

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It’s just not going to make any difference whatsoever. I’m sick of it, I think you’re sick of it, I think the country’s sick of it and the truth is it’s actually dangerous yes, it appears this week that someone bought a knife over in one of those boats and had stabbed someone else before they even got to the United Kingdom.

So they’re now coming here with violent weapons to carry out violent acts and we’re told by the Lefty lovies that these are all absolutely nice people, just genuinely seeking Asylum, there’s no wrong in there whatsoever.

Well, there is the proof if ever you wanted it. I’m afraid to say there are some serious wrong un’s coming across the channel. They don’t wish us well it’s quite clear some of them actively just want to cause trouble. They want to act in criminality and if necessary, use violent means to do so.

Our lack of border control is without question a national security threat, we’re entitled to call it such under the UN 51 convention, but the lefties won’t have it.

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They won’t have it at all what is required is courage and Leadership but sadly there’s none of that in the government, none of that in the civil service or the establishment.

They’re just quite happy to let this process carry on. I believe that with determination you can stop the boats within international law. You safely pick up as we’re currently doing but instead of bringing them to Dover you take them back to Dunkirk, we’re entitled to do it.

I’ve read the treaties that is the only way you stop the boats and with that here endeth this week’s Sunday sermon

I’m not sure that’s a ratio I would like, now before we speak to Benedict Spence about the state of the nation, let’s refresh ourselves because this is what I call Keir Starmer’s greatest hits. Let’s kick off, first of all with what he said before he sacked Sue Gray.

I just want to clarify her position as apparently, it’s been causing divisions, can you obviously carry on with it? Yeah, that’s complete nonsense, so I hope that’s clear enough. That’s complete nonsense absolutely no divisions being caused by Sue Gray. Why have you finally then, I can’t, let’s move on because still he has got something more to say about cronyism. Let’s move on because still he’s got something more to say about it. We will restore standards in public life with a total crackdown on Judaism.

Seriously politicians think they can carry on like this or my, what they can forget how do you fancy £32,000 for some suits and some glasses yeah right then. Next one here’s Starmer on the rules. It very important to me that the rules are followed, I’ve always said that I said before. It’s very important to me that the rules are followed, I’ve always said that I said that before the election I’ve reinforced it after the election. This is too good isn’t it I mean you can’t write this stuff.

This is actually genuinely, absolutely what he said here’s what he said on your line of third before you prepare the issue party for government.

We have prepared all about apartments for government if we are privileged to come in to serve our country it will be public service, for me as it always has been not self-entitlement. Public service not self-entitlement. Really, we’ll be the judge of that and finally the P.A. is to this dance on a very serious matter, I’m afraid he managed to make this blunder. So, I call again for restraint and de-escalation of all between Lebanon and Israel. Again, all parties to pull back from the wing. I call again for the media, a ceasefire in Gaza, the return of the sausages, the hostages.

I just can’t explain that, I mean it’s, we’re going to, people all week about this and nobody but nobody can explain how you mistake the word hostages for sausages. I mean it’s got so bad I was out last night having some dinner and they served up a rather nice pasta with some Tuscan sausage in it and we all talking about you know pasta with hostages. We’re all talking about you know pasta hostages. That’s what we do.

Benedict Spencer is here very good morning to you Benedict. Good morning, Mike, I’m very well I mean It’s hard to keep a straight face and watching all that but it’s quite actually pathetic, is it not that we are about to reach the first 100 days of this new Labour government and that’s the kind of shambles that we’re having to encounter on a daily basis.

Well not only a hundred days of the new Labour government but as we were so reliably informed a hundred days of the grown-ups not being back in charge. It’s been, it is delicious actually in many ways that so many it has been, it is delicious actually in many ways that so many people the day after that election said don’t worry everything’s going to be fine, we’ve got a sensible government full of people who are serious on policy and have your best interests at heart and it frankly has been even more laughable than the last hundred days of the Tories here being to be honest.

Well, it is and that yeah, that staggers me so much that the bare face lies, the hypocrisy, I mean some of those quotes, we’re sharing some of those clips that we’re showing where he’s clearly demented isn’t he? I mean when he says this is not going to be a government of self-entitlement, this is going to be a government of integrity. This is going to be a government of service, I mean who do you think he is kidding? I mean he’s carpet-bombing what reputation, what actual respect the Labour Party had. I mean we do have to remember they won a large majority not because people like them but because they weren’t the Tories, so actually as much as people they might say that they were offering something different that the people bought, but I still think there was a lot of scepticism about how good it is from bench work but yeah they’ve just taken it to lengths that I didn’t really think were possible in terms of you know the gifts and the freebies and the double standards and the two facedness and even the explanations you know.

People like Angela Rayner coming out in the midst of all this going well everybody does this, it’s perfectly fine you know basically setting out their stall, why the Tories were bad and they got away with it so we can do the same, as if that’s how this works. As if that’s how popularity works is that how legitimacy works and as if her prime minister then doesn’t very regularly go on television saying we will do the exact opposite of these things, then it turns out we’re still doing well, this is the problem you know because no matter how much he might want it all to go away, he seems to be forgetting that unfortunately the media in this country are still relatively free and suddenly shuts it all down and manages to sort of stop us all from saying things that he doesn’t like. 

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But, you know this whole you know, please go, you know trouser gate Lord Alli being in person and be investigated by the House of Lords now being looked up by the police you know, in case the Keir Starmer’s also now being looked at by the police in case he misreported where he was living, I mean it’s just, he can’t shake it off the, I mean you will see I mean they’ve tried actually, they’ve tried to say always the right wing press is that you know it’s all of that sort of thing but nobody’s buying that particular I mean what’s most telling is that even the Guardian and the Observer are now very frequently running pages that discuss not perhaps so much things like you know the freebies or anything like that but a very frequently running stories about Rachel Reeves tax plans and how actually they’re probably aren’t very good and are not going to work.

If you’ve already got the Guardian going in two footed on Labour policy saying hang on guys this might not be very good for the economy, I mean that I think tells you everything you need to know about how well Labour have started and I think people were prepared to give them a grace period, that’s the irony. You know in the first sort of three or four days people were out there going well this government will need time to bed in and undo a lot of the problems that the Tories have left them with, but they shot themselves in the foot and I don’t even just mean with things like the sleaze allegations but actually starting off your time in government by saying we have too many people in prison and so we’re going to be letting out people before they finish their sentences.

What were they expecting things to happen? You can’t tempt fate like that and think oh yes everything will be fine just because we say we’re grown up right and you also said when he was asked before that happened if it could be absolutely sure that nobody would reoffend, nobody would be in danger and when he managed to get that wrong as well but it was very indignant of being asked the question as we saw from the one about Sue Gray, you know is she being divisive behind the scenes?

No absolute, long since, I am clear on that, and he gets very touchy and he tells the obvious Miss Truths, he must know he’s lying because he knows that she is being divisive because you know two weeks later we yeah, I mean that whole thing and the telling what the effort they went to get her in the first place right and controversy that it caused, because it did cause controversy, to get sort of a very senior civil servant to then come on board and take a political role once she’d been involved in a role that was meant to be very impartial and of course it was involved in the defenestration of Boris Johnson with that investigation to sort of go to that lengths to bring this person in and say well we’re prepared to take that risk, but she’s a real straight talker, she knows how everything works and why she’s going to make it work and then again, keep on staying with her until your chief of staff is out of the door then replaced I mean again what does that say about his judgement of course and the story doesn’t end there because you know we were sort of all led to believe by the sort of spin doctors in Downing St, frankly they were not very good at.

This was a bit of a battle between Harry Morgan and McSweeney, now it’s all over she is going to go do the job as the Envoys for Nations and Regions, it’s all going to be lovely well apparently not because she’s still briefing against the government, she’s still briefing against McSweeney who she clearly hates and she’s now angling for a big massive payoff from the job that she was fired from because she was no bleeding good at it.

I’ve got to be honest so I kind of think from her perspective well why not, you’ve you know you have torpedoed your own reputation as an impartial civil servant to come and work for Two Tier Keir yeah and he clearly has no handle on his own operation.

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He’s already allowed a power struggle within number 10 between her and McSweeney and you’d probably be feeling from her perspective well yeah, that’s my reputation gone, my future in the civil service gone, my service, my future in government you know in the administration of the country has gone and seeing is actually the Labour party throwing money around left right and centre on your freebies and redecorations and all the money for train drivers and this money for the special press group and that you’re probably sat there going well, why shouldn’t I have a piece of this?

Why I’m not the one that made this appointment I’m absolutely going to get my tuppence worth yeah and every story seems and not be able to be put away, I mean you can imagine in the old days whether you like it or not and I don’t like him, Alistair Campbell was pretty good at killing stories if he didn’t like them you know, by the same token previous kind of press secretaries in even John Majors time and Margaret Thatcher’s time were pretty good ending stories, but still we’re talking about the Taylor Swift motorcade.

Here’s Angela Rayner trying to justify what it was, an absolute operational decision by the police in the context of threats that the singer had heard of in Europe so it was a purely operational. I absolutely dispute that somehow this was in any way connected to whether somebody went to a concert or not, it was an operational matter for the police and it was about security in regards to the threats that were active across Europe to make sure that the singer was able to deliver those concerts which brought in a huge amounts of investment and money into our economy, including those small businesses that need that, but it was a policing matter, not an issue for politicians.

I don’t know the range of the rain it was briefed, not to mention that singer’s name Taylor Swift but you know is clear that something happened in that Cooper has not justified what she did. She’s never come out and said anything she completely failed to disclose the fact that you got free tickets through her husband Ed Balls you know and it shouldn’t be a story.

I don’t think it’s a massive story but it’s indicative is it not? Been a so very useless they are managing the news well that’s exactly the point and I think if Cooper is not one of the sorts of the new intake of Labour and people that has little experience a government, she actually is a very sort of wise old head supposedly who’s been put in into office. She should have known in her position as Home Secretary, look you may be at some stage called upon to intervene on behalf of certain individuals to do with security matters. It is not as if Taylor Swift was an unknown entity, you know that this is somebody who actually you can see the tour coming six months in advance because it’s so vast and actually she would have known that there would have been special security implications around that even before we had this territory yeah.

You’d have known that, so what is she and other MPs senior MPs ministers doing taking tickets for this sort of thing, because she should have known at some point there was a very high likelihood that somebody would have turned around and gone hang on, as you’re in charge of this person’s security aren’t you in some way compromised? Doesn’t it look a little bit odd you know that they’re trying to spin it, saying well they get the tickets from Ed Balls and that’s how she got them, but still, come on you can’t make that degree of operation to get away with it, no you can’t and also there are implications for other people who are going to come here now in the future, who are going to say any given sort of you know drop of the hat, there’s a bit of a death threat that we’ve been given so we better get a police motorcade.

According to the Sun this morning there were several trips each one of which cost £30,000 for the police to police and of course there’s a Prince Harry scenario, now where he may come back and say to the people who effectively won the court case over him, to say you don’t need this, you don’t deserve it, we’re not giving it. So, he’s now got perfect, I mean you know I’m no fan of Prince Harry but I can say he’s got the perfect right to go back to the police now and say well hang on you’re going to give it to Taylor Swift and I’ll give it as there is the latest death threat.

I agree with you, I think of suddenly we’re all saying thinking Prince Harry, it’s got a very justified point as a member of the royal family to say actually I should get at least some of what Taylor Swift is getting, but I mean equally you know if this is going to be the thing it’s going to become a marketing strategy actually the lots and lots of American celebrities are going to use maybe British ones as well they’re going to apply for this sort of thing, they’re going to expect it, they’re going to factor it into sort of the promotional stuff around their tour and the British taxpayer will be footing the bill for that all because actually of inexperience and frankly a breed on the part of British ministers it basically saying to anybody well look if you got a big enough profile you can have it you can have the state doing this whole sort of blue lights thing which, just on a sort of an operational level I would have thought would draw attention to the whereabouts of a particular end of it.

If you’re a terrorist who’s I don’t know willing to blow themselves up or be shot trying cause mayhem are you actually going to be put off by the sights of the blue lights no, you’re going to go towards the lights yeah?

You’re absolutely right I mean it’s not in any way necessarily a way to save you on somebody’s life but listen, graduates and talks you haven’t experienced thank you very much, I do we can talk all day because it’s so much more to so many more things to talk about this, from Nigel in Cambridge is “as the threat in Vienna was not to her, it was to her audience, not sure how a police escort for her personally would help a similar threat which the MET judge to be risk” Idiots yeah, I think that’s right, let’s get a voice note.

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  1. Carole
    Carole on April 1, 2024 at 10:29 am

    I recently joined Reform UK because I am so fed up with the absolutely useless Tories. They have let this country down so badly, they simply don’t deserve my vote. Each year we’ve seen thousands of undocumented young men illegally enter the UK, costing British taxpayers 7 million pounds a day accommodating them! Just imagine what your local hospital could do with that money, on a Monday or 7 million to another hospital on Tuesday! What a waste, spending all that on undeserving people coming from France, a safe country!

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