Two years on from 27 deaths in the Channel. Nothing said. Safe, legal asylum routes now
Its exactly two years since a boat carrying asylum seekers capsized and sank in the Channel. 27 people are known to have drowned and 5 more remain missing. Subsequent investigations have shown that both British and French authorities knew the boat was sinking. They could have acted and saved lives. They did not.
No doubt the current Government would blame people smugglers for this (as would Labour). They certainly exploit refugees. They don’t create them. People flee war and conflict, often caused by Western interventions, and seek safety. Some (a fairly limited number) come to Britain because they have family and support here in the main.
At a Commons Committee on 23rd November 2022 Suella Braverman, then Home Secretary admitted that there are in fact no safe and legal routes to claim asylum in this country. There still aren’t That must change before anymore die. Humanity is more important than the racism of the Mail and Farage
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