Martin Daubney has branded footage of migrants crossing the Channel as "farcical" in a furious rant on GB News.
The images show migrants wading into water to board small boats whilst French police vessels fail to intervene.
His comments come as the Treasury admits migrants will continue to be housed in hotels for years to come, despite Government pledges to end the practice.
A document published by the Office for Value for Money, a recently created part of the Treasury, stated that "global instability" meant hotel use for migrants would likely continue for years.
Martin Daubney branded the images "farcical"
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Speaking to GB News, Home & Security Editor Mark White said: "Something that’s going to upset our audience are these images.
"This is on the French side of the channel, and this is the practice of taxi boats, which really came to prominence in the last year or so.
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"But what’s key here is that you can see the French police launch just off the shore as well. To the left-hand side of that shot is the migrant boat on the right-hand side of the image, and it’s doing absolutely nothing to intervene or try to push that migrant boat back to shore.
"Now, this comes just weeks after the French interior minister met with Yvette Cooper in La Touquet and spoke about the need to change the law so that they could intervene to do exactly what we’re talking about here to use that police launch to get close to the boat and push it ashore.
"The fact is, you can see the dozens of migrants out there, up to their waists in water, but that’s it. And that shallow sea continues for quite a bit further out there. So the French want to be able to push the migrant boats back.
"But clearly, despite what the minister has said he wants to do, that’s not happening.
"This imagery was taken just yesterday, and it shows the continuation of this practice the taxi boats coming into shore and migrants just waiting out there. The only people in the water are French rescue services, in case some of the migrants get into trouble as they try to clamber aboard those small boats."
Martin Dabney added: "These videos make an absolute mockery. They make an absolute mockery of what the United Kingdom has become.
"Look at them they’re up to their waists in water. I’ve had deeper baths than that. Why? I’ve been in deeper swimming pools than that.
"And they’re being ferried into British waters by waiting vessels. It’s farcical."
The images saw a group of migrants being transported to the UK
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The situation has worsened since the election campaign, with 8,000 more asylum seekers now living in hotels than when Sir Keir Starmer pledged to "end asylum hotels, saving the taxpayer billions of pounds".
Taxpayers are now footing a £41,000 bill for each asylum seeker, according to the Institute for Public Policy Research.
This represents a dramatic increase from just £17,000 in 2020. Sir Matthew Rycroft, the Home Office's permanent secretary, has admitted migrants will need to be housed in hotels for four more years.
He stated the department's "overarching aim" was to "exit" hotels by the end of Parliament, due at the latest by August 2029.
